Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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3.8, 3.8.1, 3.10, 4.0
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4.0 Navigation blitz 3, QA blitz, QA blitz 3
Description
The Next Cloud plugin offers the ability to link to the Next Cloud File repository. It allows a Teacher, for example, to add resources from the cloud storage, or it allows a student to submit an assignment using the "Access Controlled" function.
However, the NextCloud Plugin does not replace the plugin produced by The University of Münster. This plugin offers an additional feature: the ability to create an alias link to the file.
The alias feature effectively means that when the file is updated locally on the users PC, the file is automatically updated on Moodle via OwnCloud.
It would therefore be advisable that Moodle stop trying to Automatically update, or Migrate the OwnCloud plugin to NextCloud since we loose this alias functionality.
The screen shots below show the OwnCloud plugin with the alias option versus the NextCloud Plugin minus this option. The first two screenshots are Owncloud, the third, the one on the far right, is the nextcloud version.
By the way, I'm sorry, but I could not find an appropriate component to assign this to, perhaps someone has some better thoughts on the matter.
Either way, it would be great if this could be fixed since it irritates me that everytime I upgrade Moodle, it tries to Migrate the Owncloud repoistory to using the Nextcloud version, and I have then go back in an reasign everything.
I have also added this to the MUA group in the hope that funding can be found to resolve this issue.
Just for the record here:
Münster University who first developed this plugin with the dynamic linking option have a GIT repository with the code here: https://github.com/learnweb/moodle-repository_owncloud
And the Plugins home on Moodle is here: https://moodle.org/plugins/repository_owncloud
The main problem I am having is that it seems that once Moodle migrates the the OwnCloud Plugin to the NextCloud Plugin, no amount of trying to reinstall the original OwnCloud Plugin will bring back the functionality of the original version. This is highly frustrating to say the least. You also loose any data that you had linked.