re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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In 1.7 the various site configuration parameters which used to be grouped under Administration / Configuration have now been scattered under various groupings. It would be nice to have a correspondence table showing location in pre 1.7 versions and location in 1.7.
For instance I do not know where the following has been re-located:
Filters
Cache Controls
    Text cache lifetime
    Filter uploaded files
    Filter match once per page
    Filter match once per text
    Filter all strings    

Thanks,
Joseph
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Got it! Filters Cache controls have been moved under Administration / Appearance / Filter settings.
This is like playing at hide and seek.surprise
Joseph
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Tim Hunt -
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If you were feeling helpful, you could start a table like the one you describe on moodledocs.

Of, if you were feeling clever, you might be able to generate one automatically with a perl script, and the brefore and after admin source code.
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi Tim,
I guess it will be option A for me (being helpful), since I have no Perl scripting skills.
Joseph
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Don't worry, Option B is pretty much impossible because of the radical change in how they are defined. smile

We can move these menus around easily so if anyone has good ideas about improving the admin menu organisation we're interested!

Note that MDL-6687 will help!
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Here we go... If Tim or Martin can suggest the right place in the MoodleDocs Wiki (or open a new page for me) I will upload it there so it can be amended, enriched, etc.

Joseph
moodle 1.6 Administration

Correspondence table for
moodle 1.7 Site Administration (block)

Configuration

Configuration

Variables

 

Interface

 
Language settings (lang... locale) Language Language settings
Moodle docs (docroot, doctonewwindow) Appearance Moodle Docs
timezone... country Location Location settings
framename Server HTTP
Themes (themelist... tabselectedtofront) Appearance Themes

Security

 
displayloginfailures... notifyloginthreshold Security Notifications
protectusernames Security Site policies
secureforms, loginhttps Security HTTP security
antivirus (runclamonupload... clamfailureonupload) Security Anti-Virus

Operating system

 
gdversion, zip, unzip, pathtodu Server System Paths
dbsessions... sessioncookiepath Server Session Handling
slasharguments... proxyport Server HTTP

Maintenance

Server Cleanup

Mail

Server Email

User

 
sitepolicy, fullnamedisplay, extendedusernamechars Security Site policies
autologinguests, hiddenuserfields Users Permissions User policies

Permissions

 
showsiteparticipantslist, teacherassignteachers, allowunenroll, allusersaresitestudents, deprecated
forcelogin, forceloginforprofiles, opentogoogle, maxbytes, messaging, etc. Security Site policies
defaultallowedmodules, restrictmodulesfor, defaultallowedmodules

Security Module security

Course requests

Courses Course request

requestedteachername, requestedteachersname, requestedstudentname, requestedstudentsname deprecated

Miscellaneous

 
maxeditingtime Security Site policies
debug

Server Debugging

enablerssfeeds Server RSS
mymoodleredirect

Appearance My Moodle

bloglevel Security Site policies

Statistics

Server Statistics

Site Settings

Appearance Front Page

Themes

Appearance Themes

Language

Language

Modules

Modules Activities

Blocks

Modules Blocks

Filters

Modules Filters

Backup

Courses Backups

Editor settings

Appearance HTML Editor

Calendar

Appearance Calendar

Maintenance mode

Server Maintenance mode

Users

 

Authentification

Users Authentication

Edit user accounts

Users Accounts

Add a new user Users Accounts Add a new user

Courses

 
Manage courses

Courses Add/edit courses

Enrolment Plugins Courses Enrolments
Enrol students ???
Assign teachers, Assign creators, Assign admins deprecated -> see ROLES

Miscellaneous

 
site files Server Site Files
Sticky blocks Miscellaneous Sticky blocks
Reports Reports
Environment Server Environment
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Helen Foster -
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Hi Joseph,

As mentioned in MoodleDocs: Guidelines for contributors, you're welcome to create a new page in Moodle Docs yourself by typing the name of the new page between double brackets New page name. Alternatively you could simply make up a URI containing the new page name e.g. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Administration_changes.
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Chris Collman -
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Hi,

Helen created a page.  I need to perfect my wiki table building skills and will give it a shot.  I will try to use the content of Joseph's table.  Attempted to do a view source and then a copy-paste to MoodleDocs.  It is too hard to make changes (find things).  I will try to put in a table like we used in Activity Locking. 

I am trying to be helpful, take no responsibility for content, spelling and other errors I make in translation smile   Here is the link I am trying things on the talk page so the article page is blank until I or somebody gets it right.   http://docs.moodle.org/en/Talk:Administration_changes

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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi Chris,
You should have contacted me to find out whether I was willing to commit my table to the Wiki. Actually I did not use Helen's page but created a new one (see my previous post).
Maybe Helen could delete the Administration_changes page now in order to avoid duplication?
Joseph
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Helen Foster -
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Oh, sorry for causing confusion. blush I've moved Chris's talk page to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Talk:Location_of_admin_settings_in_1.7 in case there is anything which should be transferred to http://docs.moodle.org/en/Location_of_admin_settings_in_1.7.
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by Joseph Rézeau -
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That's OK, Helen. Just a case of "too may cooks...".wink
Joseph
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Re: re-location of site config parameters in 1.7

by N Hansen -
Yes, I had a hard time finding the setting to use blocks on module pages. Finally found it under a not at all obvious or logical category.

Perhaps a show all settings options on one page like they were before would be a useful way to find them.