* Move the show/hide advanced button a bit down the page.
* Improve save button caption when creating a role.
* Don't show defaults on the basic define roles screen.
* Explain the background shading on the advanced roels screen.
* Fix the problem with the risks link to Moodle docs.
* Help icon by the permissions column heading.
* Tables with rotated <th>s, make them vertical-align: bottom.
* Rename explain.php and explainhascapability.php to check.php and explain.php
* Tool tips on the number headers in the explain table.
* Explain table - role names were missing.
* Allow link_to_popup_window to work with full URLs.
This was started and usability tested as a Finnish Summer of Code project, and then Olli did further work on it in his own time to get it in shape for inclusion in Moodle 2.0. I reviewed all the code. There are a number of minor outstanding issues that will be fixed soon. See the subtasks of MDL-17284 for a list.
The goal of these changes is to:
* help teachers new to Moodle, so when they first see the quiz editing page, they don't go "Huh! What on earth am I supposed to do here?"
* help novice Moodle users understand and learn to use some of the more advanced quiz feature;
* but, without slowing down more experienced quiz users.
Naturally, with ambitous goals like that, we won't have managed to satisy everybody, but I think this change is a big step in the right direction.
There is extensive documentation on this project at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Quiz_UI_redesign.
* New basic define roles mode, with just an Allow checkbox for each capability.
* Button to toggle this form to/from advanced mode.
* Also, a separate mode for viewing a role definition, rather than just showing disabled checkboxes.
* Now duplicating a role just takes to you a pre-populated add role form, so you can double-check things before saving the new role.
* Deleting a role is now logged.
* Role reordering code cleaned up.
* You can now no longer delete the last role that has admin permissions.
* This includes a general refactor of manage.php, which eliminates manage.html, and splits of define.php.
This is being separated from manage.php. This code is only partly working. It displays (most) of a role definition, but does not yet let you save changes. However, I wanted to commit it before going home on Friday night. Since this is new code, it won't break anything.
* Basic mode just hides the prohobit column. Sadly that is all we can do.
* Button to toggle in and out of advanced mode, with user_perference.
* The permission you are selected is now on the page as a label, rather than just being in a tool-tip. (Not pretty, but helpful, I think. I may change my mind on this.)
* You can click anywhere in the table cell, rather than having to hit the radio button exactly.
* Brief instructions at the top of the page.
* Submit buttons both top and bottom of the page.
Also, improved the comment that explains to subclassers what they have to do, and fixed get_selected_users, so if the number of selected users is greater than the max number of users to show, it still works.
* New table role_context_levels
* Populate table with defaults on install
* Populate table on upgrade with the same defaults, plus any additional ones needed to ensure all the role assignments already in the database are allowed.
* Change get_assignable_roles to respect these settings.
* UI for these settings on the add/edit role form.
* Save these settings when a role definition is saved.
* If in a context, there are no roles you can assign, display a polite message.
* Back up these settings.
* Restore these settings. When resotring a <=1.9.x backup file, any newly imported roles are set to be assignable at all contextlevels.
Restore not tested because it is broken in HEAD.
Including:
MDL-11529 When assigning/overriding roles, the dropdown for switching to another role should have a number in brackets
MDL-16549 Should not be able to edit the permission associated with moodle/site:doanything on any role.
* Make the role being assigned clear in the title
* Make the options in the middle of the page be in a collapsable options section, collapsed by default.
* Put them in a smaller font too.
* Switch the date selectors here to use a shorter date format, and change 'Course start date' to 'Course start'.
