Hello

Question regarding Totara Sync on latest version of Totara: Version 2.2.13 (Build: 20130118.00)

I have a client that is training some external vendors using Totara, The external vendors (9 of them) have vendor managers who are required to upload their teams of users so that they can obtain the required training (Each vendor will be updating/uploading hundreds of users every month). These external vendor managers should not have access to the admin settings of the site but only provided some type of mechanism to update/upload users. To add some complexity, we are using the organization, position and manager hierarchies, custom user profile fields and dynamic audiences (for enrollment).

My initial thoughts were to use Totara Sync, and require the external Vendor managers to send the client a CSV file containing the user data on a weekly basis, and then for the client to upload into the Sync folder for import into Totara. 

My questions are:

• Is using Totara Sync the best option for this?
• How would you recommend we open the folder for the client to drop the sync files into, and how would it work if the client had 9 separate files to upload every week?
• Is there a mechanism that can be used to provide the external vendors the ability to drop in the files for upload?
• Is there a mechanism to initiate the Totara Sync cron, and dynamic audience enrollment cron from a URL so that they do not need to wait until the end of the day for the main cron to run?