Customizing your submission form

For an overview and basics of form customization, see the comprehensive Customizing Forms.

You can customize the default submission form for your venue using the Revision button on your venue request form. In the 'Additional Submission Options', field, enter valid JSON with the fields that you would like to add or change in your form. Shown below is an example of adding a field for authors to nominate a reviewer from the author list of their paper.

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JSON

{
   "serve_as_reviewer": {
      "value": {
          "param": {
            "type": "profile[]",
            "regex": "~.*"
          }
      },
      "description": "Please nominate an author to serve as a reviewer using their profile ID (e.g. ~First_Last1)",
      "order": 20
   }
}

The resulting field in the submission form would look like this:

Common Customizations

Asking authors to agree to conference policies

{
  "confirmation": {
    "description": "Please confirm you have read the workshop's policies.",
    "order": 2,
    "value": {
      "param": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "I have read and agree with the workshop's policy on behalf of myself and my co-authors."
        ],
        "input": "radio"
      }
    }
  }
}

Limit read-permissions for certain fields

The readers field can be used to list who will be allowed to read a specific field of the submission form. The example below limits the readers of the private comments field to just authors, Assigned Senior Area Chairs, and Program Chairs.

Note: Authors will not be able to read these fields if they are not in the readers list

{
  "private_comments": {
    "value": {
      "param": {
        "type": "string",
        "optional": true
      }
    },
    "readers": [
      "Your/Venue/ID/Program_Chairs",
      "Your/Venue/ID/Submission${4/number}/Senior_Area_Chairs",
      "Your/Venue/ID/Submission${4/number}/Authors"
    ]
  }
}

Adding tracks to your venue

Once you have reviewed our support for "tracks" in a single venue and you think this is what your venue needs, you can add a "track" field to your submission form if you are using separate reviewing pools for track submissions.

{
  "track": {
    "description": "Please select the track you are submitting to.",
    "order": 2,
    "value": {
      "param": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "Track 1",
          "Track 2",
          "Track 3"
        ],
        "input": "radio"
      }
    }
  }
}