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Dialogue Module for Moodle
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Activity completion "Expect Completed on" function doesn't add entry to Calendar/Timeline block #106

Open atbinix opened 2 years ago

atbinix commented 2 years ago

Hi,

It has been observed that the 'dialouge' activity does not add calendar/timeline block entries whenever the activity is set to use the 'Expect completion by' function of Activity Completion.

It appears the Moodle core code might not automatically handle adding entries to the calendar via this field, so requires plugins to explicitly update '\core_completion\api::update_completion_date_event' instead. This was noted elsewhere for the Checklist activity via https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-8344 where the following code was required to be added for it, for example: https://github.com/davosmith/moodle-checklist/commit/c2edd07cd27a8c20e80e640b5234d990185b744d.patch

Not sure if that is relevant or applicable in this case, but thought I'd mention it.

STEPS TO REPLICATE:

===== Further note:

It would be best to handle this more like how other core modules (ex: Quiz) handles this:

$completionexpected = (!empty($quiz->completionexpected)) ? $quiz->completionexpected : null;
\core_completion\api::update_completion_date_event($quiz->coursemodule, 'quiz', $quiz->id, $completionexpected);

The checklist method actually means you can never make the calendar event go away by unticking 'Expect completion by'. The way the Quiz does it means it can be un-set via the applicable tick-box, which would be the preferable outcome.

danmarsden commented 2 years ago

thanks for the report, feel free to help further by submitting a pull request with the required changes.