Check 'modified users'?

espenmn · January 30, 2023, 11:47am

Is there a way to know which users (information) has changed ?

For example: I want to know if any user information (e-post, phone etc) has changed during the last month.>

(the reason for this is that I send (snail)mail to all users, so it is faster to manually change something in my layout-programs than to 'merge' personal info from CVS-files etc.

zopyx · January 30, 2023, 11:54am

Plone does not track related changes

espenmn · January 30, 2023, 2:21pm

OK, thanks.

Rudd-O · February 21, 2023, 10:55am

The solution to your woes is to periodically dump the user data (using the API) to a CSV or JSON file, then diff / compare snapshots in time.

It's not clear to me if you can use the Plone events machinery to take a snapshot after a user modification, so these are available later to be downloaded.

jensens · February 21, 2023, 11:17am

I never used it, but in PAS there exists a PropertiesUpdated event.

github.com

zopefoundation/Products.PluggableAuthService/blob/f0fde29f4c865a4e0908d22c19a0a72810b0a24f/src/Products/PluggableAuthService/events.py#L87


      
          
          
@implementer(ICredentialsUpdatedEvent)
          class CredentialsUpdated(PASEvent):
          
          
    def __init__(self, principal, password):
                  super().__init__(principal)
                  self.password = password
          
          

          
@implementer(IPropertiesUpdatedEvent)
          class PropertiesUpdated(PASEvent):
          
          
    def __init__(self, principal, properties):
                  super().__init__(principal)
                  self.properties = properties
          
          

          
@adapter(IBasicUser, ICredentialsUpdatedEvent)
          def userCredentialsUpdatedHandler(principal, event):
              pas = aq_parent(principal)
              pas.updateCredentials(

espenmn · February 21, 2023, 11:40am

jensens:

@implementer(IPropertiesUpdatedEvent)
          class PropertiesUpdated(PASEvent):
          
          
    def __init__(self, principal, properties):
                  super().__init__(principal)
                  self.properties = properties

Thanks.
(I send the snail mail every year in januar (printed member cards, invoices etc) so I probably will not test this until much later.