Thanks, Andrew.
This is the approach I favoured and I have got it working finally but there
were some inconsistencies (bugs?) that I thought I should document for the
list.
These issues are probably specific to dspace 1.5/xmlui/manakin.
Initially I tried adding the anonymous group through the "assign roles" page
under "edit collection" in the manakin interface.
That didn't work.
Then I went to "edit authorization policies directly", which gives me different
information from what I see on the "assign roles" page.
So this is perhaps bug number 1.
In any case, adding the anonymous group to the submitters group here still does
not work.
Curiously, when I would go to the collection home page there would be a "submit
a new item to this collection" link but it would go to the submission page with
no entry in the "select a collection" drop-down list.
I still could not submit.
Finally I added a new policy explicitly enabling anonymous to "add".
This worked.
In other words, it was not working when I tried to add anonymous as a group
within an existing submitters group, but it did work when I added a separate
policy for anonymous.
This probably relates to Kim's response dealing with stackable authentication
but I haven't yet looked into that.
Thanks again for your help.
w
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew White" <andrew.wh...@lincoln.ac.nz>
To: dspace-gene...@mit.edu
Cc: "Wayne Johnston" <wajoh...@uoguelph.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:44:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [Dspace-general] opening a collection to submission to all
registered users
The easiest solution is to allow Anonymous submission to a collection.
People still have to register to submit, but after that they can submit without
admin having to add them to a group.
We use this for our thesis collections, and so far have not had anyone who is
not a student bothering to register and submit - which of course is the risk of
this approach.
_________________________________________________________
Andrew White
Information Technology Librarian
Lincoln University Library
PO Box 64, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand.
tel: +64-3-3218542 fax: +64-3-3252944
email: andrew.wh...@lincoln.ac.nz
From: dspace-general-boun...@mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-boun...@mit.edu] On
Behalf Of Wayne Johnston
Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:23 AM
To: dspace-gene...@mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] opening a collection to submission to all registered
users
Is there a simple way to enable all registered users to submit to a given
collection?
For our e-thesis collection all graduating students will be submitters.
Rather than having each one register and request to be added to the submitter
group, it would be nice if DSpace recognized each student as a valid submitter
as soon as she/he registers.
Am I overlooking a simple solution?
If not, I'm thinking about a nightly routine to add any new users to the
submitter group.
We are using DSpace 1.5, xmlui/manakin.
Thanks.
w
--
Wayne Johnston
Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Guelph
519.824.4120 x56900
wajoh...@uoguelph.ca
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Wayne Johnston
Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Guelph
519.824.4120 x56900
wajoh...@uoguelph.ca
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