10.5 Repository Administration

Administrative actions for the Daisy Repository Server include:

• managing users
• managing document collections
• managing document, part and field types (ie, the repository schema)
• managing access control

All these operations should be performed through the Daisy Repository Server, never directly on the SQL database. This is on the one hand because the repository server caches a good deal of these things, and wouldn't otherwise be aware of these changes, and also because it is too error-prone to directly change them on the database. Furthermore, JMS events of these operations are generated, which would otherwise not be engendered.

All the management operations can be performed through the Java API or through the HTTP+XML interface. The Daisy Wiki front end contains a set of administration screens (based on these APIs) that allow you to perform all these operations through a web browser.

To perform these operations you need to be logged in with a user having the active role of "Administrator" (a predefined role). See also User Management.