Re: [dspace-community] Administrative UI to add users, communities, collections, etc. in DEMO dspace site?
Thank you, Tim, for clarifying that. I was logged in as a community admin, but I was looking at a different community where there was no Context menu in the sidebar. Now that i went to the Sample Community I indeed see the Context menu. Great! I would also like to add that since starting to look into DSpace I am REALLY REALLY impressed by the level of support and patient help that is given through this forum. You guys are amazingly responsive! A On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 3:01:29 PM UTC-4, Tim Donohue wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > Those features do exist, but it sounds like there's a misunderstanding on > how they work / where to find them. Specifically, here's a few things to > clarify: > > 1) Only Site Administrators can add new Users (Login -> Administrative > sidemenu -> Access Control -> People). Community Administrators cannot add > new accounts, but can give existing accounts permissions within their > Community. > 1a) However, depending on local settings, individual users often can > register with DSpace. This allows individuals to create their own account. > But, this account has no special permissions until an Administrator gives > them permissions (by adding them to a role/group). > 1b) Some local sites also choose to use an Authentication Plugin (for > LDAP or Shibboleth). These plugins allow users at an institution to login > immediately using an external authentication system (LDAP or Shib), without > needing to first create a user. > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Authentication+Plugins > > 2) Community Administrators *only* have Administrative rights under (one > or more) specific Communities. So, this means they can only create > subcommunities or collections under those specific Communities. On the > demo site, the demo Community Admin can only create Collections under the > "Sample Community" (http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/1 > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.dspace.org%2Fxmlui%2Fhandle%2F10673%2F1=D=1=AFQjCNGxqxmyobmAstuJIj6qEKab6Qhx6w>). > > So, after logging in as the demo Community Admin, if you go to that > Community, on the sidemenu you'll see a new "Context" menu in the sidebar > with an option that says "Create Collection". >2a) It's worth noting that a Site Administrator can Create a Collection > under any Community. They can also create new Communities and assign > Community Admin rights within them. But, again you must first browse to a > Community to create the Collection under. DSpace has a strict hierarchy of > Community -> Collection -> Item -> Files. > > I hope that helps explain these features a bit more, Alan. Definitely let > us know on this list if you have other questions that pop up. > > - Tim > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:34 PM Alan Z <azaitc...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> I logged into the DSpace demo site (http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/) as a >> community admin, hoping to test drive the UI for adding collections and >> users, etc.-- but I see nothing like that in any of the demo communities. I >> mean: I can list the current authors in a community but see no UI for >> adding users. Or for that matter adding a collection. Does the demo simply >> not include any such capability or am I missing it before my own eyes? >> I know there is a command line method for such operations and one can >> implement one's own solution by calling through the XML or JSP API-- but is >> there really no built-in admin UI for these operations? >> Thanks, >> Alan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "DSpace Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to dspace-communi...@googlegroups.com . >> To post to this group, send email to dspace-c...@googlegroups.com >> . >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Tim Donohue > Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect > DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-community+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-community@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[dspace-community] Administrative UI to add users, communities, collections, etc. in DEMO dspace site?
I logged into the DSpace demo site (http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/) as a community admin, hoping to test drive the UI for adding collections and users, etc.-- but I see nothing like that in any of the demo communities. I mean: I can list the current authors in a community but see no UI for adding users. Or for that matter adding a collection. Does the demo simply not include any such capability or am I missing it before my own eyes? I know there is a command line method for such operations and one can implement one's own solution by calling through the XML or JSP API-- but is there really no built-in admin UI for these operations? Thanks, Alan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-community+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-community@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[dspace-community] Re: Newbie lost during configuration
Thank you, Kim. The reference was most helpful, and I repeated all the
steps I had done, but more carefully. In particular I decided not to try
the full source distribution this time around. I got almost to the end of
the instructions without a problem, but then mistakenly ran maven not as
dspace but as ec2-user, generating the installer directories with the wrong
owner. I tried to fix this by playing with file ownership, and eventually
did "su dspace" and ran "ant frsh_install"... kind of all mixed up but it
*seems* to have got to the end of the process OK. So I copied all the
applications from [dspace]/webapps into Tomcat's webapps directory...
restarted the Tomcat8 service... ... sent my browser to the
"http://tomcat-url:8080/jspui ... and then waited and waited and waited and
waited, patiently assuming the sorry little freebie AWS server was laboring
as hard as it could to compile everything on this its first exertion...
until finally... it just spun forever and ever, no "finally" actually.
After 2 hours it was still spinning its wheels so I killed the browser and
went outside to shovel snow...
Is there some way to know why it returned neither the requested page nor an
error status?
A
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 12:06:05 AM UTC-4, Alan Z wrote:
>
> I am having troubles getting started due to my not understanding some
> basics about Tomcat and DSpace configuration.
> (This is with AWS "AMI" virtual with Tomcat 8, Postgresql 9.6, and DSpace
> 6.2.) All pieces seem installed correctly, but for the life of me I cannot
> get Tomcat to serve out the DSpace jspui index.jsp page.
>
> In the Dspace conf.cfg I have the following values:
>
> dspace.dir = /home/ec2-user/dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace
>
> dspace.hostname = states.x.net
>
> dspace.baseUrl = http://states.x.net:8080
>
>
> I commented out the line
>
> #dspace.url = ${dspace.baseUrl}/${dspace.ui}
> because in the Tomcat server.xml I have NOT changed the element.
> Rather I copied all the files and folders from
> /home/ec2-user/dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/webapps
> to the Tomcat webapps folder.
> Shoudn't this be enough to make possible browsers addressing
> http://states.x.net:8080/jspui
> to get the index.jsp file under jspui ?
>
> I would be happy to edit the element to set the appBase to the
> DSpace installation's webapps folder, except that my efforts to do all
> failed. I tried various combinations such as
>
> appBase="/home/ec2-user/dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/webapps"
>
> and also
>
> appBase="/home/ec2-user/dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/webapps"
>
> BUT finally the only way I could get even the default Tomcat page to
> display was to revert back to
>
> That's when I thought I would just copy all the DSpace apps into the
> default Tomcat webapps directory.
>
> I apologize for the newbie nature of the above. A gently hint would be
> most appreciated!
>
> A
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