Submit to boards: differing behaviours

[jcowey]

Possibly somehow related to #73.

When I submit from my dashboard I see on my screen the following:

I must choose one of the four. I almost always choose SoSOL. ParmaMed and RoyalCorrespondence are satelites no longer in use (I suppose these should really be deleted from the system - that is something I have never tried but can give a shot). I am not sure when and why Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP) was introduced. Today a colleague submitted to Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP). It did not arrive on the DCLP board and was marked as committed on his dashboard (https://papyri.info/editor/users/andrea.bernini82). This one I think (https://papyri.info/editor/publications/132744).

I asked him to copy the XML from https://papyri.info/editor/publications/132744 and save it in a file. He then went to DCLP and called up https://papyri.info/dclp/60337, which he opened in editor. To be noted is that there was no conflict because I assume the other file (opened previously from https://papyri.info/dclp/60337) was marked by the system as committed. He then replaced what was in the XML with his copied XML and submitted (https://papyri.info/editor/publications/132759), this time choosing submit to SoSOL, that worked. It shows on the board as https://papyri.info/editor/publications/132760/dclp_text_identifiers/307849/edit.

I conferred with Mike Sampson. He does not have any choice when he submits to boards. I am not sure what is going on here.
I also suspect that committing to Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP) is not functioning properly and possibly misleads a number of contributors. I know the Rodney Ast also has the option of choosing what board to submit to.

[ryanfb]

Apologies for taking so long to get back on this - I initially thought this issue was something different than what it seems to be. I believe this is related to all the code in SoSOL for "Communities" which was added quite some time ago. When DCLP was a standalone project, I believe we set up a DCLP Community within the papyri.info editor to have a separate submission flow which DCLP could manage on their own. I believe you only see the option to submit to a community if you're part of a community, which is why Mike Sampson may not see a choice.

Since we're not really using these "Community" features anymore, it may be worth deleting them, or at the very least just deleting the extant communities we have on the papyri.info instance of SoSOL (which should eliminate the dropdown as well).