moodle/mod/data/upgrade.txt
Sara Arjona 61e8b806ec MDL-75289 mod_data: Implement prototyped tertiary nav
On the Database page:
- The List/single view is displayed in the right.
- The buttons Import entries, export entries and Export to portfolio
have been moved to the Actions menu.
- The List/Single view headings have been removed.
- The "Save settings" secondary button is hidden when advanced search
is enabled.
- The result (Found X out of Y entries, No records found) are not
displayed as notifications anymore.

On the Presets page:
- The buttons (Import, Export and Save as preset) have been moved to an
actions menu to the tertiary navigation. Some of these options have been
renamed.
- Remove the Action column heading from the table.

On the Presets preview page:
- Move the preset name to the heading in the tertiary navigation (Preview
of xxxxx), and remove the current preset name from the page.
- Align the List/single template to the right in the tertiary navigation.
- Make primary the "Use this preset" button.

On the Fields page:
- Remove the "Manage fields" menu.
- Remove the Export and Save as preset from the tertiary navigation.
- Align Create a field to the right in the tertiary navigation.
- Add a description at the top of the page.
- Remove the Action column heading from the table.
- Move field actions (Edit and Delete) to ellipsis.

On the Templates page:
- Move Export and Save as preset to the Actions menu.
- Move the templates list to a tertiary navigation selector and remove
the template heading.
- Reorder the templates list (Add entry template should be displayed
at the begining, instead of List template).
- Rename "Enable editor" to "Enable code editor".
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This files describes API changes in /mod/data - plugins,
information provided here is intended especially for developers.
=== 4.1 ===
* The method data_view is now deprecated. Use $maganer->set_module_viewed instead.
* The data_print_template function is now deprecated and replaced by mod_data\template class.
* The data_print_ratings function now has an extra $print to get the ratings output instead of printing it directly.
* The following functions have been deprecated because they have been moved to the manager class:
- data_get_available_presets
- data_get_available_site_presets
- data_preset_name
- data_presets_export
- data_presets_generate_xml
- data_presets_save
- is_directory_a_preset
* mod_data_external::add_entry() function throws an error when trying to add an entry to a database with no field created.
* data_user_can_add_entry() function returns false for any user if there is no field created on the database.
* From now on, the data_generate_default_template method will always return a string with the template content or an empty
string when there is no content available.
* The following classes have been deprecated from lib.php because they have been moved to use manager class:
- data_preset_importer
- data_preset_existing_importer
- data_preset_upload_importer
* import_setting_mappings() function has been deprecated. Use importing_preset() instead.
* $fieldselect single_select type parameter has been deprecated for fields_action_bar class constructor, and a new action_menu
type parameter has been added.
* The $urlselect, $saveaspresetbutton and $exportpresetbutton parameters in the constructor of the fields_action_bar class
have been deprecated too and are not used anymore.
* The $saveaspresetbutton and $exportpresetbutton parameters in the constructor of the templates_action_bar class
have been deprecated and are not used anymore. Besides, a new parameter, $actionsselect, has been added to the
constructor of this class.
* A new parameter, $actionsselect, has been added to the presets_action_bar constructor.
* A new parameter, $mode, has been added to the view_action_bar constructor.
* The $hassaveaspreset and $haveexportpreset parameters in the get_fields_action_bar() action_bar class have been deprecated and
are not used anymore.
=== 3.7 ===
* External functions get_entries, get_entry and search_entries now return an additional field "tags" containing the entry tags.
=== 3.4 ===
* External function mod_data_external::search_entries() now returns the maxcount field: Total count of records that the user could
see in the database (if all the search criterias were removed).
* External function get_entry now returns an additional field "ratinginfo" containing the entry rating information.
=== 3.3.2 ===
* data_refresh_events() Now takes two additional parameters to refine the update to a specific instance. This function
now optionally takes the module instance object or ID, and the course module object or ID. Please try to send the full
objects instead of the ids to save DB calls.
=== 3.3 ===
* External function get_databases_by_courses now return more fields for users with mod/data:viewentry capability enabled:
maxentries, rssarticles, singletemplate, listtemplate, listtemplateheader, listtemplatefooter, addtemplate,
rsstemplate, rsstitletemplate, csstemplate, jstemplate, asearchtemplate, approval, defaultsort, defaultsortdir, manageapproved.
* Data field classes extending data_field_base should implement the get_config_for_external method.
This method is used for returning the field settings for external functions.
You should check the user capabilities of the current user before returning any field setting value.
This is intended to protect field settings like private keys for external systems.
* Required entries has been added to the Activity completion setting of mod_form. Entries required for completion
(in the entries section) is no longer displayed for new instances and will be deprecated in a future release
in favour of the new completion setting.
=== 3.2 ===
* New hook - update_content_import - Can be implemented by field subplugins data_field_* class
This can be used to pre-process data from a csv file before it is inserted into the database.