Batch-adding Users to Plone using CSV (Excel) files

by Tom Lazar — last modified Dec 30, 2008 03:03 PM
How to import/create new users from CSV- a.k.a. Excel-files
  1. Create a textfile with your userdata. The format is: 
    password;userid;lastname;firstname;email
  2. Log into the ZMI of your site and create a 'File' instance at the root of your plone instance. Give it the id 'users.csv' and the file you just created:

  3. Download this script.
  4. Also at the site root, create a 'Script (Python') instance in the root folder of your plone instance with the id 'importPASfromCSV' and the script you just downloaded. Click the 'Add and Edit' button:

  5. In the following form click on the 'Test' tab:

    This will execute the script and its output will be shown onscreen.
  6. There is no step 6.
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