A thought about reviewer access to bitstreams metadata: After upgrading from 5.5 to 5.8 (XMLUI) we realized that reviewers were not able to edit *metadata* for file (bitstream) description anymore.
It seems that this is now tied to the value of the reviewer.file-edit variable in the workflow.cfg file. When, in 5.8, we changed this value from false to true it did in fact allow our reviewers to edit file's metadata (as defined in dspace-xmlui\...\UploadStep.java) BUT it also allowed the reviewers to edit/add/delete files from the submission (as newly defined in dspace-api/.../WorkflowManager.java), an authorization they did not have in version 5.5. I do understand that since a submitter grants a license agreement for the file(s) of the submitted item, that no reviewers should be able to change these. However having a reviewer to change ONLY the metadata for the bitstream (as he/she can do for the record's metadata (at least for step 2 or step 3 in traditionnal workflow)) is something desirable. Maybe there should be 2 variables: reviewer.file-edit and reviewer-file-metadata-edit? Marie-Hélène Vézina Librarian, Université de Montréal https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
