Private Collection?

[Andreas Mader]

Hello,

we love ResourceSpace and would love to use it for sending resources to others via collections. But the ressources in the collection should not be visible for other users via search.

Is there a possibility for this?

Thanks and best regards from Austria

Andi

[Frederick Yocum]

@Andreas I think what you are looking for is an external URL for a collection. Explore the Sharing Resources and Managing external shares. Sharing a collection surfaces only the collection without any navigational links. Searching is not possible. Viewers can download the resources in the collection, either individually or as a collection. 

[Andreas Mader]

Thanks, I know Collections. But the ressources are in the general pool and can be seen by everyone. The collection itself is private.

Can I set ressources also to "private", that only the current user can see them and the unauthenticated users which are using the shared collection?

[Frederick Yocum]

@Andreas I am having difficulty understanding what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps Search Filters will enable you to achieve what you want to do. You could also create different ResourceType and then set permissions for access on specific users groups. Creating different Resource Types might also be an option since you can restrict User Groups from seeing certain Types, though these are can cumbersome to maintain.

I cannot think of a way you can restrict a user's access generally, but allow also allow them access when the resource is in a specific collection.

[Andreas Mader]

Thanks for your input. I used another status now - works very fine :)