Testathlon DSpace8 - community / collection export and import not working

[joem...@gmail.com]

Dear DSpace team,

Previously I have exported collection successfully from DSpace 8 demo site and failed when trying to import collection to new community, this is happening even on version 7.6, it was working fine on version 6.x.

Regards,

Lewatle 

[DSpace Community]

Hi Lewatle,

Just wanted to follow-up with this and say that today I tested the Collection "Batch Export (ZIP)" and "Batch Import (ZIP)"  options on the Sandbox site (https://sandbox.dspace.org) which is running pre-8.0.  Both appear to be working for me, so I'm not noticing the failures you noticed.

I've also tested them on the https://demo.dspace.org site which is running pre-7.6.2.  They work there as well.

It is worth noting that it's currently *not possible* to do these imports/exports at a Community level.  They are only possible for Collections at this time in 7.x and 8.x.

If you can find a way to reproduce the issue you were seeing, then I'd recommend creating a bug ticket with the step-by-step process that you took which resulted in the error: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues    It's possible that either the error was temporary, or maybe the Zip file you tried to import was invalid.  It's also possible you were running into this newly discovered bug: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9499 (which we'll be looking into fixing quickly).

In any case, thank you for your testing of the sites via Testathon!

Tim