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Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'

 
Austen Sinclair
Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'
by Austen Sinclair - Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 8:03 PM
Group PartnersGroup TXP Site Administrator

Hi

In testing for our move from IE6 to IE8 we're found an old bug in the Calendar.  The 'Sign-up for this Face-ot-face session' link is malformed and returns a 'Must specify course id, short name or id number' error.'  Screen shots attached.

Also, I note that the TotaraLMS.demo site has reverted to the old Moodle 1.9 Calendar.

Cheers

Austen


Austen Sinclair
Re: Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'
by Austen Sinclair - Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 8:04 PM
Group PartnersGroup TXP Site Administrator
and, here's the error message

Craig Eves
Re: Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'
by Craig Eves (Totara Support) - Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 9:06 PM
Group Totara

Hi Austen

I tried signing up for a session in IE8 from the Calendar in the demo site and this worked Ok - the link to this was

https://demo.totaralms.com/mod/facetoface/signup.php?s=98

Does your link look similar? I assume the 98 is the session number and this needs to match with a session that has been created.

Craig

Austen Sinclair
Re: Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'
by Austen Sinclair - Wednesday, 14 September 2011, 4:02 PM
Group PartnersGroup TXP Site Administrator

Hi Craig

As mentioned the Demo site has reverted to the standard Moodle 1.9 Calendar module - the versions for subscribers is seen in our site and in the Kineo marketing materail (http://www.kineo.com/Totara/marketing%20collateral/Totara%20Instructor%20led%20training_kineo.pdf).

The signup link is has some text missing: 

What we get is:  http://learnir.ird.govt.nz/course/view.php?s=8429

What we should have is: <other stuff>/mod/facetoface/signup.php?s=8429

Cheers

Austen

Simon Coggins
Re: Broken link in Calendar - 'Sig-up for this F2F session'
by Simon Coggins - Sunday, 16 October 2011, 5:22 PM
Group Totara

Because that data is stored in the database, even if the original bug has been fixed you may still have links in the database pointing to the old (wrong) location.

I'm not sure how you would have ended up with links to course/view.php in the database - perhaps a local customisation?

I think the only way to get that fixed would be to run a query on the database to replace the old links with new ones. The data is stored in the 'description' field of the 'event' table.

Simon