[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron database question

[David Busby]

David,
  It could be, IIRC, accounts would be created on demand when a user
logs in, after a look-up in the external system.  The Evergreen
database has a pretty clear schema too - so you can create individual
patron records directly in SQL if you want. like from a cron-job to
dump from Civi

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David Busby
Edoceo, Inc.
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206.282.6500


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 PM, DAemon <forsakendaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> That definitely looks useable from the authentication side of things, but
> I'm more interested in merging in patron records. Would this be useable in
> the same way?
>
> - David
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:16 PM, David Busby <david.busby at edoceo.com> wrote:
>>
>> There was some conversations recently about an external LDAP
>> authentication interface, itself coded in perl.  That could be modified to
>> talk to your CiviCRM via direct database connection, or web-api to your
>> liking.
>>
>> Here's a copy-pasta of stuff I said about it just a few weeks ago with
>> relation to CAS inplace of Civi
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  Here's some neat things about Evergreen and external authentication
>> methods:
>>
>> http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2008-September/003606.html
>>
>>
>> http://open-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen/2011-12/%23evergreen.01-Thu-2011.log#line241
>>
>>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/885528
>>
>>   The Launchpad bug is a patch to use LDAP, which we could be port/modded
>> to integrate with CAS.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> /djb
>> Edoceo, Inc
>> 206.282.6500
>> http://edoceo.com
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2012 6:11 PM, "DAemon" <forsakendaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I'm currently looking at setting up Evergreen as a library system for an
>>> organisation that's already using CiviCRM to manage its members.
>>>
>>> We'd rather not have membership information manually managed in two
>>> different places, and I was wondering whether it would be possible to write
>>> something that pulled the membership information out of the CiviCRM database
>>> on a regular basis and merged it into Evergreen.
>>>
>>> Has anyone done this before? Is there anywhere in particular that I
>>> should be looking to start?
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone, I just can't seem to find the right way to search for
>>> this topic.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David Allen
>
>