Moodle plugins directory: Booking

Hi David,
I turned off output buffering temporarily on my production server and the error is cleared. Did you have output buffering turned on when you tried to reproduce the error? Again, it only happens when I try to download all booking option responses. It does not happen when downloading a single booking option. Thank you again for any help.

Hi Rob,
I did not have the time to have a closer look at the problem. How did you turn off the output buffer?
Kind regards,
David

@Georg Wiesinger: The reason you are not seeing any places available is, because you are using german. German is not supported anymore due to lack of funding. You can nevertheless provide your own translation in the Moodle admin backend or even better on lang.moodle.org.

@Rob: How many bookings do you have? 10, 1000 or 10000 or 100000 or 1.000.000?

Thanks for your help, David! I will translate all missing strings to German, first I need to check how lang.moodle.org works...

@David, The output buffer is in the php.ini file. It is set to 4096 bytes by default.

The export fails for all booking options no matter if there only two or up to 80. If I then click a single booking option, it works fine.

Hi Guys,

Thankyou for what is probably a great module for booking...

BUT that's the problem, I have no idea, because the documentation (http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Booking_module) seems to be missing 95% essential information,

No explanation for any of these fields, what they do, or how to use them.....

Booking nameRequired field (what is this for, who sees this?)- no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere
Event typeRequired field (I have no idea what this means - surely all events are bookings?)- no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere
Booking text (where is this shown what is this for? who sees it?)- no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere
Duration (mins, weeks hours, are they contiguous?)- no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere - formatting?
Course points (I have no idea what this is)- no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere
Organizer name (Is this the name of the person they are going to meet?) - I assume so but no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere
Poll Url - no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere - the help file pop-up doesnt help
Teachers poll url - no mention in the docs of what this is anywhere


It seems essential information is missing. Is this confusion to encourage people to pay for an explanation via paid support ? This doesnt seem very fair. If a module is badly documented then it seems wrong to say "well if you want us to give you proper documentation then you can always pay for it"

Paid support is a very fair and reasonable request to make (I wish we - -as a totally unfunded charity - could afford it) but could we at least get explanations of how to use the tool, with a description of the settings instead of being left to guess - or have 6 words answers for each setting?

I am quite frustrated, I have installed the software only to discover it doesn't explain 90% of the features. Are we supposed to guess what any of these settings do? Or abandon the guesswork and go for another solution?

I started my email with the subject line something for nothing. Perhaps if someone sent me proper documentation that explains ALL the settings clearly - I could return the favour - for example - by creating some video tutorials that we coukd all use and benefit from and furter promote this great tool? (Thats what my voluntary schools project does by the way)

Do let me know either way as I need to know how to use the tool - or delete it and start all over again with another solution that has explanations for teachers are not just moodle coders and senior tech level admin

Many thanks

Dom

P.S> I would also be happy to share translation work to iEnglish and correct some of the spellings that appear in the current installed version. Its all a two way process of supporting each other - from one dotorg to another.

D

@Dom, the docs page you linked to is for a very old version of Moodle. Try https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Booking_module. I am just a user of the module. It was pretty easy to figure out what the settings do by creating a Booking event and using a test account or two to simulate its use. Give it a try, the module works really well.

Hi, If i add a record direct to mdl_booking_answears, a email confirmation will send in on the next cron.php execution. Or I need to add more records in other tables ?

@Jose: I you are trying to do strange things. You can't add something directly to the db and then expect to trigger something with your action. I recommend not doing that at all.

@Dom: You are welcome to contribute to the language file or to the documentation. Right now the documentation really is very basic, but most features can be explored through testing. Personally I can only provide services based on a contract.

Kind regards,
David

Please help. How can i set my students view to only see the "view only my bookings" as in the case of image four of the pugin screenshots. currently my students see all four tabs: 1. "My Institutions" 2. "Active Bookings" 3. "All Bookings" 4. "My Bookings"

Hi Saaid, I just uploaded a new version. In this version you can define a default view in the booking settings. i hope, that solves your problem. Kind regards,
David