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When importing a course to a new course, the "Summary" part of each week does not get imported into the new course.
I've include an image with a screenshot of the "source" course on the left and the "destination" course on the right.
== Note to others who find this to be a problem ==
The work around for this is to not use the "summary" but include the "summary" part as a label at the top of each lesson.
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| MDL-15154 | Import and Restore: adding to existing course fail to import topic summaries |
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Uhm... since the beginning the behaviour for section on restore has been:
1) If we are restoring to a NEW course (not existing yet), then restore the section information (summary...).
2) If we are restoring to an EXISTING course:
— 2a) If the section exists in destination course then restore activities to existing section but leaving section information unmodified.
— 2b) If the section doesn't exist in destination course then restore activities to section 0 (the first-special one)
So, it should work ok if you haven't the destination course created (situation 1). But, if you are using the import feature, instead of the restore one, I guess that then, the course exists, so situation 2 will be applied.
I think we followed such approach to avoid overwriting information when restoring to EXISTING courses (2). Although, perhaps, it could be a bit more clever and, when restoring/importing to existing courses we could restore the summary information if it's EMPTY at destination.
Just typing as I think....hope this helps...ciao 
Something like this would allow the section summary to be updated when not set. Though its sub-optimal perf wise and also needs more sanity checking 
Well, just trying to re-organize a bit the thoughts about this report:
1) Trivial but very important. We are talking about section summaries. Not labels nor anything else.
2) This is current behaviour:
a) If we are restoring to a NEW course (not existing yet), section summaries ARE restored.
b) If we are restoring to an EXISTING course, DELETING previous data, section summaries ARE restored.
c) If we are restoring to an EXISTING course, KEEPING previous data, section summaries ARE NOT restored.
d) If we are importing to an EXISTING course, section summaries ARE NOT restored.
3) Given the previous behaviour, can all we agree what (a,b,c,d) to change, and how (always, based on setting, when empty...) ?
Ciao
Resolving this as fixed. Patch applied to 18_STABLE, 19_STABLE and HEAD (will be available in next weekly).
Current behaviour is:
a) If we are restoring to a NEW course (not existing yet), section summaries ARE restored.
b) If we are restoring to an EXISTING course, DELETING previous data, section summaries ARE restored.
c) If we are restoring to an EXISTING course, KEEPING previous data, section summaries ARE RESTORED IF target section summary is empty.
d) If we are importing to an EXISTING course, section summaries ARE RESTORED IF target section summary is empty.
So section summaries are ALWAYS restored UNLESS there are some content in them.
No new setting nor more options. Just new behaviour.
Credit goes to Dan Poltawski for the patch (I forgot to credit you in the commit, Dan, sorry).
Ciao
Hi all, glad to see this important issue getting some votes and comments. (Do I see CLAMP-IT.org representing, here?)
I concur with the thought line happening with Michael, Caroline, and Bob - that one should have check boxes for summaries in addition to the regular resources and activities. I'd like to up the ante further, (and reiterate a previous comment) by adding a list of blocks (many instructors have customized HTML blocks, etc.) to import by checkbox, as well as course settings, which could include all/none or specific settings by checkbox (forced theme, language, etc...)
In this way, the import function could truly function to assist faculty with moving any or all content from one course to another without the need to download/upload files, such as 'backup and restore' require. This greatly simplifies the process for faculty, but by making sure there are checkboxes for everything in a course, including blocks and settings, would be full featured.
(Do I see CLAMP-IT.org representing, here?)
I concur with the thought line happening with Michael, Caroline, and Bob - that one should have check boxes for summaries in addition to the regular resources and activities. I'd like to up the ante further, (and reiterate a previous comment) by adding a list of blocks (many instructors have customized HTML blocks, etc.) to import by checkbox, as well as course settings, which could include all/none or specific settings by checkbox (forced theme, language, etc...)
In this way, the import function could truly function to assist faculty with moving any or all content from one course to another without the need to download/upload files, such as 'backup and restore' require. This greatly simplifies the process for faculty, but by making sure there are checkboxes for everything in a course, including blocks and settings, would be full featured. 
Having the same problem in all versions 1.7.2, 1.8., 1.9
Priority shouldn't be minor!!!