Settings for Withdrawing, Limiting Number of Submissions or Authors and Editing Privileges

Settings for Withdrawing, Limiting Number of Submissions or Authors and Editing Privileges

How to set the system to allow Submitters to Withdraw themselves?

If you want to allow submitters to withdraw themselves, enable this setting. By enabling this, a withdraw button will appear on the front-end that submitters will be able to click and self-withdraw, when they click the button, a notification email will be sent to the module email address (i.e. which is defined on in the Emails screen).

NOTE: If this setting is set to No, then submitters will be required to email you and only individuals with Admin access will be able to withdraw a submission.

  1. Click Dashboard
  2. Click your Speakers Module
  3. Click Settings button
  4. In the Submissions Settings Screen, locate the field called 'Allow Submitter to Withdraw Submission' and select Yes.
  5. Scroll down and Click Update button to apply your changes

How to set the system to Limit the Number of Submissions per Author?

  1. Click Dashboard
  2. Click Speakers Module
  3. Click Settings button
  4. In the Submissions Settings Screen, locate the field called 'Max Number of Submissions' and select a value from the dropdown list
  5. Scroll down and Click Update button to apply your changes

How to allow primary submitters to edit or not edit co-authors?

You may set your system to allow the primary submitter of an abstract or proposal to log back in at any time and edit their submission and/or edit/manage the co-authors on their submission. To do so follow the steps below:

  1. Click Dashboard
  2. Click Speaker Module
  3. Click Settings 
  4. Set Updates to Co-Authors field to:
    • Yes = to allow editing
    • No = to not allow editing
  5. Scroll down, click Update button to save changes



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