Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
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Fix Version/s: DEV backlog
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Component/s: Roles / Access
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Labels:
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_17_STABLE
Description
Originally the names for student and teacher could be changed in courses, I guess we could simulate it now with:
1/ empty role name means use shortname to get rolename using get_string(); if name present in role definition use format_string() that handles multilang names
2/ add role name plural field to handle plurals correctly
3/ add function get_role_name() and get_role_name_plural() and search&replace in codebase
ideas?
MOstly I agree (especially I like the idea of using shortname as a string name in language packs).
Some thinking out loud ...:
1) We still need some sort of GUI so that teachers have more control over role names for each context. This would be something stored in a new table maybe. roleid contextid forcename
2) However, following on from this Roles can be confusing enough already ... I'm a bit worried about how confusing it could be once roles can have different names in different places ...
We need to discuss all this further I think ...