General developer forum

1. Installation: I had exactly the same problem as reported by Melissa, and I also added an empty to string in mod/task/db/mysql.sql to those "INSERT INTO prefix_task_data" statements which had only values for three columns but not the last one (data). After this the installation went just fine.
2. After setting up the first task, the GANTT chart only showed an error message complaining about inappropriate permissions for the moodledata/cache folder. After I changed the permissions from 777 to 755 (!), the chart showed up in all its glory Curiously, though, I just checked again the permissions of moodledata/cache and moodledata/cache/jpgraph, and they both are back at 777 again, although I didn't reset them. Anyway, I thought I should post this here, just in case someone runs into the same issue...
3. The time tracker block doesn't work when the database prefix is different from mdl_ (for me, it's mdlneu_), and consequently clocking in/out and billing the hours don't work. So I replaced "mdl_timetracker_punch" with "prefix_timetracker_punch" and "mdl_timetracker_info" with "prefix_timetracker_info" (both in blocks/timetracker/db/mysql.sql). After re-installing the block, clocking in/out worked ok, but still the hours wouldn't show up as billed when viewing the task. I also tried adding manual punches, but to no avail. (Isn't this odd: The drop-down "bill hours against" contains all course activities, not just the tasks?)
   
4. This one is more a feature (request) than a bug: In the current version of the module, teachers cannot be team members; i.e., teachers' names don't show up under "Edit Team". In the setting where I am working, it makes a lot of sense for teachers to be team members. Thus, I changed the code in team.php (v1.4 2005/09/13 22:36:29), starting at line 94:

        foreach($TASK_ROLES as $rid => $role) {

            $nonmembers[$role->data] = array();

            // MK START: also teachers can be team members

            if ($teachers = get_course_teachers($course->id)) {

                foreach ($teachers as $teacher) {

                    $nonmembers[$role->data][$teacher->id] = fullname($teacher, true);

                }

                unset($teachers);

            }

            // MK END

            if ($students = get_course_students($course->id)) {

                foreach ($students as $student) {

                    $nonmembers[$role->data][$student->id] = fullname($student, true);

                }

                unset($students);

            }

        }

I don't know if there is anything else to change, but this quick hack seems to work for me.

5. When clicking on "forums" in the activities block, task-related forums are shown alongside any other forums (which is good!). However, when you enter a task-related forum from this page and, as a teacher, you click on "Update this Forum," an error message comes up: "This course section doesn't exist." I guess that's the way you set it up to work, but I think it would be useful to be able to change the settings of a task-related forum (either from within the task module or just like any other forum). What do you think?
6. The GANTT chart, once again : For some reason, umlaut/diacritic characters don't display properly in the chart.