This forum is a lifesaver! I could not find the block as my home page is simple. Thank you CP!!

Clément Prudhomme, thanks for publishing this plugin.
It took me a bit of time to find out how I can activate this plugin and to find the comment in this forum.

Why is it a block? Why is it limited to Frontpage? Would it be possible to let this plugin add a menu to the admin section?

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this plugin. Great idea!

I am trying to backup my Moodle installation settings (the fastest way I found to move settings from Local env to QA server to Live server) but some settings doesn't get exported.

What I did:
1 - Install Generico
2 - Install Admin Preset
3 - Create a preset and select only the generico plugin
4 - Download all the yummy XML
5 - Change a generico template
6 - Download the XML preset again
7 - Compare both version
8 - See that the new Generico settings have not been exported

So are the presets re-generated everytime you download them? or presets are more like a snapshot of the current settings and do not change in time? If it is the later, does that mean you have to re-check all the boxes every time you want to export a specific set of settings?

Thank you for your help

Bonjour,
j'ai installé le plugin admin_presets (Moodle version 3.8, thème Adaptable). le plugin apparait comme installé (Administration>Plugins>Blocs>Présélections), mais je ne sais pas comment y accéder (je suis connectée en tant qu'administrateur).
Quand je souhaite ajouter un bloc (page d'accueil ou tableau de bord) aucun bloc de ce type n'apparait.
Quelle manipulation dois-je faire ?
Merci pour votre aide

Hi,
Like Bernhard Weichel, i don't really understand why it's a block. It should better be an Admin Tool, automatically added in administration menu (much simpler).
Being a block, why restrict it to the frontage (and NOT allowing it on the dashboard, or elsewhere) ? At least, you should make it clear where it can be added, because it's counter intuitive and complicate to add it.

Would it be possible to add a functionnality (like "Simulation") which would automatically show settings that would be changed if applying settings from the preset ? That would allow simpler review of (future) changes before applying them.

Thanks if you can improve these parts.

Hello everyone,

This plugin was initially developed in 2011 with the current logic :
- addition of an admin preset" block on the home page
- use of the block links for creations, imports, exports

It would indeed be simpler to have a link in Moodle's administration but this requires a revision of the plugin that we are not able to provide at the moment.
We could imagine this block on the dashboard but the gain compared to the home page remains low.

In short, we would like to improve a lot of things in this plugin but the developments being done on our own funds, we realize them when we have the capacity.

Best regards.

I was running a test server on my computer and wanted to use this to export my theme settings to the production server. However, Whenever I try to export anything, I make sure everything in Appearance is checked and I always get the message "No valid settings selected" This happens even if I leave all my admin settings selected. I tried exporting from my local machine and from my production machine and I do not get anywhere with that either.

I am running Moodle 3.1 on both servers.

Hi Ravi, thank your for your message.
We haven't been using Moodle 3.1 for a long time. There have been quite a few changes. Have you tried this version of the plugin? https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=12074

Hi, Thank you for adding a very nice plugin.

I tried to export theme settings that's shows during exporting but when I try to import it in other instance it doesn't appear! Can you please confirm the plugin support theme settings as well?

Hi Azamat,
I think we have a bug with theme settings import. We will try to look at this more closely with the next update. Thank you for your feedback.

Hi Azmat,
I think the last release of this plugin fix your problem.
The plugin limited the number of parameters that could be imported, we have corrected this. I let you confirm that everything is ok for you.
Regards

Hi there, great plugin!
What's confusing: is the full plugin incorporated in Moodle core now, so it isn't necessary to install it (Moodle 4.1)? I can't find reliable information about this.

Hello,
No, the plugin isn't complete because we haven't finalized the integration of the features that allow you to select the settings to be applied on import.
This meant that we had to create a tree for selecting settings and make it accessible. Things have moved on a little in the latest versions of Moodle, and as you can see here, the functionality is not yet integrated: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-72759

Hello!

I installed the plugin (Moodle 4.5) and no errors were displayed. However, I can't find it in the block selection.

Best regards, Friedhelm

Hello,
We have stopped support for the most recent versions of this plugin, but if it still works as expected, you should be able to add the block to your homepage, like: "http://mysite.com/?redirect=0"
Best regards,
Sylvain.