Hello Claire, you could set your underlying database to transaction read only. This would prevent any change on communities, collections, epeople, groups ... Anything would be viewable, but no new users, changed/new items etc. Note, this would prevent some of the cron jobs from working, too.
Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Am 03.02.2012 10:52, schrieb Claire Webster: > Hello, > > Sorry for the lack of information previously, so buried in the issue > that I forgot people wouldn't know! :) > > What we are after is to make our current DSpace (version 1.7.1 using > Mirage) installation completely read-only, no submissions of new items > and no edits of old. We've been told we need to migrate the data to a > new system so need to baseline it for the export. > > I've only been using DSpace for a few months having inherited it for the > upgrade to 1.7.1 so detailed instructions for a newby would be good if > possible. ;) > > Many thanks to Matt for his response so far. > > kind regards, > Claire > > On 02/02/2012 13:06, Henry, Matt - OPS District Computer Technician wrote: >> When you say read only do you mean that no one is able to submit or edit >> new items? Or do you mean that no one should be able to just edit items? >> >> I have never tried that before but if you want to just disallow >> submissions you can change permissions for anonymous and authenticated to >> deny 'add.' If you need to simply prevent the editing of items this can >> be done via group permissions as well. >> >> It would be helpful for people to know what version you are using, what >> environment you are in, and more detail on what you are trying to >> accomplish. >> >> Hope this helps! >> Matt Henry >> >> On 2/2/12 6:51 AM, "Claire Webster"<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I need to make our DSpace installation read-only is there an easy way to >>> do this, or instructions available? Any help very gratefully received. >>> >>> kind regards, >>> Claire >>> -- >>> Claire Webster (nee Lumber) >>> Developer, Library Systems >>> University of Bristol >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Tel: (0117) 331 6739 (internal: 16739) >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! >>> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >>> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >>> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d >>> _______________________________________________ >>> DSpace-tech mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech >>> >> >> > -- Claudia Juergen Universitaetsbibliothek Dortmund Eldorado 0231/755-4043 https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
