Hi,
This may be a stupid question but why does our Totara not have fields for Location, Room and Venue on face-to-face sessions, when other people clearly do and the help documentation describes them as General settings? Do we have to add these as Custom fields?
Many thanks,
Hi Haroon,
Not sure why that is, they should be default. Perhaps they have been turned off in Site Administration > Plugins > Face to face ?
Andy
I have checked in Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Face-to-face and there are no visible settings in here for options to turn them off or on, in fact it doesn't show them at all.
Thanks,
Hi Haroon,
Well spotted - I've checked the code and while these three custom fields are added during an upgrade from old versions of Totara, they are not added by default in a fresh install! I've filed a bug for this and we'll try and get a fix out in the next release.
However in the interim you can go to Site Administration -> Plugins -> Activities -> Face-to-Face and add the three custom fields. The important bit is that the shortname for each should be 'location', 'venue' and 'room' (all lower case).
I solved this problem by altering the default emails to exclude those fields.
If I'd thought it was a bug I'd have raised a support request ;-)
Hi folks,
Today's releases of versions 1.0.34 and 1.1.13 contain a fix where these three custom fields will now be created on a fresh install. However for existing installations you will still have to add the fields manually.
Ciaran
As an aside the problem with not having the custom fields defined is because the custom fields are included in some of the default messages eg [session:location]
You can add other custom fields to a session for example instructor name and include this in a message by adding [session:instructor name] to the message.
