Hi Alan,
Those features do exist, but it sounds like there's a misunderstanding on
how they work / where to find them. Specifically, here's a few things to
clarify:
1) Only Site Administrators can add new Users (Login -> Administrative
sidemenu -> Access Control -> People). Community Administrators cannot add
new accounts, but can give existing accounts permissions within their
Community.
1a) However, depending on local settings, individual users often can
register with DSpace. This allows individuals to create their own account.
But, this account has no special permissions until an Administrator gives
them permissions (by adding them to a role/group).
1b) Some local sites also choose to use an Authentication Plugin (for
LDAP or Shibboleth). These plugins allow users at an institution to login
immediately using an external authentication system (LDAP or Shib), without
needing to first create a user.
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Authentication+Plugins
2) Community Administrators *only* have Administrative rights under (one or
more) specific Communities. So, this means they can only create
subcommunities or collections under those specific Communities. On the
demo site, the demo Community Admin can only create Collections under the
"Sample Community" (http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/1). So,
after logging in as the demo Community Admin, if you go to that Community,
on the sidemenu you'll see a new "Context" menu in the sidebar with an
option that says "Create Collection".
2a) It's worth noting that a Site Administrator can Create a Collection
under any Community. They can also create new Communities and assign
Community Admin rights within them. But, again you must first browse to a
Community to create the Collection under. DSpace has a strict hierarchy of
Community -> Collection -> Item -> Files.
I hope that helps explain these features a bit more, Alan. Definitely let
us know on this list if you have other questions that pop up.
- Tim
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:34 PM Alan Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> I logged into the DSpace demo site (http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/) as a
> community admin, hoping to test drive the UI for adding collections and
> users, etc.-- but I see nothing like that in any of the demo communities. I
> mean: I can list the current authors in a community but see no UI for
> adding users. Or for that matter adding a collection. Does the demo simply
> not include any such capability or am I missing it before my own eyes?
> I know there is a command line method for such operations and one can
> implement one's own solution by calling through the XML or JSP API-- but is
> there really no built-in admin UI for these operations?
> Thanks,
> Alan
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