When sitting behind the 'Advanced' link in discussion creation, the 'Post a copy to all groups' option is not very much visible
for a discussion creator. There were many proposals within the community to bring this option to the quick discussion creation
form.
The current improvement brings the 'Post a copy to all groups' option back to the quick discussion creation form.
A behat tests was added to cover the feature's behavior.
Note that normally this doesn't matter much, but there are situations
when we want the discussion list ordering fully consistent /
deterministic.
Specifically, when discussions (or forum posts )are created in the
same second, or when the discussion titles are repeated, or 2
discussions have the same number of votes... (any criteria in general),
in the context of testing, we don't want the order
to be non-consistent, so we need to provide an extra sorting
criterion to make it fully deterministic.
So, in this case, we are adding a sort by discussion.id <<DIRECTION>>
that is an unique value, primary key... so cheap to calculate and,
that way, when the 1st sorting column has repeated values, the id
will decide.
In PHP 8.2 and later, setting a value to an undeclared class property is
deprecated and emits a deprecation notice.
So we need to add missing class properties that still need to be declared.
Since PHP 8.2, placing the dollar sign outside the curly brace is deprecated when
the expression inside the braces resolves to a variable or an expression.
Allow users to see their own private messages even if they don't have
mod/forum:readprivatereplies capability
Add behat test to avoid MDL-67109 issue.
Co-authored-by: Martin Putzlocher <mputzi@users.noreply.github.com>
Default value of the $flag argument changed in PHP 8.1 from ENT_COMPAT to ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE
To ensure consistent behavior across different PHP version the second parameter is now required for the functions:
htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars_decode(), html_entity_decode() and get_html_translation_table()
The following change adds support to show only active course users
in the forum grader and generally replicates the behaviour from the
assignment grader which relies on certain config settings, user
permissions and capabilities.
This code was used only by deleted upgrade steps so it's safe
to proceed with straight deletion, considering it internal.
Deletion has been documented in corresponding upgrade.txt files:
- \mod_forum\task\refresh_forum_post_counts adhoc task
And these is the list of code that has NOT been removed
because it may be needed in the future:
- \core_search\manager::clean_up_non_existing_area(), used by
- adhoc task: \core\task\clean_up_deleted_search_area_task adhoc task
When a student post exceeds the posting threshold
block then 'Add discussion topic' button should not be shown.
Also the student cannot reply to a topic if this is exceeded.
This issue is a followup for changes made in forum. And hence
addresses the following issues spotted for forum:
1. Bring back the "Forums" header in the search page.
2. Remove the stale function forum_update_subscriptions_button
3. Fix the redirection to activity tab when subscription is
changed, in the subscription tab.
The method can_edit_content() now supports more scenarios where the
H5P content can be edited:
- Instead of supporting only mod_h5pactivity, now it supports any
mod or block when the user has the addinstance capability.
- If the component implements the can_edit_content method in the
h5p\canedit class and it returns true. For instance, the mod_forum
implements it and return true when filearea is post, if the user
can edit the post where the H5P is.
Before this change if a new post was made after the digest time but
before todays daily digest had been sent the run time on the digest
would be set to the next day resulting in no digest being sent to
the user.
By adding the server midnight to the custom data on the task we
ensure that in this case a new adhoc task is created for the next
day leaving the current one to get processed.
Server midnight is used so that if the digest time setting is
changed we would not get two tasks queued for the same day.
Allows display_size to use a fixed unit for easy comparison of
multiple results, and fixed decimal places for the same reason.
Improves behaviour by using consistent decimal places and a
consistent space before the unit (the previous one only has a space
before 'bytes', not before 'KB').
Of existing uses, all the ones that displayed a 'maxbytes' type
configuration setting (which are likely to have an 'exact' size
and would be better shown as 512 KB rather than 512.0 KB) have been
changed to use 0 decimal places, to preserve previous behaviour.
All the uses which were showing an actual file or memory size have
been left as default (1 decimal place).
Brendan Heywood