Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domconfig_InstDirectory_Search.tex, revision 1.1
1.1 ! raeburn 1: LON-CAPA provides a mechanism to search for users by complete username,
! 2: last name, or last name,first name (or fragments of each). Accounts
! 3: within the LON-CAPA domain itself can be searched, or alternatively,
! 4: an institutional directory may be searched, if you are able to implement
! 5: a conduit to directory information to support such searches. This
! 6: will be done by customizing the \&get\_userinfo() routine in localenroll.pm.
! 7: This routine has a dual role in LON-CAPA. Not only will it support
! 8: searches where the user is not excatly known, but it can also be used
! 9: to retrieve institutional records for a specific usernames or student/employee
! 10: ID. This latter mode of use is appropriate when adding a new user
! 11: to LON-CAPA.
! 12:
! 13: Settings for directory searches are:
! 14:
! 15: \begin{itemize}
! 16: \item Set directory searches as available or unavailable in the domain
! 17: \item Set whether users from other LON-CAPA domains can use the institutional
! 18: directory search to search for users. Note: this only applies to institutional
! 19: directory data, users with privileges to add users to a course will
! 20: always be able to search the LON-CAPA user database for other domains.
! 21: \item For searches by users within your domain, you can limit the users
! 22: who can use directory search based on institutional status
! 23: \item Set which types of search method - username, last name or last name,first
! 24: name are allowed for institutional searches
! 25: \item Set which types of search latitude - exact match, begins with or contains
! 26: - are allowed
! 27: \end{itemize}
! 28: In the case of a \char`\"{}contains\char`\"{} type search at least
! 29: three characters must be entered by the user as the search term. Searches
! 30: are case insensitive.
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