Found out how you can move a collection from one community to another with just a couple of commands. This came up when we decided to make a sub-community under “University Libraries” to hold our collections from “Special Collections and Archives”
You need to find out the ID numbers for the community and the collection, then issue this command to postgres…
Say you want to move collection 34 from community 3 to community 7:
update community2collection set community_id=7 where community_id=3 and collection_id=34;
Then a /dspace/bin/index-all should fix all of the browse caches and search indices.
Thanks to Dave Stuve at HP for that bit of wisdom…
Still have to test whether all “pieces” of DSpace function after this process but that’s why we have a test server. Will update this post when testing is complete.
Update Testing shows that it works well.