[Building Sakai] Sakai Course Management - Course Site participant list

[Aaron Zeckoski]

You might consider transforming the data format into the one used by
sakora simple csv. There is typically an advantage to using the
production proven tech vs starting from scratch (not always of
course).
It sounds like you are pretty far along already but just a suggestion
in case you run into more issues.
-AZ


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Aaron
>
> Yeah I have seen this before, but we had to do a more specific
> implementation for the data that the client provided. We could not just give
> the the format and told them they must adhere to it, they made the rules :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaco Gillman
>
> Java Developer
>
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>
>
> On 6 November 2012 15:15, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
>>
>> Jaco,
>> Are you aware of this?
>>
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/IMSES/Simple+Sakai+SIS+Services
>>
>> Might save you some reinvention.
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Jaco Gillman <jaco at opencollab.co.za>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > We have developed an Course Management integration solution that reads
>> > data
>> > from a file and populates the Sakai Course Management structure. This
>> > file
>> > contains Academic Term, course Offering etc, as well as the Students and
>> > Lecturers mappings. This is done via a Quartz Batch job. Once the Batch
>> > Job
>> > has finished successfully, we are able to create course site in Sakai.
>> >
>> > The first initial upload of this file, will create all the users in the
>> > file
>> > as Sakai users. The problem we now have is that when a user already
>> > exist in
>> > Sakai, and we make changes to the upload file (for example, adding more
>> > users to the Course Management data), the Site participant list does not
>> > reflect the new users that I added, only when clicking on the button
>> > "Update
>> > Participants", the new users are added to the participant list. I
>> > thought
>> > that they would have been added automatically or is this not the case?
>> >
>> > 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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