oohoo - Tab display

Activities ::: mod_tab
Maintained by Patrick Thibaudeau, Nicolas Bretin
The tab display module allows you to setup your information in a tabbed format. This helps to clean up your course by combining several resources into Tabs.
Latest release:
567 sites
71 downloads
26 fans
Current versions available: 3

Tab Display is a resource module used to display course information such as notes, readings, biography etc, in a tab structure per chapter/module within a course.

Websites can also be embedded into the tabs. Using Moodle auto-linking, helps create links to other activities or resources.

New features:

  • A general description can be added above the tabs
  • PDF embedded functionality. If you put a link with a PDF file on the content of a tab (without any text around), the PDF file will be displayed in an iFrame

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Contributors

Patrick Thibaudeau (Lead maintainer)
Nicolas Bretin: Programmer
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  • P H
    Thu, 2 Feb 2012, 10:55 PM
    I have run into an irritating problem.

    When I get the log reports (http://www.MOODLESITE.com/course/report.php) , unlike other pages and activites (where I normally see the activity name - such as the forum name or the course name or the quiz name - in the "inforamtion" column) here I just see the tab number, e.g. 6.

    It's really important for the report to return the name and not the number of the tab.

    Thanks,

    P. H.
  • P H
    Mon, 6 Feb 2012, 6:52 PM
    Hello again,

    I have spotted another problem.

    When you set a tab display to be available from a certain date, even if you set it to be completely hidden before that date, the tab diplay name appears in the tab list (left-hand column).

    P. H.
  • Iroshini Ratnapala
    Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 12:40 AM
    This is a great plugin, Thanks. But I can't add a pdf link. When I link pdf file it shows the index page of the site. Can you suggest any solution?
  • Sarah Hartigan
    Wed, 20 June 2012, 8:59 AM
    Agreed, this is a great plugin but it will not allow me to embed links. Any external links that I have made do not show up...it just comes up with the URL in the middle of my text. Is there a plug in that allows external links within the tab display plug in? Is there a solution to this?
  • Chuck Labrie
    Wed, 4 July 2012, 2:03 AM
    I encountered the same issue and after some investigation, we discovered that it may be the site being linked to. Some sites are coded to not allow them to be embedded.
  • Just wondering . . .
    Mon, 10 Sept 2012, 9:48 AM
    I'm assuming since there is only a download for 2.1, that this does not work for 2.3? Or is there a more recent version?

    -Derek
  • H. Sattler
    Mon, 22 Oct 2012, 5:49 PM
    Download from Moodle-Server: Wrong version.php
    Download directly from github: works fine
  • Tawfeeq Jaafar
    Tue, 20 Nov 2012, 6:08 AM
    I really liked the Tabs module. So far, it's working perfectly with us.

    Is there a way to show some text description above the tabs? We want to add some introductory text about this section, and (possibly) add some instructions asking students to go through all tabs.

    We're currently testing it on Moodle 2.3.2.
  • Germán and Temudgin
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 7:29 AM
    Hi,
    The tab display plugin (downloaded today from Moolde plugins database) has a date of 2010112400 even though it should be the one reported by the plugin updater:
    There is a new version 2012101700 available!

    When I upgraded Moodle 2.3 to a newer build, this module refused to downgrade.

    I will appreciate your help.
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 11:22 PM
    Forgot to upload the new version. It is now uploaded.
  • Nyree Williams
    Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 4:35 PM
    it won't install - Moodle 2.3
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Tue, 27 Nov 2012, 9:52 PM
    Hi Nyree,

    I just installed it on Moodle 2.3.3 with no issues. If using linux, check your permissions on the folder. I have tested and is running on all 2.x versions including Moodle 2.4
  • Nyree Williams
    Wed, 28 Nov 2012, 12:15 AM
    Salut Patrick
    I'm still getting this error: on Moodle 2.3.3+ (Build: 20121123)

    Plugin "block/tab" is defective or outdated, can not continue, sorry.

    Debug info: Missing main block class file.
    Error code: detectedbrokenplugin
    Stack trace:

    line 723 of /lib/upgradelib.php: plugin_defective_exception thrown
    line 360 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
    line 1524 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
    line 329 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
  • Patrick Thibaudeau
    Wed, 28 Nov 2012, 1:02 AM
    Hi Nyree

    Innocent mistake. Has happened to me before. The tab display is not a block. It's an activity module and therefore must be installed in the mod folder and not the blocks folder.
  • Nyree Williams
    Thu, 29 Nov 2012, 12:21 PM
    OK thanks Patrick, now installed in Mod folder and working (but the README file needs updating)!

    Installation
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    1. Rename the folder to 'tab'
    2. Copy the folder tab to moodle/blocks
    3. Install the plugin

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