Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_InstDirectory_Search.tex, revision 1.4
1.1 raeburn 1: \label{Domain_Configuration_InstDirectory_Search}
2: LON-CAPA provides a mechanism to search for users by complete username,
3: last name, or last name,first name (or fragments of each). Accounts
4: within the LON-CAPA domain itself can be searched, or alternatively,
5: an institutional directory may be searched, if you are able to implement
6: a conduit to directory information to support such searches. This
7: will be done by customizing the \&get\_userinfo() routine in localenroll.pm.
8: This routine has a dual role in LON-CAPA. Not only will it support
9: searches where the user is not excatly known, but it can also be used
1.2 raeburn 10: to retrieve institutional records for a specific username or student/employee
1.1 raeburn 11: ID. This latter mode of use is appropriate when adding a new user
12: to LON-CAPA.
13:
14: Settings for directory searches are:
15:
16: \begin{itemize}
1.4 ! raeburn 17: \item Set institutional directory searches as available or unavailable in the domain
1.1 raeburn 18: \item Set whether users from other LON-CAPA domains can use the institutional
1.4 ! raeburn 19: directory search to search for users.
1.1 raeburn 20: \item For searches by users within your domain, you can limit the users
1.4 ! raeburn 21: who can use institutional directory search based on institutional status
1.1 raeburn 22: \item Set which types of search method - username, last name or last name,first
23: name are allowed for institutional searches
24: \item Set which types of search latitude - exact match, begins with or contains
25: - are allowed
1.4 ! raeburn 26: \item Set whether accounts within the LON-CAPA domain itself can be searched by
! 27: users with privileges to add users to a course.
! 28: \item Set whether users from other domains can search within a LON-CAPA domain.
1.1 raeburn 29: \end{itemize}
1.3 raeburn 30: In the case of a {}``contains'' type search at least
1.1 raeburn 31: three characters must be entered by the user as the search term. Searches
32: are case insensitive.
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