[LON-CAPA-users] Batch change of maximum size of user portfolio space?

[Stefan Bisitz]

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for your suggestions.

A new user affiliation currently appears not to be necessary. I have 
adjusted the domain wide default value.

I've thought about this but thought that it is needed to update each 
user setting. I wasn't aware of the pointer-like characteristics. I 
helped someone with the privs in the collaborative group tools the day 
before. In contrast, these are default settings, which only apply to new 
group members, so the settings of all existing members needed to be 
adjusted.

I'll keep in mind the other possibilities.

 > On a separate note: I have also just filed an enhancement request
 > (see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6624) to add more
 > fields (including portfolio quota), so that quotas for individual
 > users can be set by a DC by using file upload.

This is a good idea, not only due to consistency, thanks.

Stefan Bisitz


Am 07.11.2012 16:32 schrieb Stuart Raeburn:
> Stefan,
>
>> After checking the possibilities, I figured out that the maximum
>> portfolio size of each user needs to be adjusted.
>
> The simplest would be to increase the default portfolio quota in the
> domain.
>
> Another possibility is to modify the inst_usertypes() routine in your
> customized /home/httpd/lib/perl/localenroll.pm on your library server to
> include an additional institutional type. (/etc/init.d/loncontrol
> restart needed after making changes to localenroll.pm).
>
> As Domain Coordinator you could then use:
> Main Menu -> Set domain configuration -> Display (User blogs, personal
> information pages, portfolios checked)
>
> to set the desired portfolio quota for that new user affiliation.
>
> Lastly, you would need to create a CSV file containing: username,
> affiliation(s)
> where affiliation(s) would include the new institutional type to whom
> the elevated quota had been assigned.
>
> As Domain Coordinator upload the CSV file using:
> Main Menu -> Create users or modify the roles and privileges of users ->
> Upload a File of Users
>
> Note: users can have more than one institutional affiliation. In such
> cases the quota would be set to the affiliation with the highest value.
>
> (Of course, you might decide it would be easier to click through the
> existing User Management interface 84 times, to modify the quotas
> individually).
>
> On a separate note: I have also just filed an enhancement request
> (see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6624) to add more fields
> (including portfolio quota), so that quotas for individual users can be
> set by a DC by using file upload.
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Stefan Bisitz <st.bisitz at ostfalia.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is one course where the students are going to hand in various
>> material to the instructors by using several drop boxes. The files are
>> stored in the user's portfolio space. Problem: They will need more disk
>> space than the value allows which is currently set for each user. This
>> is the domain default, and it's quite low.
>>
>> The maximum size for the course (20 MB) is big enough and the size for
>> each drop box, configurable as resource parameter (default 10 MB), is
>> big enough, too.
>>
>> After checking the possibilities, I figured out that the maximum
>> portfolio size of each user needs to be adjusted. Currently, "only" 84
>> students are affected - still quite a bit to manually change. Any
>> chance for a batch change? The "Upload a File of Users" as Domain
>> Coordinator does not offer access to the portfolio size.
>>
>> Or is there any other way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan Bisitz
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