Organizer

We just published the newest MOODLE_29_STABLE for the Organizer plugin - have fun.

Hi Derek,
we haven't tested the plugin with Moodle 3.0 yet. We had some issues with Moodle 2.9. A fixed version will be published around February next year. We intend to get closer with AMC plugin releases to Moodle releases, but had to postpone this plan a little bit. There will be a release for Moodle 3.0 sometime before summer next year, and the plan is to have a version for Moodle 3.1 not later than September 2016.
Markus Kemmerling

Does Organizer work with Moodle 3.0?
-Derek

Thanks for your interest in our module. The earliest version of the Organizer you can download from moodle.org is 2.6.

Hi
.It can be installed in Moodle 2.4?
There are some other module that does the same function but for earlier versions ??
Thank you

We uploaded the newest 2.8 version of the Organizer plugin.

I'm still getting an error when I try to install this:
See here: https://github.com/academic-moodle-cooperation/moodle-mod_organizer/issues/3
I am trying to get this into a 2.8 install.
"Invalid plugin name"
-Derek

Is anyone paying attention to this plugin? Just curious.
-Derek

Please note, the current version still fails badly on PostgreSQL. It's quite serious as it makes the Moodle cron job fail and thence has impact on the whole site. Please provide an updated version soon, thanks.

Hi,
Does this module allow the creation of recurring events. For example, is it possible to have an event recur on a weekly or monthly basis.
Thank you.

Hi guys. Thanks a lot for sharing this plugin with the community. It contains a lot of very interesting and advanced features and I can see it very useful in real school environments.
Please pay attention to Anthony's notes above, they are still valid and should be fixed.
The plugin has troubles with the GROUP BY syntax that currently makes it work on MySQL only: 'column "a2.attended" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function'
Please review carefully the parts of the code when the students' input os being used and printed. Currently the code uses the raw text as submitted by the student which often leads to security related issues. This is happening when populating the comment popup contents, for example. It would be better and safer to process the student's comment via s() or - if you want HTML supported - format_text().
The overall code organisation is somewhat unique, e.g. it's not common to define functions in view.php file etc. That itself would not be a problem. But there are other patterns that are really discouraged if not prohibited - typically usage of own global variables (such as your global $popups). There is surely no need for it and it significantly decreases the quality of the code.
I am going to approve this plugin now, with the hope that these issues will be fixed soon in a new version of this plugin. You are cleared to land, welcome to the Plugins directory!

Many thanks for sharing this plugin with the Moodle community.
Please review the validation results and fix all of the issues mentioned. These changes are typically pretty easy to make but if you have any questions just let us know.
Namely, the warning about the usage of $module in mod/xxx/version.php files was deprecated in Moodle 2.7. It is recommended to use the $plugin notation which has been supported since Moodle 2.6. Probably good to change that now.
Also update the tracker URL to https://github.com/academic-moodle-cooperation/moodle-mod_organizer/issues. I am not sure that the discussion URL is correct - did you want to use Github's wike functionality. Usually that points to Moodle discussion forum.
For now, I am going to mark this plugin as needing more work until we get these issues resolved. Thanks for your patience with the review and approval process. Peace - Anthony