Thanks for reporting this.

I've put that on the backlog.

In the meantime, feel free to help us work on this issue. If you are able to provide a patch or links to your Git repository branch, please add a "patch" label so we will spot it.

In order to see the actual error, you must first activate "debug" and "debugdisplay" in Moodle. If you don't, you might think everything is working properly because all cron.php script prints is something like this we no further stuff being done :
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IMS Enterprise enrol cron process launched at lundi 25 mars 2013, 10:35
Found file /server_path_to_moodle/moodle/enrol/imsenterprise/uploads/imsenterprise-enrol.xml

Hello, enrol_imsenterprise plugin is not maintained much and contains multiple serious bugs (such as incorrect account deleting, data loss on mnetted sites with duplicate user names, utf8 incompatibility, no unit tests, incorrect creation of users/courses/categories/groups, etc.), I would personally discourage anybody from using it in production environment, sorry.

In this case Petr, what do you advise to replace IMS Enterprise?

It should however consider that many still use IMS Enterprise production and a change is not made easily and quickly.

I do not know, I was just describing the current state of the plugin.

Linking to MDL-37185 that hopefully will make course creation standard by calling create_course()

I'm submitting quick fix that includes the necessary file.
But there is more general problem here that course is created not using function create_course(). This means format-specific attributes are not set, event is not triggered, new context is not marked as dirty, course caches are not cleared, etc. This will hopefully be resolved in the linked issue

Integrated to master and 24 - thanks!

Can we please have more detailed testing instructions next time please?
Running through the instructions as they are, doesn't test the code.
After doing some research and making up my own test I can confirm that this patch works.
Test passed.

Adrian, testing instructions were copied from issue description. This is where the reporter encountered an error. So test was to make sure that the same scenario does not end with fatal error. Another story is that we don't know how to use IMS Enterprise enrol plugin. Hopefully we'll hear back from Martin Thibert if this fix solved his problem.

But again, as Petr said already - this plugin has serious bugs.

It doesn't look like the testing instructions were copied from the issue description. And running through the testing instructions would not ensure that the same scenario didn't happen again. Some mention of running an xml file for enrolling students or creating a course should have been mentioned.

Your awesome contributions are now part of Moodle, your fav LMS out there.

Closing this as fixed.

Many thanks for all the hard work, ciao

I am pleased to confirm that this patch fixed the issue we had. Thank you so much Mariana, great job! This fix should now allow us to move on to 2.4. Hopefully, IMS plugin support will be maintained and upgraded in the future because from what I can see, a lot of universities and college are using it.

Thanks again!