Show value from an sql table to moodle messaging system - moodle

Is there any idea how to start writing some code to display an arithmetic value or string from an SQL Table to the moodle messaging system?

Based on that last comment, I'd say that no, there are no hooks to have an operation performed when a message is displayed.
It's definitely possible to programmatically create a message or a notification, but its content is static once created.

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SAPUI5 multiple users working on one table entry

I'm currently developing an application in the SAP BTP for multiple users. In the application you have one table where all responsibilities of a specific task are written down. These responsibilities may overlap between the users, which means that for one responsibility multiple users are mentioned.
In the application the users should click on either accept or reject if they still are responsible for this task. After they have given their feedback, they can click on a save button to write everything via a batch submit to the hana db. If they are not responsible anymore their name should be removed from the tasks and they should not see this task anymore.
The problem I am facing is that currently everything is stored in one database table and if one user gives feedback to some entries while another user works on the same entries, the user who saves his entries last will override the first one.
I have tried searching for a delta insert into the database or to live update after each user input or to lock the data when another user is currently working. But none of these seem to work fine, because users would still be able to override each others entries or they may lock some entries forever.
My question therefore is, what is the usual approach to manage multiple user inputs on a single table or is using a single table a bad practise at first?
My second question would be if sapui5 supports this approach or if I can handle this in another way?
You need to do server-side validation, before the save action.
UI5 does not support this directly, you can handle it by yourself.
Because we are stateless with ui5 / data you could use the draft concept
https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-web/draft-handling/
Or something like already said backend logic with checks before safe.

Scheduled instance of report sending stale data

I have a scheduled instance emailing to a user. The instance works fine and user gets email. But the data in the report attached to the email is stale. It is missing item codes that do show up in the report if you go view it directly in web browser at BO server.
If I create a new instance scheduled to send to me - data looks up to date and good to go. If I add myself on the instance sending stale report and re-run the instance, I also get the stale version.
I'm worried about how whatever this is could be impacting other reports/users in the company without our knowledge. And also want to fix this one instance.
Is there some caching or other options that could be causing this? Why is the instance sending stale data?
Thanks!!
I figured this out. Turns out someone added record select formulas to the base report but did not re-create the scheduled instance. I looked at meta data from CI_INFOOBJECTS etc to see the record select formula on the instance. It does not match the updated record select on the base report.
This highlights a great best practice to keep in mind in this environment. KEEP YOUR FILTERS OUT OF CRYSTAL REPORTS! Keep your record selection and data transform logic inside SQL server in stored procs or views. That way you can update your report filter criterias without have to re create every scheduled report instance after every little report change :)

Access Record record - show lock status

I use a datasheet view of a query with aggregate sub queries attached as fields. Of course this is not editable and that is fine as its merely an overview listing of all the records along with some sum information from related tables. I have noticed that when a query is not editable the record selector lock information is not displayed. This made me wonder.
Is there is some event that can be captured to display in more or less real time when a record is locked or released by other users?
Alternatively is there any other way to display in my overview list or elsewhere what records are currently locked and if possible by what user?
Access 2010(x64)
For an updatable query, the locked status may be displayed on the left margin as you have noted. But that reflects record-locking by the query engine, not the same thing as whether a data result is updateable under normal circumstances.
For a read-only query, Access won't show a lock icon because in that context it isn't useful information (from most people's point of view).
You could use VBA to check the attribute of the query as a whole, and display a notification when the form is loaded. But that doesn't relate to the record-locking icon.
Is there is some event that can be captured to display in more or less real time when a record is locked or released by other users? -- I believe the simple answer is no.
Access 2007 saw the end of the JET Security model, so there is no way for you to manage user-level security in files created using 2007 or later.
The only alternative would be to use the Win API to register users by their NT ids, and to develop your own model which responded to activity. Clearly this would be no mean feat!
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As for detecting record locks, it's possible you could implement this using an events handler class together with the ADO library:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms678373%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
If you don't mind getting your hands dirty with Class Modules (something some pundits never got to grips with), then you can find a lead-in here.

salesforce trigger to update a visualforce page

I am fairly new to salesforce and I'm having a problem statement which I'm unable to solve.
There is a Custom object named XYZ which has the fields: username, points and Id. Now I want that whenever a particular user points gets updated I get a pop up notification in a visualforce page. I am fairly familiar with the concept of Trigger but I don't know how to use that trigger to update the visualforce page with a pop up notification.
I think you may want to rethink your approach. Triggers are completely data driven, and will perform an action on data within the database, but they aren't going to give you any kind of interaction on the front end save for error messaging.
Your details are a little sketchy, but for the pop-up you probably want to use a Javascript alert, or maybe even some kind of modal window.
If you give more details about the process you're trying to achieve it might be a little easier to give you a more solid response.
Finally, I ended up changing my approach and creating a PushTopic for the update. And subscribed to this PushTopic using cometd javascript library.

New/Read Flags in CQRS

I am currently drafting a concept for a (mostly) HTML-based collaboration suite which I plan to implement using CQRS. This software will contain messages that can be sent to the user (which can either be read or unread, obviously) and other elements which shall be marked "new" if they were created after the last user login.
Hardly something new, but I am not quite sure how that would be correctly implemented using CQRS. As I understand it, Change of any kind should, without exception, only be possible via Commands. But creating commands for every single (new) element that is being accessed seems a bit too much, not to mention the overhead.
I don't know if I need it, but what would be the best way to implement a Last-Accessed Timestamp on elements. Basically the same problem like the above, with the difference that the change happens EVERY time the element is accessed, not only the first time for each user.
CQRS seems to be an awesome concept but it really needs more learning material. Can't wait till a book is released :)
Regards
[Edit] No one? Wouldn't have thought that this is such a complicated issue..
I assume you're using event-sourcing in which case once you allow your query-service/event-handlers to raise appropriate events then this becomes fairly easy to solve.
For your messages/elements; when handling the specific creation events of your elements either add to existing or create additional event-handlers, to store to a messages read-model with a status of new and appropriate information about the element.
As part of you're user login I don't see why you can't raise a user-logged-in event (from the security/query service depending on how your implementing authentication) to say the user has logged in. An event-handler could capture this and write the last-login timestamp to a specific user-last-login read-model.
In addition the user-logged-in event-handler would need to update all the new messages (for that user) to an unread status. Seeing as we're changing the status of the messages as the user logs in do you still need to store the last-login timestamp?
For your last-accessed timestamp, perhaps you could just work this into your query service as queries for your different elements complete. Raise a query-completed event with element id/type information.