[Building Sakai] Add Users

[Matthew Jones]

A a quick followup to Steve's comment, I'd written a Rhino script to perform
the add user process a few months ago. (
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/umich.edu/ctools/builds/trunk/tools/sakaiscript/rhino/
)

However at the request of Aaron at the conference, I also wrote up a quick
client side interface which performs all of this in the browser. [1] It
users jquery and the jquery csv plugin [2] to parse value from a text box.
Because POST isn't XSS restricted (only reading the result) you can use this
page to add to your own server, or just save the source and get 2 external
scripts to be customized to do a few other things possible with EB (create
sites, add users to sites, etc).

It *possibly* could also do an ajax upload and use that file, but that would
require a little server side processing and local temporary storage, whereas
this is all in client-side javascript.

Anyway, as you can see there are a few ways of doing this.

[1] http://ctnightly.dmc.dc.umich.edu/staticcontent/csv/
[2] http://plugins.jquery.com/project/csv

-Matthew


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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