Allow the use of coursearchiver to manager system role

[canatojr]

Hello!

On our website we need the coursearchiver to be used by users in the manager system role.

To do so, I did the following:

• A) Created a capability (tool/coursearchiver:view) in the database table (mdl_capabilities)
• B) Changed the code in the cousearchiver/settings.php file, commenting out the lines 27, 75, 76 and adding the capability information to the line 72: $ADMIN->add('courses', new admin_externalpage('toolcoursearchiver', get_string('coursearchiver', 'tool_coursearchiver'), "$CFG->wwwroot/$CFG->admin/ tool/coursearchiver/index.php", 'tool/coursearchiver:view'));
• C) Assigned that capability to the manager system role.

It's working fine, but I don't know if this way is the best and if it doesn't involve security issues.

So I'm reporting this experience just to suggest inserting a feature in the coursearchiver that allows its use for users allocated as managers but not as site administrators.

Best regards,

Osvaldo

[drfyzziks]

I'd like to add my vote for being able to run Course Archiver under other users/roles besides admin. One of the schools whose Moodle I manage has a large number of old courses they need to archive (going back years). Because it's such a large task, they have divided the work among 4 people. In order to run Course Archiver, we've had to give them admin privileges, with a warning not to touch anything else in the system - which is not ideal.

Alternatively, we could have created a single user account w/admin privileges and let them share that, but that has its own issues.

Ideally, having a "tool/coursearchiver" capability that we could assign to a manager or similar role would solve both our access and accountability problems.