Static Pages

Hi Alexander, may I ask again how to add a block for one static page only! If I'm doing so the block always show up on all my static pages. Moodle 3.1.2+, latest version of static pages
Many thanks in advance!

Hi Alexander,
many thanks for your reply! Well, I successfully embedded the calendar in a static page, finally using an iframe and it works like a charm now!
I'm still not able to add a block only to a specific static page, using the latest version of the plugin on Moodle 3.1.2+. In the corresponding block configuration I can choose between local-staticpage-view, local-staticpage-view-*, local-staticpage-*, local-* and every page. I tried all settings but my block shows up on all static pages... Am I missing something?
Kind regards,
Georg

Hi Anusha,
If you look at https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md, you will read:
"If you want to include images into your static page, you have to upload them somewhere else. local_staticpage is not capable of hosting / serving image files. Linking to image files, please do yourself a favour and link to them with absolute URLs, not relative URLs."
I think this should answer your question.
Hi Georg,
sorry for the late answer.
Regarding the calendar:
On the one hand, I can't give you really good help how to add this JS calendar to a static page. I can only tell you to make sure that the static page plugin is configured to not clean the static page content because otherwise the JS code you add to a static page might be dropped. Everything else exceeds my time to support this plugin, sorry.
On the other hand, you can't add any PHP code to display the Moodle-internal calendar to a static page, sorry.
Regarding the block placement:
I am not aware which version of the plugin you are using. With the latest version of the plugin (which is the only one we support), it is possible to add a block to a static page and to configure in the block configuration to show the block on static-.html (which means only this page) or static-* (which means all static pages).
Thanks anyway,
Alex

Hi,
I created an html page on word. While my static page opens up, however, the images in the page do not load. Any idea how I can resolve this? Thank you.

Hi! May I ask how to show blocks on specific static pages instead on all of them! I can choose between 5 entries in the block configuration (local-staticpage-view, local-staticpage-view-*, local-staticpage-*, local-* and every page) but nothing is changing at all! Am I missing something? Thanks a lot in advance!

Hi! I would like to use a static page to show a calendar (fullcalendar.io). I tried it first using an iframe but I wasn't very happy with the resizing of the calendar. Using the fullcalendar script directly in a static page results in a blank page when opening it in Moodle which I guess is due to the js libraries not being loading properly. My questions: Is there a way to show this calendar within a static page at all? Where would I have to place the links to the libraries to not interfere with the ones loaded by Moodle? I used Moodle's additional html section to save all css and js links but it didn't work! I really appreciate any help!

Hi Marc,
I am really sorry but I don't understand your question. Could you please elaborate on what you want to achieve?
Thanks,
Alex

Wonderful plugin. Thanks. Is there a way to hide the URL and just go directly to the link?

Hi Usman,
thanks for your feedback.
I have removed the list of the found files in the course of changing the place where the HTML files are saved from a directory on disk to a filearea in Moodle itself. I just wanted to get rid of problematic stuff and storing the files in a directory as well as the list of files produced most support requests in the last years.
But you're right, there should be a note at which URL the static files can be found and I will add this to the next minor release.
Hi MTECH,
I am sorry, but I can't help you with that few information about your problem. If you submit detailed information about your setup, I will do my best to help you.
Thanks,
Alex

I have installed the plugin and added an htaccess file to my moodle installation folder with the specified changes. I upload a plain html file using the example code provided in the readme. I am getting a 404 error no matter what I try. Any suggestions? Thanks

Alex, I have just used version 3.x and found few things have changed, besides file up loader rather than giving a path (both have their advantages) one thing I really missed is where in previous versions it use to list all the found files and give paths to be used making it easy for users to copy/paste paths, whilst this is not he case now,if not automated path, can you type in static text in plug-in settings how may a URL would look like.
Thanks

Hi Abel,
please go to /admin/settings.php?section=staticpage and change the setting there.
Please also note that the setting is only there in the 3.0 version of the plugin.
Thanks,
Alex

Aha, I understand. Thanks for your fast answer.
How can I switch the HTML cleaning function off?
Thanks again.
Regards.

Hi Abel,
basically, you should be able to define an anchor with something like
h3 id="foo" (I removed the brackets from the tags for styling reasons here on moodle.org)
and link to it with
a href="#foo"
But this does not work if you have the plugin's setting local_staticpage | cleanhtml = On. Then a HTML cleaning function is used which drops the ID attribute. If you switch this off, you should be fine.
Thanks,
Alex

Hi,
One brief question.
I've tried to use HTML anchors like in this page:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/484719/html-anchors-with-name-or-id
I've used the HTML5 way to do it, but it doesn't work in Static Pages.
Is html blocked on this plugin or something like that? Sorry for my inexperience.
Best regards.