[Building Sakai] batch creation of accounts

[Adrian Fish]

I've JIRA'd this at https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20344

Cheers,
Adrian.

On 01/03/2011 22:56, Adrian Fish wrote:
> Per site Add Particpants might be the neatest fit. It avoids the 'Sakai
> with 20,000 sites' problem when picking a site to add them to, and you
> can delegate the adding of users to actual site maintainers, which is nice.
>
> Cheers again,
> Adrian.
>
> On 01/03/2011 22:32, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> I haven't actually used it, but it sounds like it could be another tool sitting in Admin Workspace where you upload a CSV and then you could choose a site and add them there, rather than having it per site. But an integration with the Admin Users tool or per site Add Participants would be neat.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 02/03/2011, at 9:18 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> You mean do a patch for the current user admin stuff? I could do a partial conversion of it, the Excel and wizard bits, but it actually works in the site that it has been placed in. It adds the users that have been created into the current site and saves a bit of labour that way.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adrian.
>>>
>>> On 01/03/2011 21:49, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>>> Hi Adrian,
>>>>
>>>> Any chance you could submit that as an admin tool? There has been a talk about adding this functionality to the user tool but it never made it, this would be a nice addition.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/03/2011, at 3:49 AM, Adrian Fish wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Adam,
>>>>>
>>>>> Try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//msub/lancaster.ac.uk/lums/usergenerator/
>>>>>
>>>>> It takes excel spreadsheets. We use it here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Adrian.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/03/2011 16:40, Adam Marshall wrote:
>>>>>> Is there a way to batch create user accounts by uploading a CSV which contains
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Username, first name, last name, email address
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This should email account details to the specified email address. It's just like filling in the create new user page a number of times.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess there could be a web services interface, but what I'm after is a tool which a user could employ. This could either be something in the admin workspace or a tool we add to a site.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> adam
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Adrian Fish
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Centre for e-Science
Bowland Tower South C Floor
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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