Editing Using Issues for Quality Control (section)

===Issues with individual items===

EPrints reports any issues with an individual item on the item control page. This can be useful for:

* a depositor editing an item before submitting to review
* an editor reviewing an item before making it live
* an editor or administrator viewing/editing an item in the live archive

The number of issues identified appears on the Details tab:

[[Image:Issues_count.png]]

A new "Issues" tab is also available:

[[Image:Issues_tab.png]]

Selecting this tab will list the full details of the issues identified with the item:

[[Image:Issues_details.png]]

As a depositor, editor or administrator you can then use the normal EPrints editing options to correct the issue - see Issues Reference below for guidlines.

====Issues Tab in Detail====

The issues tab actually has two sections:

* Current Issues
* Recorded Issues

The "Current Issues" section lists the "live" issues with the item; "Recorded Issues" lists the issues recorded by EPrints the last time the "issue discovery" process was run (typically this should be scheduled to run nightly - see "Checklist" below.

'''Technical Note: Issues come in two flavours - XML-based issues and Plugin-based issues. The "Issues Reference" section below lists the issues that EPrints will recognise by default and indicates whether the issue is XML or plugin based. Only XML-based issues will appear in the "Current Issues" section. Both XML and plugin based issues will appear in the "Recorded Issues" section.

In the example below, EPrints found 3 issues when the issue discovery process ran at 11:46AM - these issues are listed in the "Recorded Issues" section. The editor has subsequently resolved the "Missing or one character family name" issue (#2) so this is no longer shown in the "Current Issues" section. Note that the "Duplicate title" issue only appears in the "Recorded Issues" section because it is a plugin-based issue (see Reference section below). The next time the issue discovery process runs, the "Missing or one character family name" issue will no longer be detected, and no longer be displayed in the "Recorded Issues" section. 

[[Image:issues_sections.png]]