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Fixed some more problems and in the process I actually made the code to run much faster when sharing files to the whole site. I have a Moodle DB with about 1900 students and 12,000 course enrollments, the old MyFiles code would crap out (times-out after 30 seconds) due to some very inefficient DB calls. Basically, I made it to make one DB call for all students and teachers instead of one DB call for every user.

But, I would suggest you keep the global site sharing off which is the default behavior. If I have time I would rewrite the whole global site sharing feature, it is simply too cumbersome in the current stage. How about some funding here? Just kidding.

David

Hi David

Well done for getting MyFiles working with Moodle 1.8  (We've been waiting for ages for this)

Before I test your module can you answer a question:-

Does it work with Moodle groups i.e can separate groups see separate private file storage areas?

I ask this as I'd like to use MyFiles for student file storage for team projects and would like to ensure one team can't see the other team's files.

Thanks again

Clive

Hi Andy,

Please provide more details. Which "sharing" option are you talking about and how did you get to the page with the "sharing" option? Screen shots with comments would be nice.

Also, in the same course you were trying to perform file sharing, click on the "Participants" link (usually on the top left corner of the course page. Do you see the page filled with students and teacher(s)? On this "participants" page, in "Current role", do you see "Teacher " and "Student"? If you select "Student" from "Current role", do you still see a long list of accounts?

Another thing is if you use customized system roles instead of the default Moodle Teacher and Student roles then file sharing would break and you would not be able to see any users when you want to share your files. To check this, you have to be the administrator, go to the top level home page, click Users->Permissions->Assign system roles, you should see a list of roles. Do you see the "Teacher" and "Student" role? Do these 2 URL links contain roleid=3 for "Teacher" and roleid=5 for students?

Last thing, get the latest version of MyFiles from the same link I provided earlier. I did made some changes within one hour after I did the first upload. I didn't think anyone would have downloaded the original package soon after I posted my first message. I learned assumption is bad on my very first job but see what I am doing again .

Regards,
David

You can add file manager on the Moodle home/front page and it would allow users to share files with all users on the site.

Hi,
I'm integrating File manager and its working fine with the "f_manager == 2" tweak. I was wondering if there is a new version of File manager with that problem fixed??

Also, is it possible for a teacher to use the files in his/her Mylinks to use as resource in a course??

I apologize if am asking any stupid questions because i'm new to Moodle.

Thanks.