Association between registered users and contributions

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Dear Sirs,

in a Conference registered users can submit a contribution becoming “submitter”.
Each contribution has a list of associated users (submitter, speaker, primary author and coauthors).

It would be interesting, from the list of registered users, to have an action which operate on a selected user and give, for that user the list of contribution s/he appears in.

In each contribution the list of associated users should be interactive such as for each users it would be interesting to see if s/he is registered or not, and if registered, see all the other contribution s/he is involved in.

For example in the menu “Contribution” → “Author List” it appears the author list, and it would be interesting to have the information about registered/not registered user and the number of his contributes.

And exporting this list we could create our reports or send e-mail to the authors of specific contributes.

best regards
Maurizio

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Hi, we don’t show this in the author list (since for authors who aren’t speakers this doesn’t seem particularly relevant), but for speakers in the contribution list itself this information is displayed:

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Dear Adrian,

thank you for your kind reply. Possibly what I am asking is simply not feasible or nonsense to you, but I will try to be as clear as I can.

Whilst a submitter must register to a given event in order to submit an abstract and eventually a paper, any other author involved in the same paper does not have to. A submitter may be an author, but may be not either. Submitter have to specify who is who, that is, who is speaker, author or co-author, including email and affiliation, in a given contribution. On the other hand, a person does not need to submit anything in order to register to the event. These variables imply two different datasets (Contributions/Registration) which affect the overall management of the event at different levels. For this reason, a certain degree of interoperability is needed to retrieve complete information from both datasets, if a single one cannot be created. We should be able to:

  1. Check participation in contributions (e.g. per full name, where first and last name are two different fields) associated with registration information (Registration ID);

  2. verify how many contributions (contribution ID) are related to a given author/co-author/speaker; and how many authors/co-authors/speaker have actually their registration completed/awaiting for payments (status);

  3. send personalized messages to a selected group of users, e.g presenter and/or authors of (a) given paper(s)

  4. Organise at least an author list if not an index, for instance exporting the authors list

Hope this will help.

Maurizio

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Dear Maurizio, dear Adrian,

I just found this issue. If this is a useful feature, should an issue be opened?

Kind regards, Paul

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I don’t think it covers everything, but have you checked the “participant roles” page? There you see all the different things in an event a user is linked to and also whether they registered.

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I’m not sure how many people need such a detailed dashboard… so while a GitHub issue could of course be opened for it, I think it’s likely to stay open for quite some time (unless someone contributes a PR)…

PS: For anyone with a self-hosted instance there’s of course always the possibility to write a custom plugin that creates such a dashboard which plucks together the various data…