importing users with user profile fields

Re: importing users with user profile fields

by Rob Duncan -
Number of replies: 0

Hi Manuel,

I am asumming that you want to amend or change users who already exist in Moodle, adding in fields like  institution, department, city, country, lang, auth, timezone

In order to amend these fields you also need to add in the fields from the orignal upload so Moodle knows what accounts to amend namely

username, password, firstname, lastname, email

***Beware that you will be resetting users password back to the orignal upload.

Alternative

I you have PHPMyAdmin installed you can import the profile amendments only thru a CSV 'in file' (select the users table in PHPMyAdmin and then select Import) change the fields delimited by ; to , (CSV= Comma Seperated Values)