Re: [Dspace-tech] Making DSpace read only

2012-02-03 Thread Claire Webster
Hello, Sorry for the lack of information previously, so buried in the issue that I forgot people wouldn't know! :) What we are after is to make our current DSpace (version 1.7.1 using Mirage) installation completely read-only, no submissions of new items and no edits of old. We've been told

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making DSpace read only

2012-02-03 Thread Claudia Jürgen
Hello Claire, you could set your underlying database to transaction read only. This would prevent any change on communities, collections, epeople, groups ... Anything would be viewable, but no new users, changed/new items etc. Note, this would prevent some of the cron jobs from working, too.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making DSpace read only

2012-02-03 Thread helix84
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:52, Claire Webster claire.webs...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: What we are after is to make our current DSpace (version 1.7.1 using Mirage) installation completely read-only, no submissions of new items and no edits of old. We've been told we need to migrate the data to a new

[Dspace-tech] Making DSpace read only

2012-02-02 Thread Claire Webster
Hello, I need to make our DSpace installation read-only is there an easy way to do this, or instructions available? Any help very gratefully received. kind regards, Claire -- Claire Webster (nee Lumber) Developer, Library Systems University of Bristol Email: claire.webs...@bristol.ac.uk Tel:

Re: [Dspace-tech] Making DSpace read only

2012-02-02 Thread Henry, Matt - OPS District Computer Technician
When you say read only do you mean that no one is able to submit or edit new items? Or do you mean that no one should be able to just edit items? I have never tried that before but if you want to just disallow submissions you can change permissions for anonymous and authenticated to deny 'add.'