Hello,
I'm sure that there is a documentation writen for this issue but I can't seem to find the right answer.
I have installed the Boost Union theme on my Moodle site, but I can't seem to find the option where the Top Navbar would show current users First and Last name credentials, only the profile picture is visible, but i would like to show users First and Last name with it.
Ive added a picture on what i want it to show, right now it only shows the profile picture
As well as information on how to add functions to a output>core_renderer.php to add new functionality into template files.Thank you for responding!
Chris
Boost Union is an awesome theme. It is so much more than just colors and styles. It changes the functionality of Moodle to benefit users and adds features and functionality that help aid in the process of delivering content and using Moodle. I am very happy for the work done to provide a template for creating a child theme. Boost Union is a true gem in the Moodle community.
Thank you for the hard work put into Boost Union by all the organizations.
Hi Ezzeddin,
Glad you found the page reference for enrol/index.php. Regarding the wording "Enrolment options", there doesnt appear to be any class or id assigned to that h2 tag so CSS probably wouldnt work. But you could edit the language pack to change the text. Crude but it might work for you.
Go to Site admin -> General -> Language -> Language customisation.
Select the language pack you wish to load. (in my case it was English(en))
Select all files (shown in attached image) and search for the text you wish to edit (in this case "Enrolment options").
Enter replacement text and save. You could just put a space in so that the text is removed.
Hope that works for you.
John
[lang=en] #page-site-index{background-image: url('insert english url');}[lang=en] #page-course-index{}Hi Ezzeddin,
I'm pretty sure it cant be done via CSS (i'm open to correction), but its sounds like it would need a database query to display only courses which have a specific language forced. Like only displaying courses you are enrolled in.
John
Hi Ezzeddin,
thank you again for the insights! I'll answer in three sections, since there are 3 different things to say.
1. There already is a bug issue regarding the permissions of the block region footer, so please feel free to also add new issue with describing your problem with steps to reproduce so the two issues can be linked and looked at together. We will also try to reproduce this in our testing infrastructure to gain insight in the reason for this.
https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues/472
2. Regarding the position of the footer in the case of an empty page, you seem to have spotted a bug that had already been fixed. We will look into this and hope to have it fixed again with the next release!
3. Regarding the layouts of the course listing page at /course/ and /course/index.php?categoryid=... , this is already being worked at at the moment. Please see also the comment here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=452129#p1837022. We are currently reviewing the PR that was handed in and hope to be able to finish it in a not so far future.
Regards
Wiebke
Hi Ezzeddin,
To make the footer region blocks visible to unauthorised users, you need to adjust the permissions. Here’s how:
1. Edit the Guest User Role: Go to Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles > Guest > Edit.
2. Search for viewregionfooterleft /-center /-right and set them to “Allow”.
This should make the footer visible to users who are not logged in.
Regards,
Sebastian
Hi,
This has been mentioned in the bug tracker, see When viewing a single section, the pull-down menu for sections shows only one section.
Jacques
Yes, thanks for pointing to that! It is a 4.4 thing and will be worked on.
Dear Carl,
the export is a great idea on how to add more functionality to the smart menu. Since we're always a bit short on dev and integration time, this would need a user story in a github issue (see template feature request) and would then have to be prioritised.
I didn't quite understand nb. 1 though, if you'd like to link away from a menu item directly from the first level you could just use the standard boost feature:
"Custom menu items" to be found here ...admin/settings.php?section=themesettings.
Regards!
Wiebke
Hallo Wiebke,
The use of custom items is how we are trying to fix it now, but it would be fantastic if this were just possible within the smart menu
This is what we want if possible
This is what i was looking for. Thx for the tip
Hi Wiebke. Thank you for the great thread and theme, i am still relatively new to boost union. I am trying to edit the frontpage of my site, i noticed i am able to rename "Available courses" to anything i want from with in the theme But i can't seem to either hide or change the position of the text "Available courses" maybe to a more center position. Please assist if you can.
Best Regards
Tsiko Kwinda (south africa)
Good day Wiebke
Thank you for your response. i hope i am not asking for too much, could you please break it down a bit for me or do you or anyone have some SCSS code to do this? the dev tools part just lost me as well.
Your assistance is highly appreciated.
Regards
Tsiko Kwinda
Hi Tsiko,
To center the "available course" text, try the following SCSS code:
text-align: center;
}
To hide it try
display: none;
Good day John
Thank you very much, the code worked.
Regards
Tsiko Kwinda
Hello All
When looking in the "Grades" view there is a sticky footer (fixed position) so when using the Messages draw 9right hand draw0 in this view the reply textbox and the send button are hidden by the sticky footer.
I have attached a screenshot.
Regards
Steve
Hi Steve,
This is a Moodle problem, and not a Boost Union problem. If you try it on https://sandbox.moodledemo.net, which uses only Boost, you will get the same result.
You should look for this problem in the Moodle tracker, and create a new issue if necessary.
Regards,
Jacques
Try this
.card-body {
background: yellowgreen;
}
Just search the correct CSS selector with F12 in your browser and then play with the CSS rules
Good morning,
I just installed moodle 4.4 with the boost union theme. I set the Display the category breadcrumbs in the course header to 'YES', it works but I would like the name of the course to also be displayed on this breadcrumb to appear like this category / course name
Is this possible and if so how to do it?
I thank you for any help you can give me.
Sincerely
Hi Clara Pouli. For temporary solution you can try what I did. Edit this file: your_moodle_folder/theme/boost_union/classes/boostnavbar.php
I think this way you will get the default breadcrumb behavior, what you get from the default Boost theme (category / course name). Of course you will need to repeat this if you update the theme and this case is not resolved. Probably there's some side effects, but currently my Moodle 4.4 is working fine with this fix. If you use LearnR, child theme of Boost Union, that theme is also fixed this way.
Hi Clara,
Boost Union is currently under review for 4.4, this will be worked on.
Best regards
Wiebke
Hi there,
I'm currently working on integrating your awesome Boost Union theme into my Moodle instance, but struggling with this greeting one sees after logging in. Is there any possiblity to disable this? Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Gregorius
core | moodle.php | core | welcomeback | Hi, {$a->firstname}! 👋 |
core | moodle.php | core | welcometosite | Welcome, {$a->firstname}! 👋 |
core | moodle.php | core | myhome | Dashboard |
Hi Alexander,
although I would think that these are the options that you might already have in mind I'd confirm these two approaches. At least I haven't heard of any other options in use in our Moodle in Higher education institutions bubble aka "Kreisen in denen wir verkehren":
Regards to HH from H!
Wiebke
Hello everyone,
we would also like to say a big thank you for the boost_union theme, which we think is absolutely fantastic.
We are currently revising our Moodle. We now want to integrate the "static pages" function more strongly, e.g. to integrate our imprint.
Unfortunately, the interpretation of our HTML code results in an undesirable behaviour. If "whitespaces" are included in the html code, additional line-breaks <br> seem to be added automatically, resulting in visually empty lines. This can be prevented by writing the HTML code of each paragraph <p> in one line. However, this makes the code VERY confusing. 
Code and result in browser dev mode. Red marked are the line breaks.
Code used. As to see with only one <br> per line.
If I insert the code with whitespaces, e.g. in a text field within a course, this problem does not arise.
Can someone explain to me whether this is the desired behaviour?
If so, why?
And above all, is it possible to use an html with wihtespaces for the static pages without creating additional line breaks? If so, how?
Hi Nils,
thank you for using Boost Union and sorry for taking so long! We've talked about this today, picked some of the code you provided and tested it on a testing stage (moodle 4.4.2, boost union v4.4-r1) with Atto and TinyMCE. The behaviour you described happens with Atto only, so I suggest, for the (probably not daily) editing of the static pages you use the TinyMCE.
Regards from the DEV team!
Wiebke
Hello Boost union team,
wonderful options and great work!
I need help with the menus,
Can the primary nav menu be shown as mobile / sandwich icon on all of the screens just beside or on the left of the logo and can the secondary nav menu be placed on the left hand side above the course menu.
This is exactly the function that worked in Moodle 3.2* with some of the custom menu plugins.
Thank you kindly for your help ! Dankeschon !
Hello Damir,
I am afraid we are not able to include your requirement into Boost Union. Though please note that we are currently refactoring the smart menu feature which already is included in Boost Union.
See also https://github.com/moodle-an-hochschulen/moodle-theme_boost_union/issues/440
Best regards
Wiebke
Dear all,
after Upgrading moodle 3.11 to moodle 4.3, the theme_boost_union was additionally installed. In Boost Theme all fa-icons are displayed well. If I change the theme to Boost_union, only one fontawesome icon is displayed well: fa-question. All other fa-icons using Boost Union are replaced by the same playholder icon, see Screenshot. After changing to theme_boost back, in Boost the fa-icons are displayed well again.
Is there any idea how get all fa-icons displayed in the Boost Union theme?
I appreciate all advices.
All the best,
Christiana
Moodle is run on a testserver:
Moodle 4.3.5
boost_union v4.3-r15 (boost_union v4.3-r14 same problem)
Firewall allows the server to access to github and moodle.org.
Fonts in the moodle lib:
…/moodle/lib/fonts# ls -l
total 960
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187208 Jun 19 10:48 fa-brands-400.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108028 Jun 19 10:48 fa-brands-400.woff2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63952 Jun 19 10:48 fa-regular-400.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24948 Jun 19 10:48 fa-regular-400.woff2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 394628 Jun 19 10:48 fa-solid-900.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150124 Jun 19 10:48 fa-solid-900.woff2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10172 Jun 19 10:48 fa-v4compatibility.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Jun 19 10:48 fa-v4compatibility.woff2
Hi Christiana,
I'm not entirely sure, but I seem to remember that we had similar problems with FontAwesome icons when we updated from 3.9 to 4.3.
The problems were gone when we completely uninstalled the Boost-Navigation Fumbling plugin (obsolete in 4.3 anyway). (https://moodle.org/plugins/local_boostnavigation)
regards,
Dietmar
Hi Damir,
we have moved the username to the header with a (really dirty!) CSS hack. I placed the name of the login info, which is actually in the footer, at the top right.
>> However, it would be better to integrate the name directly into the theme (moustache files). Has anyone already done this?
regards,
Dietmar
For adding the user name, I haven't tried this on Boost Union, but it works on Boost.
Site Admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within Head:
<script>
/* This code copies the user name from the footers login info into the nav bar */
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
const name_container = document.createElement('p');
name_container.id = 'nav-namecontainer';
name_container.innerText = document.querySelector('#page-footer .logininfo a').innerText;
document.querySelector('#usernavigation').insertBefore( name_container, document.querySelector('#usernavigation .usermenu-container') );
});
</script>Then add the following to the themes custom CSS:
/* CSS for additional HTML to add user name to nav bar */
#nav-namecontainer {
margin: auto;
@media ( width <960px ) { display: none; }
}
As noted before, this is a lot of real estate on the nav bar to use up. The CSS rule disables the name display when the browser viewport width is below 960px.
Thank you Bob, thank you Didi
I can confirm that on Boost union it looks exactly like it should.
Hello,
To avoid confusion with multiple threads of elements within the same post and given its size, I have agreed with Wiebke that this post be locked and a new one created, please see https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=461642. This post will remain so that you can reference it in the future.
Kind regards,
Gareth
Moderator