Portal Front Page

[Soyoukan]

Is it possible/Planned v2 to allow design of the portal page? I'd like to put the courses below my header, right where currently the "most popular" appears.
When is V2, and will it affect the existing courses?

[Coursenligne]

You already can do it, but you have to have sme knowledge in development....
Alle home page parts are made of blocs. You need to hack the code and rework the blocs as you wish.
If I understand your request, you want to have the course catalog displayed on the main page?
You can do that just publishing the catalog (make it visible in Administration). This then just create a new tab when you're not registered and you still have the front page as it is.
Then, again, I guess you'll cheat quite easily and put it on the main page if you really want this.

[Soyoukan]

thank you. It all sounds very easy. I would appreciate step-by-step to give the solution? for example, "publishing the catalog (make it visible in Administration). This then just create a new tab when you're not registered and you still have the front page as it is."

[ywarnier]

Just a word of explanation about reasonable expectations for v2.0.
v2.0 (planned for within just a few days or weeks at worst) is a major update on Chamilo 1.11.
You will be able to migrate from 1.11 to 2.0, but it should be done after careful consideration and analysis of your needs.

Why? Because v2.0 was started many years ago, and we stopped really following Chamilo 1.11's evolutions about 5 years ago (June 2021). This means that a considerable part (not all) of the progress of 1.11 in the last 5 years is probably missing from 2.0. This will translate in configuration settings appearing in the administration interface but actually not doing anything. We don't have a precise number to give yet, but it's probably around 20% of all settings.

There are 698 settings now, so 20% is about 140 settings that might have no effect. This will be all cleaned up (either the settings and corresponding code will be removed or they will be re-enabled) by version 2.1, which should come in about 4 months after the release of 2.0.

This being said, it might be very confusing, because we also added a number of features in 2.0 which were never available in 1.11 and we did import some of the features we added to 1.11 in the meantime.

So overall, if you want to upgrade to 2.0, we would recommend 2 possible paths:

• you check enough of 2.0 before the upgrade to make sure all the features you need are available
• you wait for 2.1

What you could also do for the first possibility above is actually do that on a copy of your current Chamilo platform, just for testing. BeezNest also offers that process as service, as we have already done it for a number of customers who want to prepare for 2.0, but that's not de open source, do-it-yourself approach.
If you want to do it on your own, the process would be something like this:

• dump the current database (mysqldump ...)
• take a copy of the whole Chamilo directory
• create a new DNS entry for your test portal (or do it locally)
• search and replace all occurrences of the production domain name to the test domain name in both the SQL dump and the app/ directory of your copy
• change database credentials and root_sys in app/config/configuration.php
• load you Chamilo 1 copy in your browser and make sure it's OK
• download Chamilo 2 (the most recent packaged version)
• put it in another directory and configure everything so that your test environment configuration points to the directory where Chamilo 2 is (+ /public)
• save everything as it is (otherwise if the update fails, you will need to repeat all the previous steps, which are time-consuming)
• start the installation process of Chamilo 2
• when asked, select the "Update from Chamilo 1.11.*" button
• give the path to the Chamilo 1.11 copy (that you just checked)
• follow the update steps

This will let you use Chamilo 2 in preview with all your data migrated from your previous portal.