Sharedresources Library

Repositories ::: repository_sharedresources
Maintained by Valery Fremaux
A repository view of sharedresources file pool so they can be used in other context calling for files inclusion.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 1

This component completes the sharedresource ensemble by allowing using sharedresource
in other contexts than simple publishing sharedresource entries with sharedresource
module activities.

It provides a standard Repository upon the sharedresource pool so they can be browed
from a file_picker or a file browser GUI. When using file pickers or file browsers,
the sharedresource record will be duplicated and relocalized to the calling context
(virtual copy), unless the caller has an explicit aliasing strategy.

Status of developement :
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This repository is yet in an intermediary state. We would like files to be presented
using metadata classification based browsing and not just file storage. Shared resources
are actually not organised into folder in the storage, but as flat folder (no phyisical
hierarchy) as organisatio hierarchy is usually provided by metadata (typical :
Node 9 : Classification in LOM model). There should be some provision to get one day
the Library search engine integrated in the repo so files could be searched here
agains same sorting criteria than in the Library front end.

Contributors

Valery Fremaux (Lead maintainer)
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  • MD shot of me from his iphone4
    Tue, 4 June 2013, 11:54 AM
    Thanks for taking the time to share this with the community. This installed and ran fine.
  • Michael Milette
    Sat, 7 Dec 2013, 4:31 AM
    Hi Valery, I just installed this plugin in Moodle 2.6. When I go to edit a course, I get the following error message:

    get_course_context() is deprecated, please use $context->get_course_context(true) instead.•line 4387 of /lib/deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
    * line 191 of /repository/sharedresources/lib.php: call to get_course_context()
    * : : : : :

    The solution is to make the following change on line 191 of /repository/sharedresources/lib.php

    Was:

    return get_string('sharedresources', 'repository_sharedresources') . format_string($course->shortname, true, array('context' => get_course_context($context)));

    Change to:

    return get_string('sharedresources', 'repository_sharedresources') . format_string($course->shortname, true, array('context' => $context->get_course_context(true)));

    Hope this helps!

    Michael Milette
  • Michael Milette
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 1:27 AM
    Hi Valery,

    I am trying to uninstall this plugin but unfortunately there is no uninstall link in Moodle 2.6's plugin manager. Is there a way to uninstall it?

    If I just delete the files, Moodle doesn't complain that it can't find the plugin.

    Best regards,

    Michael
  • Valery Fremaux
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 1:39 AM
    unlike all other plugin class i am not really sure repository implementation need to be "uninstalled" actually.
  • Michael Milette
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 1:45 AM
    I've disabled the plugin but can't remove the files. As soon as I do, the plugin shows up in the Notifications page with a message about the files being "missing from disk!".

    You are correct that none of the other repository plugins have an uninstall option either which really surprised me. If that is the case, what is the process for removing a repository plugin once it has been installed?
  • Michael Milette
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 1:56 AM
    FYI - Just came across this....

    According to https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-39087, all types of plugins should be uninstallable since Moodle 2.5.
  • Valery Fremaux
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 2:35 AM
    Seeking fot hat kind of conditions :
    The 'Uninstall' link should never appear for plugins that are required by some other plugins

    I reviewed dependancies that seems not be the issue.

    I checked a 2.5 install where the "uninstall" link is clearly visible in the global (full table) plugin manager....
  • Valery Fremaux
    Fri, 28 Mar 2014, 2:49 AM
    By the way, the repository plugin as wrapper for sharedresource is yet unachieved... could be till the summer if workload allows it....
  • Marcelo Schmitt
    Fri, 19 Jan 2018, 6:09 AM
    I got this message when installing local, mod and repository:
    Exceção - Call to undefined function sharedresource_get_plugin()

    Can someone help me?
  • Valery Fremaux
    Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 5:48 PM
    hi Marcello, the sharedresource set is being hugely reworked at the moment, in order to get it fully state of the art, and more sustainable long term architecture. The work is close to end and i will release quite soon a full new community version. The first pre-releases are bing published in git repos at http://github.com/vfremaux. It is a bit soon to fetch a stable pre-release now, as i am still moving features and code between some elements of the subsystem. I will communicate here when a first code shot is usable for the community. This should arise near end of this week, however before the 31 of January (2018 ! wink ). Relative to the repository plugin, i hope i can spend time to draw the few key functions that makes it work. We deal with having the repository browse on the taxonomy based on metadata. It's not a direct implementation, but should be anyway concluded also to provide a full consistant experience... Cheers.
  • Peter Thorpe
    Thu, 19 Dec 2019, 3:33 PM
    I'm gonna try to figure out how things are going for education. It is very convenient to have this at hand.
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