The Merge Users feature allows the Conference Manager to merge two user accounts into a single account, transferring assignments, submissions, and other items from the first account to the second and deleting the first one. Normally it is for someone who has two user accounts.
The following items are transferred:
- Article authorship
- Public comments on articles
- Article notes
- Director assignments and decisions
- Review assignments
- Article email and event log entries
- Reviewer access keys
- Roles
- Registrations (please see below)
The following items are not transferred:
- Sessions
- Notification status (i.e. whether the user has signed up to receive notifications about conference news)
- Editorial team memberships
- Track Director status on tracks
- User profile information (e.g. first name, last name, etc.)
This feature should be used with caution, as it is not reversible and involves the transfer of records from one user account to another.
For registrations, the second user's registration is transferred to the first user only if is valid and if the first user does not already have a valid registration for a given scheduled conference.