I've just started with moodle and I've added a few things to my first site, including an activities block. However, when i try to move the activities block to the left with the left arrow it collapses.
When I expand it the entries are gone, and when I turn off editing it disappears completly
Any ideas?
I've just discovered this today. Moodle 1.53 and saw your post. Also if you return it to the right the entries reappear BUT on turning editing off the block totally disappears. This is a standard install on with only 2 additional modules (slideshow and feedback).
Not tested yet but this is happening on the front page for me not on other course pages. We had removed the Main menu block.
Not tested yet but this is happening on the front page for me not on other course pages. We had removed the Main menu block.
This was a bug, but it's now dead. 
Please upgrade your Moodle to the latest 1.5.x+ to fix the problem. It is also fixed in current 1.6 development versions. You will know that you have the fixed block if it reports its version as 2004041001 (for 1.5.x) or 2006011300 (for 1.6 dev).
If you cannot update, here is the do-it-yourself fix:
Open /blocks/activity_modules/block_activity_modules.php with a text editor.
Find:
global $modnamesused, $modnamesplural;
Replace with:
get_all_mods($this->instance->pageid,
$mods, $modnames, $modnamesplural, $modnamesused);
The final patch is more sophisticated and offers better performance, but this is enough to just make it work correctly.
Cheers!
Jon
Please upgrade your Moodle to the latest 1.5.x+ to fix the problem. It is also fixed in current 1.6 development versions. You will know that you have the fixed block if it reports its version as 2004041001 (for 1.5.x) or 2006011300 (for 1.6 dev).
If you cannot update, here is the do-it-yourself fix:
Open /blocks/activity_modules/block_activity_modules.php with a text editor.
Find:
global $modnamesused, $modnamesplural;
Replace with:
get_all_mods($this->instance->pageid,
$mods, $modnames, $modnamesplural, $modnamesused);
The final patch is more sophisticated and offers better performance, but this is enough to just make it work correctly.
Cheers!
Jon
Thanks Jon
Sean
Sean
Well our block for Activities says 2004041001 and we have for 1.5.3 but it still shows the bug. Not fixed here then?
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
There was a slight hiccup with the fix (my fault 
) which caused it to not work as expected. However "not as expected" means an error message under some conditions, and not "just like before". The latest versions now include the correct fix, without any hiccups.
If you still have the problem, please open block_activity_modules.php and paste the first line here (it includes a version and date/time identifier); if you have the very latest everything should be fine.
Jon
) which caused it to not work as expected. However "not as expected" means an error message under some conditions, and not "just like before". The latest versions now include the correct fix, without any hiccups.If you still have the problem, please open block_activity_modules.php and paste the first line here (it includes a version and date/time identifier); if you have the very latest everything should be fine.
Jon
OK I have
<?PHP //$Id: block_activity_modules.php,v 1.6 2005/03/02 19:22:20 defacer Exp $
which is probably an old version.
It has:-
// This is really NOT pretty, but let's do it simple for now...
global $modnamesused, $modnamesplural;
So I could do the fix mentioned but would prefer to get the full file. Any chance you could post it here. It's quite short no?
Ta
<?PHP //$Id: block_activity_modules.php,v 1.6 2005/03/02 19:22:20 defacer Exp $
which is probably an old version.
It has:-
// This is really NOT pretty, but let's do it simple for now...
global $modnamesused, $modnamesplural;
So I could do the fix mentioned but would prefer to get the full file. Any chance you could post it here. It's quite short no?
Ta