Navigation buttons

hi Davo - love the plug in, but I agree with Jake. the way it is, people miss parts of the course with out even knowing it. Maybe this could be an option for those like Jake and I who prefer them not to be able to continue on until conditions are met??

Hugo - you can change the icons or the colours via the settings page for the plugin.

Thank you for this great plugin!
I have one question though: where can I style the navbuttons? All CSS seems to be inline.

Jake - I think it would be very difficult to guess whether the teacher wanted that or wanted to skip activities that weren't available (for example, I assume that 'hidden' activities should still be skipped over and the next activity selected, the same for 'groups only' activities). I think it would also be confusing to users working through the course if they were stopped half-way through the course by a single activity that isn't currently available.

Great plugin! Thanks for the work. The one change I would like to see is making it so that if the course that would normally be linked to by the "Next" button isn't available because of completion requirements, then the button should be greyed out and disabled rather than going to some other activity later down the line that is available. Thanks again!

That's it, now it works! Davo, thank you very much for your support and for the useful moodle plugin.

Dimo - almost certainly by making the same change to the footer() function in theme/essential/renderers/core_renderer.php, but I've not tried it, so you'll just have to see what happens (please post here if it works or not, but I can't really provide much more support than that).

Well the problem comes from the theme. We use Essential theme and Navigation buttnos doesn't work, when switch to standart theme the message is: Navbuttons self-test: required core modifications have been completed successfully.
Any idea what do I have to change to make this wonderful plugin work with essential theme?
Thanks.

It was certainly working properly with Moodle 2.5 last time I tried (probably 2.5+ or 2.5.1). Will double check, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't working if installed correctly. Could you see if it works with the standard theme, if you were using anything else?

Hi,
I'm trying navigation buttons on moodle 2.5.2 but it doesn't work. I've changed the lines in the file 'moodle/lib/outputrenderers.php' as the readme required then replaced the line:
$output = $this->container_end_all(true);
with
require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/blocks/navbuttons/footer.php');
$output = draw_navbuttons().$this->container_end_all(true);
but it shows me the error message:
Navbutton self-test: The line "$output = draw_navbuttons().$this->container_end_all(true);" has not been correctly added to outputrenderers.php - see README.txt for further instructions
I don't think that i miss something... do you have any idea?
Greetings

Floyd - yes, that is due to the plugin having been moved from the 'blocks' category on Moodle.org to 'other', so all the helpful tidying up that should happen when you submit files to here doesn't work.
There isn't a lot I can do about it.

Before this is installed you need to change the root folder name inside the .zip file from "davosmith-moodle-navbuttons-0056e71" to "navbuttons".

Whitney - not quite sure what 'open all' / 'close all' buttons you are referring to. The only buttons that my plugin has (outside of the settings page) are the row of square next/previous/etc. buttons.

Hey there,
Appreciate this plugin. Can you direct me to how to remove the "Open all" / "Close all" buttons at the top?
Thanks

Hi Davo - Please ignore the above request. It must be some glitch within the system and not the nav buttons. I have copied and restored the course and hey presto the nav buttons appeared.