Moodle

Sam, thanks for your report.

As well as a send message link, I think users' email addresses should be included in course profiles (when email address in profile is set to "Allow only other course members to see my email address" or "Allow everyone...") to enable course participants to communicate with each other easily.

Comparing course profiles with full profiles, I notice country, city/town and first access are also missing from the course profile. On moodle.org it seems a shame that Moodlers can no longer view this information about their fellow course participants. Perhaps there should be a setting in User policies similar to hiddenuserfields for determining which user fields are displayed in course profiles?

Adding Martin as a watcher, hoping for your comments and also that you can assign the issue appropriately.

In the absence of the setting Helen suggests, it would probably be sensible if ALL fields that are displayed on the full profile also display on the course profile, like in 1.9? At least without that setting, I don't really see the point of making course profile worse.

Good point Sam, +1 for all fields being displayed on the course profile as an interim solution.

Increasing priority because I think the course profile should really be fixed for 2.0.

Thanks to Sam for agreeing to be assigned this issue.

Martin, do you have any suggestions for the best possible solution?

Just to say I am very much in agreement with this too!

+1 for me too

Linking related issue. Should have looked harder for an existing issue before opening a new one.

At the moment the separation is actually quite clean.

The course profiles in "internal" and shows things that may differ between courses (groups, roles etc) apart from picture and description. There is now a messaging link too.

The user profile shows all the external contact stuff. I think some sites may actually want it this way, so students can NOT see the external contact details of other students in the same course.

On moodle.org we just need to tweak the roles to allow people to see full profiles.

I'm going to close this ... please open a new bug if you strongly believe course profiles need to show more or be more configurable.

Just to comment: I think this solution is fine in general - I'm not really sure about the merits of separating them this way, but it makes reasonable sense.

Here we have a requirement to show additional information which must be on both versions of profile page, however that is not related to this bug. This ought to be possible using the block interface but it is currently not possible to configure this due to a bug in the way user profile blocks are handled - I have filed this as MDL-25189.

I don't actually understand why the bug was closed before the problem was fixed on Moodle.org.

Here is the user story:

1. You are reading a forum thread.
2. You think "To reply to this person, it would be really good to know more about them".
3. So you click on their name to get to their profile.
4. You read their profile.

Except that at the moment, there is a step 3 1/2. Then click on the Full profile link.

I'm sorry, but that is just stupid.

Yes, it is logical to separate those parts of the profile that depend on this course, from the 'Full profile', but it is most often the 'Full profile' information that you want, so hiding the fill profile information at the other end of a link is not logical. The page you get to by clicking someone's name should be their full profile. In necessary, add the 'Course profile' information underneat, on the same page, with a sub-heading to keep it logically separate.

Moving this to STABLE backlog, to be handled asap... ciao

Ive committed some code to my repository that simply adds the email field to the course profile. The code is directly copied from the user profile page.

repo: git://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle.git
branch: MDL-24724_course_profile
diff: https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/compare/master...MDL-24724_course_profile

This technically resolves this issue however I can understand the confusion here and the desire for more significant reworking. I'm inclined to call this issue done and to open another to come back, write some proper specs and do a more serious refactoring. Thoughts?

I think your plan to call this bug finished and investigate it later is a good one.

When considering the wider issue, can I recommend also including MDL-25189 - the user profile page has the same blocks as on course page, which is weird as it is clearly not the same page.

Ok. Im marking this resolved. PULL-348

I have opened MDL-26548 to do more work to make the course profile area more sensible.

Reopening, the maildisplay==2 means only enrolled users may see it. I am going to file a separate issue for related privacy problem on the main profile page.

Switched to using is_enrolled() rather than is_guest(). PULL-370

Also opened MDL-26645

Reopening this as the reviewer appears to have forgotten to do so after rejecting PULL-370

Think Ive fixed the issue. PULL-397

Thanks for everyone's comments and thanks to Andrew for fixing. The fix is included in the latest 2.0.2+.