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[Uddin Fatema <fatemacse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Thanks you very for your help and help me a lot to create a  a java class
that can read excel file and create a bulk user at a time. i will add that
class soon here.

Thanks

Best Regards


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Just wanted to mention that we are now planing to add this functionality
> to 2.16, it will work as /api/users today (allows creating one user with
> password etc), but will support bulk import of users + passwords through
> our meta-data import (/api/metadata), there will be no export of passwords,
> but we will allow creating of users with password, and also updating, you
> can send passwords as plaintext, and it will be hashed on the server
> (please use https for this)
>
> --
> Morten
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> For Mysql,  i think you could do this in postgres first,  then do a
>> metadata export to mysql and finally use sql to bring over the generated
>> passwords.
>> On 9 May 2014 10:52, "Kenneth Børtveit" <kenneth.bortveit@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Alright. Are you using postgres? If not, this will not work.
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> Select the by pressing the select button.
>>>
>>> 2.
>>> In this case, the firstname and surname is in the csv file. Surname in
>>> the first column, 0, and firstname in the second column, 1. Select the csv
>>> radio button and the right column. Probably already selected.
>>>
>>> 3.
>>> The username can be made by a combination of the firstname and lastname,
>>> then select split+count. If some are equal, numbers will be added.
>>>
>>> 4.
>>> The random password should just create a random password.
>>> !This is not secure random, just a random string from java!
>>>
>>> 5.
>>> One needs to enter the right database connection parameters in order to
>>> load user roles and orgunits. Or one can use organization unit id or code
>>> from the database. The id can be found in the database, codes are usually
>>> made manually in DHIS2. We used the codes from the csv file to assign
>>> orgunits, column 19.
>>>
>>> 6. Enter the correct database parameters.
>>>
>>> 7. Exclude incomplete users will not create users that are missing some
>>> of the information.
>>>
>>> 8. Make csv of imported users, creates a csv file with the usernames and
>>> passwords.
>>>
>>> 9. Make csv of incomplete records creates a csv file with the users that
>>> are missing data.
>>>
>>> 10. The files can be found in the same directory as the selected file.
>>>
>>> Let me know if there are any trouble.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-05-09 7:00 GMT+02:00 Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Randy
>>>>
>>>> We are trying with Kenneth's Java application; if we have the sample
>>>> csv file it will be very help full for us.
>>>>
>>>> Dear Kenneth
>>>>
>>>> Can you please send me a sample CSV file.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Hannan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Wilson,Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Hannan,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you should try Kenneth’s java application.  We created 40,000
>>>>> users (community health workers with their phone numbers and orgunit link)
>>>>> and assigned them all passwords using the app.  I think Kenneth has put in
>>>>> a User interface that lets you specify the server address, DHIS-2 instance
>>>>> or database, etc…
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kenneth could you send Hannan a sample csv file (just 10 records or
>>>>> so) along with your application, so he can test it out.  I think it is
>>>>> sufficiently generic.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> He sent a link to it in an earlier response.  This file is quite big –
>>>>> 54 meg - Kenneth, can it be shrunk a bit more?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have java on your Windows computer you should be able to run it
>>>>> as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Java –jar user_importer.jar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+rwilson=
>>>>> msh.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Hannan Khan
>>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 08, 2014 1:09 PM
>>>>> *To:* Lars Helge Øverland
>>>>> *Cc:* dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; DHIS 2 developers
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Creation of bulk user.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>>
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