07 July 2025, 22:11

Mahara version 25.04

We are running some tests of the bulk import functionality in Mahara as described here https://manual.mahara.org/en/25.04/administration/experimental.html. We have a cohort of students who are using a different ePortfolio system (a plugin to Moodle I believe) and we want to move them to using Mahara. 

The users are doing Leap2A exports of their portfolios, then we are building the import zip as described here https://manual.mahara.org/en/25.04/administration/experimental.html#bulk-import-from-scratch.

The import appears to work correctly for the portfolio pages. We get new users created, their portfolios and pages are created. The blocks in the portfolios that have file attachments get created but the links to the files do not work. They are not rendering as links.

On the webserver I can see in the maharadata folder an import folder which contains the user folders and the attachments in there. I assume those files should be moved to the artefact folder in a specific folder within there. I can't see where the files are being copied to so as the links don't work I'm assuming that the files are only in the import folder not in the artefact folder for the user to access. I also cannot see the files in the file picker when masquerading as the newly created user.

Does anyone have any idea what the expected behaviour is for the importing?

I would also be interested to know if the import script is going to have a file picker option. I think I saw an issue in the GIT repo from a few years about this but it has not progressed.

Yesterday, 12:22

Hi James,

Some questions to track down where to check on our end:

• Are you testing on 25.04.0 or 25.04.1?
• What version are you upgrading / updating from where the attachments are correctly linked up?

Kind regards,

Doris

Yesterday, 23:39

Hi Doris,

I'm currently testing on 25.04.0. The other ePortfolio tool is not a version of Mahara. It is a Sales force tool called 'Application Portfolio Manager'. I don't have access to the tool myself. I have just been sent the exported zip files from that tool.

Do let me know if you need any more details.

Thanks

James