Actions in the Staging area

An Individual submission can be opened on the Submission page by simply clicking on its submission ID number in the table.
Individual and multiple submissions can be selected/deselected by ticking off the appropriate checkboxes or all submissions can be selected/deselected clicking the 'select all' checkbox available both on the top and the bottom.

Actions to be performed on the selected submission or submissions can be selected in the dropdown menu of the bottom left corner (Figure 1). The currently available actions are:

• bulk registration

• delete selected items

• assign selected items to a specific user

• assign selected items to me

• unlock selected items

• export selected items

• import submissions

Bulk register selected items

The bulk register action opens up the selected sumbission(s) in a Submission page, which eventually enables autoregistration of multiple submissions.

Delete selected items

For authorized users, selected items can be deleted from the Staging area.

Assign selected items to a specific user

Opens a window, where that user can be selected, who the selected submission(s) will be allocated to.

Assign selected items to me

It allocates the selected submissions to the current user (consequently they become temporarily unavailable for other users) for further processing.

Unlock selected items

By choosing "Unlock selected items" submissions allocated to another user are released, so that it can be freely edited (i.e. without warning messages) by any other user. An unlock option is also available on the Submission page, where only the given submissions can be unlocked by the user who opened it up.

Once a submission from the staging area was accessed by a user, it will be opened on the Submission page. In the staging area the "Opened by" field will be populated for this submission with the name of the current user. If this submission will not be registered, or it will be just saved, in the Staging area the name of the user who last opened the submission will still be present in the "Opened by" field. There is a possibility to release or unlock those submissions, which were not registered (but they were opened) on the Submission page: click on the [More actions] menu, Unlock submission item. This way, the "Opened by" field in the Staging area will be empty, which would not stop other users to access the submission.

Export selected items

Selected submissions can be exported in an SD file.

Import submissions

Submissions can be imported from an SD file into the Staging area.

Please note that submissions selected in all the three tabs are submitted to the chosen procedure (not only those in the actual one).