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
-- David Busby Edoceo, Inc. http://edoceo.com/ 206.282.6500 On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:42 PM, DAemon <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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 > >
