DataPlus – Databases for Moodle

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.

DataPlus 1.2 is now available in the downloads section.

New features are –

• Optional commenting on records from the single record view.
• An option to specify a template for add record forms
• A ‘more’ link option to make navigation from view screens to single record views easier.

A new release of DataPlus is due this week with commenting for records, templates for add record forms and a ‘more’ link to make navigation from the view template to single record template easier to implement.  Check back later in the week!

Finally got round to submitting DataPlus to Moodle contrib this afternoon.  Also, a new version, with a couple of small bug fixes courtesy of the work of our tester, is available on the downloads page.

Just to let you know that a professional tester is casting an expert eye over DataPlus this week.

So far, I am pleased to say, they’ve only found a couple of small issues with template editing and a very trivial navigation issue.   They’ve been fixed quickly.  I’ll release a new version of the code  later this week.

I am lucky enough to be presenting on DataPlus and the Open University mobile Moodle initiatives at Moodle Moot UK 2010 at University of London tomorrow.   You can find my slides here (including a few nice screen shots of DataPlus).  First presentation I’ve done in over a year, so I am nervous but looking forward to the response.

Moodle Moot UK 2010 slides