When I go to grading and click to attribute a grade to a student, an interface opens: it has a comment section, grade field, etc. and a screen where it's printed "Generating PDF" where the student's homework should be. Except that the PDF is never ever generated, it just leaves a blank page. It happens when the uploaded file is a Word document - didn't test it with other kinds of submission.
Print:
An image is worth more than a thousand words
I've looked it up in Moodle's forum and it seems this issue's pretty common, but I can't really understand what they are saying, 'cause it seems their solutions are directed to those who have a server at home.
My moodle is hosted on a third-party server, I'm not a server owner, I'm merely the website administrator. I do have access to the web hosting account, but don't have enough permissions to install/change/delete server routines and stuff that requires access to a terminal.
Is there anything that I, as a website administrator can do?
To clarify: 1 - I do not know if this is the right place to ask this questions - there are so many "stackoverflow-sites" that I can't keep track. So, feel free to move my topic.
2 - I did search if there was a similar question here and found none. If there is one, it's well hidden and I would appreciate if anyone could provide me with the link to that.
On moodle 3.2 and 3.1 you need unoconv and libreoffice installed on server, so if you can't install software on the server - it will not work.
On 3.3 it could use google services - didn't try it yet...
Related
This is for ASP.Net website.
When user selects remote documents(pdfs) present on server and clicks print, we need to show the print dialog where user can choose which printer to print to.
The methods which we have tried are:
1. Merge all pdfs, load the resultant on a new window/iframe and invoke print command- The obvious issue here is it takes lots of time when the documents are very large.
Aspose pdf print code / Foxit print code - These require some printer to be installed on the IIS server, which is not feasible for us to do.
neodynamic - This requires an exe to be installed on client as well, which is not good for us.
Can someone suggest alternatives or what else can be tried?
Is there something obvious that we are missing here?
We heard about browser helper objects, if building these have worked for someone, please help.
i once saw a friend of mine whom was very good at visual basics and asp as well as c#. At the time i had no need to learn VB as i found php enough for my needs. While now since ive been in developing for a longer time i see why people use c#. It has its special place. My question relates to one of these special cases.
However i need your help to figure out how it was done.
What my friend did:
I had a wordpress site at the time. Because of our clients, we didnt want them to login backend and fill in the fields in the CMS. We wanted a deployed executable exe that the clients could install on pc and fill in the required data in simple forms that wont confuse them. Once the form was complete they would post the data to the wordpress cms in the background not visible to them. Using a webbrowser in the exe is what i recall my friend doing.
What i want to do:
I want clients to fill run an exe. They would then need to add login details to validate themselves. Once they logged in i want a very simple form that provides the necessary fields that the cms needs to fill in which will complete the post needed to render their page or profile on the actual website. In other words i want VB to connect to my website from a exe using forms to fill in data rather than going to the cms on a normal chrome or explorer browser.
I know you wondering why i want this. It seems like one hell of a work around. Well im a php developer whom needs a exe. I want to be able to package the exe physically in our portfolio when we hand it to clients. It becomes part of our presentation and welcome pack when joining out system.
This will help us when it comes to clients whom are not able to navigate a complex cms. If we make the cms to simple and old fashioned ( what clients generally are used to ) then we would have developed an outdated application in 2015 haha. Hence we want the best cms with modern features for the future, yet still need the old fashioned forms and simple structured date capturing clients are used to.
What you can help me with:
If i had a login, title and mobile number as the fields in my cms. The title had an ID named title and mobile number has an ID named Mobile. How can i do exactly what my friend did to login, and fill out forms then post the filled out form to my website cms that makes the post live. Please assist,:)
Kind regards
Basic solution will be using a webbrowser control with visibility=hidden. Now Just change the value of some elements and invoke submit(). If you can't understand i will explain in details.
I am trying to work out where to put the responses to a GravityForm that I have hosted on WordPress. GravityForms displays them as entry/detail which is not a good way to see how many of x people there are etc.
I need an excel-esqe grid that can be edited by multiple users, so I was thinking Google docs, but I would rather keep the data on my server.
My end users are not particularly IT literate so the front end needs to be quite user friendly.
Is there any solution that I can host on my server and post data in to? I was playing with the idea of writing the form responses to a separate WordPress table but I need a very easy way to edit them.
I'd be grateful to hear any feedback or ideas you have
Manual data copy
EtherCalc is good. The problem is how to get the data in and out of the spreadsheet,
if a manual export and import will work, then you can use EtherCalc.
EtherCalc is a google docs style spreadsheet, edited by multiple users.
You can host it on your own server.
Pay a developer to automate
As above, but pay a developer to automate the movement of data. Would take a few days of work.
Google docs form
I saw a google docs forms plugin that does this already. Maybe you saw that already.
EtherCalc forms feature.
I will add a forms feature to EtherCalc over xmas.
He everyone, thank you for taking you time to have a look at my question.
Im relatively new to website programming, and was wondering if there are any open source login systems which provide the user the ability that when they log on they will have their own page containing their personal details.
The same concept as for example facebook or yahoo email, when the user enters credentials they are taken to their own space, not a generic members only section of the website.
Would appreciate any comment or suggestion!
This might be a bit late but i hate unanswered questions. (Most frustrating)
I'm not much of a guru when it comes to this style of thing but there are many open source content management systems (CMS) applications out there that can handle this type of thing.
My personal preference would be Drupal, as i find it is quite intuitive, has quite a large support base and many features and plugins\modules that can handle user accounts, login redirects, shopping carts, etc.
I would also look at Wordpress and Joomla as they're also well supported open source CMS applications. All three of these CMS's have great tutorials that can be found by Googling or heading to Youtube.
I want to make an app where the users can post messages that will be displayed on a website. The users would need to create a username and password to be able to post.
The app would be like a twitter, but only be able to post through the app and read the last few posts and not be able to write private messages.
The website would function like a huge cloud of thoughts where everyone could go and read what others have written. Once the post hit the cloud, they can't be deleted. Only me could delete posts.
All posts would have different color and font size, it would look like a huge tag cloud on the website.
How do I make an app and a website like this?
David H
The tutorial application for Google Application Engine is an unstyled version of what you describe. They'll even host it for you for free (up to a non-trivial level of usage).
The tag cloud creation is not so very hard but without knowing your preferred language it is hard to point you to helpful libraries (there are plenty out there).
Getting people to use it will be the hard part.
added in response to comment:
Good luck on your endeavor. I would be surprised if you weren't able to learn everything you need to know and have a working web app by the time school starts. I found a simple stand alone web cloud creation library that explains what it does and will run on GAE. So now even that part is in place for you.
I'm tempted to make some pathetic reference to the sorts of computing that I did prior to high school, but I expect that you probably have SD data cards have more computational power than I had available to me. Kids these days! ;)