Hi Sarah,
If you've modified the language file to remove part of the message it's probably just a caching issue. I had the same issue when renaming 'news forum' to 'announcements' - any existing courses kept the old name, but all new ones created afterwards changed to the new term.
There's a "Purge All Caches" page at /admin/purgecaches.php - hopefully that would sort the problem.
hmm.. I'm not sure it is the same issue... When I change the message , it works fine. But if I try to type only blank spaces (so the message disappears), and then I press "save and check in strings into files", it says:
So I guess you are not allowed to write just blank spaces, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere some time ago that you could!!
Right. The Language customization tool does not support empty strings at the moment, I am afraid. You could try and use the following hack: instead of the empty string, use the following as your local customization:
<span />
It is just an empty span HTML tag that should do nothing when printed at the screen but the tool could consider it as a valid customization. Just be aware that this is applicable only for strings that are displayed as standard HTML texts in the user interface. There are strings used as email subjects, for example, where thick trick can't be used.
Thank you so much! This made my day
> Just be aware that this is applicable only for strings that are displayed as standard HTML texts in the user interface.
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Therefore for other kinds of strings, the customized string will appear as < span / > instead of a blank. Oh well.