My number one #ASpacePipeDream is for there to be some sort of workflow 
management functionality built-in.


-          Data entry user marks whoopsie item for deletion

-          Repo manager is notifed

-          Repo manager chooses to allow deletion or send back for review

-          Repo manager actually deletes

I say this as someone who once had a truly awesome, talented employee (at a 
former gig) accidentally delete an entire resource record.  (Though, this fix 
has made that far less likely 
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1313)

Lora


Lora J. Davis
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 4:10 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Processors ability to delete?


We’ve also run into this where people can create a resource, but can’t delete 
it if they make a mistake and want to start over, or just want to create a test 
object when learning.  But in general, I think it’s a good idea to make 
deleting a record more privileged. Maybe a useful feature would be to make the 
permission behavior dependent on resource status - perhaps make only published 
items require elevated permission to delete, or else make a exception for 
“draft” status or some other value.


On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Lisa Calahan 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Eric,

We have also run into this issue. It would be a great feature if the deletion 
of component records could be a separate permission from the "delete all major 
record types in this repository."

We have a couple of workarounds that we've used, none of which are really 
sustainable. 1) A student/staff person will report when they need a component 
record deleted and a staff person with that permission will delete the record 
for them (usually happens when a component record was accidentally duplicated) 
and a supervisor is sitting close by. 2) The repository manager or ASpace 
administrator will temporarily give the permission group "delete the major 
record types of this repository" permission to be able to delete; which is 
paired with a stern talking to about being careful to not delete a resource 
record. 3) Move multiple/various component records that need to be deleted into 
a "To delete" grouping/fake series at the end of the resource record to have a 
supervisor delete as one of the final review tasks.

Best,
Lisa

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Eric Milenkiewicz 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi All,

We have recently hired/trained student employees on processing archival 
collections in ASpace, however we cannot seem to find a way of fine tuning the 
user permission groups to provide them with an appropriate level of access.

For example, the advanced/basic data entry staff and archivist levels do not 
allow permissions for resource component records to be deleted (which is often 
times needed while processing, as things change). This level of access is not 
achieved until the repository/project manager level which provides much greater 
permissions. Configuring the User Permission Groups also has not helped here 
since once the “delete the major record types in this repository” option is 
checked then entire Resource and Accession records can be deleted (a function 
we want to restrict to higher level staff).

Has anyone else run into this type of permissions issue? And if so, have you 
identified any workarounds?

Thanks,

Eric Milenkiewicz
Manuscripts Curator
Special Collections & University Archives
UCR Library
951-827-4942<tel:(951)%20827-4942>


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