Moodle plugins directory: 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?

Hi Don, if I understand correctly the latest version has the capability of copying a whole section into the cart at once , correct ?
If so, I'm super excited about this development - been waiting for it!
But, I'm using Moodle 3.1 and made quite a lot of customization to it, so it's not possible for me upgrade. Is there a way to upgrade sharing cart still? Or at least get the 'copy section' functionality into Moodle 3.1 ? It would be amazing!
Thanks!
Roman.

Some plan to update this add-on to Moodle 3.5?, it's very useful!

My apologies for no github update--only updated here on the plugins database. I need to learn github and take over that responsibility. Also, sorry that only with Moodle 3.3+ can you do section copy. Moodle has changed significantly and we don't have capacity to make older versions of Sharing Cart compatible. As for Moodle 3.5, our next upgrade time is September. Thank you for your enthusiastic support and we welcome code fixes that you send.