Hello All,
I am trying to add a Title, Message, and Attachment form items to the main page of the Social Course Format. I have attached a mockup of what I am trying to achieve.
Any suggestions?
My goal is to try and develop a Course Format for Moodle that would be similar to how Edmodo or Facebook acts with the user able to post directly from the main page and then also leave comments in a similar fashion for the posts.
See the attached photo.
Hi Chris,
Sorry that it has taken so long to get a response. I put together the attached course format based on your idea.
It uses the default editor and there are a few other differences. If I have time, I will look in to changing them (and commenting the code better...).
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ca2si
Hello Ca2si,
This is exactly the course format I am looking for!
I did notice that if you try to leave a comment on a posting it gives you an error. Clicking "Discuss this Topic" gives you:
Can not find data record in database table course.
More information about this error
Thank you very very much for the initial work!
Chris
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the feedback
I found the bug. The new version is posted here: http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_easypost
Thanks,
Ca2si
Hello Ca2si,
I just tried the new version and I am still getting the error when I try to reply to a posting. The other thing I noticed that will be confusing to end users is the "Add a New Discussion Topic" button appearing just below the "Save Changes" button.
I add a new topic using your new post form on the main page. Then I click on the "Discuss this Topic" link next to the new posting and it gives the error listed above.
It seems the front page post form isn't registering the forum topic properly somehow.
Hello Ca2si,
Here are my initial suggestions if you are willing to work on this...
Functionality:
Cosmetics (If Possible):
Hi Chris,
You may well need to Purge all caches as it is quite possible your Moodle install is using a cached version and NOT the new as you thought.
To purge caches go to Site Administration > Development > Purge all caches once done you can return to your course page and do a Ctrl + F5 to refresh the page and you should see the changes.
Mary
Hi Chris,
Discussions started with the old version have a missing database entry that causes the error. Delete them, and any discussions created with the new version should work properly (at least they do in my test environments with moodle 2.1)
If this does not solve the issue, could you turn debugging on fully and send me the full errors?
I will see what I can do with the suggestions though I might not get to them until this weekend.
The drag and drop feature would be really nice to have. Both for the user and for the sysadmin (me ... It will force people to finally move to a modern browser).
Thanks,
Ca2si
Thanks Mary and Ca2si,
I will try clearing my cache on both moodle and the browser. I am still getting an error using the EasyPost 1.2 version.
I have moodle 2.1.2. Don't know if there is a difference between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 that would affect this.
When I try to edit a post created using your form I get this error:
You are trying to use an invalid course ID: ({$a})
More information about this error
Here is a screencapture video of my issue:
Hi ca2si
I'm getting an ERROR which makes me wonder if you forgot to change the calback function name in lib.php. I think you need to change 'social' to 'easypost'.
Here's the ERROR message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare callback_social_load_content() (previously declared in C:\wamp\www\moodle\course\format\easypost\lib.php:36) in C:\wamp\www\moodle\course\format\social\lib.php on line 38
EDIT: After posting the above ERROR I am now getting this error with a stack trace, after changing social to read easypost in the callback function in lib.php.
Up until this message all seemed to be working OK.
Cheers
Mary
Hi Chris and Mary,
It seems that I uploaded the wrong version of easypost/post_form.php
The correct version is now in the plugins repository (version 1.3).
*Note to Self: Double-check files before uploading *
Thanks for your help and patience,
Ca2si
AWESOME Ca2si! I just tested and it seems to work just fine now.
Thank you.
I am noticing that by default there is only one attachment allowed on new courses? I also noticed that the default "News" forum created with new courses only allows 1 attachment instead of adhering to the Forum Activity default for attachments set by site admin. Maybe a bug has crept into the 2.1.2 branch for default forums.