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'; hoverCardInner.innerHTML = loadingHTML.repeat(4); hoverCardContainer.classList.add('profile-hover-card-show'); // Extract information from the image element const titleField = avatar.getAttribute('title'); const userInfoUrl = `https://${mainURL}/api/2.0/search?q=SELECT first_name, last_name, login, view_href, rank, topics, solutions_authored, id, email FROM users WHERE login = '${titleField}'`; const userPostsUrl = `https://${mainURL}/api/2.0/search?q=SELECT count(*) FROM messages WHERE author.login = '${titleField}'`; const userSolutionsUrl = `https://${mainURL}/api/2.0/search?q=SELECT count(*) FROM messages WHERE author.login = '${titleField}' AND is_solution = true`; const userBadgesUrl = `https://${mainURL}/api/2.0/search?q=SELECT user_badges from users where login = '${titleField}'`; // Fetch user information async function createProfileData() { const userInfo = await fetch(userInfoUrl); const userPosts = await fetch(userPostsUrl); const userSolutions = await fetch(userSolutionsUrl); const userBadges = await fetch(userBadgesUrl); const userInfoData = await userInfo.json(); const userPostsData = await userPosts.json(); const userSolutionsData = await userSolutions.json(); const userBadgesData = await userBadges.json(); const userBadgesArray = userBadgesData.data.items[0].user_badges.items; const earnedBadgesArray = userBadgesArray.filter(badge => badge.earned_date); earnedBadgesArray.sort((a, b) => new Date(b.earned_date) - new Date(a.earned_date)); const userRankName = userInfoData.data.items[0].rank.name; const userID = userInfoData.data.items[0].id; // const userKudosUrl = `https://${mainURL}/restapi/vc/users/id/${userID}/metrics/name/net_kudos_events_received?restapi.response_format=json`; const userKudos = await fetch(userKudosUrl); const userKudosData = await userKudos.json(); let fullName = userInfoData.data.items[0].login; if (userInfoData.data.items[0].first_name !== undefined && userInfoData.data.items[0].last_name !== undefined) { let firstName = userInfoData.data.items[0].first_name; let lastName = userInfoData.data.items[0].last_name; fullName = firstName + " " + lastName; } else { fullName = userInfoData.data.items[0].login; } let userRankIcon = ""; if (userInfoData.data.items[0].rank.icon_left !== undefined) { userRankIcon = userInfoData.data.items[0].rank.icon_left; } else { userRankIcon = ""; } let userEmail = ""; // <#if user_has_role> if (userInfoData.data.items[0].email !== undefined) { userEmail = userInfoData.data.items[0].email; } else { userEmail = ""; } // <#else> userEmail = ""; // #if> const userViewHref = userInfoData.data.items[0].view_href; const userPostsCount = userPostsData.data.count; const userSolutionsCount = userSolutionsData.data.count; const userKudosCount = userKudosData.response.value.$; const userBadgesCount = earnedBadgesArray.length; let badgesHTML = ""; if (earnedBadgesArray.length === 0) { badgesHTML = `

This user hasn't earned any badges yet.

`; } else { for (let i = 0; i < earnedBadgesArray.length; i++) { const badgeName = earnedBadgesArray[i].badge.title; const badgeIcon = earnedBadgesArray[i].badge.icon_url; const badgeHTML = `

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`; badgesHTML += badgeHTML; if (i >= 4) { break; } }; } const hoverCardHTML = `

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${userEmail}

${badgesHTML}

${userPostsCount} posts ${userKudosCount} likes ${userSolutionsCount} solutions

`; // // Display the hover card return hoverCardHTML; } if (hoverCardInner.innerHTML.includes('loading-box')) { createProfileData().then((hoverCardHTML) => { hoverCardInner.innerHTML = hoverCardHTML; }); } } }); //Hide the hover card on mouseout avatar.addEventListener('mouseout', () => { const hoverCardContainer = avatar.nextElementSibling; hoverCardContainer.classList.remove('profile-hover-card-show'); }); hoverCardInner.addEventListener('mouseout', () => { const hoverCardContainer = avatar.nextElementSibling; hoverCardContainer.classList.remove('profile-hover-card-show'); }); hoverCardInner.addEventListener('mouseover', () => { const hoverCardContainer = avatar.nextElementSibling; hoverCardContainer.classList.add('profile-hover-card-show'); }); }); });

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`; const toolTip = document.createElement('div'); toolTip.classList.add('like-button-tooltip'); toolTip.innerHTML = toolTipCode; likeButton.appendChild(toolTip); } document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () { const likeButton = document.querySelector('.lia-button-image-kudos'); const likeButtonLink = document.querySelector('.kudos-link'); let likeDismissCookie = localStorage.getItem("inst_comm_like_dismiss"); if (!likeDismissCookie) { localStorage.setItem("inst_comm_like_dismiss", "-1"); loginDate = -1; } if (likeDismissCookie !== "-1") { // toolTip.style.display = 'none'; const storedTime = new Date(parseInt(loginDate)); const currentTime = new Date(); if (storedTime.getTime() < currentTime.getTime()) { localStorage.setItem("inst_comm_like_dismiss", "-1"); } } else { createToolTip(likeButton, likeButtonLink); const toolTip = document.querySelector('.like-button-tooltip'); const toolTipClose = document.querySelector('.like-button-tooltip-close'); const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => { entries.forEach(entry => { if (entry.isIntersecting) { toolTip.style.display = 'block'; setTimeout(() => { toolTip.style.opacity = '1'; }, 2000); // toolTip.style.animationName = 'toolTipFlash'; // Stop observing once elementOne is visible observer.unobserve(likeButton); } }); }); // Start observing elementTwo observer.observe(likeButton); likeButtonLink.addEventListener('click', () => { toolTip.style.display = 'none'; }); if (toolTipClose) { toolTipClose.addEventListener("click", function () { const now = new Date(); const fourteenDays = new Date(now.getTime() + 14 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000); // Adding 24 hours in milliseconds const epochTime = fourteenDays.getTime(); // Getting the epoch time in milliseconds localStorage.setItem("inst_comm_like_dismiss", epochTime); toolTip.style.display = 'none'; }); } setTimeout(() => { toolTip.style.opacity = '0'; setTimeout(() => { toolTip.style.display = 'none'; }, 500); // Fade out duration (0.5 seconds) + delay (0.5 seconds) = 1 second }, 15000); // Hide after 10 seconds (including 2-second fade-in delay) } });

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I'm working on a "control center" app for common work tasks. I need a function that takes in a user, then opens a web browser with the signed-in admin acting as that user. I'm scanning all through the docs and can't find any way to activate the "act as". Is there any way to do this via API? If not, any other ideas? Pretty new to Python so any module recommendations would be pretty neat too. 🙂

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You canmasquerade (or act as) when calling an API by adding this parameter "as_user_id" to your request. You can read more about Masquerading through API here:📔https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.masquerading.html

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You canmasquerade (or act as) when calling an API by adding this parameter "as_user_id" to your request. You can read more about Masquerading through API here:📔https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.masquerading.html

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You won't be able to log into Canvas as the other user directly by launching a browser. The quickest way to get this is to take the admin to the masquerade URL for the user. That's the last screen you see before clicking "Proceed" to start the masquerading.

The URL has the form <canvas instance>/users/:user_id/masquerade

You can replace :user_id with the Canvas user ID or with sis_user_id:1234 (assuming the SIS user ID is 1234).

If you need to act as someone via the API (without actually being in Canvas), see masqueradingin the API documentation.

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