Hi Fang & Dorothea, On 5/3/2010 10:10 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Wang, Fang<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, Dorothea. But that sounds insane!! I find the permissions in Dspace >> especially frustrating/not user-friendly! > > So do I; I've been complaining about them for nearly five years. > Perhaps you'll have better luck motivating action than I have.
Dorothea's previous statement about Administrator-only deletion of bitstreams is not entirely accurate (at least not for DSpace 1.6.0). In DSpace 1.6, we now have "Delegated Administration" options, which by default allow Administrators, Community Administrators or Collection Administrators to delete/replace bitstreams on items. There is also a new concept of an "Item Administrator" which comes with this "Delegated Administration" option. Item Administrators also have the ability to delete/replace bitstreams on items by default. By default, in 1.6.0, Submitters are NOT made into Item Administrators, but you could add code to enable this functionality. Perhaps in a future version of DSpace we could make this more of a configuration option available to institutions. If you wanted to see the "Item Administrator" functionality in action, I've added a sample Item Administrator to the DSpace Demo Site (http://demo.dspace.org). On this site, if you login as the Demo Submitter ([email protected]), you'll have Administrative rights on *just* this Item: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/4 (and those Administrative rights will allow you to edit item metadata or remove/change bitstreams) Adding an Item Administrator in DSpace 1.6.0 is still a little bit of a manual process at this time: (1) As an Admin, Create a new Group & add users to that group (2) As an Admin, Edit the Item in question, and add a new Policy which give ADMIN rights to that Group on that item (3) Logout & Login as a Group member. Access that Item as a member of that new group -- you should have full Admin rights on that Item So, with 1.6.0, DSpace is getting better around delegation of Administrative actions. We don't yet have a setting to automatically give these administrative rights to all DSpace Submitters. But, I'm sure that is now possible with a little Java code -- and once someone builds that code, we can make it available to others in a future version of DSpace. - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
