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Block Instance Configdata (Base64)

by Matt Bowler - Thursday, February 16, 2017, 7:24 PM

Hi,

We're currently using Moodle 3.0.4 and we're having an issue with our Block Instance Config Data for HTML blocks.

We need to update some URLs which appear in html blocks across our site and assumed that decoding the Base64 config data, searching and replacing the offending URLs, encoding this back to Base64 and then putting this back in the database would allow us to do a fairly swift site-wide update. However blocks with the updated configdata are just displaying as blank (new HTL block) blocks.

Are we missing a trick?

Many thanks!

Re: Block Instance Configdata (Base64)

by Jon Bolton - Thursday, February 16, 2017, 9:12 PM

Hi Matt - could you use the database search and replace tool?

https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Search_and_replace_tool

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Re: Block Instance Configdata (Base64)

by Matt Bowler - Thursday, February 16, 2017, 10:48 PM

Hi Jon,

That looks hella-scary but I gave it a go anyway on our development server and it seems to have worked. I'll chat to our IT department about doing it on the live server...

Is there any reason why our round-the-houses method wouldn't work?

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Re: Block Instance Configdata (Base64)

by Jon Bolton - Friday, February 17, 2017, 12:36 AM

No idea Matt, sorry. I'm not a developer, but I'll check with colleagues who are.

The S&R tool is very useful though

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