[LON-CAPA-users] User not added when course request processed (was: Section specific parameter settings when cloning)

[Stuart Raeburn]

Lars,

> I used the link to select a user, assigned the user the role of
> Student, and also assigned the user to a section that existed in the
> old course.
>
> I don't think I missed anything, but neither the user nor the section
> were in the new course.
>

Thanks for clarifying this.

Your use of the term "cloning" to describe the course request process  
for a new course was the source of the confusion in earlier posts in  
this thread.  In LON-CAPA, cloning refers to the specific action of  
duplicating content, parameters etc. from an old course to a new one,  
which can occur when a Domain Coordinator creates a course, or when a  
course request is processed.

The following discussion is more appropriate for the lon-capa-admin  
mailing list, but I include it here in the lon-capa-users list to  
maintain the integrity of the thread.

The user you included as additional personnel in your course request,  
was not included when your request was processed (either for immediate  
creation of the course, or pending approval by a Domain Coordinator -  
depending on domain configuration) because either:

(a) Creation of new users of the user's type (either institutional or  
non-institutional) was not allowed, or
(b) The format of the username was in conflict with format rules in  
force, used when checking usernames for new users.

Both of these are configured by the Domain Coordinator via:
Set domain configuration -> User creation

The first is the entry in the "When requesting a course" row in the  
"User account creation" box.  The second is in the "Format rule type"  
box, which will only be visible if format rules have been defined in  
localenroll.pm (which I think is the case for your domain, from what I  
recall from customizing localenroll.pm for tmcc in August 2010).

In any event, if the user already had a LON-CAPA account when you  
included them in the course request for the new course, the checks in  
(a) and (b) are unnecessary.

These checks were added to lonrequestcourse.pm for 2.10.0.RC2, to  
provide the following functionality:

"Course Requests: now allow users without existing accounts to be  
included in course creation requests, as long as a default  
authentication type has been set for the domain."

lonrequestcourse.pm rev 1.62 now restricts this sanity checking to  
users included in additional personnel for whom LON-CAPA accounts do  
not currently exist.  The 2.10.0.RC2 Testing release you are using  
included rev 1.61; the 2.10.0 final release will include rev 1.62.

If you want to update it now do the following (as root):

All on one line:

wget -O /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/lonrequestcourse.pm  
'http://source.loncapa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/loncom/interface/lonrequestcourse.pm?rev=1.62;content-type=text/plain'

/etc/init.d/httpd reload


Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group

Quoting Lars Jensen <ljensen@tmcc.edu>:

> Hi Gerd,
>
> When cloning, one of the last screens in the process is:
>
> "Requestor is automatically assigned Course Coordinator role. Include
> other personnel?"
>
> "You may also add users later, once the course has been created, by
> using the "Manage course users" link, accessible from the "Main
> Menu"."
>
> I used the link to select a user, assigned the user the role of
> Student, and also assigned the user to a section that existed in the
> old course.
>
> I don't think I missed anything, but neither the user nor the section
> were in the new course.
>
> Lars.
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte@lite.msu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Lars Jensen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> However, addind a student on to a section during the cloning process
>>> did not work.
>>
>> Just to clarify: what do you mean by "during the cloning process?"
>>
>> * You can add a student to the old course *before* cloning, but   
>> since enrollment is not cloned, that would have no effect on the   
>> new course.
>>
>> * You can add a student to the new course *after* cloning, which   
>> would have the desired effect.
>>
>> But what do you mean by *during* the cloning? Now I am worried that  
>>  we have some misleading menu or formulation somewhere.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Gerd.
>>
>>