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Message #05212
Re: Creating Users through Account Invites using Web Api
Thanks Jim,
I was using dataviewOrganisationUnit in the call. Will try the just
"organisationUnits"
Best regards,
Busoye
On 2014-09-04 16:34, Jim Grace wrote:
> Hi Busoye,
>
> The documentation, as you may have seen, is at
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> https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/dhis2_user_manual_en_full.html#d5e10755 [3].
>
> I agree that it should be expanded. Meanwhile, here are some additional tips: To see the format that you should send for a user invitation, try getting a user in json format through the API, such as:
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> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/users/OYLGMiazHtW.json [4]
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> You can use this as general ideas of what json to submit as the user invite. But you only need to submit a small subset of this. Note that for an invitation, the email address is essential. For example, the json file can contain something like:
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> {
> "email": "noreply@xxxxxxxxx",
> "userCredentials": { "username": "inviteduser" },
> "groups": [ { "id": "wl5cDMuUhmF" }, { "id": "QYrzIjSfI8z" } ],
> "organisationUnits": [ { "id":"ImspTQPwCqd" } ]
> }
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> Edit the email address to your own email for testing, and this json file should work with:
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> curl -d @user.json "https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/users/invite [5]" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -u admin:district -v
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> This will send an invitation for the user to register, with a preassigned user name of "invitedUser". If you want the user to pick their own user name (like what they do when self-registering), you can leave out the "userCredentials" line. Note that as of now, user roles need to be assigned in a subsequent API call for the created user.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Cheers,
> Jim
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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:33 AM, <busoye@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi Morten, Abyot and other DHIS2 users,
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>> I am trying to create users by sending User Account Invites through the web api but can't find much in the way of documentation. Can anyone help?
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>> I am using Version:2.16 Build revision:16384
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>> Thanks.
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>> Busoye
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[1] https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users
[2] https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[3]
https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/dhis2_user_manual_en_full.html#d5e10755
[4] https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/users/OYLGMiazHtW.json
[5] https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/users/invite
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