Documentation for Cohorts View

[rarelywrongjared]

Can you provide documentation for the cohorts view for this plugin? Example settings you used would be fine!

[jeffhonnold]

This is largely an unsupported module/connection. I'm in the process of diving in and understanding how the cohort sync works in this module (I'd previously put a sync process together with the old drupal login module and might copy/paste that one in - however that assumed moodle and drupal lived in the same database, and I ultimately prefer the views services approach, so making this work would be great). If cannod can pitch in here, it would help! Otherwise I'll post what I can figure out.

[rarelywrongjared]

The cohorts option does work. I figured it out by trial and error. Make sure your drupal view has a 'cohorts' field that the muser service shows. I had to modify my services views module to make the cohort field display the cohort name instead of the uid. i can post my configs if someone wants them

[jeffhonnold]

That would be great - if you could post the views config (possibly the export of the drupal view?). Thanks much.

[cannod]

Hi Guys,

Yes the cohort option does work and I removed those warning messages from the moodle config. The docs are overdue for a write up on how to setup cohorts and I'll try and do that today.

[cannod]

I'll update the wiki soon but here is a quick howto.

We need to create a view that displays the following custom keys.

uid, cohort_name, cohort_id, cohort_description

So for example here is a preview of the cohort preview I am using.

array (
  0 => 
  stdClass::__set_state(array(
     'uid' => '1994',
     'cohort_name' => 'INTRO-MOODLE',
     'cohort_id' => '405',
     'cohort_description' => 'Introduction to Moodle',
  )),

Where you get your fields from will depend on your particular drupal setup. For me I get it from drupal commerce orders. For example here are the fields I use in the view. The custom key values are in the brackets. As you can see I am getting the fields from the commerce product that the user has purchased. So if a user buys the Intro to moodle course, the view pulls this data from the orders.

(Order) Commerce Order: Uid (uid)
(Product) Commerce Product: SKU (cohort_name)
(Product) Commerce Product: Product ID (cohort_id)
(Product) Commerce Product: Title (cohort_description) 

Hope this can get you started.

[netw3rker]

Sounds like this is a documentation issue. I'm adding it to the 1.0 release milestone and assigning it to @cannod to update. This should also be added as a todo for issue #12 , and is primarily related to #26 (getting documentation updated)