Certificates (with Expiry) for EO PDR's

This article describes the steps for introducing certificates with expiry for EO PRD's.

Step-by-step guide

1. Remove all Registration Rules for Students for the PDR courses for which you want to introduce certificates (with expiry).  You are removing the rules from Edit --> Page Attributes.
2. Add certificate rules to the PDR
   1. Make sure the certificate is on the server. (Remote into the server and add it into the right folder Example C:\MarineLMS\TestCMG\CertificateTemplates) 
   2. Information about Certificate Rules: /wiki/spaces/CMD/pages/5432405514
   3. Create the certificate:

      1. createCertificate -- Usage: createCertificate [OrgPath] [ShortId] [DisplayName] [TemplateFileName]

   4. Set the validity of the certificate 
      

      1. setCertificateValidityDuration -- Usage SetCertificateValidityDuration [organization path] [base certificate short Id] [integer value for Validity Duration (or null)] 

   5. Add the certificate rule to the course:

      1.  addCertificateRule -- Usage addCertificateRule [course path] [certificate expression separated]
         
         

3. Award certificates to all latest completed registrations via client command reEvaluateCertificateRulesForLatestCompletedRegistration

   1. reEvaluateCertificateRulesForLatestCompletedRegistration [coursePath] [batchSize: optional, default Core.OfferingRuleEvaluatorBatchSize]

   2. If a registration has been completed longer than the expiry date of the certificate, check that the certificate is awarded (but expired right away).
   3. Make sure all latest completed registrations have a certificate

      1. getRegistrationCompletionRules [course path]

         addRegistrationCompletionRule [course path with or without path variations] [expression separated]

4. Add all registration rules (which takes the certificate expiry into account). Check that the registration completion rules match the certificate rules. 
5. Re-evaluate all registration rules so if someone did have an expired certificate they would get re-registered

   1. reEvaluateOfferingRulesByCoursePathMatch [RuleType (Registration, Instructor, All)] [coursePath] [terminalElement] [logOnly: optional, default false] [batchSize: optional, default Core.OfferingRuleEvaluatorBatchSize]

Make sure people who have completed the course were awarded a certificate and that people are getting registered in the course when you run reEvaluateOfferingRulesByCoursePathMatch. 

Any questions talk with Stefan and John.

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