Restore course with course fullname

[JochenBN]

Hello from Bonn in Germany.

Maybe we found a bug in restoring courses.
If we restore a course via sandbox the fullname of the course does not get reset.
The course will keep its fullname.

Is it a bug or isnt it possible to restore the fullname?

Regards
Jochen

[abias]

Hi Jochen,

thanks for raising this issue.

In https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_sandbox/blob/master/classes/task/restore_courses.php#L82, local_sandbox picks the fullname of the course which is scheduled to be reset, and on https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_sandbox/blob/master/classes/task/restore_courses.php#L189, it sets this fullname to the resetted course. This means that the fullname of the course backup file is overwritten with the fullname of the pre-existing course.

For us, this is expected behavior as our users are not allowed to change the course names. Only admins are able to change course names.

However, I agree that in setups where teachers can change course names, this behavior can be considered as bug.

The solution would be to create an admin setting similar to the existing "Keep course ID" setting which controls if the resetted course will have the fullname from the pre-existing course or from the course backup file.

I will keep this issue in our backlog. But due to a lack of resources, we probably won't be able to realize this setting anytime soon.

Cheers,
Alex