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    • Bulk registration of members and optionally into groups - plugin

      Dear Nodearati

      Bulk registration
      Can anyone recommend a plugin that allows me to bulk load bb members and optionally register them into a group?

      Alternatively if I was to write a specification is there anyone who would be interested in developing such an plugin using Write-API as the basis.

      Thanks in advance
      DM

      posted in NodeBB Plugins
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    • Gaining access to RSS feeds

      RSS authentication issue

      We run a closed forum but would love to be able to access the RSS content from several boards to promote our user community on our website.

      Has anyone got a solution to gaining access to an password secured rss feed from a news reader.

      Thanks as ever.

      D

      posted in Technical Support
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    • RE: Bulk upload plugin requested - bounty offered

      Jonny
      Don't ever apologies for providing advice, that after all is why we are all here πŸ‘ and the great thing about advice is that the user can choose what to do with it. In this case I shall be applying it to the letter.

      D

      posted in Plugin Requests
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    • RE: Bulk upload plugin requested - bounty offered

      Hi Jonny

      Yup agree with the opensource thing I am happy to make any development open. what licence does Nodebb prefer?

      I will contact the links you have pointed at and ask them to quote - its a charity so not exactly rolling in $$$$ but need it done.

      Thanks
      D
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    • Bulk upload plugin requested - bounty offered

      Hi there

      Bounty offered to write this plugin

      I am working with an organisation to demonstrate how a forum can be used to create a community of practice using a form system. Their requirement was to identify a cloud based system that they can configure and use rather than have to undertake a systems integration project, the idea being that once they can demonstrate the effectiveness of such a community (or otherwise) the project can be extended to include deeper integration with their CRM.

      I have the document below as a word doc and would be happy to have a skupe with anyone interested, I am looking to go down the test driven development route πŸ™‚

      In reviewing the various systems currently available to deliver this functionality NodeBB met (and exceeded) the key requirement except one : Bulk loading of members and association with groups.

      The team wish to look to commission a plugin which would build upon the existing Write-API plugin to provide the functionality described in the use cases in the list below.

      If you are interested then send me an email, dmoore@mooreanswers.co.uk I have the spec below as a word / google doc if that helps and no dobut the spec needs a bit of refinement.

      Functional requirement

      To take as an input a csv / json file in a flat structure described in appendix 1 below. The flat file structure is designed to be easy for users to create from excel or similar with the potential to have multiple lines for each user rather than having a more nested structure. Increasingly it possible to convert CSV to json using tools such as http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm which are much more readable especially if there are no nested groups. The de-normalised file structure can have multiple lines for any given user, this is intentional and is intended to make it easy for uses to create add / delete lists using common tools such as excel. The design goal is to push the ETL complexity into the module were it could be handled against a set of simple business rules. This will drive adoption will reduce the number of add/ delete errors.

      Requirement

      Serial Use Case Notes

      1 Add user

      Processing

      If there is no such user then providing the input data validates and is complete generate a 6 character password use write API and create a record email user via Node

      Exception

      If the user exists, ignore and go onto processing the group parameter if it exists or move to next record Takes more than 30 seconds to process a line – timeout error

      Log entries

      Write out a log status for each transaction

      <timestamp>Info: User < username> added to system
      <timestamp>Error: User <username> not added -insufficient data
      <timestamp>Error: User <username> not added -non valid email
      <timestamp>Error: User <username> not added timeout

      2 Add Group to user

      Processing

      If the user does not exist then run use case add user above If the group exists and the user is not already in the group then add user to group

      Exception

      If the user is already in the group ignore write an error
      If the group does not exist ignore write an error
      Takes more than 30 seconds to process a line – timeout error

      Log entries

      Write out a log status for each transaction

      <timestamp>Info: user <username> added to group <group>
      <timestamp>Error: user <username> already in group <group>
      <timestamp>Error: group <group> does not exist could not add user <username>
      <timestamp>Error: group <group> user <username> - not added timeout

      3 Remove Group access from user

      Processing

      If the group does not exist the raise an error
      If the user is not in the group then raise an error Remove the user <username> from the group

      Exception

      If the user is not in the group ignore write an error
      If the user is logged in then ignore and write an error
      If the group does not exist ignore write an error
      Takes more than 30 seconds to process a line – timeout error

      Log entries

      Write out a log status for each transaction

      <timestamp>Info: user <username> removed from group <group>
      <timestamp>Error: user <username> not in group <group> cannot remove
      <timestamp>Error: group <group> does not exist could not remove user <username>
      <timestamp>Error: cannot remove user <username> from group– timeout error

      4 Suspend a user accounts and access

      Processing

      Suspend user <username> from accessing the system and all groups that require a login.

      Exceptions

      There is no such user - raise an error

      Log entries

      Write out a log status for each transaction

      <timestamp>Info: user <username> suspended form all groups and system access
      <timestamp>Error: There is no such user <username>

      5 Processing record

      This is a nice to have

      Processing and MIS

      Write to log file a Timestamp the start of processing

      Keep a tally of

      1. Number of users added
      2. Number of group adds
      3. Number of group removes
      4. Number of suspends
      5. Total number of info records
      6. Total number of error records

      Timestamp when processing ends

      Pull out a list of groups and total number of users and total number of users / group If processing any one record takes more than 30 seconds then time out and pass to the next.

      In addition to being able to handle the use cases above the plugin would also need to provide some sort of UI to provide:

      • The ability to validate an data processing using a password or key
      • The ability to load a data file
      • The ability to download a processing log

      Appendix 1

      The file will be in CSV format (pipe separated) and to have the following structure

      Field name M/O Validation rule
      USERNAME, M, can it process unicode
      EMAIL , M, needs to be avalid format
      GROUP, O, Needs to be valid group name on that board
      ACTION, O, A, R, GR - (add, remove, group remove)

      Example Data file and format

      CSV file ( pipe delimited) Goal / test case

      username|email|group|action
      dmoore|dmoore@mooreanwers.co.uk|QTLS|A
      dmoore|dmoore@mooreanwers.co.uk|SET|A
      edna2|edna2@etftest@mooreanswers.co.uk|QTLS|
      edna2|edna2@etftest@mooreanswers.co.uk||R
      edna3|edna3@etftest@mooreanswsers.co.uk||

      and in JSON

      [
        {
          "username":"dmoore",
          "email":"dmoore@mooreanwers.co.uk",
          "group":"QTLS",
          "action":"A"
        },
        {
      
          "username":"dmoore",
          "email":"dmoore@mooreanwers.co.uk",
          "group":"SET",
          "action":"A"
        },
        {
          "username":"edna2",
          "email":"edna2@etftest@mooreanswers.co.uk",
          "group":"QTLS",
          "action":" "
        },
        {
          "username":"edna2", 
          "email":"edna2@etftest@mooreanswers.co.uk",
          "group":"",
          "action":"remove"
        },
        {
          "username":"edna3",
          "email":"edna3@etftest@mooreanswsers.co.uk",
          "group":"",
          "action":""
        }
      ]
      
      posted in Plugin Requests
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    • Bulk account creation

      Bulk account creation

      I am looking at Nodebb for an organisation with several thousand members and would like to be able to populate the system with accounts.

      Is there a plugin or bit of code that I can use to do this?

      Bulk group creation

      The goal is to take some of the members and associate them with a special interest group, again we have this in our CRM but would really rather not have to type them in.

      Automation

      While batch mode stuff is all well and dandy and almost certainly what we will go with to start with to test out our hypothesis that members want to have a forum, the goal has to be to create a link between our CRM and Node. Some sort of restful interface.

      Any thoughts you good people have on how to achieve either batch load of accounts / integration with a CRM would be appreciated.

      Thxs

      posted in Technical Support
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