How to update email ids of users automatically

[samnaction]

I am creating user using Windows Active directory. The user is able to login without any problem. However he needs to update the email buy himself. Is there any way to automatically update the users email id from a text file or xls file based on his user name?

[sanket]

You can write a schedular that runs periodically (calling your java code) to update the users email id from text, csv or xls file.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Scheduled_Actions

[samnaction]

I have zero knowledge on java script

[samnaction]

I was able to do for individual user using this script

var gens = search.luceneSearch("TYPE:\"{http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}person\"");
var index;
for(index=0;index<gens.length;++index)
{
   if(gens[index].properties["cm:userName"]=="nazeers")
   {
      gens[index].properties["email"]="sameer@gmail.com";
      gens[index].save();
   }
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But how to do for all users ??

[lementree]

Hi,

Upload file contains usernames and email id with some name for example: usesMailIds.csv
file contains username and mailId with comma separate in each line, example:
user1,user1@abc.com
user2,user2@abc.com
user3,user3@abc.com

Then in Javascript search for that file, then read content line by line and update the usermail as you are doing for single user.

[samnaction]

var a = new XMLHttpRequest(); I am getting error that XMLHttpRequest is not defined. How to read the file in javascrupt

[lementree]

 var doc = search.luceneSearch('@cm\\:name:"usersMails.csv"')[0];
 var docText = doc.content;
 var lines = docText.split("\n");
 for(var i=0; i<lines.length; i++){
  var userMailId = lines[i].split(",");
  var userName = userMailId[0];
  var mailId = userMailId[1];
  var user = people.getPerson(userName);
  user.properties["email"]=mailId;
  user.save();
 }
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[samnaction]

Thanks that did the work