Attendance (plugin)

I have tried the new 1.2 version with the following results:
1. when upgrading from 1.0.1 the uprage says 4 times error. After that, the global settings show multiple warnigs and overall the block does not work correctly:

http://localhost/www/moodle/admin/block.php?block=21
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\www\www\moodle\blocks\attendance\config_global.html on line 65

http://localhost/www/moodle/blocks/attendance/addsession.php?course=56
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\www\www\moodle\blocks\attendance\addsession.php on line 127

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\www\www\moodle\blocks\attendance\lib.php on line 168

...

2. The fresh install goes smoothly (7 times success), but before it I had to delete all attendance data from past months. So this is not possible to do on a production server. Global configuration works OK. In the course level, 'Setings' and 'Report' are OK, but 'Take attendance' leads to the following error and nothing else is displayed:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in C:\www\www\moodle\blocks\attendance\takeattendance.php on line 163

Thanks for the block, it is definitely better than the version 1.1. However, due to the above bug and the fact, that I cannot preserve the attendance data, it is for me not suitable on our production server.

> Report tab, intially designed by Dimitry, has been fixed **with large modifications**.

Thank you very much!
But why you remove full stats???
Do you suggest select each day from dropdown menu instead one page with full statistics?

Seems to be some conflict with the activity modules block using postgres?

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare activity_modules_upgrade() (previously declared in /var/www/html/moodle/blocks/activity_modules/db/postgres7.php:21) in /var/www/html/moodle/blocks/attendance/db/postgres7.php on line 29

If I delete the activity modules block and remove the directory, I can install the blocks but have errors creating the acronyms.  I will have a look and see what is happening.

Well it seems that there is no postgres sql in the postgres.sql file. Having created the tables and initial entries, there is a problem with the way the block handles times. I think we need to use unix timestamps as in other modules and store them as an integer in the db. I will have a bit more of a play.

Is there any way to have the % from the attendance block automatically reported to the gradebook? Then at the gradebook, you would have the normal control - category weight, hide/show, exceptions, etc.

Thanks for the block! I have been playing around with the php and attendance tables so I can have 13 attendance categories (a full range of daily points, in addition to tardy, late, excused, etc.)

PS. It would be great to get this figured out before January 17, the start of my new semester

Hi Somaroy,

Great job with the attendance block: Installed onto a test server with moodle 1.5.3 and it works great.

Would now like to add to our production machine to help teachers record attendance for each class. The problem is that we have 10 day cycle (over 2 weeks- Week1 = Mon to Fri and Week2 = Monday to Friday), with weekends between.

Is there any way to double the number of weeks, so that a lessons can be selected over 2 weeks rather than the current 1 week.

Quick Note: (Not to much thaught about this idea)
For wider use, on first setup of each instance of the block, let the user select the number of lessons over a flexable period : Not related to a date, or date added at the point the attendance is done - what issues would this cause?

Mervyn

Hi Somaroy,

I shall be grateful for the link to the latest release(stable).

Garry 

Firstly thanks for the work you've done on the attendance block for Moodle. Really useful! I've been playing and found that when I added a new session, it popped a reminder into the news forum, which is a great idea, as the students will get a message batched out to them daily.
There is a spelling error in the header, and the date format and context is for the US - is there a way to change this to a UK/European setting please? I've had a rummage (!) but can't find the code ...

The string is:
Important: New Class Sessions - Students, I've added an additional class session for the week of 2006-2-14. Thanq you. -Prof Robin Trangmar

Is it possible to change the date string to 14-2-2006 ... and to remove the Prof. Professor in the US is a teacher, but in the UK it has the status of Exalted One!
It's caused a lot of laughter at work anyway.
Thanks again for the hard work