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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-30583

Add a setting to prevent the navigation from adding front page activities to the navigation

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Priority: Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Affects Version/s: 2.1.3
    • Fix Version/s: 2.3
    • Component/s: Navigation
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    • Testing Instructions:
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      1. Log in as an admin and run the upgrade
      2. Visit Settings > Appearance > Navigation and make sure navshowfrontpagemods is enabled
      3. Create several front page activities within the main menu and the front page topic section (has to be enabled)
      4. Browse to the site home page and make sure they are shown in the navigation.
      5. Browse to one of the activities and make sure the nav bar shows the correct thing.
      6. Visit Settings > Appearance > Navigation and disable navshowfrontpagemods
      7. Browse to the site home page and make sure they are NOT shown in the navigation.
      8. Browse to one of the activities and make sure the nav bar shows the correct thing and that now it is shown in the navigation.
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      Log in as an admin and run the upgrade Visit Settings > Appearance > Navigation and make sure navshowfrontpagemods is enabled Create several front page activities within the main menu and the front page topic section (has to be enabled) Browse to the site home page and make sure they are shown in the navigation. Browse to one of the activities and make sure the nav bar shows the correct thing. Visit Settings > Appearance > Navigation and disable navshowfrontpagemods Browse to the site home page and make sure they are NOT shown in the navigation. Browse to one of the activities and make sure the nav bar shows the correct thing and that now it is shown in the navigation.
    • Affected Branches:
      MOODLE_21_STABLE
    • Fixed Branches:
      MOODLE_23_STABLE
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    • Pull Master Branch:
      wip-MDL-30583-master
    • Pull Master Diff URL:

      Description

      As required by moodle.org we don't want to display front page activities in the navigation.
      Presently we use a local plugin to tidy up the navigation as we require, however it would be great to have a setting to control this.

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          caused a regression

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-32182 Navigation lib generating PHP warning in role assignment

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

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              People

              Assignee:
              samhemelryk Sam Hemelryk
              Reporter:
              samhemelryk Sam Hemelryk
              Peer reviewer:
              Andrew Davis
              Integrator:
              Aparup Banerjee
              Tester:
              Adrian Greeve
              Participants:
              Component watchers:
              Adrian Greeve, Jake Dallimore, Mathew May, Mihail Geshoski, Peter Dias
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                Fix Release Date:
                25/Jun/12