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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.