For our upcoming meeting, we noticed that we cannot make a contribution out of an invited abstract. It is not showing an “accepted track” and “accepted type” (and thus is not converted into a contribution), but trying to manually judge it (with the “Judge” button in the abstract list) shows a “abstract has been skipped since it is already judged” warning. Are we missing something, or is this a bug? This is Indico 3.3.12, hosted on indico.ego-gw.it.
Did you delete the contribution or judge it at something else than “accept”?
Anyway, you can undo the judgment (there’s a little icon for this) and then accept it again.
No, there isn’t. Going to the abstract details, normally there should be a “XYZ accepted this abstract”, with the little red “reset judgment” arrow. But for the invited abstract, I can only see the box for “XYZ was invited to submit an abstract”, but there is no judgment box. But as said, the “Judge” button claims the abstract has been judged.
Oh I see, because it’s still invited. This status expects the person that was invited to actually finalize their abstract and submit it.
We unfortunately to not have a way to submit it on behalf of the user. But you can go to the event log and search the email logs for the invitation email that was sent, and copy the https://..../event/.../abstracts/submit/<token> link from there, open it, and submit it.
Aha! Perfect, that solved it. Yes, indeed, the abstract info had apparently been manually edited only by an admin, instead of being submitted via the link. We didn’t realise this doesn’t actually trigger the submission.