[Dspace-general] opening a collection to submission to all registered users

[Wayne Johnston]

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.White at lincoln.ac.nz> 
To: dspace-general at mit.edu 
Cc: "Wayne Johnston" <wajohnst at 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. 




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From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnston 
Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:23 AM 
To: dspace-general at 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 

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Wayne Johnston 
Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Guelph 
519.824.4120 x56900 
wajohnst at uoguelph.ca 



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Wayne Johnston 
Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Guelph 
519.824.4120 x56900 
wajohnst at uoguelph.ca 


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