Hi all,
I'm trying not to make another release of Collapsed Topics and the Grid formats, but a problem was reported to me yesterday and I felt I had to fix it as soon as I could. To be honest, I'm kicking myself over it and wondering why it has not been reported earlier as the issue has existed for a while now. And to a lesser extent with slightly odd behaviour ever since I added in capabilities into the code base.
So:
1. Fixed issue reported by Graham Woodsford where by teachers could not create Collapsed Topics courses. This is because the validation method 'edit_form_validation' in 'lib.php' was failing the values passed to it. These happened to be the hidden label values from 'course_format_options' which were being used because the 'Course creator' role that teachers have before becoming an 'editingteacher' role as defined in 'db/access.php' does not allow the teacher to have the 'format/topcoll:changelayout', 'format/topcoll:changecolour', 'format/topcoll:changetogglealignment' and 'format/topcoll:changetoggleiconset' capabilities. This also implies that the values of the other settings are wrong, which in fact they are, causing courses to be created (after fixing the colour settings for 'edit_form_validation') with odd values and not the defaults resulting in no icon set etc. And therefore needing to go back to edit the course settings.
Ok, this now leads on to a dilemma. Currently the course creator role does not have the CT capabilities listed above. If they were added to 'access.php' then the role would have them (existing CT admins would have to add manually). Then the teacher would see all the options when first creating a course as they do whilst editing. However, this means that if you wish to restrict the teacher from changing things as is the purpose of the capabilities in the first place, then you have to remove the capability in both the 'coursecreator' and 'editingteacher' roles. This is because by default 'coursecreator' is above 'editingteacher' and once enrolled on the course after having created it, the teacher has both. This makes things a bit complex and to be honest not that admin friendly. Therefore to keep things simple in what is in reality an event that is rare, I have decided not to add the capabilities to the 'coursecreator' role. This is additionally based on the presumed work-flow of a teacher where they create the course using the defaults, look at it and then decide what to change in the settings. The fix as it stands will facilitate this.
The issue applies to the Grid format too, so:
CT:
M2.5: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5071
M2.6: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5069
Grid:
M2.5: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5073
M2.6: https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=5072
Cheers,
Gareth