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		<title>Moodle UI hacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing my own little bit of user interface hacking on Moodle for work, since the layout we had before (below) didn&#8217;t work well for our purposes; specifically, the issue we had was with the &#8220;Enrolment (remote) database fields&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=670">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been doing my own little bit of user interface hacking on Moodle for work, since the layout we had before (below) didn&#8217;t work well for our purposes; specifically, the issue we had was with the &#8220;Enrolment (remote) database fields&#8221; section, which is supposed to map values from a remote database tables into Moodle&#8217;s local database tables so that students can be automatically enrolled in courses.  Before, the screen looked like this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-669" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="moodle-externaldb-before" src="http://petercellis.com.s187881.gridserver.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/moodle-externaldb-before1-300x253.png" alt="moodle-externaldb-before" width="300" height="253" /></p>
<p>My user interface tweaks below include a new mapping category done by our in-house web developer <a href="http://secure-file-exchange.com/">Lucian DiPeso</a> so that the full name of the course could also be used locally.  The new section, relabelled &#8220;Data Mapping&#8221;, has eight text fields instead of the original six for precisely this reason.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-672" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="moodle-externaldb-after" src="http://petercellis.com.s187881.gridserver.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/moodle-externaldb-after1-300x246.png" alt="moodle-externaldb-after" width="300" height="246" /></p>
<p>The only issue with this layout change is that the help text on the right-hand side of the new table isn&#8217;t in line with the rest of the help text on the screen, which I expect to correct soon.</p>
<p>There is one other change that we will be implementing on this screen, but that won&#8217;t generate as substantial a user interface change as our need to re-envision the data mapping portion did.</p>
<p>We do intend to commit these changes back to the Moodle core, but we&#8217;ll see whether they are accepted or not (this won&#8217;t be done until we&#8217;re absolutely sure the code changes required across several Moodle files are completed).</p>
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