Thank you, Tim, for clarifying that. I was logged in as a community admin, but I was looking at a different community where there was no Context menu in the sidebar. Now that i went to the Sample Community I indeed see the Context menu. Great! I would also like to add that since starting to look into DSpace I am REALLY REALLY impressed by the level of support and patient help that is given through this forum. You guys are amazingly responsive! A
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:01:29 PM UTC-4, Tim Donohue wrote: > > 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 > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.dspace.org%2Fxmlui%2Fhandle%2F10673%2F1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGxqxmyobmAstuJIj6qEKab6Qhx6w>). > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "DSpace Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Tim Donohue > Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect > DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
