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Creating System Entities

Creating new users, groups, communities, batch registration

4 articles by 1 author

Managing the System

Managing users, maintenance, and more

6 articles by 2 authors

Maintenance notes for on-prem IT

Workflows and tips for major RSpace upgrades

5 articles by 1 author

Configuring access to 3rd-party apps

How on-premises customers can configure RSpace Apps such as GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc.

8 articles by 3 authors

System Requirements for RSpace (for System Admins)

The following information is only applicable to an on-premises Enterprise instance of RSpace. If you are considering using a SaaS version of RSpace (RSpace Team, or RSpace Enterprise hosted on AWS),…

Updated 1 month ago by RSpace Support

Deploying RSpace

The following information is only applicable to a Team or Enterprise Editions of RSpace. Scope and intended audience. This document is for IT staff at an organisation that is considering purchasing,…

Updated 1 month ago by RSpace Support

System Administration Introduction

The following information is only applicable to a Team or Enterprise instance of RSpace. Overview. RSpace supports two types of admins: System Admins , which have full access to configure and manage…

Updated 4 months ago by Vaida

Adjusting System Settings

The System Admin can adjust server behaviors and turn various integrations on or off using the System Tab > Configuration > System Settings page. The list of configurable options changes with each re…

Updated 3 months ago by RSpace Support

Additional Server Properties / Settings

The RSpace System Admin can create and manage users, groups and communities and can control some server and third party integration settings using the intuitive controls located in the System Tab. Ho…

Updated 1 month ago by Rob Day

Linking to files on AWS S3

The following information is only applicable to an Enterprise instance of RSpace. Linking to files on S3 from RSpace. This document explains how it's possible to configure RSpace so that your users c…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

Setting up Single Sign-On Authentication

This article provides detailed documentation on setting up SSO for RSpace. It applies equally to both on-premises and SaaS deployments. RSpace supports two SSO technologies SAML2 LDAP. SAML2 setup. M…

Updated 3 months ago by RSpace Support

Using multiple RSpace accounts with the same SSO identity

The following information is only applicable to an Enterprise instance of RSpace. This document explains how a single SSO identity can have more than one account on RSpace. This use-case is designed…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

Setting up LDAP-based Single Sign-On

LDAP-based Single Sign-On is only available to RSpace Enterprise customers. RSpace supports direct authentication to an LDAP server containing user identities. RSpace usernames will match the usernam…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

Creating a Backdoor Login Account

Create an internal admin account on an RSpace SSO installation

Updated 2 weeks ago by RSpace Support

Configuring Institutional File Systems

The following information is only applicable to an Enterprise instance of RSpace. For Filestores tab to be visible in the Gallery the netfilestores.enabled deployment property has to be set to true.…

Updated 4 months ago

Migrating FileStore to a new location

The following information is only applicable to an Enterprise instance of RSpace. This document describes the steps required to move the RSpace filestore to a new location. You may need to do this if…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

How does RSpace store files? Are there configurable options?

There are four ways that RSpace can store and link to files. This document provides some background information into the ways RSpace can work with new or existing data in various locations. 1. RSpace…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

Managing Published Content

The following information is only applicable to a Team or Enterprise instance of RSpace. There are two new properties to enable publishing documents and public documents being indexable for SEO, both…

Updated 1 year ago by RSpace Support

Storing RSpace archives on S3

The following information is only applicable to an Enterprise instance of RSpace. This page explains how archive exports (HTML or XML) exports can be sent and stored to an AWS S3 bucket. Background.…

Updated 2 years ago by RSpace Support

Configuring a Research Organization Registry (ROR) ID

Introduction. The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led registry of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research organizations. ROR IDs facilitate identifying a specific institution t…

Updated 4 months ago by RSpace Support

Allowing RSpace user to login with specific username alias, rather than username

Username Alias feature was added in RSpace 1.99 (June 2024). The feature is not supported in LDAP login flow. When logging into RSpace account the user needs to provide username and password, or in c…

Updated 8 months ago by Matthias

Tagging Users

This feature is available in RSpace version 1.97 and newer. Overview. RSpace provides the capability for system administrators to tag users, so as to aid with the administration of the RSpace server.…

Updated 11 months ago by Robert