Moodle plugins directory: Dataform | Moodle.org
Dataform
Activities ::: mod_dataform
Maintained by 
Itamar Tzadok
Part of set Dataform.
The Dataform module allows the course manager to design and construct an entry form from various input elements (text and rich text fields, urls, files, pictures, etc.) in a flexible layout. Users can then add information records to a collection, which can be viewed in various ways and searched for particular items.
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The dataform module is a major enhancement of the standard Database activity module and is meant to offer all the functionality offered by the Database module and much more in a more flexible way.
The module allows the course manager to design and construct an entry form from various input elements (text and rich text fields, urls, files, pictures, etc.) in a flexible layout. Users can then add information records to a collection, which can be viewed in various ways and searched for particular items.
The dataform features include (among other things):
- A multiple views system - allows the instructor to design several different views of the entries in a datform activity. Each view can show a designated subset of the entries in a designated layout.
- Enhanced template tags - A new template tags system allows for exposing many more bits of information and makes it easy to add designated patterns in new field and view types.
- Enhanced entry actions - Bulk edit, duplicate, delete, approve etc. Inline editing. Form editing options such as required fields (via Moodle forms).
- New packaging system - based on Moodle backup/restore and allows for packaing a dataform instance and restoring into an existing instance.
- Enhanced filtering system - allows the instructor to define different filters each of which can determine sort (including nested sort) and search options (various search criteria). Filters can be fixed to particular views or applied on the file from the activity main page (if included in the view template).
New view/field types include (among others):
- Tabular view - a view type which allows for displaying the entries in a table. The design of the entries table has been simplified to drawing the desired table with optional header row and an entry row in the moodle editor.
- Nanogong field - a field type for adding audio content to an entry via the nanogong applet.
- Calculated field - a field type which can display a result of a simple calculation on one or two number fields in the entry.
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I was hoping you could help me out. I'm working on a project and it's critically important that I get the 'Role' option to work in notifications. I have installed your latest version 3.3.2 on Moodle v.3.3.6+ and I am trying get the 'role' option in the notification rules to work. After assigning a user to the Role Notification Block, I cannot seem to get it to work. It works fine for 'Admin', 'Support Contact', and 'Author', but not 'Role'. Any suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Warning: Parameter 1 to dataformfield_text_renderer::display_edit() expected to be a reference, value given in /data/www/elan-learning.nl/public_html/mod/dataform/classes/pluginbase/entriesform.php on line 68
To resolve this, please change line 68 in entriesform.php from:
all_user_func_array($func, array_merge(array($mform), $params));
to:
call_user_func_array($func, array_merge(array(&$mform), $params));
Great Plugin. I haven't seen the version for moodle 3.1.
So I want to know if this plugin works under moodle 3.1 LTS.
Best regard.
Your plugin is extremely useful to us, but we're planning to upgrade to 3.5 in the coming months. Will there be a compatible version ?
Cheers,
Sébastien
we are currently using the database activity for student medical logbooks. Currently there are 4 sections that are all visible. But they only fill out one depending on what they have just seen. Is it possible to to use one answer to trigger the showing of the next part of the logbook. So they choose. O&G labour and then up pops a O&G labour section. Students comments are they are sick of scrolling through all sections when they only need to fill out one. Cheers Scott
Will you be developing mobile app compatibility for this plugin?
Thanks
-Gordon
Do you any plans about updating this plugin to moodle 3.5 (and maybe even 3.6)? I really could use this plugin but we're running moodle 3.5 so I'm a bit hesitant to install it.
I have the same question... about the compatibility of Dataform with Moodle 3.5 & 3.6...