Responding to myself here,
It seems that you must be a super admin in order to export meta data
from a collection. ie, community- and collection-level admins cannot
export metadata from their communities / collections unless they are
also top-level admins.
Alan
On 04/17/2013 10:00 AM, Alan Orth wrote:
> Thanks, helix. My memory of the exact error wording wasn't as good as
> I thought! :)
>
> In my experience the "Export Metadata" link directly downloads a CSV
> file; I don't see "My Exports"...?
>
> I'll try to replicate this experiment on demo.dspace.org.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
> On 04/16/2013 11:37 PM, helix84 wrote:
>> It saves time to list the exact wording ("This export archive is
>> restricted.").
>>
>> Here's what the comment at that place in code says:
>>
>> // The user does not have read access to this bitstream. Interrupt
>> this current request
>> // and then forward them to the login page so that they can be
>> authenticated. Once that is
>> // successful they will request will be resumed.
>>
>> I don't use that functionality, so I don't know what's wrong. One
>> guess I would take is - if you made the export and he's trying to
>> download it, he probably can't (although I'm not sure your export
>> would show up in his "My Exports"). Is the message the same when he
>> tried to do the export as opposed to downloading the export?
>>
>> BTW you may test the functionality on demo.dspace.org. From my test,
>> it works (both exporting and downloading the export).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> ~~helix84
>>
>> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette
>> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
>
>
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