Enroll External Database Release Notes

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• Prevent multiple cron executions by setting a flag in the config table.
• Implemented the cron method ($auths = get_enabled_auth_plugins();).
• Added unlimited execution time and raised memory limit for enrol/database/enrol_database_sync.php
• Added enrollment periods. The external enroll table can have timestart and timeend for enrollments. Added two new mappings to handle this: enrol_db_remotetimestartfield and enrol_db_remotetimeendfield.
• Added a new external table that holds course information. The mapping is stored in enrol_coursetable. This will make courses found in the external course table that do not have enrollments. The following are the available mappings:
  • enrol_coursefullname
  • enrol_courseshortname
  • enrol_courseid: The name of the field where the course ID is stored. The values of this field are used to match those in the "enrol_localcoursefield" field in Moodle's course table.
  • enrol_coursesummary
  • enrol_coursecategory
  • enrol_category_separator
  • enrol_coursestartdate
  • enrol_courseformat
  • enrol_coursetheme
  • enrol_coursepassword
  • enrol_courseguest
  • enrol_coursenumsections
  • enrol_courseidnumber
  • enrol_coursecost
  • enrol_coursenewsitems
  • enrol_courseshowgrades
  • enrol_coursegroupmode
  • enrol_coursegroupmodefoce
  • enrol_coursevisible
  • enrol_courseenrollable
  • enrol_coursetemplate: this mapping can be used to override enrol_db_template to select a different course as a template.
• Two other settings extend the functionality of the enrol_coursetemplate setting. The enrol_restore_coursetemplate setting will backup the template course and restore it for the course creation. The enrol_restore_usetemplate setting uses the course files backupdata/template directory. If a backup, using the default backup file name, is stored in the backupdata/template directory, then it will be used for the course restore for the enrol_restore_coursetemplate setting. If no backup is found in the backupdata/template directory, then a new backup will automatically be generated and permanently stored there.
• Courses that are found in the external course table and also be updated. This is controlled by the enrol_db_autoupdate setting.
• Categories can automatically be created if needed. This is controlled by the enrol_autocreate_category setting.