OU blog

Are there plans to add a print to file function in? I'm finishing one off at the moment that will print all the blogs on screen, an individual's blog and individual blog posts. My colleague did a basic version for teachers-only previously, which I've based it on.
Currently I just include an extra PHP script into the view and viewpost files - just need to double check it handles permissions of who can/can't see a post currently so is littered with debug statements. It makes a word file currently thanks to the code my colleague did initially, though I might change that to make a PDF now he's found a stable PHP library that does it

We don't know if the plugin works in 2.6 and it is not recommended to use it in 2.6 until fully supported. The official release version for 2.6 should be early June - however, there will be updates to the github master with any 2.6 fixes (should things break) from March.

I understand that the current plug-in is for Moodle 2.5. I have 2.6. Will it also work on 2.6? If not, do you know when the plug-in for Moodle 2.6 will come out? Thanks. Richard.

I have isolated the above situation. It only occurs if you deny "allow comments" in the OU Blog settings from within the course.

Using this on Moodle 2.5.1 everything works fine EXCEPT the attachments loading animation never stops and as such you don't get to the point where you can upload an attachment.

how many people are using this on 2.5+ stable? is it working without errors?

I've now added a reference at:
github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_oublog/issues/22
Regards, John

Hi Jason and all,
Today I have created a tracker item (probably in the wrong place) at MDL-41518. I tried to find OU Blog under the tracker components but it doesn't appear there.
No matter, I have recently worked on an enhanced of the OU Blog that delivers multiple grading points and 'snap-shotting' and I thought you might want to know of it.
Regards, John

Using OU Blog in Moodle 2.5.1. Works great! Can you modify the tagging to communicate with the tag cloud for the next version of this plugin. Thanks, Jeff

Hi everyone, we are testing OU Blog with Moodle 2.5 and are getting this error when trying to create a post as a student:
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PAGE->yui2_lib() is not available any more, use YUI 2in3 instead, see MDL-34741 for more information.
More information about this error
The more information link takes us to http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/error/debug/codingerror
Is there something we need to change or do you need to fix something?

Hi Linda,
This is not a bug - the latest version requires Moodle 2.4. If you are still running a lower version you need to use either the historical installs from this site or use the related branch from GitHub (so for example the MOODLE_23_STABLE branch).

Hi,
I just found an install bug in lib.php line 485 in version 2013043000 - I checked github and this code is still there.
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function course_add_cm_to_section() in /var/lib/moodle/gao23/mod/oublog/lib.php on line 485
The function: course_add_cm_to_section() is only found in Moodle 2.4 and up.

Hi,
Just thought I would share this one, a problem solved! but also a further question.
I had a user getting an problem when creating entries in the OU Blog.
The problem is as follows:
They type a short dummy note with three headings, each with a line of text underneath.
They clicked to Add the blog and it only appears to have stored the first line, not the complete text.
I have tried to replicate this issue but logging in as the user and following the process as indicated, but I am unable to produce the same problem.
However the problem had been traced to Internet Explorer 9, and enabling compatibility mode fixed the issue.
The question: I am not familiar with Moodle Blogs, Where are the Blog entries held in moodle? I am assuming it is a database table. What I need to establish is if the previous entries the user attempted to make are still stored there. My own view is that it is unlikely but it is necessary to confirm this.
Thanks

Hi Anna,
Jason - who is in charge of this plugin now - is away so I can't give a definite answer, but when I was involved in it, my understanding was that we are not planning to add this feature (threaded comments) but intend to keep the blog comments to a simple list view (as used on many, although not all, public blogs).
Of course users can manually comment on somebody's comment by writing their name at the top of the post (like I did on this one).

We installed the OU blog plugin on our 1.9 moodle and it works nice! Thank you for this plugin.
I see no possibility to comment on someone's comment. Does this feature exists at some version of this plugin? Are you planning to add this feature in future?
Thanks, Ana