The Editor’s Manage Proposals Menu structure

The Editor Manage Proposals Menu may include the following folders (depending on what RoleManager permissions are enabled):

Search (heading) – links below this heading provide access to the ‘Search Submissions’ and ‘Search People’ functions.  If the Editor does not have RoleManager permission to use these features, then the heading will not appear.

-          ‘Search Submissions’ – This link accesses the ‘Search Manuscript’ feature.  An Editor with permission can search for manuscripts using a variety of different criteria.

-          ‘Search People’ – This link accesses the ‘Search People’ feature.  An Editor with permission can access users’ People Records.

New Proposals (heading) – Links below this heading relate to creating and editing new proposals for which no Authors have yet been invited.

-          ‘Initiate Proposal’ - Brings the Editor to the ‘Create Proposal’ interface.

-          ‘Incomplete Proposals’ - This folder contains PDF build failures and proposals that the Editor started, but did not finish by building the PDF.  This folder is suppressed if there are no proposals in it.

-          ‘Proposals Needing Approval’ - This folder contains any proposal created by the Editor, but the PDF is either building or it is built but not yet approved by the Editor.  This folder is suppressed if there are no proposals in it.

Active (heading) – Links below this heading relate to proposal that have been created and are assigned to an Editor.

-          ‘New Proposals Requiring Assignment’ – This folder contains any proposal that has been created, but has not yet been assigned to an Editor.  A proposal must be assigned to an Editor in order to invite Authors.

-          ‘New Assignments – Proposals’ – This folder contains any proposals that have been assigned to the Editor.  These proposals require one of the following: another Editor Assignment, or Author Invitations.

-          ‘My Pending Proposals’ – This folder contains proposals for which one or more Authors have been invited.  These proposals might require one of the following actions: 1) View the status of invited Authors or invite additional Authors; 2) Allow current Authors to complete their work; 3) Set a Final Disposition.

-          ‘My Submissions with Pending Commentaries’ – This folder contains submissions that have been assigned to the Editor for which commentaries have been solicited.

Completed (heading)

-          ‘My Completed Proposals’ – This folder contains all proposals for which a Final Disposition of ‘Completed Proposal’ has been set.

-          ‘My Submissions with No Pending Commentaries’ – This folder contains all submissions for which commentaries have been solicited and which have been moved to the ‘Completed’ Folder.

-          ‘View All Assigned Submissions’ – This folder contains all proposals that are assigned to Editors.

-          ‘View All Submissions with Pending Commentaries’ – This folder contains submissions for which commentaries have been solicited.

-          ‘View All Completed Proposals’ – This folder contains all proposals for which a Final Disposition of ‘Completed Proposal’ has been set.

-          ‘View All Submissions with No Pending Commentaries’ – This folder contains all submissions for which commentaries have been solicited and which have been moved to the ‘Completed’ Folder.