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Works fine for me on all Macs I tested on (10.5 -10.6 Macbook pro and mini). Tested with FF and chrome. 

With editing switched on, the block should always appear on all browsers. The displayed message will change, depending on whether or not javascript is enabled, the browser supports the necessary functions, or AJAX is enabled, but it will always be there. If you are still having problems displaying the block, please switch on debugging on the server and see if there are any error messages displayed.

Adding drag & drop upload to the filepicker should be possible, but it would require some core modifications (I don't expect it can be done as a separate block, like the course upload is). It also requires me to have a bit of spare time to implement, so I'm not going to promise anything in the near future.

Downsides of AJAX are that it may cause some problems, as it is an extra layer of complexity. However, there are lots of people using it now, so hopefully all the bugs have been found! As for issues with skipping the repositories, there should not be a problem, as the code I have written does exactly the same thing as the standard file upload, behind the scenes.

Thanks for the German translation - I'll try to pop it in tomorrow, when I've got my main dev computer switched on.

The applicable_formats setting is also much appreciated, it is only meant to work in courses, and I'd assumed (without checking) that only setting 'course' to true, would leave it unavailable in all other situations.

Thanks for this extremely smart block. Many teachers are very happy (at my school) because now they have a very easy way to upload contents into their courses.

Might this block be considered for inclusion into Moodle core ?

I did a spanish translation of the english strings inside the block (attached).

Thanks again.

Tested in FF 5 + 6 and moodle versions 1.95 and 1.9.12 and it installed and worked perfect. Awesome work by the way!

Hi Davo

Working for us too. On Moodle 1.9.x, Firefox 6.0.2. On both topics or weekly format courses. Another outstanding job, Davo

Thanks!

Geoff

Oh my! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in Moodle for a while. I just keep dragging stuff on to my course, only so I can be amazed - again.

Seriously, keep developing this mod. Your ideas about dragging text on to create labels, or zip files to (optionally) unpack into folder mods are awesome as well.

Thanks,
Michael 

The HTML 5 standard (and web browsers) do not, as far as I can tell, support dropping of folders. Only dropping of files is supported.

I'm considering adding a feature that, when you upload a zip file, it asks whether you want to create a folder, a SCORM activity or just make the zip available to download (but I haven't done that yet).

As an aside, I'm also thinking of allowing dragging and dropping of text (e.g. from a wordprocessor or another webpage) to automatically create a webpage resource and the dragging and dropping of a URL (from the browser address bar or just some text that only contains a URL) to automatically create a web link resource. This was just an idea I had this morning, so, until I get back to my main PC, I can't find out if it would actually work.

You are going to need to tell me which web browser and moodle version you are using, before I can answer that question.

We had duplicates and triplicates of file uploads when several teachers added one instance each of the dragndrop block into the same course.

We were showing the teachers what they needed for the module to work; we showed them one course that did not have the block and therefore, did not work. I added the block in the course, and we were delighted it worked; but some teachers decided to add the blockl themselves and we ended with duplicate blocks uploading the files in duplicate.

Would it be possible for the module to check that it has not been installed in duplicate, or to give a warning if that were the case.

Once again, many thanks and eternal gratitude to the developer of this great block.

Hi Davo

Can confirm this works as follows in latest stable Moodle 2.1.1

Using Firefox 7.0.1 or Chrome 14.0.835.202 can drag and drop links from the address bar, by selecting the favicon to the left of the link.

Selecting and dragging text (from Gedit text editor or LibreOffice Writer) worked consistently with Chrome but not Firefox.

All on Fedora 15 client OS.

Thanks for these new drag-and-drop upload features

Finally, just wanted to restate how incredibly useful we have already found the Drag-and-drop upload block. We have encountered frequent issues migrating courses from Moodle 1.9 to Moodle 2.1.1. and this block has come to the recue by making it simple to add missing resources. If all else fails, it is actually rather quick to, say, bulk-download resources from a Moodle 1.9 course by FTP, then drag-and-drop them onto a new Moodle 2.1.1 course.

Thanks again!

Thanks Alexander,

I've tidied up the code you sent a little and published it over at github.

Davo

@Bohumil Havel:

Thanks for Czech translation, sorry it's taken me a few days to respond, but I've now added it to the github download.

I have solved it, my bad, forgot to change directory permisions to the moodle one.

Could you double-check that AJAX is enabled on your user profile page?

If it is, then it requires a bit more debugging. What browser are you using?

Ahmed - I thought it was on by default.

You haven't mentioned which Moodle version you are using, but you might be able to run a simple SQL query to switch on for all users.

What does the block say when a teacher is logged in?

If the block is missing, then make sure that editing is on.

If the block says something to do with permissions, then make sure they have 'moodle/course:managefiles'.

If it says something about AJAX, then make sure they have AJAX course editing enabled in their profile.

If it says something about the browser not supporting it, then stop using IE

Davo

Thank you for the reply.  I had to go into the prefrences of the user and enable AJAX.

I have a new problem now.  We have setup our Moodle 2.2 site under File Activity Module to "Force Download" only for all documents for "Available display options"

When teachers upload documents this setting works fine and they cannot switch to any other setting.  However, when they use Drag and drop it sets it up for Automatic.  If they change this setting to "Force Download" in Moodle then it is fine but we want all files posted on our courses to have the "Force Download" only.  We do this because our students use iPads and the PDF files posted cannot be opened in other apps if it is embedded.

Any suggestions on how to make all drag and drop files to be set to "Force Download"?

Thanks.

Update

Two of my colleagues just tested with Chrome and it worked. Sounds like a problem with my own browser. We all have the same version (21.0.1180.89 m). I'll update if I find something.

François

 

 

 

@Belinda - as the functionality of the block is now a standard part of Moodle 2.3+, I am no longer making any changes to the block.

You could try testing the subpage module with Moodle 2.3/2.4 and see if drag and drop upload works there. If not, contact the maintainers of the subpage module to see if they can update it to work with drag and drop upload (I have a feeling it might work already, as I tried it out ages ago, but I can't really remember).