DRS Managing Communities
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Requirements for Managing Communities
You must have admin privileges in the DRS to manage communities in the DRS.
Creating Communities
Go to the DRS Admin page
Click Manage Communities
Click Create new community
Parent Community: Enter and select the name of the parent community. If the desire parent community does not exist, create that community first.
Supply the community name, and optionally a description of that community.
Select the appropriate permission, either public or private.
Add a thumbnail for the community, if available.
If this community grants theses or dissertations, click the Include Theses and Dissertations Folder box
Click Submit
Editing Communities titles and descriptions
Go to the DRS Admin page
Click Manage Communities
Find the community you would like to edit
Click Edit
Make the desired changes and click the first Submit button
Moving Communities
Before you move the community you will want to gather the appropriate PIDs:
- PID for the community you want to move
- PID for the new parent community
Go to the Fedora admin page
Under the Object menu enter the community PID in the Open Object PID search box and click Open
Moving a community requires changing the parent PID in two locations: the RELS-EXT and the properties datastreams
- Double click the RELS-EXT datastream and click Edit Content
In the <drs:hasAffiliation> field, change the PID value in the rdf:resource attribute to the new parent community PID
Click Save Changes
- Double click the properties datastream and click Edit Content
Change the value of the <parent_id> field from the old parent community PID to the new parent community PID
Click Save Changes
Removing Communities
Go to the DRS Admin page
Click Manage Communities
Find the community you would like to remove
Click Destroy