Talk:Upload users
Notes from Moodle 2.1 uploaduser.php
firstname, lastname, username, email, city, country, lang, timezone, mailformat, maildisplay, maildigest, htmleditor, ajax, autosubscribe ,institution, department , idnumber, skype , msn, aim, yahoo, icq, phone1, phone2, address, url, description, descriptionformat, password, auth, oldusername , deleted, course1, course2, course3, course4
// watch out when changing auth type or using external auth plugins! // use oldusername when renaming users - this is the original username // 1 means delete user //course# not sure about these put short course name
--Chris collman 21:22, 22 November 2011 (WST)
ISO Website broken link
The english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm link on the iso.org website is no longer valid. The Web Archive copy of that page indicates that the same info is now on http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements, so I'm updating the link.
--Luis de Vasconcelos 14:52, 13 July 2012 (WST)
- Thanks Luis for your help :-) --Helen Foster 17:34, 18 July 2012 (WST)
Role field
In the description of the field TYPE some id's are mentioned. Please be aware that these are not the same as you should use in the column ROLE. In ROLE you should use the ID of the roles that can be found through 'Define roles'. Can't quite figure out what TYPE is meant for.
Note moodle 2.8: Uploading using %-l in username field got me -l as username, not the lastname in lowercase.
Upload user authentication method gotcha
Not sure how to word this or where to highlight it, but there should be a banner warning admins that if they upload a CSV in the upload users area without an authentication column (auth) populated with the correct auth method for the users they want to update, Moodle will change the updated users to having the manual authentication type tagged to their profiles. In other words, missing column = default to manual authentication interpretation by Moodle.
This then means that any integrations using that auth method to update users will not work until the auth method is put back to the correct method. (We see this most often with LDAP auth users.)
Upshot: always include the auth column if this user uploads area is not your main way of creating/updating users on the site. --Lesli Smith 1/12/2016
