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Lost my topics and edit link - Help Please!

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Lost my topics and edit link - Help Please!

by Robert Wise - Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:02 AM

In one of the courses on the Moodle I manage, when I edited the top topic window (above Topic one), the information does not display completely. I can't go back and edit it now, because all the topics and the edit buttons are gone (editing is turned on).

How can I discover the value for "xxx" in http://ecc.pima.edu/moodle/course/editsection.php?id=xxx so I can fix my error?

Or is there another way? Help!

Re: Lost my topics and edit link - Help Please!

by Tom Murdock - Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 3:09 AM

If you haven't closed down your browser, can you hit the back button until that edit page appears again? It sounds like some html tags need to be closed. If you have access to phpMyAdmin, you could browse through the mdl_course_sections table to find the offending tag in the "summary" field.

hopeful,
Tom

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Re: Lost my topics and edit link - Help Please!

by Robert Wise - Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:02 AM

Thanks, Tom. I've got the database mod installed and was able to find the tag. It only took me an hour! wide eyes I deleted the contents and everything came back.

I was inserting code to include a quicktime movie in the box. Then I wanted to add a caption and got lazy - inserted it without going into the code. I won't do that again. blush

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Re: Lost my topics and edit link - Help Please!

by Tom Murdock - Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 4:16 AM

Sorry that it took a long time. With the database mod installed, you'll be able to jump in and make changes in a flash. Just be careful, once within the database a person can fumble on the keyboard and drop the database tables fairly easily... tongueout

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