@David

First thing first, thank you very much for your work on this great block!
It does almost everything i need except for some minors exception that i would like to implement by myself.

For exemple, id like the first category showed (not the home as i don't display it) to be open by default when the block is first displayed on the page.
This category must stay «collapsible» like all the others.

Could you please point me out what would be,in your opinion, the simplest way to acheve something like this?

Again, thanks a lot!
Best regards,
Jay

Hi Jay,

I think, you can already achieve this in the settings (activate editing mode, then click on the settings icon of the block). Do not activate the "home" category, then it won't be displayed.

Best regards,
David

Me again!!! sourire
Are you planning on updating your nice block to moodle 2.6 any time soon?

Thx a lot!!

Hi, I was unable to set the settings of this block under the 'Where this block appears' sections. When I selected 'Any page', it doesnt appear on all pages, and instead all of my information within the block disappears! Please help.

@Slumin Ang: I just uploaded a new version of the block. But the problem you describe, is more a moodle core bug, that should be resolved in the latest version of Moodle 2.5 and 2.6. What Moodle version are you using?

Tried installing in 2.6 however errors on YUI. Will there be an updated version?

@Peter Jonker: I installed and tested the block on 2.6 and can not reproduce any YUI errors. Could you give more details. Maybe the problem is caused by another plugin?

Dear David,

Thanks for this lovely plugin. However I couldn't figure out one thing. I've added the simple navigation button and it shows every course under a category to everyone. I couldn't figure out how to list courses to students which are enrolled to that particular course. I want to see all courses as an admin but also want users to ONLY see the courses they are enrolled to.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Can

Hello David,
In your plug-in for the Moodle 2.2 version, I was able to crack the code so that it didn't create hyperlinks to categories, only for the courses.

I have been trying to do the same for the version for Moodle 2.5 and 2.6 but I don't know how to alter this bit in renderer.php:

// is it a category
if ($mytype == 'category') {
$myurl =$CFG->wwwroot.'/course/index.php?categoryid='.$myid;
//$myname = "";
$myclass_ul_open = '';
$myclass_li = 'type_category depth_'.$mydepth.''.$mycollapsed.' contains_branch'.$mystartclass;
$myclass_p = 'tree_item branch'.$myclass;
$myopentag = '

• ';
  $myclass_a = '';
  if ($myvisibility == 0) {
  $myclass_a = 'class="dimmed_text"';
  }
  else {
  $myclass_a = '';
  }
  
  The only thing I want is to display the categories names, but not hyperlinks as we only use the block to navigate to the courses.
  
  I would really appreciate it any advise.
  
  Thanks for sharing this block with the community

Hello again, David

Thank you for maintaining the module for the next versions of Moodle. I am installing it in Moodle 2.9 as we use it so that our admin and academic staff can navigate through the different courses and categories.
We don´t want that students or any authenticated users, except those in the global category of managers, can see the navigation block in the Default My Moodle or Frontpage.

In Moodle 2.6, I was able to remove that permission. However, I cannot see the option in Moodle 2.9,. How do I set up the block permissions so that only users who have certain global roles can see the block?

Thank you very much.
Mari Cruz

Hi Mari Cruz,

do you want to remove the capaility, that users can add the block to their "dashboard" page (former called my moodle)? On the frontpage: You want to add the block, but it should not be seen by certain users?
In order to achieve that, I think that you have to configure global roles accordingly (like manager or "authenticated user").

Kind regards,
David

i installed this plugin but i can't see block options and not only when install this plugin automatically desabled administrator....please help me....?

@mohammed jasim: the block needs some updating for recent moodle versions. this might be done soon, but there is no release date fixed and contract has still to be made...

If you have jquery, there's an easy way to get this work on newer moodle versions. In the block settings, "Display bullet point with standard Moodle-Theme icons" is selected, this seems to fix "automatically disabling administrator" i.e. user menu, mentioned above.

https://gist.github.com/savolai/dc6766f15322b8109a4204c63a03ecf2/revisions

window.onload = function(e) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('div.block_simple_nav li.type_category .tree_item').click(function() {
console.log(this);
if ($(this).parent().hasClass("collapsed")) {
$(this).parent().removeClass("collapsed")
} else {
$(this).parent().addClass("collapsed")
}
})
})
}

Hi, I uploaded a new version, that was already published on github. I hope that solves the problems. If you want to contribute, you could go there: https://github.com/dasistwas/moodle-block_simple_nav

Kind regards,
DAvid