Moodle plugins directory: Dialogue

Troy, just a quick note to say Alan Brown has started a thread here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=225302 with a missing Edit button question.
But also curious: I noticed somewhere you were working "as time permitted" on a major re-develop of the dialogue. How is this going? If you need a beta tester, we may be keen. Good luck!!

-Derek

2.5 is now out. Does anyone know is the latest version of Dialogue will work with 2.5?

-Derek

I know it's a bit sad to reply to your own post, but this from AL today: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=229243#p997710

"The Moodle 2.4 version of Dialogue works just fine with Moodle 2.5+. Been using it ever since QA testing started on Moodle 2.5"

On a philosophical note I am interested to note the different types of uses people are making of the Dialogue module.

-Derek

Errors with 2.6.
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get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
line 4020 of /lib/deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
line 617 of /mod/dialogue/locallib.php: call to get_context_instance()
line 176 of /mod/dialogue/view.php: call to dialogue_list_conversations()
get_context_instance() is deprecated, please use context_xxxx::instance() instead.
line 4020 of /lib/deprecatedlib.php: call to debugging()
line 622 of /mod/dialogue/lib.php: call to get_context_instance()
line 670 of /mod/dialogue/locallib.php: call to dialogue_get_conversations()
line 176 of /mod/dialogue/view.php: call to dialogue_list_conversations()
---
Moodle 2.6+ (Build: 20131122)
Clean theme

-Derek

I made upgrade Moodle 2.2.11 to 2.6+, after installing the module to dialogue, attempting to use the "update helper Dialogue" get the following error.:

Section error

More information about this error

Debug info:
Error code: sectionerror
Stack trace:
line 463 of / lib / setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 6259 of / lib / adminlib.php: call to print_error ()
line 22 of / mod / dialogue / upgrade / index.php: call to admin_externalpage_setup ()

Can anyone help me fix it?

I made upgrade to Moodle 2.2.6 + also. so I have to update Dialogue to new version . How to do it if I need to keep all the instances and records live?

The latest version of the dialog works correctly, you will not lose anything.
Run the engine upgrade help having the new module Dialogue, to update your past conversations to the latest version.

Moodle don't let just update because the dialogue folder is already exist. What exactly step to update it to keep all records in all instances alive?

I've upgraded from 2.4 > 2.6 on a dev server and have encountered a strange issue with this plugin. The version used is the most recent (2013112905) and was updated from a 2.4 version (2012112900).

The issue: A class in the styles.css 'invisible' is targeting areas outside of the module and is actually effecting blocks on my homepage (and possibly other areas). When I've hidden a block on the homepage it dissapears rather than having it's opacity changed (see https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yg2y9qejve0zdek/3Ndn2SHRt4). When the mod is deleted or the class is changed the blocks work fine....

Has anyone else seen this issue or knows how to solve it?

Cheers,
Nathan

Hi Nathan,

Yeah, I used bootstrap to rapidly develop the UI of dialogue, so anyone not running a bootstrap based theme going to run into problems. It is on my list to go through and clean up CSS for non bootstrap based themes.

I can see problem is in mod/dialogue/less/bootstrap/utilities.less

// Visibility
.invisible {
visibility: hidden;
}

if you would like to contribute your fix go to and fork https://github.com/troywilliams/moodle-mod_dialogue

See: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/LESS

compile the css fix

recess --compile --compact mod/dialogue/less/dialogue.less > mod/dialogue/styles.css

Thanks,

Troy

We have had this problem as well. It was worse that we were using several different themes on the site and only some were affected. Now I know why.
One of the guys doing a little coding for us discovered that examining the code with Firebug shows link to CSS where they shouldn't be. A bit of custom CSS seemed to help.

-Derek

CSS Problem solved I believe. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-4821
"Use a later version"

-Derek

Hi Troy,

are there any plans to update this for Moodle 2.7?

Regards, David

Hi David,

I am working on it at moment, there are a couple of new API's that I need to support so working moving legacy code. No date at this time, should be sooner rather than later though.

Cheers

Troy

Hi Troy,
I know you are busy, but while resetting courses today for next month, I just noticed that deleting a conversation seems to cause the conversation to disappear from the view conversations tab, but then gets counted as Unread. I'm using the latest Dialogue and see this in both Moodle 2.6 and 2.7.