Activities: Advanced Forum
mod_hsuforum
Moodlerooms is proud to release Advanced Forums, which enhances Moodle Forums by providing teachers and students with quick, simple views into the forums and their discussions. Allowing users to sort and search discussions easily and in multiple layouts is key to Advanced Forums increased usability. Read tracking is a feature in Advanced forums that highlights unread posts, making it even easier to manage a forum. This saves the student time in viewing and responding to posts, and saves the teacher time in finding the posts that are most relevant to the class. Teachers are empowered to create anonymous interactions with students while still being able to provide accurate grading with advanced grading methods. Teachers are confident that their grading of the forum content reflects the content the student is posting, by allowing a teacher to grade a forum while viewing the student's posts.
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Kris Stokking
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Was running the XMLDB editor in moodle to look for foreign key violations and I got the following error:
Debug info: Table 'lms.mdl_hsuforum_discussion' doesn't exist
SELECT count(1) FROM mdl_hsuforum_subscriptions_disc t1 LEFT JOIN mdl_hsuforum_discussion t2 ON t1.discussion = t2.id WHERE t1.discussion <> ? AND t2.id IS NULL
[array (
0 => '0',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Any suggestions for a fix?
Debug info: Table 'lms.mdl_hsuforum_discussion' doesn't exist
SELECT count(1) FROM mdl_hsuforum_subscriptions_disc t1 LEFT JOIN mdl_hsuforum_discussion t2 ON t1.discussion = t2.id WHERE t1.discussion <> ? AND t2.id IS NULL
[array (
0 => '0',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Stack trace:
line 423 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
line 1005 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 1397 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 1470 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_sql()
line 1641 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_field_sql()
line 105 of /admin/tool/xmldb/actions/check_foreign_keys/check_foreign_keys.class.php: call to moodle_database->count_records_sql()
line 159 of /admin/tool/xmldb/actions/XMLDBCheckAction.class.php: call to check_foreign_keys->check_table()
line 69 of /admin/tool/xmldb/index.php: call to XMLDBCheckAction->invoke()
We got this error in 2.3.8 and 2.5.1
Got it by checking for Foreign Key Violations in the XMLDB editor that comes with Moodle.
Go to Site Administrator > Development > XMLDB Editior and then click on the Check foreign keys option.
I would like to base the activity completion to the number of posts that are flagged as "substantive".
The Activity completion API (http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Activity_completion_API) is really helpful for this little customization. The only thing I really stumble over is how to call the update_state() function each time a flag is toggled.
Do you have any idea, where to put this:
// Update completion state
$completion=new completion_info($course);
if($completion->is_enabled($cm) && $forum->completionposts) {
$completion->update_state($cm,COMPLETION_COMPLETE);
}
Many thanks,
Fritz
@Marc - the module hasn't been upgraded to support Moodle 2.6 yet, so it's not surprising that there are some problems. If you're not able to wait for us to upgrade the module and are feeling adventurous, you could port the changes made to mod/forum in between Moodle 2.5.3 and 2.6.1 into mod/hsuforum.