I found i batch created 300 people last summer with their middle names as
their student number, and something ridiculous as a password. I discovered
it was because at that point I hadn't disabled batch create user from within
a course. I had jotted down the order for within a course (using 'role') but
I was applying it inthe System Admin, WHERE THE SEQUENCE IS DIFFERENT!!!!
This probably accounts for the different options you have seen.

From Sys Admin, I have found that the following works:

"loginname","USERLASTNAME","USERFIRSTNAME","EMAIL@email","Student
ID","PASSWORD","Middle
Name","JobTitle","Department","Company","Address","Address
(cont.)","City","State","ZipCode","Country","Business Phone","Home
Phone","BusinessFax","MobilePhone","Www.eb Page"

You will notice there is NO allocation of role - personally I would suggest
holding on for creating lots of lots of people until 5.5 is released, when
there will be a role allocation, as presently things like SysAdmin email all
students for example don't work without the role, the default role is 'None'
on a batch created user, and you can't batch update (you'd have to modify
each individual)...

regards,
Kate
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Learning Technologies Team
IT Service
University of Durham
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-----Original Message-----
From: A list to promote discussion amongst MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo
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Henk van Rijssen
Sent: 18 May 2001 12:23 PM
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Subject: order of fields in a bath create user


Hi all,

I'm having a problem with the batch create user facility: I can't find the
right order of the different fields.
Documentation from Blackboard doesn't help much either since they tell
different stories too :-(

I've used this one from the Blackboard support knowledge base:

"loginname","USER LAST NAME","USER FIRST
NAME","EMAIL","PASSWORD","ROLE","Student ID","Middle Name","Job
Title","Department","Company","Address","Address
(cont.)","City","State","Zip
Code","Country","Business Phone","Home Phone","Business Fax","Mobile
Phone","Web Page"

Capitalized fields are required

The page for batch create users in Blackboard self suggests:

Login ID, User Last Name, User First Name, Email, Student ID, Password,
Middle
Name, Job Title, Department, Company, Address, Address (cont.), City, State,
Zip Code, Country, Business Phone, Home Phone, Business Fax, Mobile Phone,
Web
Page


Both don't work properly.
Anyone who has the correct order for all fields?

TIA

Henk van Rijssen
ROC de Amerlanden
the Netherlands


Met vriendelijke groet,


Henk van Rijssen
ROC de Amerlanden

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