Please add a "Reset filters" button

[acquaalta]

Hi,
Your plugin is great and we still use it in Moodle 3.7 :-)

One of the few issues we encounter with the plugin is that users (students and teachers) set the UI filters of the plugin to their needs, forget about it, and then contact our support team and claim that they don't see a course that they are enrolled to.

Is it possible to add a noticeable "Reset filters" button that would give a visual clue to the users that maybe there is a need to change the filters? Of course it's also a functionality improvement, because the in some cases the user wouldn't have to change each of the filters in order to see the full list of courses.

If the button addition is problematic, it would be great if at least the color of the filters (font and/or background) could be changed via the UI. It's already something that can be done using CSS modification, but it is a little bit cumbersome, cause it involves editing files on the server.

Thanks in advance, even if just for taking the time to read this :-)

[abias]

Hi @acquaalta ,

thank you for your kind words.

While we would love to see this improvement implemented, it won't be done anymore as we are foreseeably transitioning our own usage of this block to the Dashboard blocks which have been dramatically improved from Moodle 3.6 on and thus can't spend any more substantial resources on this plugin.

As soon as we have made the switch to block_myoverview, the plugin will be added to the Moodle Plugin Adoption Programme (see https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins_adoption_programme).

I will keep this issue open as a reference for anyone who picks up working on this plugin after the plugin adoption.

Cheers,
Alex

[acquaalta]

Thanks a lot for the detailed update :-)
It would be great if the developers of the core block would take some ideas from your plugin ;-)

[abias]

@acquaalta , you might want to look at https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-64999 where we are in the process of integrating the most relevant part of this block into Moodle core.