When you export an entire forum and not just one post, the entire journal will be the discussion forum.
Chers
Kristina
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That would not really work for notes... there's no way to relate them to one another. :(
Maybe what we need is the ability to convert a journal entry into a note, or vice versa. That's actually not that crazy of an idea, especially now that notes can have file attachments.
Cheers,
Aaron
]]>Yes, I agree, too. A standalone note would make more sense. And yes, the portfolio export had been implemented before we had those. We would need to find a way though for forums as well. You can now not only export one forum post but the entire forum.
Cheers
Kristina
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Aaron, I tend to agree. Exporting to Notes might make more sense then creating new journals each time.
Regards
Jen
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The reason it work the way it currently does, in fact, is because on the back end Moodle is sending a Leap2a file to Mahara, with the forum post as miscellaneous content in the file. When Mahara imports a Leap2a file and it contains text content that isn't strongly mapped to a specific artefact type, its fallback is to create a new journal, and put the content into an entry in that journal. And that's what happens with these Moodle exports.
Now that I think about it, the reason we import into a journal entry is probably because this was implemented before we had the standalone Note artefact. Miscellaneous text content from leap2a would probably make more sense as a Note artefact... maybe we should change it to use that instead?
Cheers,
Aaron
]]>Yes, that would be great to choose the designation journal. Mahara information is not yet pushed to Moodle to make it display during an export to Mahara though. Some work would be necessary...
Cheers
Kristina
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This issue has been bugging me as well, but I'm not aware of any concrete plans at the moment to address this in the near future. It's not a trivial thing to change because the export does not know at the moment which journals exist. If you imported everything into one journal and that got deleted at some point, where would things go? So I assume that it might be necessary to be able to specify the journal into which content is imported during the export process.
Cheers
Kristina
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Can you confirm if you are talking about forum posts or journals, because you seem to switch between the 2.
Also, I'd probably seuggest asking this question in the Developers forum, as it seems more relevant to there.
Thanks
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