Question: API - Is it possible to allocate more user in a group with only 1 call?

[Christian Ricotti]

Dear Staff, I'm sorry to bother you, but I have a stupid question about the users allocation inside a groups.

Now for allocated an user inside a group I use the call:

"/d2l/api/lp/(version)/(orgUnitId)/groupcategories/(groupCategoryId)/groups/(groupId)/enrollments/"

and the params is "data = array('UserId' => 1234)".

My question is: if I have 100 users to allocate... is it mandatory use 100 calls?

I tried a lot of different way, for example "data = array(array('UserId' => 1234), array('UserId' => 5678))" but obviously doesn't work.

Exist or not the way to allocate more user in a group with only 1 call?

Thank you so much!

Christian

[Desire2Learn Staff: Viktor]

Hey Christian,

We don't support manual, bulk enrollment in org units. You can configure groups on creation to auto-enroll users; however, if you want to manually (through the API) enroll one or more users in a group, you need to do it one user at a time.

You can use a POST route specifically for enrolling users in group, and you have to provide it with a Group.GroupEnrollment structure, which is a JSON structure containing only one property: a single user ID.

[Christian Ricotti]

Dear Vickor, thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately... I knew what you wrote... :(

I'm very very very sorry about that, but I think it's a little bit strange, but I suppose exist a logical after this decision.

Thank you again.

Regards,

Christian

[Desire2Learn Staff: Viktor]

The overall design of the Valence Learning Framework API was not optimized for bulk operations, but rather for individual operations supporting the activity of end-users (students and teachers). It's unfortunate, but not enough consideration was given to use-cases where bulk operations would be quite useful. Other clients have, in the past, also noticed this and pointed out that bulk operations would in many cases be very useful. This is one of the key general points that we have on the roadmap for platform improvement, but at this time, improvements to our developer platform are happening slowly.

We hope to offer features like this soon, but we don't have them on a firm roadmap that I can share at this time.

[Christian Ricotti]

Dear Viktor thank you so much for you answer.

Yes, sure, I can understand. No problem.

Thanks again and have a good weekend.

Cheers