Data cleaner
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Maintained by
Marcus Boon, Brendan Heywood, Dmitrii Metelkin, Catalyst IT
This local plugin allows you to sanitise data from a production environment for use on testing/dev environments.
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This has not been updated in many years, but it seems to be running on Moodle version 4.3.
The idea of the plugin and its sub-plugins is a very powerful idea and it is a unique plugin. I hope I can use it well.
It is complex in nature because of working on more than one Moodle instance, I hope any updates will be based on a single instance even on the production server, I assure to you that it will not be a "catastrophic" experience. The golden methodology for every developer is "backup before major changes", so it should not have any issues.
I will continue to find out how to work on 2 instances at the same time with the plugin.
I hope to see changes soon.
Thanks,
The cleaner plugin needs to know both the wwwroot of your production environment as well as the wwwroot of the cleaning environment. It uses this for rewriting urls as well as one of several forms of protection to ensure that you don't accidentally clean your prod environment which would of course be catastrophic. You can find that setting in the admin gui page for the cleaner local plugin. You need to install the plugin into production, then configure it there to specify exactly what is cleaned and how, then clone the db from prod into a separate 'washing machine' moodle somewhere else and run the cleaning cli from there.
https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-local_datacleaner#configuration
1) is it not shown on any of the pictures with this plugin?
2) why is it not clearly documented where to find it? (for instance in the same sentence that emphasizes the importance of the setting)
It would stop people from getting frustrated all the time
Thanks for the new version. I can confirm the issue #4 has gone and all the rest looks ok to me. You are cleared to land, welcome to the Plugins directory!
Thanks guys for sharing the plugin with the community. Can we please have the issue #4 sorted out before we move on with the approval review. Thanks.
p.s. Better not to delete issues from github.
http://integration.moodle.org/job/Precheck%20remote%20branch/23052/artifact/work/smurf.html