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Feature #33102

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Import user accounts from CSV file

Added by Go MAEDA about 4 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Normal
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Resolution:
Fixed

Description

It is a time-consuming task to add dozens of user accounts when launching a new Redmine server.

I think it can be resolved if Redmine has a feature to import user accounts from a CSV file. I often get requests for this feature from my customers.


Files

csv_user_import.patch (17.8 KB) csv_user_import.patch Takenori TAKAKI, 2020-04-07 18:02
csv_user_import-002.patch (17.2 KB) csv_user_import-002.patch Takenori TAKAKI, 2020-05-08 05:11
csv_user_import-003.patch (19.5 KB) csv_user_import-003.patch Takenori TAKAKI, 2020-05-13 08:44
csv_user_import-004.patch (18.8 KB) csv_user_import-004.patch Takenori TAKAKI, 2020-05-28 12:05

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Defect #36524: Query Links on Issues and Time Logs Import Sidebars brokenClosedMarius BĂLTEANU

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Actions #1

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

I made a patch to achive this feature in the same way as Importing Issue, Importing TimeEntry.
Admin users will be able to import the following information from CSV.
  • Login
  • Firstname, Lastname
  • Email
  • Language (e.g. 'en')
  • Administrator (Yes / No)
  • Authentication mode
  • Password
  • Must change password at next logon (Yes / No)
  • Status (active / registered / locked)
  • Custom Fields
Actions #2

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Target version set to Candidate for next major release
Actions #3

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.2.0

Setting the target version to 4.2.0.

Actions #4

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Target version changed from 4.2.0 to Candidate for next major release

Thank you for the patch but imports_test.rb fails after applying the patch. Could you look into this?

Failure:
RoutingImportsTest#test_imports [/Users/maeda/redmines/trunk/test/test_helper.rb:313]:
The generated path </issues/imports/new> did not match </users/imports/new>.
Expected: "/users/imports/new" 
  Actual: "/issues/imports/new" 

bin/rails test test/integration/routing/imports_test.rb:23
Actions #5

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Thank you, Mr. Maeda, for pointing out the bug.
The test code I tried during development was still in the patch...
I will re-post a patch that removes the unnecessary test code.

Actions #6

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 4.2.0
Actions #7

Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 4 years ago

Nice feature, I've only one question: Why do you rescue the templates (rescue nil)?

Actions #8

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

Nice feature, I've only one question: Why do you rescue the templates (rescue nil)?

For this feature, I thought there was no information that should be displayed using the sidebar partial.
So I added `rescue nil` to make the template work with or without the sidebar partial.

Actions #9

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

Takenori TAKAKI wrote:

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

Nice feature, I've only one question: Why do you rescue the templates (rescue nil)?

For this feature, I thought there was no information that should be displayed using the sidebar partial.
So I added `rescue nil` to make the template work with or without the sidebar partial.

How about avoiding catching all exceptions by checking the existence of the partial with ActionView::LookupContext::ViewPaths#exists? ?

I have confirmed that the following experimental code works as expected. Perhaps we can define a helper method like partial_exists? or render_if_exists.

diff --git a/app/views/imports/new.html.erb b/app/views/imports/new.html.erb
index e7ca82428..4e9b89ffb 100644
--- a/app/views/imports/new.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/imports/new.html.erb
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@
   <p><%= submit_tag l(:label_next).html_safe + " &#187;".html_safe, :name => nil %></p>
 <% end %>

-<%= render :partial => "#{import_partial_prefix}_sidebar" %>
+<%= render :partial => "#{import_partial_prefix}_sidebar" if lookup_context.exists?("#{import_partial_prefix}_sidebar", lookup_context.prefixes, true) %>
Actions #10

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Go MAEDA wrote:

How about avoiding catching all exceptions by checking the existence of the partial with ActionView::LookupContext::ViewPaths#exists? ?

I have confirmed that the following experimental code works as expected. Perhaps we can define a helper method like partial_exists? or render_if_exists.

I think the proposed code is a more polite implementation.
I created a patch that defines ImportsHelper#render_if_exists, how do you like it?

Actions #11

Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 4 years ago

The render_if_exists method is much better than rescue nil, but to be honest, I don't see a real value for users to show the issues/time entries sidebar during import wizard, especially after we removed the navigations links from the sidebar (#30294, #315980). My recommendation is just to remove the sidebar, it's simplify the code.

But if we want to keep the sidebar, then let's render the administration sidebar in order to be consistent with issues/time entries.

Also, the new route added by the patch should be covered by a test in test/integration/routing/imports_test.rb.

Regarding the functionality, I'm wondering If we should support "Generate password" and "Send information to users". From a security/privacy point of view, I think it will nice to import users without defining a default password for them (even if you are an administrator). This can be added later if we agree.

Actions #12

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Marius, thank you for your feedback.

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

The render_if_exists method is much better than rescue nil, but to be honest, I don't see a real value for users to show the issues/time entries sidebar during import wizard, especially after we removed the navigations links from the sidebar (#30294, #315980). My recommendation is just to remove the sidebar, it's simplify the code.

I agree with Marius on the value of the sidebar.

But if we want to keep the sidebar, then let's render the administration sidebar in order to be consistent with issues/time entries.

I use the 'layout/admin' on the patch because this feature is for admins. Therefore, the current patch already renders the administration sidebar.

Actions #13

Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 4 years ago

Takenori TAKAKI wrote:

I agree with Marius on the value of the sidebar.

Let's wait for Go Maeda feedback on this.

I use the 'layout/admin' on the patch because this feature is for admins. Therefore, the current patch already renders the administration sidebar.

You're right, sorry for the mistake.

Actions #14

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

The render_if_exists method is much better than rescue nil, but to be honest, I don't see a real value for users to show the issues/time entries sidebar during import wizard, especially after we removed the navigations links from the sidebar (#30294, #315980). My recommendation is just to remove the sidebar, it's simplify the code.

I agree that it is hard to imagine the situation that users need the content in the sidebar while using the CSV Import Wizard. However, I am not sure if we can remove the sidebar because some third-party plugins may suppose the existence of sidebar or use hooks such as view_issues_sidebar_planning_bottom and view_issues_sidebar_queries_bottom.

Actions #15

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Go MAEDA wrote:

I agree that it is hard to imagine the situation that users need the content in the sidebar while using the CSV Import Wizard. However, I am not sure if we can remove the sidebar because some third-party plugins may suppose the existence of sidebar or use hooks such as view_issues_sidebar_planning_bottom and view_issues_sidebar_queries_bottom.

I understand that there is a need to discuss the deletion of the sidebar during import wizard. On the other hand, I thought it would be good to discuss separately from the feature addition(Import user accounts from CSV file).

Go Maeda, what do you think?

Actions #16

Updated by Marius BĂLTEANU almost 4 years ago

Takenori TAKAKI wrote:

Go MAEDA wrote:

I agree that it is hard to imagine the situation that users need the content in the sidebar while using the CSV Import Wizard. However, I am not sure if we can remove the sidebar because some third-party plugins may suppose the existence of sidebar or use hooks such as view_issues_sidebar_planning_bottom and view_issues_sidebar_queries_bottom.

I understand that there is a need to discuss the deletion of the sidebar during import wizard. On the other hand, I thought it would be good to discuss separately from the feature addition(Import user accounts from CSV file).

Go Maeda, what do you think?

You're right, let's move the discussion about the sidebar in another ticket.

Regarding your patch, it looks good to me, one minor change that we can do is to move the new method to ApplicationHelper because the method is quite general and it can be used in other pages as well.

Actions #17

Updated by Takenori TAKAKI almost 4 years ago

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

You're right, let's move the discussion about the sidebar in another ticket.

Thanks for your comment and agreement!

Regarding your patch, it looks good to me, one minor change that we can do is to move the new method to ApplicationHelper because the method is quite general and it can be used in other pages as well.

I think it's better that way.
I made a patch that moved the new method to ApplicationHelper.

Actions #18

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

Thank you for making the patch even more sophisticated. I think this patch should be merged into the core.

Actions #19

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee set to Go MAEDA
  • Resolution set to Fixed

Committed the patch. Thank you for writing the patch for this feature.

Actions #20

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened

user_import_test.rb randomly fails due to missing fixtures. It can be fixed with the following patch.

diff --git a/test/unit/user_import_test.rb b/test/unit/user_import_test.rb
index fe1201dff..b790aeb98 100644
--- a/test/unit/user_import_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/user_import_test.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 require File.expand_path('../../test_helper', __FILE__)

 class UserImportTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  fixtures :users, :auth_sources, :custom_fields
+
   include Redmine::I18n

   def setup
Actions #21

Updated by Go MAEDA almost 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed

Go MAEDA wrote:

user_import_test.rb randomly fails due to missing fixtures. It can be fixed with the following patch.

Committed the fix in r19802.

Actions #22

Updated by Mischa The Evil 5 months ago

  • Related to Defect #36524: Query Links on Issues and Time Logs Import Sidebars broken added
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