--On 05 February 2002 17:39 +0000 steve barry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks For that Ben. Were using Student names as their IDs' eg sbarry or
> bhyde. Where there are 2 3 or 4 etc bhyde2.....
>
> Is anybody pulling data from a central repository into an SQL dbase within
> BB for user id and pw etc? Is this difficult given BBs' current setup etc?
I recall someone on this list saying he was doing this a while back.
I meant to ask at the time: is this kosker? We have been advised by
BB support that either writing to the Oracle database (or using any
BB scripts on the file system to achieve the same end) would be
a breach of our Level 2 license ("you need Level 3").
And so, we will explore when time permits, using a robot to drive
the Web forms that you otherwise have to drive manually (using
tools like LWP or cURL).
If you don't feel able to publicise your answer with the list
then do _please_ get in touch with me privately.
Paul
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