[Building Sakai] External User search in Sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Jaco,

Cn you enable debug level logging for org.sakaiproject.user and then rerun the search and see if you can spot anything in the logs?

Cheers,
Steve

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On 06/07/2012, at 15:39, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Steve
> 
> Yes we have implemented a LDAP integration but that's about it. Also we have the following property in sakai.properties:
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> separateIdEid at org.sakaiproject.user.api.UserDirectoryService=false 
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> Not sure what exactly this property is used for.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jaco Gillman
> Java Developer
> opencollab
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> On 6 July 2012 07:10, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jaco,
> 
> That's odd. It works fine on nightly 2.8.x, have you any local modifications? Also, do the logs show anything interesting?
> http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8081/portal
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> On 06/07/2012, at 2:53 PM, Jaco Gillman wrote:
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>> Hi Steve
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>> Regards,
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>> Jaco Gillman
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>> Java Developer
>> opencollab
>> Tel: +27 21 970 4017  |  Fax: +27 21 914 3098
>> Email: jaco at opencollab.co.za  |  Skype: gillmanjc
>> Web: www.opencollab.co.za
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>> On 6 July 2012 06:41, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jaco,
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>> Do you mean the Admin users tool? That should search all internal users. Could you perhaps send a screenshot of the search result, and then another without any search term so we can see what the normal list looks like?
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>> thanks,
>> Steve
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>> On 06/07/2012, at 2:11 PM, Jaco Gillman wrote:
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>>> Hi Bryan
>>> This "user" tool search does not even bring back any results for internal users that we have added manually. Any ideas around what this might be? We have installed Sakai 2.8.2.
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>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jaco Gillman
>>> Java Developer
>>> opencollab
>>> Tel: +27 21 970 4017  |  Fax: +27 21 914 3098
>>> Email: jaco at opencollab.co.za  |  Skype: gillmanjc
>>> Web: www.opencollab.co.za
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>>> On 5 July 2012 18:30, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:
>>> The membership tool uses this search and will return the information
>>> for you.  The "users" tool is for internal users only.
>>> 
>>> -Bryan
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
>>> > Thanks for the reply Bryan.
>>> >
>>> > I saw an example of what you mention below online, but is it at all possible
>>> > for Sakai to do external searches "out-of-the-box"? I would like to log in
>>> > with a Admin user, and do a search on external users using the Users tool
>>> > performing a normal user search functionality.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Jaco Gillman
>>> >
>>> > Java Developer
>>> >
>>> > opencollab
>>> >
>>> > Tel: +27 21 970 4017  |  Fax: +27 21 914 3098
>>> >
>>> > Email: jaco at opencollab.co.za  |  Skype: gillmanjc
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>>> > Web: www.opencollab.co.za
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>>> > On 5 July 2012 18:06, Bryan Holladay <holladay at longsight.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Theres a separate function for external (ldap) users:
>>> >>
>>> >> userDirectoryService.searchExternalUsers(search, -1, -1)
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > Hi All
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am having difficulty doing users searches in Sakai. We have an LDAP
>>> >> > integration implementation.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Are there any sakai.properties settings that I need to be aware of to
>>> >> > accomplish external user searches in Sakai?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Regards,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Jaco Gillman
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Java Developer
>>> >> >
>>> >> > opencollab
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Tel: +27 21 970 4017  |  Fax: +27 21 914 3098
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Email: jaco at opencollab.co.za  |  Skype: gillmanjc
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