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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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Itamar Tzadok (Lead maintainer)
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Firstly a big thank you for your incredible plugin (I've been using it for years, its so versatile it's amazing).
I upgraded to 3.3 without realising you hadn't been able to update the module - wondering whether you had any idea of the roadmap for the next update? If it's a while I might need to roll back.
Thanks again for all your amazing work!
I am happy to see that you are planning an update that will work in 3.3. It is an amazing module.
Do you have any update on the release time?
Can I use the current latest version in 3.1?
Thanks in advance.
Keep up the excellent work
Anyone know how to duplicate the course using LTI
After uprade to the new release 3.3.2 i got this error: Error reading from database
Debug info: Unknown column 'e.type' in 'field list'
SELECT e.id, e.dataid, e.state, e.timecreated, e.timemodified, e.userid, e.groupid, e.type , u.id AS uid ,u.picture,u.firstname,u.lastname,u.firstnamephonetic,u.lastnamephonetic,u.middlename,u.alternatename,u.imagealt,u.email,u.idnumber,u.username FROM modl_dataform_entries e JOIN modl_user u ON u.id = e.userid WHERE e.dataid = ? ORDER BY e.id ASC LIMIT 0, 30
[array (
0 => '4',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
×Stack trace:
• line 486 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
• line 1198 of \lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
• line 231 of \mod\dataform\classes\entry_manager.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
• line 142 of \mod\dataform\classes\entry_manager.php: call to mod_dataform_entry_manager->fetch_entries()
• line 332 of \mod\dataform\classes\pluginbase\dataformview.php: call to mod_dataform_entry_manager->set_content()
• line 315 of \mod\dataform\classes\pluginbase\dataformview.php: call to mod_dataform\pluginbase\dataformview->set_entries_content()
• line 466 of \mod\dataform\classes\dataform.php: call to mod_dataform\pluginbase\dataformview->display()
• line 71 of \mod\dataform\view.php: call to mod_dataform_dataform->display()
what can i do? please