Doubt in Creating Users using services

[Rayon_11]

Hi, 

I am new in Thing Worx I have just completed thing Worx help center module and tried to  create 100 user in Thing Worx using services like I created a Thing Template and a Thing the I tried to write script code in services section of Thing Worx Template for creating 100 user and my code is like this way: 

var params = {
name: "UserTemplate", // Replace with the name of your template
description: "",
thingShape: "GenericThing", // Replace with the name of your thing shape
tags: ["UserTemplate"],
aspects: {}
};

var template = Resources["EntityServices"].CreateEntityTemplate(params);

var result = "";

for (var i = 1; i <= numberUsers; i++) {
var name = baseName + i;
params = {
name: name,
description: "",
template: template,
persistUserData: true
};

Resources["EntityServices"].CreateEntity(params);

result += "User " + name + " created.\n";
}

me.result = result;

but after executing this service I am getting error like:

TypeError: Cannot find function CreateEntityTemplate in object com.thingworx.resources.entities 

please help me and also give some brief advice on creating users using services like what entities we need to create this

Thanks

[nmutter]

Welcome to ThingWorx

You need to create users with a different service

Resources["EntityServices"].CreateUser({
	name: undefined /* STRING */,
	description: undefined /* STRING */,
	tags: undefined /* TAGS */,
	projectName: undefined /* PROJECTNAME */,
	password: undefined /* STRING */
});

[Rayon_11]

Thanks for answering I have created new service and given user name as user1 but again getting error like:

ReferenceError: "user1" is not defined.

Resources["EntityServices"].CreateUser({
name: user1 /* STRING */,
description: "" /* STRING */,
projectName: PTCDefaultProject /* PROJECTNAME */,
});

[nmutter · Accepted solution]

it is saying that it cannot find a variable 'user1' as you are referencing it in the 'name:'. For your test you would need to put quotes around the name, so it is a string, not a variable. Like you did for description e.g. 

Resources["EntityServices"].CreateUser({
	name: "User1"/* STRING */,
	description: ""/* STRING */,
	tags: undefined /* TAGS */,
	projectName: "PTCDefaultProject"/* PROJECTNAME */,
	password: undefined /* STRING */
});

[Rayon_11]

Great it's creating user thanks for your reply.

Now, 

From this code I can create user by changing name like user1 ,user2 and so on till any number of user now suppose if I have to create 400 user and whose  name like user1, user2 and so on..  then how can I proceed so for that do I need  Infotable as well  or only services

please tell me 

Thanks

[nmutter]

You can just use the service you had in your first post, using the for-loop to create the users. But using the CreateUser-service and its parameters instead of the CreateEntity service.

[Rayon_11]

are you saying like this way :

var template = Resources["EntityServices"].GetEntityTemplate({
name: "UserTemplate" // Replace "UserTemplate" with the name of your user template
});

var result = "";

for (var i = 1; i <= numberUsers; i++) {
var name = baseName + i;
var params = {
name: name,
description: "",
template: template,
persistUserData: true
};

Resources["EntityServices"].CreateUser({
name: "user" /* STRING */,
description: "" /* STRING */,
projectName: "PTCDefaultProject" /* PROJECTNAME */,
});

}

me.result = result;

like this way I have to write but it is showing error like can't find function CreateEntityTempalte in object com.thingworx.resources.entities.entityServices@bc1afe

[nmutter]

not sure what you did exactly. But from your initial code the service would look something like:

result = "";

for (var i = 1; i <= numberUsers; i++) {
	var name = baseName + i;
	var params = {
		name: name /* STRING */ ,
		description: "" /* STRING */ ,
		tags: undefined /* TAGS */ ,
		projectName: "PTCDefaultProject" /* PROJECTNAME */ ,
		password: undefined /* STRING */
	};

	Resources["EntityServices"].CreateUser(params);
	result += "User " + name + " created.\n";
}

it's missing checks like if the user already exists and other items. But in general I think it should work like this

[Rayon_11]

Kudos to you I am so glad It worked 

You make me smile thanks a lot 

and also thanks for replying me on time so that I couldn't loose my motivation.

Now I am excited to learn more and more .

[nmutter]

Sure thing Happy to keep you motivated!