[LON-CAPA-admin] Auto update of student/employee ID

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi Hon-Kie,

> The bottom line is how do I get the student/employee ID to be update
> nightly via the cron jobs?

Has Autoupdate.pl successfully updated IDs for users in the fsu domain  
in the past, or is this a new procedure for your domain?

Autoupdate.pl is successfully updating student/employee IDs in the msu domain.

> Auto-update active? set to yes
> Update information in classlist? set to yes
> User preference to lock name - not check
> Under User population
>   All users on the student/employee ID is checked.

Those look good, although see the caveat below regarding user  
population (i.e., "All users").

If you are not seeing updates to IDs in the fsu domain, then there may  
be a problem retrieving user information using the allusers_info()  
routine in your customized /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll.pm

Alternatively, it may be that the institutional affiliation of the  
users retrieved in allusers_info() is not blank (e.g., it might be  
student), whereas your domain configuration is set to update "All  
users" (i.e., there are no specific institutional types set for the  
domain, in which case only users without an affiliation will be  
updated).

Are there changes logged in /home/httpd/perl/logs/autoupdate.log?
How about in /home/http/perl/logs/lonnet.log?

I would expect an entry of the following type in autoupdate.log:

User change: <username>:fsu; New values: 1.Name: <fullname>; 2. StuID:  
<id>; 3. Email: <e-mail address>.

and an entry of the following type in lonnet.log

Call to modify user fsu, <username>, <id>, , <firtsname>, <middlename>  
, <lastname>, (forceid: 1; candelete: id) desiredhome = <home> by  at   
in domain

When you log-in to the web GUI, select your domain coordinator role in  
the fsu domain and display:  
https://loncapa10.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/listdomconfig.pl

What do you see in the autoupdate and inststatus entries for the fsu domain?

> In addition to the Auto-update settings, there is the User modification. In
> what context is the User modification updateable? Since in my case the
> update is done by the cron jobs, Autoaupdate.pl and Antoenroll.pl, it is
> not clear how User modification is used. (Seems to be settings for users to
> allow them to update themselves??)

User modification applies when a Course Coordinator or Author uses  
"Add/Modify a Course User" or "Add/Modify a Student" to change user  
information.

The domain configuration settings determine which fields may be  
changed, depending on context (author or course), and role of the user  
  for whom ichanges are being made. Non-privileged users may not  
change their own user information settings (except, optionally, at  
account creation).

In addition, Autoenroll.pl will not change user information (name, id,  
e-mail address) for a user already enrolled in a course (it just  
manages enrollment in courses).

Instead, Autoupdate.pl is intended to support synchronization of user  
information (regardless of course enrollment, potentially between all  
LON-CAPA users in a domain and the corresponding institutional data.

If you use Autoupdate.pl (and it is working), then the "User  
modification" settings for changes via the web GUI by authors and CCs  
are not useful, because any changes made there, will be overwritten by  
the next run of Autoupdate.pl.

See:
https://loncapa10.fsu.edu/adm/help/Domain_Configuration_User_Modification.hlp
https://loncapa10.fsu.edu/adm/help/Domain_Configuration_Auto_Updates.hlp

If the problem is with customizations to localenroll.pm, then you'll  
like need to do some debugging.  It is fairly straightforward to  
temporarily modify Autoupdate.pl so it just updates a single user.  
When running Autopupdate.pl from the command line, be sure to run it  
as user www.

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> I have loncapa to automatically update the roster and also, update the
> first name, ... via Autoupdate.pl. However, when a student ID is changed,
> the ID is not being updated. The domain is configured to update the
> following (via Auto-update settings):
> Auto-update active? set to yes
> Update information in classlist? set to yes
> User preference to lock name - not check
> Under User population
>   All users on the student/employee ID is checked.
>
> In addition to the Auto-update settings, there is the User modification. In
> what context is the User modification updateable? Since in my case the
> update is done by the cron jobs, Autoaupdate.pl and Antoenroll.pl, it is
> not clear how User modification is used. (Seems to be settings for users to
> allow them to update themselves??)
>
> The bottom line is how do I get the student/employee ID to be update
> nightly via the cron jobs?
>
> Regards,
> -hk