CUNY Academic Commons

OK, I have written the skeleton for an import script (which can be reused to some extent in the future, though the details will always depend on the formatting of the source data). Before pulling the trigger, a couple questions.

Presumably, you'll want email notification to go out to the users. Here's what WP generates by default:

SUBJECT: Your username and password info [CUNY Academic Commons]
MESSAGE: Username: rubin59

To set your password, visit the following address:

<http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php?action=rp&key=juRo5HbjARMEksQO59j4&login=rubin59>

http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php

This is obviously pretty bare-bones. I can customize it, but it will take a bit of doing. If you want something different - or for emails not to be sent at all - let me know what you want the language to look like.

Do you need any profile fields filled in for these users? Eg, do you want them specified as non-CUNY or something like that? Or do we not care?

Thanks so much, Boone. No email customization is needed; I asked the organizers whether these people were aware of this and wouldn't be surprised by account creation emails, and they said they all knew about it.

I also asked whether they wanted them all added to a group; I didn't hear back, so I would like to nudge them on that before we move forward (and so long as that it possible for you to do).

It would be great for them all to be marked as non-CUNY

Thank you for this!

Cool, I will hold off until you have group information. Marking non-CUNY should not be a problem.

Thanks, Boone -- we are ready to roll. Here is the group to which people should be added -- http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/napa-workgroup/

Thanks for your help with this.