B2SHARE admin panel

User who have administration-access and administration-moderation roles can access the B2SHARE admin panel. Most of the pages in administration panel supports faceted search.

Access administration panel

To access administration panel navigate to /administration/ or on the top navigation bar click you username and “Administration”.

Figure 1: Access administration via navigation bar.

Communities

In administration panel you can list communities and delete communities.

Figure 2: List of communities. Delete a community by clicking “Delete…”.

Remote files

Remote files feature is managed through administration panel. The feature can be enabled and the permissions set. The available permissions are: Any logged-in user, Administrator only, System process only (superuser) and Nobody (disable even if feature enabled). Allowed domains are added through administration panel and separated by a new line. Subdomains are not included. No wildcards supported.

Figure 3: Remote files management in administration panel.

Audit logs

Audit logs are listed in the administration panel. A specific log entry can be viewed by clicking “View Log…” button. Logs can be filtered by using facets or by using the search.

Figure 4: List of audit logs.

Figure 5: Audit log entry.

Drafts

Drafts can be managed and viewed in the administration panel. If the quota is too small for a specific draft it can be increased in the administration panel.

Figure 6: Draft record listing.

Figure 7: Draft record dropdown options.

Figure 8: Set custom quota for a draft record.

Records

Records can be managed through the administration panel. For example records can be deleted through the panel.

Figure 9: Records listing in administration panel.

Domains

Domains are currently used for statistics purposes, but can be used for moderation purposes as well. For example a domain can be blocked.

Figure 10: List of domains in administration panel.

Figure 11: Add a new domain. Category field can be used to block a domain.

OAI-PMH

B2SHARE OAI-PMH sets are managed through the administration panel. Each new community gets automatically an OAI set. New custom sets can be created through the administration panel.

Figure 12: List of registered OAI sets in administration panel.

Figure 13: Create a new OAI set page.

Vocabulary types

List of vocabularies and amount of entries in each vocabulary are listed in the administration panel. Adding new vocabularies is done via CLI.

Figure 14: List of vocabularies in administration panel.

Banners

Banner management is done in the administration panel. In the panel new banners can be created, old banners modified and deleted.

Figure 15: List of banners in administration panel.

Figure 16: Create a new banner. To make the banner visible modify start- and end times and check “Active”. A path can be configured to a banner.

Pages

Existing static pages can be managed through the administration panel. New pages have to be created through CLI.

Figure 17: List of static pages in administration panel.

Figure 18: Edit a static page.

Jobs

Periodic jobs (background jobs) can be managed through the administration panel. New jobs can be created and scheduled. Existing jobs can be modified and run.

Figure 19: List of jobs in administration panel.

Figure 20: Schedule a job. Possible choises are interval and cron.

Figure 21: Create a job. Tasks are preconfigured, e.g. Update expired embargoes, Load ROR affilitations, and other vocabulary updates.

Users

Users can be managed through the administration panel. User can be blocked, activated, verified, deactivated and impersonated. A custom quota can be set for a user if enabled in application configuration.

Figure 22: List of users in administration panel.

Figure 23: actions behind the eye icon dropdown.

Figure 24: User settings.

Roles

List of users with their roles is available in administration panel.

Figure 25: List of users and their roles in administration panel.

  Last update : 11.09.2026

Last review : 11.09.2026