Loughborough Online Reading List System
Editing/RankSUs
NAME
RankSUs - re-rank a collection of structural units
DESCRIPTION
The RankSUs CGI script allows the ranking for a set of LUMP Structural
Units to be managed.
PARAMETERS
Standard
*username* - Name of user running this CGI script. Required unless web
server authentication is in use (when it is, the web server
authenticated user is used instead).
*password* - Password for the user. This is only required if the web
server is not handling the user authentication and if no security hash
parameter is being given.
*security_hash* - An opaque value used to authenticate the user without
requiring the password to be sent. This value is generated by a previous
execution of a LUMP API script and may well be time limited. It is only
required if no password or webserver authentication is done.
*act_as* - Users in the SysAdmins group can elect to act on the behalf
of other users once they are themselves authenticated. If this parameter
is present it should contain the username of the user that should be
switched to if this option is available and the real user has been
authenticated successfully. Optional.
*session_id* - An opaque string as far as the server is concerned that
is intended solely to allow async clients to differentiate different
results more easily. Optional.
Specific for this script
*parent_su_id* - the structural unit ID of the parent SU under which all
this ranking is taking place. For example it might be a reading list SU
ID, and ranking will be for books, journals, etc underneath it. This is
a required parameter.
*suid_rank_pairs* - a comma separated list of structural unit ID and
rank number pairs, with the SU IDs and ranks separated themselves using
colons. Eg: 1435:10,3456:20,45642:30. This is a required parameter.
RESULTS
The <returns> section of the XML result is empty and the <error_code> is
used to indicate success or failure of the operation.
SEE ALSO
GetStructuralUnit
FindSuid
LUMP-XML-Response
COPYRIGHT
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