Moodle plugins directory: Multiblock

Approval issue created: CONTRIB-8050

Wow. What a clever idea. Love it. Kudos to the one who came up with that idea.

Hi. Many thanks for this excellent plugin. I just wanted to report a bug which results in the wrong course link/title being displayed when managing a Multiblock's content: https://github.com/Arantor/moodle-block_multiblock/issues/59

Hi Roland,
Just released version 1.3.0 which I hope will fix the issue, as I mentioned on GitHub I'd had trouble being able to reproduce, but hopefully this will fix it.

If not please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Peter,

Love the plugin but I seemed to have run into a bug (maybe?) in the 3.9 version. In the accordion setup, the first item of the block now always starts opened up instead of closed like the rest of the items on a reload of the page. On older versions it remained closed until used. Is this intended behaviour?

Regards,
Mathijs

Moodle will not install. Gives an outdated exception for 3.9.

@Mathijs: sorry, I forgot about this - there's nothing specific about the 3.9 version that would cause it to do this, there is no programmed functionality in multiblock's own code for this itself. If it is being preserved, maybe that's something in Bootstrap doing it, but I can't imagine what. It's not something that we've seen here or been able to reproduce ourselves.

@Michael: what does it say is outdated? I've just installed it on 3.9.1 using the exact download from this site, v1.3.2 of the plugin and it installed without warnings as I would expect. Do you have screenshots or a more detailed error message? I'm not sure what it could be saying is outdated; the same code works on 3.5 through 3.9.1 (though I haven't tested it on 3.9.1+ or Workplace 3.9.x yet) and it doesn't declare any dependencies.

Maybe because I am using the adaptable theme? I’ll try again, and.get some screen capture for you.

There are definitely some issues with using Adaptable on 3.9, to the point where there is a pinned note in the themes forum not to use Adaptable with 3.9 at this time as it has not been updated. I would not be surprised if this is the issue you're coming into - as I can't reproduce such issues on 3.9.1 with Multiblock and Boost.

Thank you for the heads up concerning adaptable. My site has not broken, but.....? Hmmmmm.....

HI Peter

Firstly - great plugin. Really tidies things up!

It's generally working fine - apart from on the home page. When I try to manage the blocks I get the error message: Can't find data record in database table course.

Is it designed to be used on the Home Page? We're using 3.8 and Lambda theme.

Thanks - Dan

Hi Peter. Apologies for being late to say many thanks for patching the issue I reported above - very much appreciated. I also just wanted to quickly ask if you might be open to making some custom changes to the plugin, specifically the addition of a permission which controls whether the bock can be viewed (similar to the way the sign in sheet plugin handles this: https://moodle.org/plugins/block_signinsheet). My institution has pre-purchased support hours available (with Catalyst NZ) which hopefully could be used for this purpose - so please could you let me know if this would work for you. Thanks again!