Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Integrating Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS2007) with LAMS

By: Luke Foxton

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Hi Praveen,

You'll have to excuse me as I haven't looked at this code for a couple of years. But I have had a look back at the code and it tells me a few things.

Yes you are right, there shouldn't be a callback, the user credentials should be getting sent through the request. This is different to the moodle integration.

The author url call to LAMS (from your localhost_access_log.log) looks to be incorrect, im not sure how it is happening, but this part of the URL:

&hash=12ae1ce7fc14f87b6aab927ea12d10f4685ce15c〈=en&country=AU

should read more like:

&hash=12ae1ce7fc14f87b6aab927ea12d10f4685ce15c&lang=en&country=AU&firstName=(name)&lastName=(name)&email=(email)

it looks like the firstName, lastName and email parameters are not being added, and also something is going wrong with the url concatenation so the "&lang=en" bit is "〈=en".

By any chance did you set a server farm setting for the lams integration that tells it to use user profiles? If so, that could be the source of the problem and turning it off might fix it.

Also, something I would suggest would be to try a different key as the hash seems to be getting mashed somehow, perhaps you have discovered a bug in the integration.

Luke

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By: Luke Foxton

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Edit on the last post.

> and also something is going wrong with the url concatenation so the "〈=en" bit is "〈=en".

I think this is just the html editor for this forum, it is supposed to read (&)lang=en (without the brackets), but this must be some sort of reserved string in this html editor and it is replacing it with "〈=en"

so disregard this line.

Luke

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By: Praveen Pawar

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Hello Luke,

Thanks for the tips.

I think the reason the integration isn't working for me is the request URL. I manually amended the request URL to include the firstname, last and email parameters and re-submitted. I was then able to access LAMS via Sharepoint. This action created the appropriate entries in the LAMS database. Subsequent attempts with the same SP user still works, as presumably it is just using the the username to validate against existing credentials.

I think what you mentioned about the server farm setting is applicable here. Looking at the integration code below, if the below condition is not met, the additional parameters are not added to URL.

if ((string)myFarm.Properties["LAMSUseProfiles"] == "False"...))

However, I don't recall explicitly setting the LAMSUseProfiles anywhere hence it probably doesn't have a value, it is not contained in the Admin page for LAMS Integration Settings under Site Collection Administration . Under ideas where I can set/change this value?

Posted by Praveen Pawar

By: Luke Foxton

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Hi Praveen,

Im not 100% sure where this can be set, It is an old setting that is no longer used, and to be honest it shouldnt be there in the code to begin with. I believe the setting used to be under the central administration pages, but im not sure its there anymore.

What I have done is rebuilt the .wsp file (attached) with that check removed in the code. Hopefully re-installing with this will fix the problem.

What you need to do it go to thee LamsSharePointIntegration-1.0 folder (from the package you downloaded), replace the LamsSharePointIntegration.wsp file with the one attached. Then run the RemoveSolution.cmd followed buy the InstallSolution.cmd.

Sorry about making you re-install but at this point Im not sure what else can be done, the setting seems to be out-of-date.

Hope this fixes your problem

Luke

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By: Praveen Pawar

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Hi Luke, apologies for the delay in responding. I re-installed the feature with your updated wsp file and re-tested and the integration works fine.
Much appreciated,
Praveen.

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