We are running Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0 in parallel, while we migrate over. We are running one instance of Mahara. If an individual accesses Mahara from Moodle 2.0, it creates a new user account for them. If they send a forum post from 2.0 to Mahara it goes to this new account, and not their original account. Is there a way to fix this?
Here is an example of what I see after sending a post from Moodle 2.0 to Mahara.
Yes, that is expected behaviour. From Mahara point of view, those are distinct users roaming from two different sites.
There is no easy/automatic way to handle this as far as I know. But there is a hacky way to achieve this, I believe. Mahara uses a table called "auth_remote_user" that maps remote users to local user accounts. You can try to populate the table in advance with the required values.
For example let us say there is a record:
authinstance = > 3, remoteusername => ellen.murphy, localusr => 42
that maps your 1.9 account to a local Mahara user with id 42. If you create a new record for the new 2.0 account like
authinstance = > 4, remoteusername => ellen.murphy, localusr => 42
then both remote accounts are mapped to a single local account in Mahara.
Hi David,
Thanks for your response. We'll give it a try.
Ellen