Moodle plugins directory: Stash

Just started exploring how Stash might be used in the course I'm teaching, and loving it so far!

I was wondering if it would possible to allow items from Stash to conditionally display/hide content (similar to what can be done with the shortcodes built into the Level Up! plugin).

This would allow for some really interesting narrative possibilities - sequencing the order in which items must be collected, hiding content until they have a particular item (e.g. find the key), giving hints to students who do not yet have a particular item, etc.

Thanks for the great plugin guys.

Hi James,

That's a good idea! We'll consider this for future versions.

Meanwhile you can "hack" similar behaviours by using the sections as "content" and set them to be hidden until a certain item is acquired. You can also use the Trades to create a narrative whereby a user can only obtain a certain item by trading previously acquired ones. The shortcodes and/or additional options on the drops would be much though.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Como faço para ter um relatório do ranking de itens coletados por ordem numérica? Por quantidade de itens recolhidos e não por ordem alfabética? Urgent please?
How can I do to give a report with number items order, not for name order?

Hello Reny Sanches, I'm sorry but the report for stash is currently only very basic and can not be sorted by number of items collected. The current ordering is only on the name of the students.

Hi, I need another information. Our students needs to see the ranking of the itens everybody students. How can I do? Olá meus estudantes precisam ver o ranking de itens recolhidos por todos os estudantes do curso, como posso fazer isso?

Answering Carly Born "My problem is that I need to award different points for different items acquired. "
What I tried to solve this issue is to make them collect the item different times, so for example if the student got an excellent grade collect 3 times a piece of gold, if only good collect 2 times...

Astonishing plugin !!! Adrian and Frédéric you are genius

Excuse my english.

Could you please refer me,
which table do I have to update if I wish to remove just a single item from the Stash of a student
but without removing all of the other items ?

thanks so much

Hello Lionel,
Thank you for your kind words.
If you want to delete a single item from the stash of a student and not reset the ability to collect the item again, then you just delete a record from block_stash_user_items. If you want to reset the ability to collect the item again then you also need to delete a record from block_stash_drop_pickups. I would recommend looking at reset_stash_of() (and the method calls there) in blocks/stash/classes/manager.php for how the stash of a user is reset for all items for guidance on how to reset just one item.

I'll see if I can add this functionality in the future. Unfortunately my spare time is currently very short.

I'm wondering if it's possible to configure a Stash item to be steal-able?

Hello, firtsly I would like to congratulate your team about this fantastic plugin. I am the IT coordinator of the school and we were thinking of updating the moodle to the newest version 3.7. Do you have any plans of updating this plugin and its extensions to the last moodle update
? Thank you very muc

Hello Xavier, I have just updated the details about these plugins. They are 3.7 ready.

Hello, I got this message "Exception - Class 'block_stash\invalid_persistent_exception' not found" on the front page.

How to fix it? Thanks.

Hello Thanakrit,

Thank you for the bug report. We will have a new version by the end of this week with a fix for this message. Unfortunately I think that this message hides a deeper issue that we are unaware of at the moment. Can you tell us what message you get once you have upgraded to the new version?

If you have access to the code then you can make the changes listed here - https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_stash/commit/0d4fe778bf157237a1e34d1130eb16e4d42d49a5

When upgrading to v1.3.3, I'm receiving the following error:

Debug info: Unknown column 'i.amountlimit' in 'field list'
SELECT i.id AS itemid, i.stashid AS itemstashid, i.name AS itemname, i.maxnumber AS itemmaxnumber, i.detail AS itemdetail, i.detailformat AS itemdetailformat, i.amountlimit AS itemamountlimit, i.currentamount AS itemcurrentamount, i.timecreated AS itemtimecreated, i.timemodified AS itemtimemodified, ui.id AS useritemid, ui.itemid AS useritemitemid, ui.userid AS useritemuserid, ui.quantity AS useritemquantity, ui.timecreated AS useritemtimecreated, ui.timemodified AS useritemtimemodified
FROM mdl_block_stash_user_items ui
JOIN mdl_block_stash_items i
ON i.id = ui.itemid
WHERE ui.userid = ?
AND i.stashid = ? AND ui.quantity IS NOT NULL
[array (
0 => '49034',
1 => '30',
)]

The course is 100% inaccessible, with an "Error reading fro database" message". I'm running the latest Moodle v3.8.3+ and the latest (apparently?) version of Stash. Any assistance is appreciated.

Hello Paul Martin,
Were you using version 1.3.1 or earlier before upgrading to 1.3.3? I suspect that after uploading stash to the latest version, that the site hasn't run the upgrade code and that is why you are seeing this error. Please log in as the administrator (or contact the administrator) and kick off the site upgrade.

Please let me know if that hasn't fixed your problem.