Hi all, we have a requirement to give administrator rights to all the (co-)authors of a publication in our repository given that an author is registered as an eperson in our DSpace. For the sake of convenience and in order to ensure this is really done, we want it automated. This poses some questions on which I'd like to hear your opinion.
1) Since it is not possible (or is it?) in DSpace to grant rights to epersons rather than groups containing specific epersons, is there any automatic way to generate an own group for an eperson when the eperson is added to the system? That group representing only the eperson can than be used to grant rights to only that eperson. This is rather dirty, admittedly, is there a smarter way? If no, my idea is to use the DatabaseManager to insert new entries in the database, but where in the source should I do that? In the EPerson constructor (i.e. call a method from there)? 2) We would like a routine at item submission that lets the user choose (co-)authors from the list of epersons. Defining a qualdrop_value in the input-forms.xml comes to mind first, but that would only give me name strings instead of eperson objects, and even the string list would have to updated somehow when a new eperson is added to the system. 3) If an eperson is selected as author of an item as desired in 2), they should also be granted admin rights for the item. Assuming that only groups can have rights, we'd have to give the rights to the one-member group representing the eperson. Again, I'd issue some SQL statements through the DatabaseManager, but again, where would this fit best? Thanks very much in advance, Joachim PS: Sorry it feels like I've been responsible for half of the topics on this list lately, but we're still in the process of setting up our repository and there are so many issues... -- Joachim Bingel Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Zentrale Forschung R5, 6-13, 68161 Mannheim +49 - (0)621-1581-456 | http://www.ids-mannheim.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
