I have just noticed, that the 'Use Course Groups' function within the Dialogue activity, doesn't appear to be working, in that I have that ticked that box, but students can still see and contact students in groups they are not in. The relevant permissions haven't been changed (e.g. the student is NOT set to viewanygroup). I am using version 3.9.1 of the plugin on Moodle 3.10.7

Has anyone else spotted this, or I am doing something wrong?

This is one of our university's most used activities, definitely our most used plugin. We love it! With the 3.9 version also came the option to start a single conversation with more than one person - which is great! You should add that to the description, I think!

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We've been happily using this plugin for some time now. There's recently been an update on our 3.9 server that's disabled this plugin for us, because Authenticated users are no longer able to use the User search field to find the person they want to message because Moodle considers that 'viewing course participants' which Authenticated users aren't allowed to do across the site. We use this plugin so our students can contact their Ecoaches and have discussions that persist even when the student switches between coaches.
I don't know if there's any way that this can be fixed in an updated version of the Dialogue plugin (not sure if there's still work being done on this plugin) but we would greatly appreciate it. There's currently no alternative for us as the messaging system doesn't offer what we need.

Something that I noticed (well a client noticed), is if a user starts a draft message which they then save, if they then come back and edit that draft and send it. The order that it appears in the list of communications is not based on the date it was sent, but appears to be based on the date that the draft was started. The significance in this case, was the tutor receiving the message, couldn't find it, as it appeared on page 3 of the list of messages, as other students had been conversing with them between the draft being opened, and it being sent. Assuming that I have correctly deduced the cause of this behaviour, could the order that the items appear be changed to be based on the 'sent' date rather than the date the draft was started.

@Dave - best place to report issues is the issues tracker - make sure you include information about the Moodle version and the version of Dialogue you have installed. - thanks.

Is it possible for admin/teacher/manager to delete a message? One of my students posted the same post 3 times and wants two of them deleted. He can't do it so he asked if I could, but I can't seem to be able to do it. I didn't find anything in permission. Thank you for your help.

@Dr. Nellie - it doesn't look like that's something supported at this stage (which did surprise me when I went to look at it myself) - seems like something that we probably should add at least for admins at some point. Feel free to reach out privately if you would like to fund improvements to the plugin.

I have reported this via github, but I notice that in Moodle 4.1 this activity is showing the Description text twice.

Hello dear team, I am having this message error when I click to select the user in order to start a conversation
Descrição do erro:

Campo "usecoursegroups" não existe na tabela "dialogue"
Arquivo: /lib/dml/moodle_database.php
Linha: 680
Error code: ddlfieldnotexist
* line 680 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_exception thrown
* line 1983 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->where_clause()
* line 105 of /mod/dialogue/classes/external/search_users.php: call to moodle_database->record_exists()
* line 261 of /lib/externallib.php: call to mod_dialogue\external\search_users::execute()
* line 81 of /lib/ajax/service.php: call to external_api::call_external_function()

Error code: ddlfieldnotexist
* line 680 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_exception thrown
* line 1983 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->where_clause()
* line 105 of /mod/dialogue/classes/external/search_users.php: call to moodle_database->record_exists()
* line 261 of /lib/externallib.php: call to mod_dialogue\external\search_users::execute()
* line 81 of /lib/ajax/service.php: call to external_api::call_external_function()

Can anyone help me to understand what I need to do in order to solve this problem on the db?

Thanks in advance

Hello !
I'm having an issue : users with student role aren't allowed to see th users list. They get a "nopermission" error, even if i thought everything is allowed for them in the permissions.
Moodle 4.0.1
dialogue 4.2

Thanks in advance

Hi Dan,
First of all: Let me thank you for this really useful plugin which we use a lot in our classes.
I'd like to bring the following issue to your attention: Since some time - probably after upgrading to Moodle 4.2 - we face an issue with all the editing fields in Dialogue , when using the Atto-Editor: The Atto-buttons do not show any icon. There is just a small square as a placeholder for an image, like when an image cannot be found. This is not depending on the browser and it doesn't happen with any editing field other than "Dialogue". Any help wil be appreciated.

@Christian - great to hear you find it useful - please report any issues to the github issues tracker - thanks!

The same appears in 4.3. I guess you no longer support the plugin.

@Doc, if you at the github repo you would see the last update there was 2 months ago. All the latest versions of the plugins I support will be in github. Yes it takes time for me to update the version in the plugins db but if that's a problem for you, you may want to look for alternatives to suit your needs.

Hi! I'm trying the plugin on Moodle 4.0 and I have issues with sending pdfs to recipients. When they try to open the file they just land on their Dashboard page. Anyone can help?