Allow workflow submitters to edit archived items

[Otuoma Sanya]

This should be easy, or is it not?

I have a group of users named "Submitters" that I have configured as submitters in the submission workflow. However, and surprisingly, I noticed that they can not edit the metadata of items, including those they submitted. The only workaround I have found is to make them collection administrators to allow them to edit those item metadata. But making them collection adminsitrators gives them too much powers including the ability to delete the collection and its items.

Adding them to a policy with WRITE permission allows them to edit the collection metadata (name, description, etc) but not the metadata of the collection's items.

Is there a way to give my "Submitters" group the ability to submit and still edit the metadata of archived items without making them collection administrators?

[Peter Sutton-Long]

Hi  Otuoma Sanya,

In response to your comment about collection administrators - and you may be aware of this already -  but depending on your version of DSpace, you do have some configuration options to limit what community and collection administrators can do

 to the community/collection itself and any content held in the collection(s):

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/spaces/DSDOC8x/pages/315720879/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-DelegationAdministration:AuthorizationSystemConfiguration

Kind regards,

Peter