Database Field Email

Maintained by Stephan Robotta

This plugin provides an additional field type email for the database activity. The field is very similar to the URL field type, only that it accepts syntactically correct email addresses as values.

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Supports Moodle 4.1-5.2 See all versions

Latest release: 3 months ago

Installations: 44

Downloads (last 90 days): 94

Frankenstyle name: datafield_email

Database fields

Database Field Email

This plugin provides an additional field type email for the database activity. The field is very similar to the URL field type, only that it accepts syntactically correct email addresses as values.

Installation

Please run the following steps:

Extract the zip archive into <moodle_install_dir>/mod/data/field/.
Rename the newly created directory moodle-datafield_email into email so that the files from the repository are inside the directory hierarchy <moodle_install_dir>/mod/data/field/email.
Run php mod/data/field/email/cli/install.php to symlink/copy the icon file from the plugin directory into the mod/data/pix/field directory. This step is optional, when not executed, the icon next to the email entry under the button "Create a field" will be missing.
Finish the installation via the Moodle admin page.

Usage

Within your database activity in the Fields tab when creating a new field, the selection contains the new item "Email" with an envelope icon.

Apart from the standard settings for a field, there is the additional option Create mailto link. When this checkbox is checked, the values of the email field are automatically converted in a mailto link in the view templates. If the checkbox is not checked, then the plain email value is printed without any modification.