ATutor

announcements in current activity box

• chipwiegand
  

  2017-07-09 12:14:33

  announcements in current activity box

  On My Start page there is the Current Activity box, that box shows some system generated news, such as when I have added a new quiz, and it shows the ammouncements that I have written. I would like to have it show only my own written announcements, no system generated info. I would expect there is a way to limit this through the mysql queries? I've been experimenting but haven't found a way to do it yet.
  Thanks,
  Chip
  
  ATutor Version:2.2.2.
  PHP Version:5.4.45
  MySQL Version:5.6.35-cll-lve
  OS:Linux 2.6.32-673.26.1.lve1.4.27.el6.x86_64
  My laptop: win8.1 6 gigs ram intel i3

• greg
  

  2017-07-12 18:10:35

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  You can disabled Current Activities in the system preferences to remove the system generated info.

• chipwiegand
  

  2017-07-20 13:37:02

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  Yes, I'm aware of that, but, to reiterate - I would like to have it show only my own written announcements, no system generated info. I would expect there is a way to limit this through the mysql queries? I've been experimenting but haven't found a way to do it yet.

• greg
  

  2017-07-20 13:56:21

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  Okay, I guess I'm not understanding what you mean by "system generated info" and "own written announcements".
  
  All elements in the Current activities are generated through the "module_news.php" file associated with each module.

• chipwiegand
  

  2017-07-20 22:52:32

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  Ok, what I'm referring to are the notices created by the Atutor system, such as new quizes and tests, or announcements that I create myself. My desire is to prevent the entries that the system creates from being displayed, but I want my announcements displayed. So, in essence, changing the Current Activty listing to Announcements listing.
  
  I tried modifying every mysql query I could find that appeared to be related to that one db table but nothing I did had any effect on the Current Activity box.
  
  Maybe for the next verion update there can be a switch to enable/disable either of those types of messages. Or, provide the option of turning on a seperate box for announcements. Then make the two selectable as either shown or not shown on the My Start Page.
  
  I hope that helps
  :)

• greg
  

  2017-07-21 08:45:56

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  There isn't a quick way to disable all except announcements. You would need to either add an exit; statement to the top of all the module_news.php files in the module directories, or disable current activity in system preferences and create something of your own that only displays announcements.

• chipwiegand
  

  2017-07-21 12:31:06

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  Thanks for the reply. I see there are 11 (if I remember correctly) module_news.php files. Just as a test I added the exit; just before the function announcements_news() line in the announcements/module_news.php file but it broke the Start Page so it displayed nothing. Upon removing the exit; statement the Start Page worked as normal. So, maybe there is more to it than just that one change? If I change all 11 files I'm sure the results will be the same - a broken Start Page, but I could be wrong about that. Please correct me.

• greg
  

  2017-07-21 17:37:26

  Re: announcements in current activity box

  Try commenting out the whole function() in the module_news.php files
  
  /*
  function(){
  ...
  }
  
  */