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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-30273

Students and teachers can add additional topics to a simple forum discussion

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Blocker
    • 1.9.15, 2.0.7, 2.1.4
    • 2.2
    • Forum
    • qa.moodle.net
    • Any
    • MOODLE_22_STABLE
    • MOODLE_19_STABLE, MOODLE_20_STABLE, MOODLE_21_STABLE
    • wip-MDL-30273-master
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      1. Login as a teacher and start a discussion in a single simple discussion forum.
      2. Login as a student and enter the manual URL.
      3. Check that, as a student, it is not possible to start a discussion.

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      1. Login as a teacher and start a discussion in a single simple discussion forum. 2. Login as a student and enter the manual URL. 3. Check that, as a student, it is not possible to start a discussion.

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      This was revealed by MDLQA-1196. It's possible for teachers and students to add new topics to a simple forum discussion by manually going to the appropriate URL (your.moodle.instance/mod/forum/post.php?forum=FORUMID). The forum page itself will still only show the first forum posting since it uses get_record() to pull the discussions, but if you have debugging turned on you'll get a db error since multiple records were found:

      Error: mdb->get_record() found more than one record!
      line 1302 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to debugging()
      line 1262 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_sql()
      line 1242 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_select()
      line 144 of /mod/forum/view.php: call to moodle_database->get_record()

      The forum shouldn't rely on the interface alone to control this behavior.

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              abgreeve Adrian Greeve
              cfulton Charles Fulton
              Ankit Agarwal Ankit Agarwal
              Sam Hemelryk Sam Hemelryk
              Sam Hemelryk Sam Hemelryk
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                28/Nov/11