Hi Otuoma Sanya, In response to your comment about collection administrators - and you may be aware of this already - but depending on your version of DSpace, you do have some configuration options to limit what community and collection administrators can do to the community/collection itself and any content held in the collection(s):
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/spaces/DSDOC8x/pages/315720879/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-DelegationAdministration:AuthorizationSystemConfiguration Kind regards, Peter On Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 19:13:34 UTC+1 Otuoma Sanya wrote: > This should be easy, or is it not? > > I have a group of users named "Submitters" that I have configured as > submitters in the submission workflow. However, and surprisingly, I noticed > that they can not edit the metadata of items, including those they > submitted. The only workaround I have found is to make them collection > administrators to allow them to edit those item metadata. But making them > collection adminsitrators gives them too much powers including the ability > to delete the collection and its items. > Adding them to a policy with WRITE permission allows them to edit the > collection metadata (name, description, etc) but not the metadata of the > collection's items. > > Is there a way to give my "Submitters" group the ability to submit and > still edit the metadata of archived items without making them collection > administrators? > -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/56ca0221-335a-44b9-becf-98d332bac3dbn%40googlegroups.com.
