General developer forum

Re: DST issue Calendar/Assignments

M. N. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:55:00 GMT

by M. N..

I believe that post from Concordia is from last year when DST changed in North America.

Anyways, update your timezones and then if you are in a region that is affected by DST then you should select a timezone name (ie. America/Montreal) instead of a UTC offset (UTC -6). By selecting a UTC offset it has that exact offset at all times but with a region selected, the time will reflect DST in that location.

Re: how to find users who have completed a particular course

Ravishankar Somasundaram — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:59:20 GMT

by Ravishankar Somasundaram.

Hello Paul Ganderton,

Here is the long waited curriculum module.Took some extra time than estimated to segregate this customization from bunch of others to contribute.

Comments are welcomed.

Re: How to build a Course curriculam ?

Ravishankar Somasundaram — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:56:32 GMT

by Ravishankar Somasundaram.

Hello Olav,Ralph

Have written a custom curriculum module, thought i should inform here also so that anybody looking for it can benefit from that if needed,you can get it from here.

Comments are welcomed.

Re: Building a curriculum with multiple courses

Ravishankar Somasundaram — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:34 GMT

by Ravishankar Somasundaram.

Dear moodlers,

writing this for use of others in search of a curriculum mapping tool, have written a custom module and have contributed here, feel free to implement,test the same.

Comments are welcomed.

Re: Curriculum Mapping

Ravishankar Somasundaram — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:05:45 GMT

by Ravishankar Somasundaram.

Hello Lisa Pedicini and other moodlers who are in search of a curriculum mapping methodology in moodle,

Sorry for announcing this a little late, even though the production and first phase of testing was over on scheduled time, it took a little longer for me to segregate this curriculum part alone from my the customization.

Heres the post. Comments are welcomed

Re: Finding current styles

Joachim Vogelgesang — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:33:34 GMT

by Joachim Vogelgesang.

Hi,

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Re: Meta Course in hidden Category

Jon Witts — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:22:59 GMT

by Jon Witts.

Sorry to shamelessly bump this one up the list, but I am wondering if any one thinks this behaviour is a bug? I will log it in the tracker if people agree.

Jon

Re: Updated Moodle 1.9 + TinyMCE 3 patches

Mihai Sucan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:10:26 GMT

by Mihai Sucan.

There are numerous tools for compressing JS. Here are two of the best (in my opinion):

- Google Closure Compiler:
http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/

- Yahoo UI Compressor:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

Good luck!

Re: Updated Moodle 1.9 + TinyMCE 3 patches

Dmitry Pupinin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:05:14 GMT

by Dmitry Pupinin.

Thanks Mihai!

I agree your observation about uncompressed .js. Could you prompt me what I can use for compressing, because I didn't do it earlier.

Re: Image link

Frank Ralf — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:29:50 GMT

by Frank Ralf.

You might also try (mis)using Upload user pictures for your purpose.

hth
Frank

回复: Moodle and LAMS integration problem (solved!)

法兵胡 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:36:04 GMT

by 法兵胡.

Hi,Clive

Can you show the code you had changed in your installation.I had the same problem weekly.

Thanks!

胡法兵

Re: Updated Moodle 1.9 + TinyMCE 3 patches

Mihai Sucan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:58:40 GMT

by Mihai Sucan.

Hello Dmitry!

Thanks for your work.

Language files are distributed in both formats. In the official page you liked (the one at tinymce.moxiecode.com) you can download languages as .js or as XML.

The create_langfiles.php script is taken from the work did by Martin Langhoff. I only made some small fixes. If I am not mistaken the script works with TinyMCE plugins. My PaintWeb plugin has no issues.

However, it is agreed that parsing the JS files is pretty hackish. This is why in Moodle 2.0 there's a script which imports the strings from the distributed XML files. So, you are correct in your approach.

I recommend you to take a look the Git branch I made public, which holds the latest Moodle 1.9.x with TinyMCE 3 integrated.

http://repo.or.cz/w/moodle/mihaisucan.git/shortlog/refs/heads/mdl19-tinymce3

The archive you linked is rather old. There have been a number of fixes since then. ;)

One problem I saw is that the tiny_mce.js file you provide is uncompressed, it's not minified. This makes it slower to load - the file is quite bigger. TinyMCE is usually distributed in both forms: compressed (tiny_mce.js) and uncompressed (tiny_mce_src.js).

Again, I want to note that my work for TinyMCE 3 integration is limited around my work on PaintWeb integration. I do not have very much time to maintain the TinyMCE 3 branch, due to university studies.

You should make a fork of my Git branch and apply your patches. Link it here, so anyone interested can get it.

Thanks again for your contribution!

Re: Updated Moodle 1.9 + TinyMCE 3 patches

Dmitry Pupinin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:54:17 GMT

by Dmitry Pupinin.

Hello everybody!

I try to apply patch to Moodle 1.9.6 and I has done it.

But I had a problem with localization of TinyMCE. There are some remarks:

Too complex to create localization from XML file which used for language in TinyMCE. It havn't names of Modules and Plugins. 'create_langfiles.php' useless because localization don't distribute in .js format (maybe I'm wrong?)
In some cases, language strings takes from .js files even so instead of /langs/minymce.php. For example, for popup windows.
Variables ($cols, $rows etc.) and date format (like %Y-%m-%d) brings about disappearing of editor if debugging level allow to show warnings and errors.

My offers

I offer next changes which correct this problems:

Attached XSL file allow to create Moodle's language file from any Tiny's XML language in one click.
Some changes in php scripts guarantee that all language strings always will get from Moodle's langs.

Install changes

Apply patch from http://www.robodesign.ro/moodle/patches/moodle19-tinymce3.tar.bz2
Replace files in /lib/editor from attachment.
Replace english language file in /lang/en_utf8 from attachment because it has changed format.

Creating new language

Download XML file from http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download_i18n.php
Place file tiny_to_moodle.xsl in same directory as xml.
Add string <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='tiny_to_moodle.xsl'?> on second line of file, right before <language-pack>
Open your xml file in browser (File->Open) and you will see localization in Moodle format.
Select all in browser's page, copy, paste in text file and save this as tinymce.php (Be attentive! Save in UTF-8 format without BOM!)
Place tinymce.php in your lang directory.

I'll be much obliged to Mihai Sucan if he test it and include it in his patch.

Re: How to tag a CVS folder using Tortoise?

Frank Ralf — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:07:57 GMT

by Frank Ralf.

Hi Matt,

I'm not sure whether this information applies to your situation but I found the following information from the TortoiseCVS User Guide useful in some cases:

"Going Back to the Head Branch
If you want to stop working on a branch and move your local copy back to the main line of development, you have to make TortoiseCVS remove all sticky tags.

To remove the sticky tags, and thus update your local copy to the main development line, select the top level folder of the project. You can also select the exact folders and files that are part of the desired branch if you know this information. Right-click the on the selection, and choose CVS → Update Special....

You will then be presented with the Update Special Dialog. Select the Return to main (HEAD) branch checkbox and click the OK button. TortoiseCVS will now do the necessary updates to move your working copy back to the head branch."

hth
Frank

How to tag a CVS folder using Tortoise?

Matt Gibson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:48:24 GMT

by Matt Gibson.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to apply MOODLE_19_STABLE to a folder in CONTRIB which is currently just marked as HEAD using tortoise and I'm getting an error about some changes to tags being restricted.

I've tried checking out using the tag I want to apply, but that gives me an error about a missing directory.

Does anyone know how I can do this? I don't have access to a unix machine.

Re: Understanding course/category sortorder and fix_course_sortorder()

paolo oprandi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:56:08 GMT

by paolo oprandi.

Hi Rainer,

Thanks for your reply.

as you say, I will get identical sortorder values for different values, but as every category has its own sortorder they should be able to be the same, I think? The DB column doesn't specify it should be UNIQUE or anything.

Also, by just deleting from some of the records you could also get multiple identical sort orders. Probably it would be safer to delete the same value from all records if duplicate values is a problem.

Cheers!
Paolo

Re: Bulk user actions improvement

Dan Roddy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:27 GMT

by Dan Roddy.

This is a great add-on. I've often wondered if I was misunderstanding something about enrolment in Moodle as it seemed not to offer some features that I thought were fairly basic elements of the commercial LMSs I've used in the past (I can see why they may have been missing in an LMS aimed at schools/colleges). Clearly they were missing as this fix puts them in. Brilliant work.

Are there any known issues with this? Is there not a page for it in the plug-ins section of Moodle.org?

Gradebook option - years

Алексей Соболевский — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:48 GMT

by Алексей Соболевский.

Is there a possibility to add to a gradebook an option checkbox or smth. "years". I've already asked this question in gradebook forum, but there were no answers to my post, so I want to do it by my own hands - I want to divide the gradebook history by years with an option of choosing, what information to represent (by years). Any hints?

scorm code

ivan breziansky — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:14:45 GMT

by ivan breziansky.

Hi,

Im trying to input start date and end date from scorm course into certificate modul. Can you help me out, what code needs to be inserted into certificate modul in order to dispay correct info (Start and End date) for each user..?

Im adding a screenshot from the scorm course site, where you can see the dates i'd like to get to certificate modul.

Thank you.

Re: Process to massively answer questions (not cheating )

Howard Miller — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:01:56 GMT

by Howard Miller.

Can't you just use the gradebook's facilities to add additional grades for the missing quizes? What you might not be aware of is that you can add items into the Gradebook that do not relate to actual activities in Moodle - for just this reason, so you can include "off Moodle" marks.