Moving sections in a course

Moving sections in a course

av David Longman -
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I am finding the drag-n-drop method of moving sections extremely difficult to use. Just now I managed to drag-n-drop a topic into an orphaned activities area! I find positioning the dragged item in between sections very difficult and often inaccurate.

Is there any other way to move sections?  

Is it possible to restore the old up/donw arrow buttons?

Thanks 2.3.1

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Re: Moving sections in a course

av David Longman -

There is a tracker for this issue:

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-34209

Seems that a few folks are experiencing the same set of problem.

I have figured out that there is a bit of a trick here; it's more a mouse gesture, a sort of flick up or down to the adjacent section, it will move. It is still not foolproof although better than finger-down drag-n-drop. A mouse gesture rather than a drag-n-drop

However, moving resources with drag and drop seems to be just as flakey. They a tendency to return themselves to their origial position or even a random position after you refresh the page.

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Re: Moving sections in a course

av Derek Chirnside -

For some reason, this seemed to flare up for me this afternoon again.  I think I shifted to FF where as before I was on Chrome.

  1. I can confirm that for me, Moodle 2.3.2+ (Build: 20121014), Firefox 16.0.1, small sections with little in them, Davids tip seems to be  correct.  Quick flicks seem to work.  Paradoxically slow drags for me also have sometimes worked.
  2. Drag and drop with bigger setcions.  I think this is not going to work in the long term as it is now.  The shadow appears OK.  But I'm finding it hard to actually know if it is in the right place for even small sections (maybe 8 items) - and the ascrolling of the screen if you are moving up or down can be laborious.
    Should we look at something like drag-and-drop with just the section titles? 
  3. OR:  For moving sections, the "Click to move and click on the destination" option (ie with the dotted square box) may be best.  Better than arrows, and much better than the drag and drop.

    Comments?  If there is any positive feedback, I'll make a tracker item.  (If there isn't already one)

-Derek

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Re: Moving sections in a course

av Itamar Tzadok -
2. Should be fairly easy to do and should be a better approach. Moving the actual sections never worked effectively anyway. smiler
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