Overriding question bank view class 3.0

Overriding question bank view class 3.0

by Michael Ko -
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H (not sure if this is more of a theme or quiz question) but:

I know that it is possible to override namespace renderers (and we have overridden mod_quiz_renderer in our theme), but I am trying to override \core_question\bank\view (basically adding one more column to the table).

We need to make some changes to the questions list table that is displayed in both:

  • The list of questions in the question bank
  • The list of questions when adding a question to a quiz, that comes from AJAX, made by Tim Hunt

Is it possible to override \core_question\bank\view, as it does not seem to be part of an "output" namespace?

Thanks


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Re: Overriding question bank view class 3.0

by Tim Hunt -
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You cannot override those classes using the theme renderer override mechanism, because they are not renderers.

There is some flexibility built into these classes, mainly through the $CFG->questionbankcolumns config variable. https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/question/classes/bank/view.php#L122

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Re: Overriding question bank view class 3.0

by Michael Ko -

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your response.

We're now looking at the quiz edit page, which uses custom_view from namespace mod_quiz\question\bank, and we need to add another column - "Assigned Quizzes". In fact, in almost every teacher page that has some list of questions, we need to add a list of quizzes that they are assigned to.

I'm presuming that achieving this through extension is not possible, without writing some kind of hack?

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