[Dspace-general] Nothing showing up in Authorization Tool

Mon Sep 29 15:41:55 EDT 2003

Hi Mark,

This sounds like a problem that DSpace 1.1 had with creating policy entries
that were NULLs (no value in the database table), especially when people
would select "create policy" and then hit the browser's back button.  The
problem is tough to diagnose because for some reason those errors are
quietly swallowed, generating no log entry and no error page - simply a
blank screen.

1) Are you running DSpace 1.1 or 1.1.1?  If 1.1, an upgrade will help.
2) If upgrading doesn't help, the next easy answer is to use psql or another
Postgres tool and delete the null rows from the policy table.
3) The problem has never made it past #1 and #2.  :-)  But if you're the
lucky first one, we can help more.

Dave

David Stuve / HP Labs Corvallis / David.Stuve at hp.com / 541-715-4106 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Jordan [mailto:mjordan at sfu.ca] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:20 PM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] Nothing showing up in Authorization Tool

Hello,

Perhaps I'm missing some crucial step, so please feel free to tell me to
RTFM a bit more closely if that's the case.

I've set up a test community and collection, I've created a sumbitter group
for the collection, but when I go into the 
Authorization Tool to give this group ad permission, nothing is showing up.
I am selecting the collection title and clicking 
on the Edit button.

The same symptoms happen when I use the Authorizations tool to modify
community policies -- I select the community name and click on Edit
policies, and a blank page shows up.

The only lines in my dspace.log are ones like "2003-09-23 14:41:02,064 INFO
org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.RetrieveServlet @ 
anonymous:session_id=FFFC1375F04446FC82223844069AF244:view_bitstream:bitstre
am_id=2", and I know the Anonymous group has read 
permissions on this collection since it's showing up in the public user
interface.

Anyone else experience the same thing? If so, what's the solution?

Mark

Mark Jordan
Acting Coordinator of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023                 
mjordan at sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/

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