From 733eedd92877565b16b7ac69b90f56edaf13e060 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jameswsullivan <81947235+jameswsullivan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 04:08:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add backing field for committeeContactEmail

---
 src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/Submission.java | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/Submission.java b/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/Submission.java
index a4787e7988..22f1a15734 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/Submission.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/Submission.java
@@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ public class Submission extends ValidatingBaseEntity {
     @JsonView(Views.SubmissionList.class)
     private Map<Long, String> columnValues;
 
+    @Transient
+    private String committeeContactEmail;
+
     public Submission() {
         setModelValidator(new SubmissionValidator());
         setFieldValues(new HashSet<FieldValue>());
@@ -603,17 +606,16 @@ public String getCommitteeContactEmail() {
         Optional<FieldValue> optFv = this.getFieldValuesByPredicateValue("dc.contributor.advisor")
             .stream()
             .findFirst();
-        String email = null;
         if (optFv.isPresent()) {
             Optional<String> optEmail = optFv.get()
                 .getContacts()
                 .stream()
                 .findFirst();
             if (optEmail.isPresent()) {
-                email = optEmail.get();
+                committeeContactEmail = optEmail.get();
             }
         }
-        return email;
+        return committeeContactEmail;
     }
 
     /**

From b7f159d465383c43069887d6e2e27d22c63b52ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jameswsullivan <81947235+jameswsullivan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 06:28:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Call committeeContactEmail getter in ExcelPackager

---
 src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/packager/ExcelPackager.java | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/packager/ExcelPackager.java b/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/packager/ExcelPackager.java
index ec0796eba3..abc6e80bdb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/packager/ExcelPackager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/tdl/vireo/model/packager/ExcelPackager.java
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ public ExcelExportPackage packageExport(Submission submission, List<SubmissionLi
                         if(column.getValuePath().size() > 1){
                              valuePath = new String[] {valuePath[0]};
                         }
+                        submission.getCommitteeContactEmail();
                         Object valueAsObject = EntityUtility.getValueFromPath(submission, valuePath);
 
                         String value = "";