DataPlus – Databases for Moodle

DataPlus 2.1 is now available on the download screen.  It includes a number of improvements and fixes to make DataPlus stable on load balanced systems running Moodle 2.0.  There are a number of smaller bug fixes also, but if you’re not using load balancing and Moodle 2.0 then you probably don’t need to worry about upgrading.

I am working on some functional improvements, so there should be another release this month or early next including these.  More info soon…

Thanks to the hard work of my colleagues in technical testing here at The Open University, a full release of DataPlus for Moodle 2.0 is finally available on the downloads page.  Huraah!!!

This release has been through comprehensive testing including and exceeding the published DataPlus test plan and has come out the other end, so this is a reliable version at last.

Your comments are, as always, gratefully received.

As today is also the 13th anniversary of my first day working for a university, I feel I deserve a beer.

The second and final beta release of DataPlus for Moodle 2.0 is available on the download page.  All comments gratefully received

A document describing the functionality of DataPlus for Moodle 2.0 is now available in the documents section.

For those of you that use Git, a reminder that there’s a branch for DataPlus on my repository -

https://github.com/anthonyforth/moodle/tree/dataplus

Finally completed a working beta for Moodle 2.0 today including import from Moodle 1.9.  You can get it from the download page.  I’d very much appreciate your comments.

Once this is past, there will be a new version with…

• Renderer support
• MP4 and Flash field types
• Expand collapse options for templates
• Mobile view and input templates

Plus a new, better, set of documentation.

There are two small new features in the beta.  A ‘clear all data’ option for editors to empty all records but keep the templates and data structure (useful if you want to import the database to use as the basis of another instance of the module but obviously to use with caution) and the ability to show an unlimited number of records on the view screen (useful for some folks engaged in template building).

Hopefully the file will be here tomorrow.

Version 1.2.4, for Moodle 2.0,  has completed testing and is now available on the download screen.  There are a number of the bug fixes so it is well worth updating.  It also includes a module setting to restrict the number of records a user can create in a DataPlus instance.

Moodle 2.0 conversion is still ongoing and I am still hoping to have a beta for Christmas, however other work is beckoning so it maybe delayed to the end of January.

As I am sure you already know, Moodle 2.0 is finally released.  I am beavering away migrating DataPlus to 2.0. There will be a beta in the next couple of weeks and, hopefully,  a stable version by Christmas.

DataPlus 1.2.3 is now available from the download screen.  It fixes a major in 1.2.2 that caused one table to be created without a primary key and an upgrade that automatically fixes any databases impacted by this bug.  If you are using 1.2.2, you should upgrade.

Two significant bug reports came in just too late for version 1.2, so 1.2.1 is available now.

Briefly the bugs, if you noticed them, were -
Search results not displaying correctly if ‘next’ link clicked.
Validation of imported databases failing when sequence table present.