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List of discussions. Showing 100 of 23446 discussions
Status	Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies	Actions
	What version of Universal Office Converter (unoconv) does Moodle support? Locked	Paul Lindgreen 2 Mar 2020	Heather P 16 Oct 2020	6
	What updates the timemodified field in the mdl_course table? Locked	Lea Cohen 15 Sept 2019	Lea Cohen 16 Sept 2019	3
	What type of plugin must I create for this? Locked	Evans Thomas 1 Aug 2010	Tim Hunt 11 Oct 2010	4
	What to modify - Stupid Newbie Question Locked	Howard Miller 22 Apr 2003	Martin Dougiamas 22 Apr 2003	1
	What to do about weblib methods with lots of arguments Locked	Tim Hunt 19 June 2009	Howard Miller 24 June 2009	19
	What to do about certain design decisions? Locked	Tim Hunt 15 Dec 2012	Tim Hunt 15 Dec 2012	0
	What the hell is a course profile? Locked	Ralf Hilgenstock 22 Feb 2011	Mary Cooch 23 Feb 2011	7
	What skills does a developer need to tweak and develop Moodle? Locked	Robbie C 23 Nov 2006	Makalo Motsamai 28 Nov 2006	4
	What should I call this block? Locked	Mike Worth 22 May 2009	Red Morris 22 May 2009	1
	What should deprecated function be replaced by ? Locked	Valery Fremaux 13 Oct 2007	Valery Fremaux 18 Oct 2007	7
	What should be the last byte of a PHP file? Locked	David Mudrák 16 Mar 2008	Iñaki Arenaza 17 Mar 2008	11
	what should be done with files in Folder resource Locked	koen roggemans 26 Aug 2011	Joshua Holden 10 June 2013	5
	What should a transcript module have in it? Locked	J m 30 Dec 2011	Matt Bury 29 Mar 2012	6
	What rights do non-editing teachers have? Locked	Gustav W Delius 24 Aug 2004	Mary Cooch 22 Dec 2016	8
	What port does git:// use? Locked	Mike Worth 13 May 2009	Mike Worth 28 May 2009	32
	What plugin type modifies every page? Locked	Miles Fletcher 23 Aug 2016	Richard Oelmann 24 Aug 2016	11
	what php file do the emails get sent from? Locked	van trinh 13 Mar 2014	Matt Bury 14 Mar 2014	3
	What performance upgrades went in 1.8.3/4? Locked	Howard Miller 26 Feb 2008	Tim Hunt 5 Mar 2008	4
	What options do I have to get a user (student) related all files programatically? Locked	Harry Lu 5 June 2012	Harry Lu 5 June 2012	0
	What on earth is an 'optigroup'?? Locked	Howard Miller 6 Aug 2013	Howard Miller 7 Aug 2013	3
	What on earth is /mod/resource/type/file/externserverfile.php?? Locked	Howard Miller 14 July 2011	Howard Miller 14 July 2011	0
	What on earth are restricted users? Locked	Tim Hunt 12 Aug 2006	Samuli Karevaara 31 Mar 2008	8
	What module should I use for course surveys Locked	David Ekdahl 4 Nov 2011	Colin Fraser 8 Nov 2011	5
	What makes a block incompatible? Locked	Steven Williams 14 Feb 2009	Steven Williams 18 Feb 2009	4
	What Javascript is used when adding a new event in calendar (3.5) Locked	Eva E 28 Nov 2018	Eva E 28 Nov 2018	0
	What is VcsService in the tracker? Locked	Joseph Rézeau 23 Aug 2010	Joseph Rézeau 24 Aug 2010	2
	What is this stuff in the code after an update?? Locked	W Page 17 Aug 2004	W Page 17 Aug 2004	2
	What is the variable for the student's enrollment date in a course? Locked	Todd Anderson 25 Aug 2005	Todd Anderson 25 Aug 2005	0
	what is the use core_component.php file in moodledata Locked	Jerin das 12 Jan 2022	Jerin das 12 Jan 2022	0
	what is the tags file for Locked	Gustav W Delius 10 Aug 2004	Gustav W Delius 10 Aug 2004	2
	What is the structure of a Moodle site? Locked	Tim Hunt 5 Feb 2009	Mark Drechsler 12 Apr 2011	36
	what is the steps to learn web service in moodle (rest) Locked	Abhishek Pawar 22 May 2017	Abhishek Pawar 24 May 2017	3
	what is the Set type for phone field? Locked	Amal k 26 Jan 2016	Marcus Green 26 Jan 2016	2
	What is the right way of getting all course users ? Locked	Nicolas Dunand 25 June 2007	Nicolas Dunand 28 June 2007	9
	What is the right version of Moodle to work with? Locked	hajar zankadi 2 May 2019	hajar zankadi 2 May 2019	2
	What is the recommended way for posting simple bugfixes? Locked	Pavel Krejci 8 June 2006	William Mudge 9 June 2006	5
	What is the reality of video formats supported by (LMS+Browser+Hardware) ? Locked	vouty - 1 Oct 2013	vouty - 2 Oct 2013	2
	What is the purpose of the "lib.php" file??? Locked	W Page 23 July 2004	W Page 23 July 2004	2
	What is the purpose of the "contextid" field in the "role_capabilities" table? Locked	Денис Вережников 24 Nov 2022	Davo Smith 25 Nov 2022	1
	What is the purpose of the .trash folder?	Herwins Noe 19 July 2023	Leon Stringer 19 July 2023	1
	What is the purpose of '$('.h1').hide();'? - M2.9dev. Locked	Gareth J Barnard 11 Apr 2015	Gareth J Barnard 11 Apr 2015	0
	What is the MySQL query to add/remove a course for a user? Locked	dirty slit 3 Apr 2010	Nour Omran 5 Apr 2010	2
	What is the module field, in the prefix_course_modules table? Locked	Bobby White 28 July 2016	Mike Churchward 28 July 2016	1
	what is the meaning of sequence in section Locked	Eucliwood Hellsythe 25 June 2020	David Mudrák 25 June 2020	1
	What is the difference between module id and course module id Locked	Dulitha Rajapaksha 6 May 2021	Davo Smith 6 May 2021	2
	What is the difference between lib.php and local.php ? Locked	Di Juwel 18 Feb 2016	Eric Merrill 19 Feb 2016	2
	What is the current position with the HTML editor? Locked	Tim Hunt 29 July 2007	charles Requena Palomino 17 Apr 2010	93
	What is the cron task responsible for the appraisal notification? Locked	Khan Solo 23 Oct 2018	Khan Solo 23 Oct 2018	0
	What is the course_display table for? Locked	Lucia Siochi 16 Nov 2004	Alejandro Michavila Pallarés 24 Sept 2010	6
	What is the correct way of sending a mail with an attachment to user in Moodle 2.0 ? Locked	Jean-Michel Védrine 22 June 2011	Jonas Asa. 19 Sept 2011	3
	What is the best way to upload the same file to multiple Moodle databases at once?	orion swartzlander 22 May 2023	orion swartzlander 24 May 2023	5
	What is the best way to prevent one filter running for output from one plugin? Locked	Tim Hunt 4 June 2015	sam marshall 11 June 2015	5
	What is the best way to package course data with a plugin? (3.2.1) Locked	Yael Namen 14 Mar 2017	Mike Churchward 16 Mar 2017	5
	what is the best way to custom page in moodle? Locked	Muhammad Rauuf 13 Mar 2019	Muhammad Rauuf 13 Mar 2019	0
	What is the best way to change editor? Locked	Mauno Korpelainen 28 Sept 2007	Mauno Korpelainen 28 Sept 2007	0
	What is the "backend" structure of Moodle? DETAILS PLEASE Locked	Matt Scofield 14 June 2006	Martín Langhoff 14 June 2006	3
	What is the 'right' way to output a admin_setting_confightmleditor value? Locked	Tim Hunt 24 Sept 2019	David Mudrák 24 Sept 2019	1
	What is technique to POST a user FORM to Moodle FORM?? Locked	Paul Caliban 20 Dec 2012	Paul Caliban 21 Dec 2012	7
	What is SITEID in moodle? Locked	Syed Ali 4 Oct 2017	Davo Smith 4 Oct 2017	3
	What is RequireJS doing? Locked	Justin Hunt 15 June 2015	Damyon Wiese 18 Dec 2015	15
	What is report/view.php for? Locked	Howard Miller 27 July 2022	Howard Miller 30 July 2022	3
	What is proper way to add a link to navigation [Administration block -developer] Locked	Kristina Ban 11 Sept 2015	Michael Aherne 14 Sept 2015	2
	What is permitted for when using $mform->addelement Locked	AL Rachels 5 Oct 2016	AL Rachels 5 Oct 2016	0
	What is MoodleRooms? Locked	Pinki Naskar 30 Nov 2012	Darko Miletić 2 Dec 2012	11
	what is MoodleID ? Locked	joey chim 6 June 2005	joey chim 6 June 2005	0
	What is moodle's full stack & what is your favorite stack to work with? Locked	Stuart Lamour 5 July 2012	Marcus Green 24 July 2012	4
	What is it with this new Moodle 1.6 charset? Locked	Jānis Kampars 23 June 2006	Jānis Kampars 23 June 2006	2
	What Is Function of These Files? Locked	果兵夏 21 Dec 2008	果兵夏 21 Dec 2008	2
	What is different in Moodle 2.3.1+ Locked	Roman Gelembiuk 19 Nov 2012	Roman Gelembiuk 20 Nov 2012	2
	What is code to define resource types? Locked	Chardelle Busch 11 Sept 2004	Chardelle Busch 11 Sept 2004	2
	What is best practise for variables to persist only across a page request? Locked	Alex Little 15 Aug 2006	Alex Little 15 Aug 2006	6
	What is best practice for session cache performance in ajax calls? Locked	Brendan Heywood 24 Feb 2016	Brendan Heywood 24 Feb 2016	0
	what is a SQL Query for Most active Course on the Site Locked	D patel 14 Feb 2018	D patel 14 Feb 2018	0
	What is a "subwiki"? Locked	Joseph Rézeau 6 Sept 2014	dawn alderson 9 Sept 2014	6
	What is $cm? Locked	Michael Cohn 21 June 2011	Rajendra Kumar 21 June 2011	2
	What is /local/externserverfile.php ?? Locked	Howard Miller 16 July 2013	Howard Miller 17 July 2013	5
	What is {!} for in files/renderer.php? Locked	David Scotson 6 Feb 2013	David Scotson 25 Feb 2013	3
	What is 'Moodle Stash' and is it supposed to do something... Locked	Howard Miller 14 Sept 2012	Dan Poltawski 18 Sept 2012	6
	What is File(/proc/loadavg) is not within the allowed path Locked	Anil Sharma 2 Dec 2007	David Mudrák 28 Jan 2010	3
	what is add_to_log in moodle? Locked	Amal k 2 Feb 2016	Mike Churchward 2 Feb 2016	4
	What if I need a new activity? (a sociogram to be more accurat) Locked	Odin Nøsen 30 Nov 2010	Davo Smith 30 Nov 2010	1
	What i must use? Moodle API web services or quering directally to database? Locked	Alejandro Molina 31 July 2018	Mark Johnson 2 Aug 2018	3
	What happens when a user is deleted? Locked	Paul Ritchings 16 July 2009	Robert Brenstein 20 July 2009	10
	What happens when a user installs or upgrades your plugin Locked	Luis Salazar Jurado 8 Nov 2008	Tim Hunt 10 Nov 2008	1
	what happens when a user enrols a course Locked	ahmet yildirim 27 Nov 2006	ned moltoya 6 Dec 2006	5
	What happens if we change the loglifetime setting? Locked	Diane Soini 4 June 2019	Benjamin Ellis 1 Sept 2020	8
	what happens after paypal registration? Locked	surbhi nandrajog 9 Dec 2005	surbhi nandrajog 9 Dec 2005	0
	What happened to MyFiles block ? Locked	Anil Sharma 3 Jan 2006	Anil Sharma 10 Jan 2006	10
	What happened to function update_user_in_db ? Locked	Brent Eaton 4 June 2005	F H 29 June 2005	3
	What governs how times & dates are shown? Locked	Jussi Hannunen 17 Nov 2005	koen roggemans 17 Nov 2005	1
	What gives with Wiki? Locked	Mark Pearson 25 July 2007	Gonzalo Serrano 23 Aug 2007	11
	What funtions have i to edit to show categories in my/index.php? Locked	Jesus Francisco Sanchez Franco 11 June 2013	Jesus Francisco Sanchez Franco 1 July 2013	3
	What function will put grade items into a category? Locked	Mike Worth 8 Jan 2009	Mike Worth 8 Jan 2009	1
	What function processes CSS pix:theme to image URLs? Locked	Dave Balch 1 Oct 2018	Dave Balch 1 Oct 2018	1
	What file(s) are used to save content to moodle site? Locked	Christopher Renshaw 15 Aug 2021	Christopher Renshaw 15 Aug 2021	0
	What exactly does "Support will end by xxx" mean? Locked	Thomas Robb 15 Sept 2011	Bob Puffer 15 Sept 2011	3
	What events we need to trigger when changing a forum date? Locked	Jose Pablo Pedrosa Dantas 16 Nov 2022	Jose Pablo Pedrosa Dantas 16 Nov 2022	0
	What event fires when a category is selected in the question bank screen? Locked	Lea Cohen 6 Nov 2019	Lea Cohen 28 Nov 2019	3
	What Elearning features can be added to moodle module to make module more interactive,user ... Locked	vaibhav shukla 3 June 2014	Marcus Green 5 June 2014	7
	What drives MOODLE Core Release Acceptance Criteria and what does the stable branch means?	John Smith 22 Nov 2023	Marcus Green 24 Nov 2023	5