Looking for a way to create cohort based on user creation time

[swinster]

Hi,

I guess the field to reference is {{ timecreated }}, but then I'm not entirely sure how.

What is required is to create cohorts based on Month or bi-min they were created e.g.:

• Oct 2020, Nov 2020, Dec 2020 or
• Sept-Oct 2020, Nov-Dec 2002

etc

Some pointesr would be awsome

[danmarsden]

It uses mustache templating so this page is probably a good place to look for ideas - I wonder if userdate might work: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Templates#.7B.7B.23_userdate_.7D.7D_.28Moodle_3.3_onwards.29

I don't think we've tried anything like this before so let us know if you figure it out!

[swinster]

Well, I used this pattern in the Main Template section, but nothing happened:

{{#userdate}} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{/userdate}}

so I then tried adding spaces:

{{ #userdate }} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{ /userdate }}

Which resulted in a cohort:

 1605290540, %B %Y 

Obviously, the epoch time and string literals, so the helper syntax must be incorrect.

Just as a look/see (as per the other helper documentation) I also tried:

{{# userdate }} {{ timecreated }}, %B %Y {{/ userdate }}

But again, nothing.

I looked at the "Replace array" but it simply looks to use a static text pattern.

[swinster]

Does it look as if the plugin ignores helpers?

[danmarsden]

sounds like it - you might need to look to see how Moodle adds those helpers to the templates and see if you can hack that into the way the plugin manages templates.

[swinster]

I suspect this is beyond what I would be able to achieve :(.

Just for a giggle, I might look at the code, but this is not really my area.

[swinster]

Yep - not giggling... Unfortunately, I don't really know where to start.