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Admin presets
Blocks ::: block_admin_presets
Maintained by 
Clément Prudhomme, 
Jordan KESRAOUI, 
Sylvain Revenu
Allow administrators to export the site settings to .xml presets, import and load other sites presets.
Latest release:
1810 sites
274 downloads
79 fans
Current versions available: 13
Important information: Pimenko and Moodle HQ work to integrate this plugin from Moodle 4.0 in the Moodle administration. The full set of features should be integrated in the coming months. If you have any comments, please join the discussion in the dedicated forum page.
With Admin Preset, you can easily export your Moodle site settings and configuration to other Moodle. This blocs is maintened by Pimenko.
Features:
- Export system settings to XML preset files
- Import presets files
- Preset preview and partial load
- Allows rollback of applied changes
- Option to autoexclude the sensitive data when exporting settings (editable sensitive settings list)
- Third parties plugins supported (as long as they use the standard admin_setting classes)
Note that:
- A few admin settings expect a file to be selected from Moodle file manager. These settings as not exported.
- The list of enabled/disabled plugins is not exported
Last release is compatible with Moodle 3.11 and fix an issue
*All settings selected are now well exported.
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Contributors
Clément Prudhomme (Lead maintainer)
Jordan KESRAOUI: Maintainer, developer
Sylvain Revenu: Maintainer, developer
David Monllaó: Original author
Minh Hanh NGUYEN: Moodle expert
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i am quite new in Moodle. I need to install a new theme (RemiUi of Edwiser), I wanted to keep the settings for the new theme. I went ahead and installed "Admin Presets" following your steps. Completed the installation in Moodle. I was able to see "add blocks / Admin Presets" on home -> www.mysite/moodle. I clicked on it (admin presets) and the page went completely white. Everything still works on Dashboard and courses, but when I click on home, this white screen shows up again. Is this normal? Can somebody please tell me how to save all the presets and activate does in the new theme. Thank you
I don't know RemiUi theme. This block works well with all themes. Perhaps there is a bug with RemiUi or an other plugins.
Can you try to active debug mode and check I you see error ?
You can active debug mode here : Site administration / Development / Debugging and select "developer" in debug messages
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?
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
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
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.
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 am running Moodle 3.1 on both servers.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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