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The organizations database tables (link restricted to organizations admins) will be automatically populated based on the org slugs of all course runs and content libraries in the system.
Newly-created course runs and content libraries will automatically link be linked in the database to Organizations. When there is no Organization to link to, one will automatically be created.
At this time, these changes will not be visible to anyone access to the organizations database.
All environments:
Product managers and developers can now assume Organizations that can be queried and linked to in MySQL database.
Developers can now assume that each Organization in the LMS/Studio database has a unique
short_name
(i.e. key/slug/identifier).
For other Open edX instances, these changes will be part of the Lilac release (Spring 2020). Migration instructions for operators will be included in the release notes.