[LON-CAPA-users] environment.notification

[Stuart Raeburn]

Brew,

&EXT('environment.notification') is the correct invocation to echo the  
LON-CAPA message notification e-mail address of the user.  Other items  
from a user's environment will similarly use  
EXT("environment.$itemname"), replacing $itemname with the appropriate  
variable to be displayed.

There are two items of user information which use the form:  
&EXT("user.$itemname"):

(a) &EXT('user.name') echoes the username of the current user.
(b) &EXT{'user.domain') echoes the domain of the current user.

Note: in LON-CAPA, there are three different e-mail addresses stored  
in a user's environment.db.  These are: notification, critnotification  
and permanentemail.

The first two are set by the user - via:
Main Menu -> Set my user preferences -> "Change Message Forwarding and  
Notification Email Addresses"

The third is set/modified by a Domain Coordinator, and also may be  
set/modified by a Course Coordinator, depending on the domain  
configuration.  A regular user is not able to modify the value of  
permanentemail stored in environment.db.

I have created a survey question which echoes the user's information.  
Log-in to LON-CAPA, select a role which permits browsing of the  
repository of published content, and point at:

/res/msu/raeburn/examples/userinfo_from_ext.survey

This item has been published open source.

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group

> In the old word document showing useful things you can do with &EXT  
> it lists the command
>
> &EXT ("environment.notification")
>
> as returning the user's email address. It doesn't seem to be working for me,
> so I wonder if anyone else has used this? Is there a different  
> invocation? It seems like it would be something like
>
> &EXT("user.notification")
>
> but I have tried a few things and not gotten anything work.
>
> Thanks,
> brew
>