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Sub-Community Management
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After moving or changing an existing Community hierarchy, it is important to reindex your content. Moving a Community under a new parent may result in the inheritance of new/different permissions from that new parent Community. These new permissions will not take effect until you reindex your content. Keep in mind, you may not need to reindex all content, but may be able to simply reindex the content under the new parent Community.
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DSpace provides an administrative tool‚ 'CommunityFiliator'‚ for managing community sub-structure. Normally this structure seldom changes, but prior to the 1.2 release sub-communities were not supported, so this tool could be used to place existing pre-1.2 communities into a hierarchy. It has two operations, either establishing a community to sub-community relationship, or dis-establishing an existing relationship.
The familiar parent/child metaphor can be used to explain how it works. Every community in DSpace can be either a 'parent' community‚ meaning it has at least one sub-community, or a 'child' community‚ meaning it is a sub-community of another community, or both or neither. In these terms, an 'orphan' is a community that lacks a parent (although it can be a parent); 'orphans' are referred to as 'top-level' communities in the DSpace user-interface, since there is no parent community 'above' them. The first operation‚ establishing a parent/child relationship - can take place between any community and an orphan. The second operation - removing a parent/child relationship‚ will make the child an orphan.
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Java class: | org.dspace.administer.CommunityFiliator |
Arguments short and (long) forms: | Description |
| Set a parent/child relationship |
| Remove a parent/child relationship |
| Child community (Handle or database ID) |
| Parent community (Handle or database ID |
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Set a parent/child relationship, issue the following at the CLI:
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