Is there a purpose of the role renaming to be reset when backing up and restoring a course? That means, that when using course backups as templates and wanting to use renamed roles (for instance, in course templates for courses in different languages) one always have to do another role renaming in the new course. Or have I missed some setting?
Using moodle 2.8+ and 3.0+
There is code in place for backing up and restoring role renames (which are stored in the role_names table in the database).
So, it is supposed to work.
It really doesn't with our sites, moodle 2.8.7+ and moodle 3.0.3+
Now I tried changing the name of every role, I didn't do that before. Actually the name change made for the role "Student" was kept, in both our moodle installations. But all other roles, both original roles and roles we have created, was restored to their original names.
I did it this way:
Any suggestion on how I should move on with this?
If you can also reproduce the problem at qa.moodle.net, then report the bug to the tracker: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Tracker_introduction. Thanks.
Thanks, Tim!
I replicated the problem there and will report to the tracker.
Hi Peter,
I had the same problem today.
Try this as a workaround:
Role-renaming is kept, when you include users in your course-backup, to whom this renamed role "belongs".
Hope, this works for you too.
