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    This space is for newcomers, who wish to build a new plugin or to customize an existing one to their liking

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  • Quang Nguyen added a new discussion topic Merge Activity and The Wire on one page in the group Beginning Developers
    Hello, I have some issues with extend layout. I have created the new custome page with elgg_register_page_handler(). But, I don't know how to move Activity and The Wire content to this page page content.  
  • Quang Nguyen replied on the discussion topic Clone group plugin as new type
    Many thanks @RvR and @Tom. I will try an awesome plugin first, I don't want to change anything inside Elgg core. Hope in the near future Elgg team can make it possible for Elgg developers to create extra... view reply
  • Quang Nguyen added a new discussion topic Clone group plugin as new type in the group Beginning Developers
    Hi, I'm newbie, I'm trying to develop Elgg, and I want to create a new plugin for new type (Ex: Course) as same as group plugin. I already searched old topics about clone group plugin, but all topics are very old, and they don't...
    • Many thanks @RvR and @Tom.

      I will try an awesome plugin first, I don't want to change anything inside Elgg core.

      Hope in the near future Elgg team can make it possible for Elgg developers to create extra entities

    • Adding new base types (user, site, group or object) is very hard to do and (i think) not needed. You can easily extend the existing base type.

      For example you could make your course entities extend the group entity and set a different subtype (eg 'course'). This is done everywhere in core for objects and also works for the other base types.

      No database alterations needed ;)

      Just make sure you register the correct class for the subtype (elgg_add_subtype('group', 'course', 'MyCustomClass');)

      But as RvR suggested check out the subtype groups plugin

    • I am very interested in this plugin (alas, not a coder/developer, so very limited ability to be a contributing participant!).

      Our use case is that of making use of Elgg as our "virtual learning environment" for small higher education institution. We use the "groups" (with the "group_tools" plugin) to provide support for courses/modules. Several of these run every year.

      It would be VERY convenient to be able to clone the group structure and assets (files, pages, bookmarks) as a new instance, but without the membership (or the blogs or discussions). This way, instructors can start with a "fresh" group for the next course cohort, with the "assets" intact, but without the "bespoke" content generated by the previous cohort.

      The might be other ways of realizing this goal (e.g., deleting generated content, renaming/editing for the new session, etc.), but that is not so desirable as the possibility of "archiving" the past "group", and cloning for the next cohort.