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Background
Now that the platform supports multiple submissions and submissions of different types - abstracts and sessions - the abstract-related modules have been streamlined and reviewed. Further adaptations will follow in the next months.
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New features
Submissions & Review
Changes in sidebar navigation
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The “Submissions” and the new “Reviews”-sections are moved to the top of the navigation on the event level.
The previous “Abstracts“-section will still be available for legacy support.
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Review Setup - In general
The setup for the new review starts with creating a “Review“ - abstract- and session type of review are available.
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Also, the status recommendation can be enabled optionally, as well the “Decline“-option and comment for the reviewers.
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A popular example for the abstract review preview:
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A preliminary example for the session review preview
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Initial assignment of abstracts or sessions
On “Submissions → Abstract Helpdesk” and “Submissions → Session Helpdesk” we have new options to bulk assign to a “Review“
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Second or multiple reviews
If your data must receive a second (or multiple) review, this is done on the new “Review Helpdesk“ where you have options to filter the list of abstracts or sessions (also here, you first have to select the “Review“) based on the initial review.
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Review component - Abstract Reviews
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The new review component allows a committee of reviewers to review abstracts in multiple variations.
It can be used on the m-anage dashboard as well as on the VMX my-area.
Abstracts can be reviewed:
all by the same committee
by a committee separated by e.g. topic
or separated into multiple rounds of reviews by different committees.
Front-end process for Reviewer:
The reviewers will first see a list of review processes they are assigned to.
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Backend assignment of reviewers
Reviewers need to be assigned to a review process. The reviews process can be selected on he top when a reviewer is added to the committee.
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the automatic distribution
drag&drop to assign a reviewer to a single abstract
drag&drop to assign a reviewer to a sub-topic/category of abstracts
a filter on both lists and clicking “Assign selected reviewers to selected abstracts“ on the bottom of the page.
Review component - Session Review
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The new review component allows a committee of reviewers to review sessions in multiple variations.
Sessions can be reviewed:
all by the same committee
by a committee separated by e.g. topic
or in multiple rounds of reviews by different committees.
Front-end process for Reviewer:
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A new review helpdesk offers options to verify the “Reviews” status for sessions and abstracts.
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Registration
Swiss QR-Bill
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Following the requirements in https://www.six-group.com/dam/download/banking-services/standardization/qr-bill/ig-qr-bill-v2.2-en.pdf and Swiss law, we implement the Swiss QR-Bill for international payments including the reference. Clients will need to include new mergefields in the template used for bank transfer payments and define their financial institution.
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System
Country translations
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The setup to translate countries for a company has been improved. Completely new is the option to sort a country to the top of the list to highlight the countries e.g. for national events.
Abstracts
Affiliation defaults
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We set the default fields for affiliations to Institute, Clinic, Department, City, Country. Changes are still possible in the setup Administration → Setup → Input Setup → Addresses → Abstract
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