Adding owners and members to a community

Use scripts accessed using the wsadmin command-line tool to add owners and members to existing communities. You can only add individuals to a community; you cannot add a group to a community. There is no limit on the number of members that you can add to a community.

1. Start the wsadmin client from the following directory of the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:

   app_server_root\profiles\dm_profile_root\bin

   where app_server_root is the WebSphere Application Server installation directory and dm_profile_root is the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.

   You must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that you enter will not execute correctly.

2. Start the Communities Jython script interpreter using the following command:

   execfile("communitiesAdmin.py")

   If prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path, you must pick the node where the file is stored.
3. Use the following commands to add additional members or owners to an existing community or subcommunity.

   CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByEmail(String communityName, Integer memberRole, List emailAddresses)

   Adds members to an existing community or subcommunity.

   Note: When you use this command to add owners or members to a subcommunity, the users that you are adding must belong to the parent community in order for them to be added to the subcommunity.

   You cannot exceed the maximum number of members limit specified in the explicitMembershipEntityLimit property of the communities-config.xml file. See Communities configuration properties.

   You use this command in two steps. First, create a comma-separated list of users (using their email addresses) that you want to add to an existing community or subcommunity and assign this list to a variable. This variable is then used as input into the addMembersToCommunity command.

   Note that communityName is a string and must be enclosed in quotation marks ("). This parameter is case-sensitive, so be sure to specify the name of the community or subcommunity exactly.

   memberRole. Valid settings are 0 (member) or 1 (owner). Do not enclose this setting in quotation marks.

   For example:

   wsadmin>threemembers=["alex_jones@example.com", "mary_smith@example.com", "paul_henderson@example.com"]
   wsadmin>CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByEmail("Ski Club Community",0,threemembers)

   Note: When you use this command, if the community or subcommunity name that you provide as input to the command is not unique, an error similar to the following displays:

   WASX7015E: Exception running command: 
    "CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByEmail
    ("My community",0,threemembers)"; exception information:
    javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
    CLFRM0091E: Multiple communities found with name: My community

   When you see an error like the previous one, instead of entering the name of the community or subcommunity in the command, you must enter the UUID instead.
   For example:

   wsadmin>CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByEmail("5742c4c8-0010-4e6e-abdb-65015e8a22e1", 0,threemembers)

   CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByMemberUuid(String communityName, Integer memberRole, List UUID of member)

   Adds members to an existing community or subcommunity. Use this command when you want to add users to a community's membership list, but they don't have an email address. The users that you are adding must belong to the parent community in order for them to be added to the subcommunity.

   Note: The member's UUID is the external LDAP identifier for a specific user. Use one of the following commands to return the user's external ID for use in the previous command:

   • CommunitiesMemberService.getMemberExtIdByEmail("email")
   • CommunitiesMemberService.getMemberExtIdByLogin("login")

   You cannot exceed the maximum number of members limit specified in the explicitMembershipEntityLimit property of the community-config.xml file. See Communities configuration properties.

   You use this command in two steps. First, create a comma-separated list of users (using their UUID, the external LDAP ID) that you want to add to an existing community or subcommunity and assign this list to a variable. This variable is then used as input into the addMembersToCommunity command.

   Note that communityName is a string and must be enclosed in quotation marks ("). This parameter is case-sensitive, so be sure to specify the name of the community or subcommunity exactly.

   memberRole: Valid settings are 0 (member) or 1 (owner). Do not enclose this setting in quotation marks.

   For example:

   wsadmin>onemember=["84b4897d-b4f8-4d95-9621-50bcaa2fd3ca"]
   wsadmin>CommunitiesService.addMembersToCommunityByMemberUuid("Ski Club Community",0,onemember)

   The onemember parameter is the extid(user).

   Note: When you use this command, if you get an error telling you that the community or subcommunity name is not unique, instead of entering the name of the community or subcommunity in the command input, enter the UUID instead.