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How to set fixed site url?

by Zonair Gillani - Monday, June 1, 2020, 12:18 PM

Hi,

I am working on moodle mobile app. I am trying to customize the app for my moodle site. Can someone guide me, how can I set welcome page to directly go for my site? Indirectly, how can I set the site url to a fixed url that it will go directly to username and password page for my site and don't ask about to enter site url?

I am using the following github repo:

https://github.com/moodlehq/moodlemobile

I think this is the latest version that is why I am using this repo and developing with PhoneGap.

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Noel De Martin - Tuesday, June 2, 2020, 5:36 PM

Hi there,

You can find the latest version here: https://github.com/moodlehq/moodleapp

We stopped using PhoneGap as well, we recommend using ionic cli instead: https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/ (keep in mind that the app is developed using Ionic 3).

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Zonair Gillani - Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 12:08 PM

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the response. I will try your provided repository.

But can you provide me a way to get the version of the moodle mobile app?
And please guide me how can I set the welcome page to directly go to the username and password page rather than asking me to fill the site url?

Thanks again.

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Zonair Gillani - Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 1:36 PM

Hi Martin,

1. Now I am using the repository: https://github.com/moodlehq/moodleapp
2. I have setup the environment using this documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Setting_up_your_development_environment_for_Moodle_Mobile_2

3. App is working fine:

4. For customization, I am using this documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_custom_apps

But the issue is that this pre-Fixed URL setting is not working:

Please guide me, how can I fixed the site url that the app will not ask me about the site url to enter, this should go directly to the login page?

Thank you.

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Johnny Sørensen - Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 9:33 PM

Hi Zonair,

All your changes to the app functionality should be made in the src folder.

For setting a static site url (and thereby going directly to the login screen) you have to edit the src\configconstants.ts file. More specificially you should enter you site url in:

static siteurl = '';

This is also the file where you can set the default language, site name (displayed inside the app) and other things. Basically this file contains all the same parameters as src\config.json.

PS. does anyone know what the purpose of config.json is, since changes here are not reflected, and since I managed to compile a perfectly working (except push notifications) customized app without touching src/config.json?

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Noel De Martin - Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 10:12 PM

> PS. does anyone know what the purpose of config.json is, since changes here are not reflected, and since I managed to compile a perfectly working (except push notifications) customized app without touching src/config.json?

The config.json file is the one you should be modifying, there is a gulp task that generates src/configconstants.ts reading this json file. If you place your modifications in the typescript file you risk losing them, because that file is not tracked in the repository and it can be overwritten if some script regenerates it.

You can regenerate it yourself by calling the gulp task named config, for example doing npx gulp.

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Javier Tejera - Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 4:23 PM

Hi Noel,

I have added the URL to static siteurl in src/configconstants.ts and it works fine. However, this is not a good practice as you mention, so I tried adding the URL to siteurl in config.json instead but it does not work. Am I adding the URL to the wrong place?

Thanks

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Noel De Martin - Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 7:15 PM

Make sure that you're running the gulp task again, to make sure you can call npx gulp. Also, make sure that you're not adding "siteurl" twice in the json, because it should already be there.

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Javier Tejera - Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 10:00 PM

Hi Noel,

Thanks for your reply. I got this error:


  [14:04:02] Starting 'default'...

[14:04:02] Starting 'lang'...

[14:04:02] Starting 'config'...

[14:04:02] 'config' errored after 380 ms

[13:57:09] SyntaxError: Unexpected token / in JSON at position 2301

    at JSON.parse ()

    at Stream. ([pathdodir]/gulp/task-build-config.js:62:41)

    at Stream.stream.write ([pathdodir]/node_modules/through/index.js:26:11)

    at DestroyableTransform.ondata ([pathdodir]/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:619:20)

    at DestroyableTransform.emit (events.js:311:20)

    at DestroyableTransform.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:505:15)

    at addChunk ([pathdodir]/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:291:12)

    at readableAddChunk ([pathdodir]/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:278:11)

    at DestroyableTransform.Readable.push ([pathdodir]/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_readable.js:245:10)

    at DestroyableTransform.Transform.push ([pathdodir]/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_transform.js:148:32)

[13:57:09] 'default' errored after 275 ms

[13:57:09] The following tasks did not complete: lang

[13:57:09] Did you forget to signal async completion?

(I've changed above the whole path to [pathdodir] to make the code cleaner)

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Re: How to set fixed site url?

by Zonair Gillani - Sunday, June 7, 2020, 3:31 PM

Thanks Johnny,

Thanks for your help......

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