Re: Want the site home page to be Alternative Login URL
by Emma Perks. I'm now finding that SSL login no longer works.I have Moodle HTTPS enabled. Thanks. Emma
View ArticleRe: Importing AD Users via LDAP
by Simon Hall. Thanks for everyone's responses !So I ended up using the csv file to upload users and specified the authentication using 'auth' in one of the column headings and did the same for...
View Articleldap conditional data mapping
by Michael O'Brien. Is it possible to map data fields from ldap only if certain conditions are met?The use case: In an AD domain there are a number of contexts and based on the context the fields hold...
View ArticleDB Custom Fields
by Lachlan Hickey. Hi There,Like many others on this forum, I'm attempting to map my ID field in my external DB to the ID field in the mdl_user database. How can I easily customise the code to allow...
View ArticleRe: LDAP Sync Script Error
by Andrew Morris. I get this and there doesn't seem to be a solution to the problem:!!! Only lowercase letters allowed !!!!!Error code: usernamelowercase !!!! Stack trace: * line 120 of /user/lib.php:...
View ArticleRe: selectively syncing ldap users
by G L. Or, maybe more simply, is there a cli script or something like that that will sync one user given a username (samaccountname)? If so, I can just script a foreach wrapper to sync the needed...
View ArticleExternal Database Authentication - Custom Profile Fields
by jen r. Hello,We have recently updated to Moodle 2.6 I have set up an external database authentication with a mssql_n database. This works well for us. I have added a custom profile field that I...
View ArticleRe: DB Custom Fields
by Tim Hunt. The way you are supposed to it is to map {external_system}.id to mdl_user.idnumber. That is what the idnumber field is for, to have a place in Moodle to store externally significant...
View ArticleRe: DB Custom Fields
by Lachlan Hickey. Hi Tim,Thanks for the quick reply.I understand that, but situation is:I am going to pull data from the completion status table and many other tables into an external database. The...
View ArticleRe: DB Custom Fields
by Tim Hunt. Databases are good at that sort of thing. For exampleSELECT cs.*, u.idnumberFROM mdl_completion_status csJOIN mdl_user u ON u.id = cs.useridUse that sort of query as the basis of what you...
View ArticleRe: DB Custom Fields
by Lachlan Hickey. i probably have a low-medium knowledge with MySQL, would you mind explaining the query if possible?
View ArticleRe: Wordpress Moodle SSO
by dewey decibel. I have a solution but it relies on CORS. please read this page about how to setup CORS on your server:http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/then add this code to your...
View ArticleRe: Profile picture update through Xml-rpc protocol
by Aaron Leggett. My resolution to this issue was to download the picture to the app outside of the web-services plugin. When the app is online, I just access the image with the following user...
View ArticleRe: Change the Instructions Text located at /login/index.php
by John Fitchett. Awesome tip -thank you!
View ArticleRe: Remove fields on Edit Profile page
by Gus Hagelberg. I would also like to remove some fields from the profile edit page. Is it still in Moodle 2 (2.6) necessary to change the moodle code? I found a recommendation to add custom css code...
View ArticleI can not connect an external database for manage authentication
by Luis De Sousa. Hi moodlers!I'm trying to use an external database for manage authentication. I want to use my old moodle 1.9 database to identify users of my new site created with Moodle 2.7. But I...
View ArticleCAS based SSO for Moodle 2.7 --> Unspecified exception after redirection
by Zbigniew Misiak. Hi,I am trying to use single sign on functionality using CAS Server (Jasig Central Authentication Service 3.5.2.1), so that users that logged in to an site being on the same server...
View ArticleRe: Change the Instructions Text located at /login/index.php
by Rosario Carcò. I used to put the multi-language-tags into this text too. This worked in Moodle 1.9 and 2.3 like this:<span lang="en" class="multilang">If this is your first time...
View ArticleRe: LDAP Auth data mapping custom user fields
by Michael O'Brien. While it might be too early to say if they will stick around but in Moodle 2.7 I was able to get custom user profile fields to sync from ldap and use a custom category after they...
View ArticleRe: LDAP Auth data mapping custom user fields
by Michael O'Brien. Also not sure but assume if a data mapping field generates too many errors it gets removed from the ldap mapping as 1 mapping was removed while another survived an execution of...
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