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I'm creating a site with simple navigation for early elementary students. Each course is to be set up so that students see a number of large icons under topic 1. Each icon links to a new topic (which in turn has a "back" button to topic 1. Only one topic is to be visible at a time (initially topic 1)
So course links such as http://mysite.edu/course/view.php?id=34&topic=1, http://mysite.edu/course/view.php?id=34&topic=2, http://mysite.edu/course/view.php?id=34&topic=etc. are used extensively throughout the course. Works fine ... But I want to be able to clone the course for multiple teacher/grade scenarios. ... so, when I backup and restore to another course (say id=35), all of the links remain pointing to id=34. I'm creating these linked icons using labels, but a test of a the same html in a course webpage also failed to change the urls.
Can the core code be modified (or a fix be provided) to allow for the conversion of all urls (that point to course A ) when it is restored to course B, C, etc.?
As Eloy stated in http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=148686, it would be great to have some filter doing that work, exactly like the "Activity Names" filter does, but working on sections.
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uhm... so encoding is working ok there (backup) but not decoding (restore). Strange as far as I've both working ok here. Can you tell me the version (1st line) of your restorelib.php file? And then look for "COURSEVIEWBYID" in that file and tell me if it's there? Just guessing you aren't running the last version.
Ciao 
Absolutely incredible! I've this contents in my RESTORED course, once de decoding has happened (I used it to test that both course and course+topic links were working):
This is section 0 summary <br /> This is link to course: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10">this too</a> <br /> This is link to topic 2: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=2 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=2">this too</a> <br /> This is link to topic 4: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=4 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=4">this too</a>
... and, as you can see, the ".php" is missing too. But, crazy, those links work here perfectly, and I get the sections collapsed properly, so I wasn't able to detect the problem. Sure I've some default extension or something else configured here, grrr...
Oki, fixing, re-testing and committing, thanks for feedback! Ciao
This is section 0 summary <br /> This is link to course: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10">this too</a> <br /> This is link to topic 2: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=2 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=2">this too</a> <br /> This is link to topic 4: <br /> http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=4 <br /> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/~stronk7/moodle_19/course/view?id=10&topic=4">this too</a>
Done, I just added the missing ".php" extension to the URL on restore. Can you check if it's working ok there? Here it's but, you know, that's not a goo test :-P
Ciao
Weird, as I pasted above I get all the links converted on restore. Uhm, can you plz, attach the complete section0 text (that containing all the text with all the links). Both at origin and after restore? Plz don't paste it (as far as te tracker can end changing some characters. Attach them to one file.
TIA and ciao
Uhm... it sounds like some sort of text-caching happening. Perhaps it was one coincidence that, at the time of editing your topic 2 contents, just the cache expired and all the rest of topic contents (section 3, 4, 5...) were also cleaned (as far as they were created at the same time (first course display), they have the same ttl in cache.
Just to be sure... can you go to Admin->Filters and disable caching completely?
Then, restore the course again and see how the links look like. Could have sense.
Ciao
Just to be 100%, when you say "label", you are talking about the section "intro", correct? Not one "label "resource.
When you changed the filter... did you set it to 0 (no cache at all) ? Finally, the last think I can imagine is that you are restoring always on the same course (id = 39) and then one browser caching is happening.
Can you try the restore once again and, if you get the COURSEVIEWBYID text, just try forcing refresh in the browser to see if it disappears... I say this because the "effect" you are describing (editing one section intro fixes all the sections), hasn't sense at all but if you are viewing cached info. Please CTRL, SHIFT, ALT F5 (or whatever is necessary in your browser to force refresh).
Uhm, I'm sure it's working ok in all sections (like in your section 0 attached). Nothing differentiates it from the rest. About l/p, can be interesting, but first do the last restore + refresh, plz.
Ciao
Hi Larry,
this should be considered fixed right now!
So any link like:
htttp://yoursite/yourmoodle/course/view.php?id=XX
is transformed automatically to the new course id (note this includes also links having the "&topic=YY" and "&week=ZZ", suffixes that don't get transformed at all).
As somehow related with this, I've created
MDL-22179, because this needs to be also implemented in Moodle 2.0 restore (work in progress).Resolving this as fixed, if you find anything not working as expected, plz, comment here. Ciao
MDL-22179, because this needs to be also implemented in Moodle 2.0 restore (work in progress). Resolving this as fixed, if you find anything not working as expected, plz, comment here. Ciao