[Building Sakai] Add Users

Thu Jun 24 16:37:18 PDT 2010

There is also an outstanding feature request to add CSV input to the Admin 'Users' tool,  to allow bulk creation of users. IMO this is a vital piece of functionality.
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18450

Could your code be used for this, Matthew?

cheers,
Steve

On 25/06/2010, at 4:33 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:

> 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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