Approval issue created: CONTRIB-9338

Thank you for this awesome contribution.
Having a limit on the number of allowed applicants (similar to Self Enrolment) will be greatly beneficial.

Thank you for this amazing plugin. Is there a chance that you will add email notifications so students get notified of the results?

Dr. Nellie - all notification channels (i.e. email, web, mobile, etc) are supported. Users set where to receive the application outcome notifications in the user preference. Find this option "Notifications for enrolment applications". The site administrator can force this setting under the notification settings.

Thank you for the clarifications to my question. I have another one. I upgraded to Moodle 4.4.2 and get the following error message: Stack trace:
line 240 of /enrol/gapply/lib.php: TypeError thrown
line 240 of /enrol/gapply/lib.php: call to explode()
line 50 of /enrol/editinstance_form.php: call to enrol_gapply_plugin->edit_instance_form()
line 217 of /lib/formslib.php: call to enrol_instance_edit_form->definition()
line 76 of /enrol/editinstance.php: call to moodleform->__construct()

I'm now getting a popup of an error message "DataTables warning: table id=gapplytable - Exception - Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string" after upgrading to 4.5

It sends notifications, but nothing is there. I don't have the previous approve, reject and so on. I can't stop the enrollment type because everyone gets suspended. I don't know what to do.

@Dr. Nellie Deutsch: I understand we're eager to see and use the new features that come with the upgrade, but it is generally advisable to also check if the third-party plugins support the new Moodle version before upgrading Moodle. Normally, it takes developers/maintainers some time to review the changes and to make their plugins compatible.

@Sokunthearith I understand. However, I noticed that you have listed the plugin as compatible with Moodle 4.5.

@Dr. Nellie Not true. What you said you had noticed is version 1.0.9, which was released 6 hours ago with M4.5 support. If you're still using 1.0.8, which supports up to 4.4, you may want to upgrade.

@Sokunthearith I did upgrade to version 1.0.9, but I'm still getting the same error message. Can you suggest a fix for this? Thank you.

@Dr. Nellie - I added a patch that should address your particular issue. Please upgrade your plugin again.

Thank you for fixing the plugin so quickly.

Couple of quick questions. We've been using this plugin for many years and are upgrading from 3.x to 4.5.

I don't see where to set global configuration for the plugin. (Manage enroll plugins page doesn't have a settings button for this plugin.) For example we want to disable attachments.

Also in previous versions it was possible to see all applications at once, without going to each course. Is this still possible? We have registrars that handle applications for a category of courses and they like to be able to see all courses at once to handle things like second choices if a first choice is full.

And to confirm, does it use the course welcome message to send to students when an enrollment is approved? This is also something we'd like to set globally.

We're still setting up our 4.5 environment for testing, so I apologize if some of these questions are naïve. I'm trying to estimate how much testing and configuration we'll need to do to get ready.

Thanks for any help.

@Michael: Are you sure this is the plugin you've been using? It doesn't like you were describing this one. This plugin has only been released for about one and a half years and has never supported Moodle versions older than 4.1.

To answer your questions,
1. Yes, it does have a settings page: yoursite.com/admin/settings.php?section=enrol_gapply_settings . However, the global settings do not cover disabling attachments. But it's a good idea; I might look into it in the next release.
2. No, it doesn't have (never had) a global report page. Also, the first and second choice options aren't available either. The outcomes only include Approve, Reject, (Delete), and Waitlist.
3. It sends out a generic outcome message to the applicants (e.g., your application for Course A has been approved, etc.).