[LON-CAPA-admin] Domain coordinator can't clone course

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Stuart and Gerd,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Stuart Raeburn<raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:
> Lars,
>
>> Any ideas why this might happen, and how to fix it greatly
>> appreciated. We're running v. 2.8.1.
>
> It is possible that the course description stored for the course is out of
> sync with the course description stored in the courseIDs .db file which
> LON-CAPA uses to aggregate information about courses in the domain (to
> provide more efficient look-ups), for example for the "Pick Course" pop-up
> when when selecting a course to clone.  As a result you may not be seeing
> the course listed by the description you expect (I know of one other similar
> reported case).
>
> One way to resolve this, (if that is the problem), is to select a CC role in
> the course which you want to clone from, then  use "Modify Parameter
> Settings" -> "Set Course Environment" to change the description so it'll be
> distinctive.  You can change the title back again later.

This fixed it. Thanks!

Lars.

>
> Then when you become DC and next open the "Pick Course" window by clicking
> the "Select Course" link in the cloning table in the course creation page,
> you should find that the course description has been updated so you can
> locate the course.
>
> If that does not work you can also get the LON-CAPA courseID from "Set
> Course environment" page from the textbox for the "Top Level Map" (assuming
> this is a standard course).
>
> The URL for the top level map might look like:
> uploaded/tmcc/4j66301b841af472etmccl1/default.sequence
>
> where 4j66301b841af472etmccl1 is the unique courseID which you could copy
> and paste directly into the CourseID textbox in the "Clone an existing
> course" course table in the course creation page.
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
> helpdesk at loncapa.org
>
>
> Quoting Lars Jensen <ljensen at mail.tmcc.edu>:
>
>> At the beginning of each semester, I clone my old course from last
>> semester, and use it as my template for the new course. I have never
>> had any problems with that. When I now try to do so, my course from
>> last semester doesn't show up in the list of courses to clone (other
>> courses I taught last semester does show up fine). I have tried to
>> search for the course in a variety of ways: owner, or keywords, etc,
>> but it never shows up in the list.
>>
>> Any ideas why this might happen, and how to fix it greatly
>> appreciated. We're running v. 2.8.1.
>>
>> Lars.
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