When I select the indiviual blog setting and save the OU Blog settings, it does not set up individual blogs. When I go back into the OU Blog settings, it is back to the group blog default. Is there some admin-level setting that overrides this?
In reply to Lisa Carothers
Re: OU Blog doesn't allow individual setting to "stick"
by Lisa Carothers -
Any thoughts on this?
In reply to Lisa Carothers
Re: OU Blog doesn't allow individual setting to "stick"
by Lisa Carothers -
Another way to approach the problem:
What site-wide and course-level settings need to be in place so a teacher can have students maintain individual blogs within a course. Also, other students in the course should be able to view and comment on their classmates' blogs.
I am using Moodle 2.2.4
Thanks!
Hi Lisa,
Sorry you've had trouble getting a response about this. Our key oublog person, sam marshall, is away on holiday at the moment.
I think all you should have to do is set the individual blogs option to 'separate individual blogs' when you add the blog activity to your course, but it sounds as if that isn't working for you. Can you switch debugging on and see if you get any errors on the screen?
Here's the debugging message:
Debug info: Unknown column 'c.authorname' in 'field list'
SELECT c.id, c.postid, c.timeposted, c.authorname, c.authorip, c.timeapproved, c.userid, u.firstname, u.lastname, u.picture, u.imagealt, u.email, u.idnumber
FROM mdl_oublog_comments c
LEFT JOIN mdl_user u ON c.userid = u.id
WHERE c.postid IN (112) AND c.deletedby IS NULL
ORDER BY c.timeposted ASC
[array (
)]
Stack trace:
- line 394 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
- line 768 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
- line 610 of /mod/oublog/locallib.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_recordset_sql()
- line 163 of /mod/oublog/view.php: call to oublog_get_posts()
Hm, well I'm not sure why that error would stop the blog being switched to individual mode.
It looks as if the blog already has posts in it before you're trying to change its mode - that sounds a little risky, I'm not sure if we'd expect that to work. You might be better off creating a new activity and setting it to individual mode before any posts get made.
This specific error is saying that one of the posts in the blog has a comment on it, but that it can't find the database column to look up who wrote the comment.
What version of oublog are you running? It was most recently updated on github a few weeks back https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_oublog. I'm worried that it hasn't installed correctly if the database columns aren't all there. You might like to try downloading the latest version and updating your install to see if that solves things.