Thanks, I looked (but overlooked those).
~~Bill

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:49 PM DSpace Technical Support <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> These are known bugs which still exist in 7.3.  See these bug tickets:
>
> https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1482
> https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1331
>
> So, these are definitely usability bugs.  While the system does block you
> from editing anything you don't have rights to edit, it should ideally
> filter out those objects from these lists.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 3:36:11 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> In DSpace7, the actions that a logged in user may perform seem not be
>> contextualized according to the admin groups to which they belong, for
>> instance:
>>
>> When logged in as an eperson with any community admin capacity, that user
>> has the options Edit -> Community, Collection, or Items. The resulting
>> search option is not restricted to the community they have permissions for
>> and instead displays everything, so it appears that they have permission to
>> edit any community, collection, or item, only to receive a 403 permissions
>> error if they try to proceed.
>>
>> Similarly, an EPerson with community admin rights will see the option to
>> Create a New Item/Collection/Community/Process when logged in. The Create
>> New Collection/Community search will list all collections/communities
>> (including creating a new top-level community) and will let the EPerson
>> fill out the form for creating a new community/collection even if the
>> EPerson does not actually have permission to do so in the selected
>> community. It is not until the EPerson tries to save that new
>> community/collection that DSpace indicates that an access error has
>> occurred, and calls it a "server error" rather than a permissions error.
>>
>> Finally, users with no admin permissions see the option to Edit Item,
>> with the ability to choose seemingly any item. Selecting the item will then
>> show a 403 permissions error.
>>
>> Is this correct?  Or have I made an error in my dspace.cfg's
>> authorization system configuration? (This seems to be the behavior on the
>> demo site as well.  I would appear to be able to edit any item there, only
>> to be denied if I attempt to do so).
>>
>> Essentially I want to know if I have some mis-configuration, or if this
>> is the expected behavior.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice!
>> ~~Bill
>>
>> --
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