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[Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars

Thanks. Yes restarting tomcat can generate the blank UID.

UID is a indexed field so I cannot create more than one user in one go. Is
there any solution?

Regards

Hannan


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it is correct that missing UIDs will be generated on system startup.
>
> I think what is being referred to here is dhis UID and not an UUID. There
> are ways to generate dhis UIDs through the web api but it's just much
> simpler to restart tomcat.
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The easiest is to restart DHIS2 (Tomcat)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If it is blank then the database will regenerate it automatically when
>>> you restart (I think. This is what happens with other objects which have a
>>> uuid). That is the easiest way.
>>>
>>> If you are preparing SQL for injection of the users and you want to
>>> pregenerate them, you can use which ever tool you are using to generate the
>>> SQL to provide you UUIDs as well. Postgresql's uuid-ossp package, R's
>>> "uuid" package, or the system command "uuid" on Linux are all ways of
>>> getting them. I am sure they can be done easily in Java or other languages.
>>> So, it really depends on which tools you are using to prepare the SQL for
>>> inserting them into the DHIS2 database.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No. It seems that uuid is not automatically generated. Please suggest.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Hannan
>>>> On May 7, 2014 1:34 PM, "Jason Pickering" <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The UUID will be generated automatically, so no need to worry about
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Jason. Password issues are there and we are trying with that
>>>>>> but what about the UUID?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hannan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Hannan,
>>>>>>> This has been discussed (again) recently on this list.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://dhis-developers-list.1563109.n2.nabble.com/Password-Generation-td7590749.html#a7590750
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://dhis-developers-list.1563109.n2.nabble.com/USERS-Password-td7591703.html#a7591704
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are a few more as well in the archives if you dig a bit.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Dear Experts
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are in a need of creating bulk users (8000) and org unit
>>>>>>>> assignment. I created script for testing but facing problem populating
>>>>>>>> password and UUID. Please advice how can I do that?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I try to update password using crypt function and gen_salt function
>>>>>>>> but the length of the password are different and doesn't working. Please
>>>>>>>> advise.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  *Hannan Khan*
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