Booking

Dear David,
I am testing Booking for 2.7.7 and seem to have a bug. Although I set the 'max current booking per user' to two, the student is able to make more than two selections. Do you know if this is a bug?
Thanks,
Ajmal

Oh another request come to mind.
Something like in the feedback plugin. They have an option "save as new question".
In this case it would be "save as new booking".
greetings.

Great plugin. I use it this year for the first time to book 115 workshops in 2 weeks. It is helpfull already. And only halfway. ;)
Klaris asks to set the booking events to be displayed in the event order as default. I opt for that one too. Reverse order is confusing.
Another tiny thing I would consider you to add is a standard date of bookings and a standard course. Also a standard setting to add to calendar would be great.
When a "choose a course" is not filled there is an error. When going back to that course it is empty. A pity whem your description was lengthy...
Well, that where my request.
Back to fill in the bookings. ;)

Hi
Is there a way to set the booking events to be displayed in the event date order as a default? I know you can click date and it will sort them but they are displayed in the reverse order to which the event is created and wont stay in the date of the event order.

To install and correctly use the plugin on older moodle platforms (pre 2.6) you need to add a missing function users_order_by_sql() .
There is no such in older moodle platforms. Without the function it is not possible to add enrolled users, you get a blank screen and an error thrown:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function users_order_by_sql() in /var/www/moodle_2_3/mod/booking/locallib.php on line 252
The easiest solution would be to copy paste the function from newer moodle platform, like 2.7 from moodle_2_7_dir/lib/datalib.php line 340++, however it doesn't give the user list correctly sorted, but at least you can add users then.
I will chase the problem further.

Invalid get_string() identifier: 'messageprovider:bookingconfirmation' or component 'mod_booking'. Perhaps you are missing $string['messageprovider:bookingconfirmation'] = ''; in mod/booking/lang/en/booking.php?

Sorry David, I just figured that out. I had got confused by the similarity of the screens (creating the booking instance and creating the booking options) as they are very similar and appear to share some configuration options.
Thanks for the reply.
Regards
Colin

Hi Colin,
yes. After creating the booking instance you have to create the booking options. That is the next step after creating the booking activity on the course page.
If you access the booking instance without having created any booking option as student. That is exactly the error message you get. You have to access the booking instance with a teacher role and you are automatically redirected to the form for creating the booking option.
Best,
David

Hi David,
I am a little confused by what you mean as "booking option". I have specified duration, Organizer name, Limited the number of participants, Set Max. number of participants, Restricted answering to a time period.
Have I missed something? As I said in my previous post, it worked last week and now it doesn't. We have made no changes to our Moodle so I am a little confused.
Thanks
Colin

Hi Colin,
seems you did not specify any booking options yet. Did you? What did you do to do so?
Best regards,
David

Hi,
I installed this last week and it worked fine on 2.6.3+ now when a booking is made and someone tries to book then this message is displayed.
error/There are no booking options available yet
More information about this error
Debug info:
Error code: There are no booking options available yet
$a contents:
Stack trace:
line 463 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 58 of /mod/booking/view.php: call to print_error()
Anybody got a fix?
Cheers
Colin

What would be great is for the booking of the course - the teacher can assign a grade to their booking if they attended and as such score it.

Thanks David... that seems to have fixed it

@Stephan Catton: I just fixed the problem and uploaded a new version.

@Stephen Catton: What did you do to get this and what moodle version are you using?