After merging 1.8 HEAD with my hacked moodle 1.7 (yes it was scary!) I noticed that I have two tables in the db: mdl_groups_temp and mdl_groups_members_temp that I am not certain of the purpose of... are these artifacts of the upgrade? I suspect that my groups upgrade failed...the update hung several times before I finally got it running, and now my groups don't look right; my old groups show up as [Not in a grouping] on the group management page.
Question: I'm tempted to rename all of the newly created tables...and rename the two temp tables back to their original names, and try to rerun /group/db/upgrade.php... (After backing my system up of course!) What do you think?
Hi Greg, a well-timed post! I have been reworking groups for Moodle 1.8.
DB tables 'mdl_groups_temp' and 'mdl_groups_members_temp' are indeed left over from the upgrade, and I would advise you NOT to delete them, at least until we get Moodle 1.8 final (non-Beta).
The groups management user-interface has changed, and there is a new concept "groupings" - collections of groups. The intention is that different groupings may be used for different activities in courses. Existing 1.7 groups are put in the pseudo-grouping [Not in a grouping] during the upgrade - new groups can be created in new groupings.
I hope this clarifies things - clearly I need to add a help page before 1.8 final!
Regards, nick
DB tables 'mdl_groups_temp' and 'mdl_groups_members_temp' are indeed left over from the upgrade, and I would advise you NOT to delete them, at least until we get Moodle 1.8 final (non-Beta).
The groups management user-interface has changed, and there is a new concept "groupings" - collections of groups. The intention is that different groupings may be used for different activities in courses. Existing 1.7 groups are put in the pseudo-grouping [Not in a grouping] during the upgrade - new groups can be created in new groupings.
I hope this clarifies things - clearly I need to add a help page before 1.8 final!
Regards, nick
Thanks for that Nick, I suspected something of the sort. So I should expect my groups to show up in [not in a grouping]...got it! Oh, and I recognize your name from searching through Tracker (which I forgot to have a look at before posting here, oops) thanks for your hard work!
Do you envision that once the new 1.8 groups are stabilized that the 'mdl_groups_temp' and 'mdl_groups_members_temp' tables will 'survive' the upgrade? Or wil they go away at the end of a successful upgrade?
Do you envision that once the new 1.8 groups are stabilized that the 'mdl_groups_temp' and 'mdl_groups_members_temp' tables will 'survive' the upgrade? Or wil they go away at the end of a successful upgrade?