error/moodle/sectionnotexist
I cant get anything more on this error. Moodle 3.7 I go to delete one of the unused topics and it says the topic doesnt exist.??
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(And it doesnt delete the topic either - and the Moodle docs are empty on this one)
First, backup your DB before anything suggested below!
3.7.0? or higher ... just released an update this week.
Can you make a backup of the course?
Hmmm ... might require access to DB for the Moodle.
mdl_course_sections table has
id bigint(10) No Primary NULL auto_increment
course bigint(10) No Indexed 0
section bigint(10) No None 0
name varchar(255) Yes None NULL
summary longtext Yes None NULL
summaryformat tinyint(2) No None 0
sequence longtext Yes None NULL
visible tinyint(1) No None 1
availability longtext Yes None NULL
timemodified bigint(10) No None 0
Query like:
select * from `mdl_course_sections` where `course` like "3"
where 3 above is your course ID.
has a visible column ... 1 means visible 0 means not visible.
Think I'd be cautious and remove the last row ... which would/should equate to the last section in a course. Then view via browser.
'SoS', Ken
Well, Dom ... guess what? I hold no degrees in Computer Science! And running a Moodle doesn't take that sort of degree. Have to put on different server admin hats from time to time. At first it's scary, but if one takes it slow (the suggestion made, for example, to remove one row in the found set of records) one gains ground.
Do you have access to phpMyAdmin? Many providers do offer that as a tool for their users. You could run the same query shown in a box in phpMyAdmin.
Come on Dom ... you are a teacher right? We teacher's should never stop learning ... even in areas where we have no degrees! Are we not asking students in our courses the same sort of thing every time they login to moodle ... learn something new?
However, after re-reading ... maybe what you want to do is simple set the number of topics that are visible in a course - not really delete them. Assuming those topics have no content in them ...
Turn on editing Go to course. Edit settings. Look for an option of the number of topics to display. Change and save.
If that's not it, turn on debugging. Try to do whatever you do to get the error and let's see if there isn't more info about the issue.
'SoS', Ken