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Lifecycle of a Submission

A Submission in Oversight mirrors submissions to a manuscript tracking system.

When you send a submission it will go through the following states in order:

graph LR
    accepted --> processing --> report-available
    processing --> failed
    failed --> failed

    report-available --> report-available
    failed --> report-available
    report-available --> failed
  • accepted : We have received the Submission and it is queued for processing.
  • processing : It is now being processed.
  • report-available : There is a report. Users can access the report via the Oversight app.
  • failed : There was an error processing the input. Data was missing, or there was an internal error.

Users can manually re-run a report, or it may be re-run automatically.

Note

We use other states internally and may add more in the future. If your system sees an unexpected state, it should not throw an error.

Checks

A Check is a snapshot of metadata that we analyze. When you create a submission, a new Check is created, and the report is associated with this Check.

You will see the Check and its ID in API results. If you re-send a Submission (e.g. because of a resubmission, see Submission IDs) a new Check will be created. Users will see this new Check and its results in Oversight.