Hi,
we have recently upgraded from 1.8.4 to 1.9.5+ and it appears that course page blocks now have the same weight in the mdl_block_instance table! Any advice as to why and how this has happened and a fix (we have 4000 course pages) would be gratefully appreciated
Kindest Regards Daran Price
Are you experiencing a weird effect whereby if you try and move blocks around, they seem to appear and disappear at random? I've been experiencing this and it strikes me that I could be related?
Hi Mark,
no it just seems that all the blocks on the left hand side have a 0 weighting so sit on top of each other. If you move them the "hidden" block below will appear. Not sure what has caused this issue but need to find a fix other than shifting them around!
Kindest Regards Daran
no it just seems that all the blocks on the left hand side have a 0 weighting so sit on top of each other. If you move them the "hidden" block below will appear. Not sure what has caused this issue but need to find a fix other than shifting them around!
Kindest Regards Daran
Hi Daran,
Some ideas:
1) If you have a backup of your database from before the upgrade you could try importing its block_instance table into the new database.
2) Or you could export your recent table, amend the weight column (using your favorite spreadsheet application) and re-import it.
3) You could also try to set the weight field to "auto_increment" in the database but I don't no whether this is possible (or recommended). This won't give you the original order of blocks.
(You can use http://www.phpmyadmin.net for all these activities.)
hth
Frank
Some ideas:
1) If you have a backup of your database from before the upgrade you could try importing its block_instance table into the new database.
2) Or you could export your recent table, amend the weight column (using your favorite spreadsheet application) and re-import it.
3) You could also try to set the weight field to "auto_increment" in the database but I don't no whether this is possible (or recommended). This won't give you the original order of blocks.
(You can use http://www.phpmyadmin.net for all these activities.)
hth
Frank
Hi Frank,
we ended up having to replace the table with our old version. This has fixed the issue but elicited a few irate calls from tutors who had worked on blocks in the three weeks since the upgrade!
I think it may have caused by the following issue
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-11131
Kindest Regards Daran
we ended up having to replace the table with our old version. This has fixed the issue but elicited a few irate calls from tutors who had worked on blocks in the three weeks since the upgrade!
I think it may have caused by the following issue
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-11131
Kindest Regards Daran
Hi Daran,
I added a link to this thread to the tracker issue. Thanks for the hint!
Frank
I added a link to this thread to the tracker issue. Thanks for the hint!
Frank