While this similar thread wants a way for teachers to be notified of new Db entries, my need is the opposite: I want students to see new entries on the "Recent Activity" block. Right now new entries do not show for Db activity module.
I know I could tell them to search the Db descending etc, but that's less efficient than the block showing them upon login what's been added since last visit.
Any ideas on this one?
Thanks in advance~
Yes, the RSS feed block works properly in any version of Moodle. I tested it and some of my Moodle courses are using it right now. They have to go in to the site to see the latest list. The benefit is the Feed can be shared site wide.
But, no email out to users, and not many people reading RSS in their devices. It will be good if they do, then you don't have to upgrade to Moodle2.8
Not supported by the Database module (requires development). You can open a tracker issue if not already.
I'm not sure that HQ can currently
allocate the required resources to enhance the Database module with more than one or two small to medium features per major version. If that continues to be the case William's ever growing wish list is
likely to remain mostly unfulfilled for many Moodle versions to come. I'd be happy to stand corrected, but in the meantime I continue to make my humble contribution to the Moodle project in the form of the Dataform.
The Dataform allows you to populate any of the views with any of the filters, to the course page, either in a block or in label-like resource. You can add multiple such Dataform views on the course page. You can even allow the students to interact with the entries without leaving the course page. For instance they can rate or comment on entries (ajaxed). They can add/update entries if you set the dataform view to be embedded (it will be rendered in an iframe) on the course page.
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If that continues to be the case William's ever growing wish list is likely to remain mostly unfulfilled for many Moodle versions to come. I'd be happy to stand corrected, probably .
Thanks all. Interesting schizzle going on here.
What's really weird is that it worked a short while yesterday. My head's hurting from this one. Buehler? Buehler?
A week's good vibes to anybody sharper than me on this one.
The plot thickens. I backed up the Db and restored it to a different class, created an RSS block, and voila--it reads my db's RSS template:
Meanwhile, the exact same db on the original course still looks like this:
Out of curiosity, I inspected the element on the good one. Adding it here for comparative purposes when checked against the bad entry in the earlier post on this thread:
So now I know I can delete the old db and restore this one, and hope it works. But still, something is fishy. Would any developers want to know about this?
It is not fishy, it is cached!
Try deleting or adding an entry and this should refresh the cache. The cache is refreshed in 60+ seconds intervals only if the feed content changes.
Oy. Freaking. Vay. I laugh as I type at the consequences of not understanding basic geeky things like cache!
Thanks, Itamar!
Hi Clay
Sorry to be really thick but how did you add your Database RSS so that it appeared in the block settings / feed list?
Do I just use the URL of the database? Or the RSS template?
Many thanks
Catherine
Hi Catherine,
For details of how to obtain an RSS feed, please see the section 'Enabling an RSS feed of recently added entries' in the Using Database documentation. Please shout if anything is unclear.
Thanks Helen, that has worked. For some reason, the documentation page with the Database settings on that I was looking at, didn't include the chapter on RSS feeds. It was for Moodle 2.9 though which is why I was perplexed.
Anyway, all sorted now.
Thanks again.
Catherine
Glad to hear you've got things sorted Caroline.
I actually just added the section about enabling an RSS feed to the documentation in response to your post. I added it to the 2.9 and 2.8 docs, and have now added it back to the 2.6 docs, since it's not a new feature.