I need to automatically create institutions based on attributes in SAML

[bobthevirus]

I have a site with hundreds of institutions. I have to duplicate institutions from the SAML provider to Mahara. To do this currently involves manually adding each new institution to Mahara. Instead, I'd like to be able to configure the No Institution SAML authentication to automatically create institutions and assign users to them based on SAML attributes.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

This sounds to me like you'd need to use web services to create new institutions.

[bobthevirus (bobthevirus-gmail)]

Yeah, I'm going to use web services for now. I thought this might be a useful feature for others too.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

You are welcome to propose the web services function for inclusion into Mahara core, either as a patch here, or (preferred esp. if you want to contribute more) directly into our code review system https://reviews.mahara.org See https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Developer_Area/Contributing_Code

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

If one were to add the ability to create institution on user authorise they would need to take note of:

1) It should be against the site's 'mahara' (called "No institution") institution
2) It should be an option that one can choose when setting up the auth instance
3) Could add the check in request_user_authorise() just after defining $institutionname
 where if $instituionname doesn't exist and we allow create of institution we can create one now