LON-CAPA Help
LON-CAPA provides a mechanism to search for users by complete username,
last name, or last name,first name (or fragments of each). Accounts
within the LON-CAPA domain itself can be searched, or alternatively,
an institutional directory may be searched, if you are able to implement
a conduit to directory information to support such searches. This
will be done by customizing the &get_userinfo() routine in localenroll.pm.
This routine has a dual role in LON-CAPA. Not only will it support
searches where the user is not excatly known, but it can also be used
to retrieve institutional records for a specific username or student/employee
ID. This latter mode of use is appropriate when adding a new user
to LON-CAPA.
Settings for directory searches apply either to institutional directory
searches or to LON-CAPA domain searches.
- Institutional Directory searches
- Set institutional directory searches as available or unavailable in the domain
- Set whether users from other LON-CAPA domains can use the institutional
directory search to search for users.
- For searches by users within your domain, you can limit the users
who can use institutional directory search based on institutional status
- Set which types of search method - username, last name or last name,first
name are allowed for institutional searches
- Set which types of search latitude - exact match, begins with or contains
- are allowed.
- LON-CAPA Domain searches
- Set whether accounts within the LON-CAPA domain itself can be searched by
users with privileges to add users to a course, or as co-authors, or to a domain.
All types of search method and all types of search latitude will be available
for LON-CAPA domain searches.
- Set whether users from other domains can search within a LON-CAPA domain.
In the case of a "contains" type search at least
three characters must be entered by the user as the search term. Searches
are case insensitive.