[SPTUsers] importing users problem

[Cornejo, Luis]

Hello Ellen,

After reviewing you list here, this is what I came up with the possible
reasons:

1) User two did not appear because maybe you did not break the line of
user2. That is, you did  not hit enter at the end of the line to create a
new blank one.

If not,

2)  Follow the required format very strictly. For example this is what your
user2 entry two looks like:

    * UserName (required)      user2
    * UserPassword             password2
    * Email (required)         user2 at website.com
    * Website                  http://user2.com
    * RealName (required)      User One
    * Address1                 Street
    * Address2                 City
    * City                     State
    * State                    00000
    * Country                  USA
    * Zipcode

Notice that this way not all the fields have a matching entry. Additionally,
by not leaving a strict blank on address2 the values end up incorrectly.

If, you make sure that all the fields are filled (even with just a blank)
and you break the last line of information you have (user2 in this case)
then it should work just fine.

It is a weird action since the required fields are filled, but who knows, it
might help.

3) This just ocuured to me. Maybe if your first line on your import file had
the actual fields the data corresponds to, then that might help the
importer.

That is:

UserName{tab}UserPassword{tab}Email{tab}Website{tab}RealName{tab}...etc.....
User1{tab}password1{tab}..etc...
User2{tab}password2{tab}..etc...

This is what I had to do for importing resources.



P.S. You can actually add them manually when you click on login, and the
login box comes up, you just click on "create a new account". But you would
initially have to put you email as the user email since it emails you a
randomly generated password.

-Luis-

-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen Meiselman [mailto:emeiselm at umich.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:56 AM
To: sptusers at scout.wisc.edu
Subject: [SPTUsers] importing users problem

Hi, I attempted to follow the  instructions for creating new users 
yesterday: I made a list of two users, and tried to import, thinking 
the path to users.txt should be relative - this did not work, I got 
lots of errors, and no new users. I gave it an absolute local path to 
users.txt, and then it worked - but it imported 1001 users! All blank, 
except for encrypted passwords! Anyone have any ideas what I did wrong?
Is there a specific reason the users need to be imported rather than 
created through a web interface?

The format of the imported document was like this:


user1	password1	user1 at website.com	http://user1.com	User
One	Street 
	City	State	00000	USA
user2	password2	user2 at website.com	http://user2.com	User
Two	Street 
	City	State	00000	USA 

those big spaces between each word are all tabs.

Thanks,
Ellen Meiselman
Arbor Lakes,
4251 Plymouth Rd.
Bldg. 2, Floor 3, Suite 300
Cube 3315
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785
Phone (734) 936-2334
Fax (734) 998-6806

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