I'm trying to write an availability plugin, but the documentation on the subject is pretty sparse. I think I've figured out how data gets to the javascript (but I'm not sure I have it right), but I don't know how to retrieve the data from the form and hand it off to JSON conversion. And documentation concerning YUI seems to assume a lot of background knowledge that I don't have and don't know where to look.
Does anyone know of a primer in this?
Hi Larry,
Maybe you check an existing plugin to see how its done? The Mobileapp Availability Plugin isn't that complex to get you started
Not to state the obvious but you did find this page right?
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Availability_conditions
Maybe this is the 'sparse' one you're referring to but I thought it was pretty good. (Disclaimer: I wrote the original version of this page. ;) )
Unfortunately, this system was built back when Moodle used YUI, and it hasn't yet been updated - so the YUI stuff is probably unfamiliar to some developers. Ideally, at some point somebody would update the API (and documentation) to work with the current jQuery/AMD development pattern, but presumably nobody has had time yet...
--sam
