I just ran into this same issue. Why is the option available to community/collection admins if they cannot export metadata via the CSV export? I'm having a hard time finding this in the documentation as well. If anyone knows where this is listed in the documentation, I'd appreciate a link.
Best, Ed Warga TAMU-CC On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 9:44:32 AM UTC-5, Alan Orth wrote: > > Helix, > > I just did a more-thorough test on demo.dspace.org. I added Demo > Community Administrator as an administrator of the "haris community" [1] > and Demo Collection Administrator as an administrator of the "haris > collection" [2]. When either are logged in, there's a new menu item that > appears in their respective community/collection: Context -> Export > Metadata. Despite the option appearing, neither of them are able to > actually export the meta data; the error message is as before, " This > export archive is restricted." > > Note, I'm not exporting communities or collections, just the metadata; it > seems you must be a site-wide administrator to be allowed to export meta > data as a CSV. I'm not sure why the option appears if it's not allowed... > > Hope that clarifies and possibly helps someone else. > > [1] http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/2432 > [2] http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/2433 > > On 04/17/2013 03:45 PM, helix84 wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > I admit I did only a single test on demo where I exported a community > using the community admin's account, but the test was successful, as you > can still see when you look at that account's "My Exports". > > I used the "dspacedemo...@gmail.com <javascript:>" account to export the > following community (which he's an admin of): > http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/1 > > What did you do differently while testing on demo? Are you sure the > community or collection admin you tried was really an admin for that > particular community/collection? > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette > > > > -- > Alan orthalan...@gmail.com > <javascript:>http://alaninkenya.orghttp://mjanja.co.ke > "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; > my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my > telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
