Hello Sherry, The wiki can be overwhelming and has so much information. I've been working with it for 2 years now and am still learning to navigate them effectively. The Learning DSpace <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Learning+DSpace> section of these wikis seems to be the most geared towards newbies - how did it work for you?
In addition to what the previous responders said about the Show drop-down menu and "Workflow tasks" you might want to view an item before it has been submitted. You can see those non-admin user items before they have been submitted with the Admin menu sidebar -> *Access Control* -> *People* option. Once you navigate there you can: - Search for the eperson account - select the "Edit" button for that eperson - select the "Impersonate EPerson" button - Go up to the top right Profile icon and select the "MyDspace" option - You can view the submissions that they are working on but have not yet deposited. - When you are done, click on the "Stop impersonating EPerson" button in the top right menu. It will return you to the Admin view Here is the DSpace 8 wiki article "Managing User Accounts" with these steps - https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Managing+User+Accounts Good luck! Kent On Monday, April 14, 2025 at 11:47:12 AM UTC-5 Sherry Lake wrote: > Hello DSpace Community, > > The University of Virginia Library has decided to move from our very old > (mostly customized) IR to a locally hosted instance of DSpace (DSpace 8). > > Since we (I) am totally new to DSpace and configurations, I was wondering > if there are any guides (videos) on getting started (for V7x or V8x)? I > have looked over (and over) the DSpace8.x wiki, but find it more for those > who understand the workings of DSpace - the parts and how they fit, more > for those already familiar with DSpace. I've also watched a few DSpace > videos (tutorials), but again need more details on how things work together. > > Is there anything for total newbies? I'm pretty technical; I am the > administrator of our locally hosted Dataverse Repository (setting up user > accounts, setting up configurations, working with APIs, setting up > harvesting, etc.). > > I just need to know more than the basics (what the intro tutorials show) > to get me started. > > For example, why can't an ePerson who is in the "Administrator" group (who > can see the DSpace Management side-bar), not see any results in the > "Administrative Search". A non-admin user has created two draft items that > I assumed an admin should see? But I see no items under Administrative > Search (not even the one draft item I created). > > Is this the best place for questions like this or is the DSpace slack > space better, which channel? > > > Thank you, > Sherry Lake -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/8d12b458-0814-43ea-a99f-ea4f50655fc6n%40googlegroups.com.
