[Building Sakai] Add Users

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi,

There are two simple ways to get an enterprise integration going, the web services, and Quartz.

1. If you have a reasonable number of users (under 1000) then you can use the web services and some Perl/PHP/Java/whatever-language-you-like to connect to Sakai and add users, create sites and add users to sites etc. If you have more than 1000 users, go to 2, since the webservices add some overhead, otherwise, read on.

I have a number of extremely simple and easy to follow Perl scripts that do things like create users etc:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//swinsburg/webservice-scripts/

It is trivial to adjust these to create sites and add users to sites (see create-users.pl for an example), but if you want to do that, get in touch: 

2. If you have more users, Sakai has a Quartz job scheduler which is essentially a cron scheduler and runs a Java class, so uses the API's directly and is extremely fast. I believe most institutions that have a level of integration with a student information system or similar, use Quartz. http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Quartz+in+Sakai

I also have a Quartz script I can give you which will synchronise users in sites, adding and removing as required, based on some external system which holds this information.


cheers,
Steve


p.s. I'm not mentioning the CourseManagement API here.


On 23/06/2010, at 2:01 AM, Dave Churchley wrote:

> Hi Cheryl and Peter
> 
> A tool that adds a new user to a specific site is exactly the kind of thing we're after at the moment. I'd appreciate it if you could share the code, please.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
>> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Johns, Cheryl
>> Sent: 22 June 2010 14:59
>> To: Longfei Yu; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>> 
>> We can share the code, no problem, but this does not just add them to
>> the Sakai instance, it adds them to a single site.
>> 
>> If that works for you, I can have our system programmer be in contact to
>> share the code.   Please respond to Peter who is cc'd here.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
>> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Longfei Yu
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:39 AM
>> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>> 
>> Great, I also need one to upload user information from .csv file to
>> Sakai. I just added 200 users manually, sounds so stupid.
>> 
>> How can I get it?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Longfei
>> 
>> Quoting "Johns, Cheryl" <cheryl.johns at yale.edu>:
>> 
>>> Good morning Mohan,
>>> 
>>> We have developed a tool that allows you to populate a specific site
>>> using a spreadsheet of IDs/roles.  Would this work for you?
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of
>>> mohan at samudrasoftware.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:40 AM
>>> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Add Users
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to load users from csv or spread sheet to sakai
>> database?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Mohan
>>> 
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