Just got htis working on Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS. It has taken most of the day! I need to document and test my progress on another machine, will try and latest Ubuntu LTS version. Would there any interest in me sharing this information ?

Tim, your documentation is now available in the latest download as part of the supporting documentation.

Thanks for your contribution

Hi Guy,  I'm probably being really obtuse but can't find the student_ad_export.rp file referred to in the instructions in either of the downloads.  If you have a ready made one...?   Thanks.   Greg

(and could you advise on the progress of the parents live view unit please?)

Hi,

I have downloaded this module and configured everything as per the instructions that come with it.

I have just installed the main files, but I have a problem. I am running moodle 1.9 and when I got to the 'Add block', 'Facility to Moodle' isn't listed.

The install had no reported errors when setting up the tables.

Any advise would be much apprechiated.

Cheers.

The parental access module (MIS block) is available on request.
We will be shipping it as part of the entire package soon.

Alan Hardy of Frederick Gent School Derby is a co-author on the parental access module.

Hey,

We've got this installed, working really well for students, and teaching groups

However we cannot import staff, how to the user tie from Ldap to moodle?

Do you need to be used ldap authentication on facility? Or is there something else

Were currently getting the Error: could not match ldapusername with facility staff record.

Cheers,
Mark

ps could we try out the parental access module

Mark,

As far as I know, the f2m block uses a staff member's username from LDAP results and ties it up with the lecturerid field in the Facility DB.

At my school a staff member's login is just their forename and their lecturerid in Facility is a code (i.e. AHI) so this default didn't work in our case. You can modify this behaviour by adding the following to the f2m config file:

$ftm_cfg->staffLDAPMatchField='';

In our case the field I matched was 'description'. Unfortunately, this meant we had to add the staff codes to the description fields in AD. HTH.

Dean.

Cheers Dean, had a couple of problems before realising the field name is case sensitive! All working now! We've using the company field, keeps it out the way!

Has any one tryied upgrading to Moodle 1.9.8 and using this block, we put it on our test server, and this block got upset, looking in the mysql table, it was putting users in with a mnethostid of 1, which in 1.9.8 is remote user whereas in 1.9.7 is normal user

Cheers,

Mark