Is it possible to have an additional button with the functionality of the current "Save changes and continue editing button" that appears at the end of a question editing form. I was hoping to be able use such a button to pick up the id's of a freshly saved multi-part question and use that information later in the editing form.
So I was hoping to be able to do something like
$mform->createElement('submit', 'updatebutton','Some Text');
Without clashing with the one at the footer of the form.
Would such a button be able to do the database write/question save functionality of the current button at the foot of the editor form?
You should not do that. What if the user then clicks Cancel?
They would have the question text without the other bits. I can very easily live with that possibility.
But you don't have to live with that.
I did not mention it before, because the form as a whole is rather complex, but STACK handles this case fairly well. That is used in combination with registerNoSubmitButton:
I decided about an hour after my last post that you were right (grrrrr). I have been reading the Stack code for a while and while it is complex it is useful for inspiration.
@Marcus, I also use $mform->registerNoSubmitButton() in my Regexp question type. It works fine (once you've understood the concept).
Joseph
I would like to be able to save changes without exiting while I am editing a Formulas question. The reason is as follows:
As opposed to Calculated questions, variables of Formulas questions do not seem to be global across different Formulas questions in the same quiz (please could you confirm this?). Hence, quizzes in which there is a Formulas question may very well have only one question with several subquestions. That could make Formulas questions sometimes long to set up, with much checking and debugging required.
Unfortunately, when returning and editing a Formulas question, after saving it for checking, each time one has to wait for the page to be loaded again, click "Expand all", "Display more..." a few times and resize a few Variable windows. This would not be a problem if it had to be done only a few times. However, with long Formulas questions, this needs to be done quite often. It then becomes a bit frustrating to realize that after a day's work, much time has been spent in waiting, reopening and resizing windows in the question editing page.
A "Save changes and continue editing" button would allow editing and updating a question (without exiting) in one (Microsoft) window and checking the outcome in another (Microsoft) window, i.e. working a bit more efficiently.
Please could you tell me:
** There does not seem to be automatic saving, is this so?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Which version of Moodle are you using? All question types have this in Moodle 2.7 and 2.8 (MDL-33653).
You can try it at http://demo.moodle.net/ or http://qa.moodle.net/.
Tim,
Thank you for your prompt reply. We have Moodle 2.6.
Version 2.7 or 2.8 should be installed sometimes soon. I can wait.
Please could you tell me if, with versions 2.7 and 2.8, the "Save changes and continue editing" button will appear automatically on the "Editing a Formulas question" page or will it have to be installed separately?
It appears on each question type automatically.
And, once you have save the question the first time, a link appears next to the button to let you easily open the preview window for that question.
Tim,
Thank you for the explanations. It look forward using this new feature.