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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.

Re: Getting Course ID #

D 2G — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:26:45 GMT

by D 2G.

John, why don't you crawl back your files tree from your own code backward until you reach a point in the moodle code where you can pass actually the courseid?

As soon as you see on one of those files that the courseid is available, just pass it forward through GET and use own moodle functions such optional_param, etc...

So is how I did it when needed.

Process to massively answer questions (not cheating )

D 2G — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:20:23 GMT

by D 2G.

Hi there,

How could I answer the quiz in the current courses on my Moodle platform automatically replacing the student action?.

We are hardcopy learning providers that are moving onto online and we need to plug in our current customers on the platform. All of them have finished some courses offline and answered correctly the corresponding question so we would need to have answered these quizzes on the platform for them.

I have checked the moodle database and know more or less what tables I have to modify but it looks an ugly process to do so I was wondering if I can use the own moodle code to emulate the "submit and finish all" button to massively answer those questions.

Why?

I have developed a "plugin" that shows user what courses they have got ahead and what of them are already completed, generating automatically a pdf certificate per completion so either we supply them the correct answers to fulfill the quiz once again (it could be propagated all over) or we do it for them and avoid this problem.

Any tips or warning about what I should be aware of, please?

Thanks.

Re: Understanding course/category sortorder and fix_course_sortorder()

Rainer Herbst — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:24:22 GMT

by Rainer Herbst.

Hi!

is [lowest category sortorder] the lowest sortorder within that category or the lowest sortorder of all categories? In the first case, you might get multiple identical sortorder values for different categories.

This sortorder mess is not really clear to me!

In your case, 82918385555801000 is the max. sortorder and it is probably close to the integer overflow. Simply substracting something like 82918385500000000 should do the job.

Regards!
Rainer

Re: Moodle 2.0 phpmyadmin

Anthony Borrow — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:18:00 GMT

by Anthony Borrow.

Nick - I just took the latest version of /admin/mysql from CONTRIB and dropped it in my 2.0 test server, logged in as admin and let it upgrade to the latest version. Bottom line it seemed to work fine. Can you detail what you did to install it or what you are seeing? Peace - Anthony

Re: DST issue Calendar/Assignments

Eric Katchan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:43:35 GMT

by Eric Katchan.

Hi Christopher, We found the problem when adding a repeated event on the same day fro x weeks straight when the events straddled DST

ie: if a calendar event was added on Monday Oct 19 for 10 consecutive Mondays, spanning the end of dst, all events entered after Nov. 4 were off by one hour.

If we manually added a single event say on Oct.25 for Nov 10, no problem.

Maybe this sheds a clue for you.

Here is the code on event.php

if ($form->repeat) {
 for($i = 1; $i < $form->repeats; $i++) {
 // What's the DST offset for the previous repeat?
 $dst_offset_prev = dst_offset_on($form->timestart);

 $form->timestart += WEEKSECS;

 // If the offset has changed in the meantime, update this repeat accordingly
 $form->timestart += $dst_offset_prev - dst_offset_on($form->timestart);

 /// Get the event id for the log record.
 $eventid = insert_record('event', $form, true);

 /// Log the event entry.
 add_to_log($form->courseid, 'calendar', 'add', 'event.php?action=edit&amp;id='.$eventid, stripslashes($form->name));
 }
 }

Re: Getting Course ID #

john St — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:35:18 GMT

by john St.

Thanks. Could you explain the process you use a little more?

Is there a way to keep non-moodle variables from getting confused by moodle variables (short of completly rewriting)?