Moodle plugins directory: Dialogue

@ Elisabeth,
Please create request at:
https://github.com/wcel/moodle-mod_dialogue/issues

Hi Troy. Many thanks for providing this plugin to the community; its functionality is really appreciated by our staff and students, and we’re really grateful to you for your efforts to maintain and update it.

On that note, please could I quickly query whether you have any plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with Moodle v3.1, and its new Global Search feature in particular? To clarify: while we’ve tested the Dialogue plugin under v3.1 and all of the core functionality seems to work fine, we’ve found that instances of the activity are not searchable via v3.1’s Global Search feature. Please see the following screenshot for details, which lists all of the available areas that can searched under v3.1 (note that these settings are available via: Site Administration -> Plugins -> Search -> Manage Global Search):

http://imgur.com/lWWQByE

Note also that the above screenshot was taken on a v3.1 system where the Dialogue plugin is installed and available. However, as you can see, the Dialogue activity is not listed as being available to be searched. Obviously, this is likely to be a significant problem/cause of confusion for users who might want to search for specific instances of the Dialogue activity across Moodle.

I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that mod plugins can be made searchable relatively easily via the addition of a new search class within the plugin’s codebase (located at ../classes/search/activity.php). Please see the following for further details:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334938
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Search_API

We really hope this search capability can be added to Dialogue as I’m sure it would be a huge benefit to our users (as well as those of other v3.1 systems) and, again, many thanks for all your efforts to develop this plugin and share it with the community.

Best wishes,
Lina

This is a great plugin!
It would be nice if the dialogue notifications also stated the course name, like the notifications from Moodle core features do.

Great plug in, we've just upgraded to 3.2, will there be a version compatible soon? if so when?

Hi Melissa,

I will test if compatible for 3.2 this weekend. There were a couple of cosmetic issues I found at first glance when installed on Moodle 3.2. Not really show stoppers. But I still need to check it functionally works in Moodle 3.2.

Regards

Troy

Hi Troy

is 3.3-version going to be released soon?
In git it already reads "3.3.0-alpha" in version.php

Hi Troy,

I have Moodle 3.2.7 (Build: 20180115), and Dialogue plugin 3.2.0 (2016112100).
I set up notification preferences to be "on" according to this link: https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Notifications
But unfortunately the number next to bell icon does not appear on the recipient's site.

How to repair this function?

Thanks,
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Have you enabled your dialogue notifications for web?

Cheers,

Hi Troy,

It is enabled.
The notifications appear in the list when I click on the bell icon but the number does not, even when there is a new notification.

Best regards,
Daniel

Hi all,

I know that this plugin was intended as a two way discussion and has supposedly been replaced, but it /almost/ serves a purpose that no other activity does. It's extremely useful as a learning journal, as long as you give the view all privilege to teachers. It:

* Allows for discreet posts, instead of one huge post as the journal plugin does
* Supports attachments which messaging and the journal plugin does not do
* Allows for posts to be hidden from students, while letting teachers (or which ever role is given view all) which neither the forum or blog module does

So, as a request given that the plugin has been supposedly been replaced by messaging, do you think it would be possible to set some permissions layer in each instance of the activity itself. For example, set a dialogue to be 1:1, 1:m (e.g, one student and all teachers), maybe even go the whole hog and have a public setting.

Regards

Bob Gilmore

Hi Bob,

Unsure if this is exactly what you require but you may be able to somewhat pseudo achieve this by overriding role capabilities per dialogue instance for “one student and all teachers” and using a bulk opener rule.

Override capability “mod/dialogue:open” to allow teacher role and prevent student role.
Override capability “mod/dialogue:replyany” to allow teacher role and prevent student role.
Create bulk opener rule that opens a new dialogue with each enrolled student.

This should allow "teacher to student" dialogue that any teacher can reply to.

Let me know if this works or not?

Regards,

Troy

Hi, will they update to version 3.4 and 3.5 of moodle? When?

Best Regards, Miguel Angel.

Hi Miguel Angel,

It will be in 2 weeks time. I will test the plugin for 3.4 and 3.5. I have started working on a plan for a refactor but other commitments had pushed to the side. This is to take advantage of global search, templates, bootstrap 4 support, clean up recipient picker. I will post to the community once get it in a reasonable state. But for now, I will make it my priority to make sure current code works in 3.4 and 3.5.

Thanks for your patience

Kind regards,

Troy

Hi

Is there any progress on the 3.4 and 3.5 versions?

Hi Kimmo,

3.4 has been released. There is an issue in 3.5 with sorting conversation listing due to Bootstrap 4. All the other functionality works... just sorting is broken. I am currently investigating a fix which involves using traditional HTML select over Bootstrap 3 component which has been used.

Cheers,

Troy