Added two new buttons to the group page to bulk enable or disable the
selected groups messaging settings.
Supporting Javascript modules were also added to disable/enable the
buttons depending on the groups selected in the picker.
These new settings are designed to enchance user privacy surrounding
groups. They allow groups to be configured so that users outside the
group cannot see the group, so that users in the group cannot see each
other, or so that users cannot see the group at all, even if they are in
it. This avoids issues where a group may be assigned based on sensitive
personal information (such as a person requiring special arrangements
due to a disability).
By default, groups are visible to all and available for participation in
activities, which maintains the current behaviour.
For performance, a new cache has been added to track the number of
groups on a course that are not visible to non-members. This allows us
to revert to the existing behaviour if the new features are not being
used at all on a course, and only apply the new visibility conditions if
they are.
Users who have the moodle/course:viewhiddengroups capability should be
concious of exposing hidden groups when showing their screen to other
users. The "Switch role to..." feature can be used to show a course page
on screen without exposing private availability conditions, for example.
The changes cover several specific areas:
* grouplib functions, which most code should use to get lists of groups
and members (this includes the participants page).
* Activities supporting group overrides will not allow overrides for
groups that are hidden from all users.
* Activities supporting separate/visible groups modes will only allow
groups with the new "participation" flag enabled to be selected.
* Group messaging will be disabled for groups where members cannot see
each other, or cannot see the group at all.
Significant string changes:
* importgroups_help,core_group - Correcting optional fieldnames
(removing picture, hidepicture and adding groupidnumber, groupingname
and enablemessaging)
* penaltyforeachincorrecttry_help,core_question - additional paragraph
about scoring logic
* resultdownloadready,tool_dataprivacy - wording corrected (no need to
go to a download page)
* auth_dbfielduser,auth_db - varchar data type requirement
Significant string changes:
* withselectedusers_help, core - removing mention of 'Add a common note'
as the option no longer exists
* considereddigitalminor and digitalminor_desc, core - more
child-friendly wording
* configmessagingallusers, core_admin - clearer explanation
* auth_dbtype, auth_db - fixed broken link
MDL-45991 groups: Auto-create groups with ungrouped users only
When using auto-create groups, sometimes it is needed to only create
groups with users that are not already inside a course group. This
patch creates a checkbox that will ignore users that are in already
existing groups. It alters the groups_get_potential_members function so
that the eligible users are retrieved entirely though sql.
This combines the following changes:
* Event for group member added
* Event for group member removed
* Event for group created
* Event for grouping created
* Event for group updated
* Event for grouping updated
* Event for group deleted
* Event for grouping deleted
* Adding tests for deleting functions
* Bulk remove of members uses low-level API
The reason for this is that a bulk event has no value from a logging
perspective as it is not granular. So now, the API is a bit slower,
but the information the events contain makes sense, beside this is
not (and should not be) used very often.
The reason why the events_trigger_legacy() is kept is because we
cannot create a new event for this, as we don't encourage developers
to created bulk events, for the reasons mentioned above.
I removed the call that gets the user record from the function
groups_remove_member() as it was not required and only appeared
to check if the user existed. It appears to be safe not to do
this check as nothing would fail down the line.
* Bulk unassign of groupings uses low-level API
As the previous commit, we keep the legacy event for now as it would
be wrong to create a new event to replace it.
Also, the code has been changed to call the low-level API to unassign
groups from groupins, even though at the moment there are no
events for that function.
* Bulk deletion of groups uses low-level API
Again, we keep the legacy event because replacing it would force
us to create a new event that does not make sense. See MDL-41312.
* Bulk deleting of groupings uses low-level API
* Asserting legacy event name in unit tests
* Minor SQL query and code improvements
Credit: original version done by Kirill Astashov of NetSpot (netspot.com.au),
finished and tweaked by sam.
This change adds conditional availability support for sections analagous to
that already available for activities. (Backend, UI, backup/restore.)
In order that this feature does not reduce performance, section cacheing has
also been added using a new course 'sectioncache' field analagous to modinfo.
The new feature integrates with activity availability so that activities
inside sections which are not available are automatically not available
themselves (meaning it works to restrict access).
Helen Foster