Hi Chris,
I've done something like you mentioned. I've seen not great impact in the rest of the platform, the change is only local to the lesson module. And fortunately the field was already there, used only by the branch table. So the tweak was relatively small.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48057#p560565
Your comments are welcome!
Sergio
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