Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Webinar Announcement: ArchivesSpace Implementation Buddies - September 26

2018-09-25 Thread Emily Pyers
Hi Kim, I was just wondering if there was any chance the webinar might be recorded and distributed so international users who aren’t able to attend can get some further information on the program? I’m in Melbourne (AEST), and I know there are a couple of other Australian institutions using

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Event Outcome Problems

2018-09-25 Thread James R Griffin III
Hello Everyone, Please forgive any misunderstandings on my part, as I'm relatively new to this software and the project. I'm currently working with an installation of ArchivesSpace which has been updated to 2.5.0, and I've encountered a problem in which Event "Outcome" values can be persisted

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Modifying user account and passwords

2018-09-25 Thread Kennedy, Nancy
We require everyone to have LDAP credentials (volunteers too) to log in and use any systems. If for some reason that couldn't work, I'd have the volunteer work in Excel or other txt file format. We have workflows to import data from CSV or spreadsheet templates. That covers most cases!

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Modifying user account and passwords

2018-09-25 Thread Trevor Thornton
I believe that if you use LDAP for authentication it can still fall back to the standard database authentication (where you set the user's password within ArchivesSpace). The 'admin' user is authenticated this way. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:34 PM Tang, Lydia wrote: > Hi Nancy, > Thanks for

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Modifying user account and passwords

2018-09-25 Thread Tang, Lydia
Hi Nancy, Thanks for your feedback! Ed Busch added your idea into the JIRA ticket. https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-534 Keeping the username static makes a lot of sense. On a tangential note, for people who are using LDAP, how do you handle people who aren’t affiliated with

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Modifying user account and passwords

2018-09-25 Thread Kennedy, Nancy
Lydia, all - ANW-534 could introduce challenges for our users and workflows. We use LDAP, and would want to prevent users from modifying usernames or passwords in the archivesspace UI. Could user account editing be configurable, to accommodate LDAP workflows? For example, perhaps this could

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Extent Calculator

2018-09-25 Thread Mims, Miranda
Hi Everyone, We've just updated from 1.5.1 to 2.3.2. In this new version, we no longer have extent calculating capability. Is there a separate plug-in for this function? Thanks, Miranda Miranda Mims Special Collections Archivist for Discovery & Access Department of Rare Books, Special

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Another MARC export glitch?

2018-09-25 Thread Kottman, Miloche
I can confirm that we're seeing this behavior also (version 2.5). It happens for corporate bodies used as a subject or as a creator: Subject: Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs,