Hi Sherry! Welcome to DSpace. I'm not sure about the best resource for getting started, but I can answer your question about the Administrator Search. To manage submissions/drafts, go to the top right menu to the login drop-down and click "MyDSpace" (or whatever custom name you have there for your site). From that page, there is a lefthand menu called Show - you can toggle through Your Submissions, Supervised items, and Workflow tasks. The draft items you are looking for are probably under "Workflow Tasks."
It's a little confusing because the Admin Search menu looks a lot like the MyDSpace menu. But saved unpublished items, and items that need approval, will appear only in MyDSpace - at least that how it works for us (DSpace 8). I hope that helps! Joanna -------------------------------------------- Joanna Lee Digital Publishing Lead George Mason University Libraries On Monday, April 14, 2025 at 12:47:12 PM UTC-4 Sherry Lake wrote: > Hello DSpace Community, > > The University of Virginia Library has decided to move from our very old > (mostly customized) IR to a locally hosted instance of DSpace (DSpace 8). > > Since we (I) am totally new to DSpace and configurations, I was wondering > if there are any guides (videos) on getting started (for V7x or V8x)? I > have looked over (and over) the DSpace8.x wiki, but find it more for those > who understand the workings of DSpace - the parts and how they fit, more > for those already familiar with DSpace. I've also watched a few DSpace > videos (tutorials), but again need more details on how things work together. > > Is there anything for total newbies? I'm pretty technical; I am the > administrator of our locally hosted Dataverse Repository (setting up user > accounts, setting up configurations, working with APIs, setting up > harvesting, etc.). > > I just need to know more than the basics (what the intro tutorials show) > to get me started. > > For example, why can't an ePerson who is in the "Administrator" group (who > can see the DSpace Management side-bar), not see any results in the > "Administrative Search". A non-admin user has created two draft items that > I assumed an admin should see? But I see no items under Administrative > Search (not even the one draft item I created). > > Is this the best place for questions like this or is the DSpace slack > space better, which channel? > > > Thank you, > Sherry Lake -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- 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 dspace-community+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/5e987e62-0cd0-4e10-84f7-95cf02fea86bn%40googlegroups.com.
