Moodle plugins directory: Sharing Cart

Like Frederic (message of 9 Aug 2017) I went in and bumped the version from 2016032900 to 2016032901 and the installation seemed to work fine and the issues with Boost seem to have disappeared. Of course, in my development site, I've lost all Sharing Cart instances and data, but at least that's only in testing. @Don, will you be bumping up the version number so that it shows up as an official update for folks? It would be very helpful!

I use Adaptable and whenever I enable the Sharing Block I get the following errors on Moodle 3.3:
pix_url is deprecated. Use image_url for images and pix_icon for icons.
line 267 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to debugging()
line 126 of /blocks/sharing_cart/block_sharing_cart.php: call to renderer_base->pix_url()
line 110 of /blocks/sharing_cart/block_sharing_cart.php: call to block_sharing_cart->get_header()
line 288 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_sharing_cart->get_content()
line 230 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_base->formatted_contents()
line 1197 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
line 1249 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
line 579 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
line 177 of /theme/adaptable/layout/includes/header.php: call to core_renderer->standard_head_html()
line 31 of /theme/adaptable/layout/course.php: call to require_once()
line 1162 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
line 1092 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
line 244 of /course/view.php: call to core_renderer->header()

I checked with the Adaptable devlopers, and they say it is not the theme...help??

Sharing Cart does not work at all on my Moodle 3.3 install with the default Boost theme. Nothing shows up in the Edit menus for activities. I also get errors in my Postgresql log related to Sharing Cart.

Thanks for the feedback! We heard from Alex and Kathrin that the Sharing Cart does not work with Postgres and are fixing it now. We will also have a Sharing Cart 3.4 available in the next two weeks. As always, contact me directly with detailed error messages or descriptions of your environment.

Moodle 3.3 and postgres DB The following error
Debug info: ERROR: syntax error at or near "'coursefullname'"
LINE 3: `fullname` AS 'coursefullname'
^
SELECT
mdl_block_sharing_cart.*,
`fullname` AS 'coursefullname'
FROM mdl_block_sharing_cart
LEFT JOIN mdl_course
ON mdl_block_sharing_cart.`course` = mdl_course.`id`
WHERE `userid` = $1
[array (
0 => '3',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Stack trace:
line 486 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
line 242 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 776 of /lib/dml/pgsql_native_moodle_database.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->query_end()
line 71 of /blocks/sharing_cart/classes/controller.php: call to pgsql_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 80 of /blocks/sharing_cart/block_sharing_cart.php: call to sharing_cart\controller->render_tree()
line 288 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_sharing_cart->get_content()
line 230 of /blocks/moodleblock.class.php: call to block_base->formatted_contents()
line 1200 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_base->get_content_for_output()
line 1252 of /lib/blocklib.php: call to block_manager->create_block_contents()
line 579 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to block_manager->ensure_content_created()
line 167 of /theme/adaptable/layout/includes/header.php: call to core_renderer->standard_head_html()
line 30 of /theme/adaptable/layout/columns2.php: call to require_once()
line 1162 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to include()
line 1092 of /lib/outputrenderers.php: call to core_renderer->render_page_layout()
line 244 of /course/view.php: call to core_renderer->header()

Dear Jurg and other Sharing Cart users:
Postgres compatibility is now fixed on the Sharing Cart 3.3, release 2. Now featuring whole Section Copy feature. Thanks very much to Alex Bias of Ulm University for design collaboration, user testing, and funding support.

Installed the previous release on Moodle 3.2.6+ with PHP 5.6.33 on IIS 7 which worked fine. However the latest release 3.2 breaks the page whenever user tries to turn edit on. When it happens, it is causing a PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method theme_clean_core_renderer::image_url() in myMoodlePath\blocks\sharing_cart\block_sharing_cart.php on line 126. Switching to different themes only make it worse. Rollback to previous version failed so I had to disable it now. The download I got is said to be tested OK with 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. Tried rolling back to PHP5.6.8, no help.

using moodle 3.2.1+ , updating the block to version - 2017122000 cause editing error : "Exception - Call to undefined method theme_aardvark_core_renderer::image_url()" , Meir

Thank you for your error reports, Johnny and Meir, and apologies for your trouble--we thought we had all problems solved. This is urgent, and we are working on it right now.

Kathrin, our colleague at Ulm University, reports that Moodle 3.3 has some significant changes, so that the new Sharing Cart release should only apply to sites with Moodle 3.3 or above. For now, I will remove the notes that say this version has 3.1/3.2 compatibility, and later reupload the Sharing Cart 3.3, new release, with the version.php file adjusted to say only for Moodle 3.3+. Initial test show that this Sharing Cart is good for Moodle 3.4 as well.

First of all: Thanks for a great and highly useful plugin we surely appreciate it.
We have some problems when we try to copy H5P-activities to the sharing cart that it takes several minutes, often more than 5 minutes, for it to complete the copying. This is also an issue after the upgrade per January 10th. We use Moodle 3.3 with the Boost theme.
Do you have suggestions to why that is?
Thanks!

Yes, Emil. This is most likely related to a long-standing issue with the Moodle core Question Bank. The whole question bank is copied whenever you include a quiz in a Moodle backup or in the Sharing Cart, which uses the core Moodle copy/import/backup system. Your workaround is to either tolerate the 5 minute wait, or make your Question Bank smaller by: a) not keeping the questions in System or high level categories, and b) only keeping the questions you need at the Course Level category. If this problem is new to you, it may be too difficult to manage, because you will have to read a lot about the Question Bank in the Moodle Docs. I also recommend you vote for these three issues: (if you vote, Moodle HQ might be encouraged to fix this problem).
- MDL-12403: Minimize questions in Question Bank-original “Backup/Import of single quiz includes all questions in database” Bug—critical
- MDL-41924: Minimize questions in Question Bank-new
- MDL-19721: Put Sharing Cart into core.

I'm wondering what the timeline is on updating the Github source to the latest version? It looks like it is still at version 3.2 release 1, and we use Git as a source for all of our plugins when upgrading our multi-node cluster. Thanks for all of your work on this plugin!

Same comment as Michael Gerszewski about GitHub. Thanks!

Which version can I use with Moodle 3.1?