Hi Mark, As far as I'm aware, this should be functioning properly in DSpace 1.6.0 or above. At least we've had no other reports of bugs in this area, from what I can find.
Can you provide us with more information about your setup? Are you running XMLUI or JSPUI? If XMLUI, what Theme are you using (and have you customized the theme)? Have you made any other major customizations/changes which could be affecting this? As of DSpace 1.6.0, DSpace now has a new Delegate Admins feature, which improves the inheritance of Admin rights, and lets you more easily control what individual Administrations can and cannot do. You also may want to check your 'dspace.cfg' to see if you've changed the default settings for Community Administrators. Look for this section: ##### Authorization system configuration - Delegate ADMIN ##### By default, the contents of that configuration section are commented out. This defaults to allowing a Community Admins perform all actions on any Sub-Community, Collection or Item in their Community. If you've customized these settings in any way, this obviously will affect what a Community Administrator can do. - Tim On 1/10/2011 9:46 AM, Mark Melia wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I am running DSpace 1.6.2. > > Thanks, > Mark > > On 10/01/11 15:43, Tim Donohue wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> >> DSpace is supposed to inherit Admin permissions automatically. So, if >> you are an Admin of a Community, it also means you should be an Admin >> of all Sub-Communities, Collections or Items within that Community. >> >> Can you let us know what version of DSpace are you using? It's >> possible you may be running into a bug in an old version of DSpace. >> >> - Tim >> >> On 1/10/2011 8:32 AM, Mark Melia wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Perhaps a better example might help here. >>> >>> I have a top level community - Faculty of Engineering and Computing - in >>> this community there is a sub-community - School of Civil Engineering. >>> The faculty dean has administrative privileges on the collections >>> directly in the Faculty community but these privileges do not seem to >>> extend on down to the School of Civil Engineering collections. >>> >>> Does anyone know if this is how DSpace is meant to behave. I would >>> appreciate any information on this. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> On 06/01/11 14:21, Mark Melia wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am trying to specify user privileges at a top level community and >>>> have >>>> those privileges for users using sub-communities within the top level >>>> community. >>>> >>>> So for example if I am admin in topLevelCommunity1 and communityA is in >>>> topLevelCommunity1 I should have admin privileges in communityA. >>>> >>>> This does not appear to be the case for me. Does anyone have any idea >>>> how to rectify this? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows >>>> customers >>>> to consolidate database storage, standardize their database >>>> environment, and, >>>> should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database >>>> without downtime or disruption >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> DSpace-tech mailing list >>>> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any >>> company >>> that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn >>> how to >>> best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information >>> secure >>> and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl >>> _______________________________________________ >>> DSpace-tech mailing list >>> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
