[Deploying Sakai] [Building Sakai] Bulk loading of users into sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi,

Your best bet is the web services. You can use this Perl script:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/swinsburg/webservice-scripts/create-users.pl

to iterate over a CSV file and create user accounts. You'll need to adjust it for your environment.

In general you do not want to insert anything into the database manually.

See also here:
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/WEBSVCS/How+to+use+the+Sakai+Web+Services

Down the track you might consider a Quartz job which can automate some of this for you.

cheers,
Steve

On 27/10/2010, at 11:47 AM, <bruceballou at olk12.com> <bruceballou at olk12.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I am looking for someone who has found a way to load a lot of users at
> one time, as we have a lot of users that start at the same time, such as
> a multiple classes of 20 or more students.  We are entering them one at
> a time now, but this is very time consuming.
> 
> I found a way of loading students via MySQL, but I have been told that
> some modules will not show up for users added this way. I update two
> tables, SAKAI_USER and SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP.
> 
> (If someone can explain this, I would really appreciate understanding
> why this happens.)
> 
> I am new to sakai and MySQL, so the more information I get the better I
> will understand the products.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Bruce
> 
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