Problem: User permissions based on language are too restrictive

[ravengermain]

Current Behavior

One of AtoM's default behaviours is that users (unless they are Administrators) cannot link or update digital objects if the source language of the description they are trying to update is different than the language they have set using the "Globe" icon. This is because it would require translations. The code for this can be found here.

For example, if a Contributor has their language set to English, and they are trying to upload a digital object for a description that's in English, they will see the "More" button in the UI that they can expand to upload a digital object. However, if they change AtoM's language to French, the "More" button disappears.

Expected Behavior

This behaviour is too restrictive, especially for bilingual institutions.

Desired behaviour

1. If you're a Contributor (or any user with permissions to upload digital objects), you should be able to do anything that a Contributor can do regardless of the language you have set.

Version used

AtoM 2.8.0

[melaniekung]

it should also be investigated what other feature/functionality this (code) decision affects. if required, a discussion should be had to decide if these other features/functionalities should be allowed as well.