Index: openacs-4/packages/dotlrn/www/admin/users-bulk-upload.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/dotlrn/www/admin/users-bulk-upload.adp,v diff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 --- openacs-4/packages/dotlrn/www/admin/users-bulk-upload.adp 9 Aug 2002 18:39:27 -0000 1.6 +++ openacs-4/packages/dotlrn/www/admin/users-bulk-upload.adp 14 Aug 2002 21:24:53 -0000 1.7 @@ -22,26 +22,88 @@ Users: Bulk Upload @context_bar@ -This option allows you to bulk upload a number of users from a CSV -(comma-separated values) -file. You can create a CSV file using Excel and saving it in the -correct format. +Here you can create several users at once using a correctly formatted CSV +(comma-separated values) file. You can create a spreadsheet and save it as +a CSV file to import here.

-Your CSV file should have the following header titles: -first_names, last_name, email. It can also -include the following optional headers: id, type (student, -professor, admin), access_level (full, limited), -guest (t for guest, f for non-guest). +Be sure to use vaild email addresses since the process +will send the new user's password to the given email address. -

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-Note: you will have the option of adding these users to a group -once they have been uploaded. -

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CSV File Format
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+ + First Line + +

+ + The first line of the file must be the header line: + +

+ first_names,last_name,email,id,type,access_level,guest +
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+ + Fields + +

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+ + Example File + +

+    first_names,last_name,email,id,type,access_level,guest
+    Joe,Student,joe@_somewhere_.net,123-456-7890,student,full,f
+    Albert,Einstein,al@_school_.edu,al,professor,full,f
+    Systems,Hacker,syshacker@_company_.com,,admin,,,
+    Intersted,Onlooker,onlooker@_somewhere_.net,,external,,limited,t
+  
+ +

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+ +Note: you will have the option of adding these users to a group +once they have been uploaded. + +

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