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Will there be any new features in the 2.5 version?

Hi Stephen - we plan to fully support this Moodle version until the features have made their way into the Core Forums (see https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-39707). We will be releasing the 2.5 version very shortly.

What are the future plans for this plugin? Support for 2.5 and 2.6?

NP Kris
Debug info: Table 'lms.mdl_hsuforum_discussion' doesn't exist
SELECT count(1) FROM mdl_hsuforum_subscriptions_disc t1 LEFT JOIN mdl_hsuforum_discussion t2 ON t1.discussion = t2.id WHERE t1.discussion <> ? AND t2.id IS NULL
[array (
0 => '0',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Stack trace:
line 423 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
line 1005 of /lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
line 1397 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
line 1470 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_sql()
line 1641 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_field_sql()
line 105 of /admin/tool/xmldb/actions/check_foreign_keys/check_foreign_keys.class.php: call to moodle_database->count_records_sql()
line 159 of /admin/tool/xmldb/actions/XMLDBCheckAction.class.php: call to check_foreign_keys->check_table()
line 69 of /admin/tool/xmldb/index.php: call to XMLDBCheckAction->invoke()
We got this error in 2.3.8 and 2.5.1
Got it by checking for Foreign Key Violations in the XMLDB editor that comes with Moodle.
Go to Site Administrator > Development > XMLDB Editior and then click on the Check foreign keys option.

Hi Matt - I'm not sure where that's coming from, but the correct table name is mdl_hsuforum_discussions (plural). I'm not intimately familiar with the process you took to get the error, but if you could toss the stack trace details, steps to reproduce the problem, and version of Moodle you use into a ticket we can investigate.

Hi Kris
Was running the XMLDB editor in moodle to look for foreign key violations and I got the following error:
Debug info: Table 'lms.mdl_hsuforum_discussion' doesn't exist
SELECT count(1) FROM mdl_hsuforum_subscriptions_disc t1 LEFT JOIN mdl_hsuforum_discussion t2 ON t1.discussion = t2.id WHERE t1.discussion <> ? AND t2.id IS NULL
[array (
0 => '0',
)]
Error code: dmlreadexception
Any suggestions for a fix?

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have anonymous posts hidden for other students unless teacher marked them as substantive?

A new version of Advanced Forums has been released to support Moodle 2.4. Please note that this is a beta release as it has not completed testing by our QA team.

Thanks for the suggestion Richard - I've clarified that in the documentation at http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Advanced_Forum.
You may be happy to know that we are working with the Core developers to include that functionality in a later version. Further details will be provided when they are ready.

Worked for me on 2.4 although it took me a while to find out that it didn't have all the features mentioned in the manual - http://manuals.moodlerooms.com/display/JOULE2/Moodlerooms+Manual#MoodleroomsManual-AdvancedForum.
Would be a good idea to have different documentation for this lite version to save others looking for things that aren't there. I only realised after reading one of the comments above.

This plugin doesn't work for Moodle 2.4 "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." https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-34741

The newest version of Advanced Forums, for Moodle 2.3, is now available. Enjoy!

@Cora - we will be releasing an update to Advanced Forums for Moodle 2.3 in the next couple of days. There's an approval process that may also tack on some time, but I believe that is supposed to be much quicker for updates.
@Tony - the Moodle 2.3 version does not address the changes to support YUI 2in3 required for Moodle 2.4. It generally takes us a full release cycle (6 months) to update plugins to the latest version of Moodle, though we are trying to improve on that in the future.

Ditto. We're on Moodle 2.4 and finding that there's an incompatibility with the newer version of the yui library. Hoping the 2.3 version will be up to date enough to address this.

May I know when will the release for version 2.3 available?