How to remove the Abstract Registration Deadline

If you entered a full submission deadline on your venue request form, your venue has two deadlines. The Submission step in your Workflow Timeline is the abstract registration deadline. The Full Submission step then lets authors complete their submissions until the full submission deadline. The deadlines on the venue request form can't be edited after your venue is deployed, so you remove the abstract registration deadline from the Workflow Timeline instead.

Do this before the abstract registration deadline passes:

1. Open the Workflow Timeline for your venue and find the Full Submission step.

2. Click Disable on the Full Submission step. This disables the step and all of its settings.

3. Expand the Submission step and click Edit next to Dates. Set the Due Date to your final submission deadline and click Submit. The submission form stays open for 30 minutes after this date as a grace period.

4. With two deadlines, the PDF field of the submission form is optional. To make it required, click Edit next to Form Fields on the Submission step and remove "optional": true from the pdf field. See Customizing Forms for how to edit the form.

The Full Submission step and its Disable link, as Program Chairs see it.

Disable Full Submission before you change the Submission dates. While Full Submission is enabled, you can't set a Submission deadline that, with its 30-minute grace period, ends after the Full Submission activation date.

Once Full Submission is disabled, changing the Submission deadline also moves the steps that start at the end of the submission period (Create Submission Change Before Bidding, Withdrawal, Desk Rejection and the submission group steps) if they were scheduled earlier than the new deadline.

If the abstract registration deadline has already passed, authors already have a full submission form on each submission. Close those forms before you switch to a single deadline:

1. On the Full Submission step, click Edit next to Dates, set the Due Date and Expiration Date to the current time, and click Submit. This closes the full submission forms on every submission.

2. Click Disable on the Full Submission step.

3. On the Submission step, click Edit next to Dates, set the Due Date to your final deadline, and click Submit.

Authors can then update their submissions, including the PDF, through the submission form until the new deadline.