Group together subgroups of courses

[marcoscale98]

My moodle courses are diveded in "year of course/Graduation Year" (it is difficult to put into words, but it is something logical). Could you do the same grouping in folders in automatic? At the moment my courses are all together in the main folder.

[C0D3D3V]

Can you send a screenshot of the grouping? (Also you can add me on Telegram (Username: c0d3d3v) if you don't want to post them here)

[marcoscale98]

Division into academic years

Division into graduation years

Division into paths

Courses

[C0D3D3V]

This is kind of related to #6 because we have to follow the course tree.

To find out the category of a course there are basically only two functions: core_course_get_courses_by_field and core_course_get_categories. But a call to core_course_get_categories can take several seconds to minutes in the worst case in a large Moodle.

What we would do is adjust the filter to get the categories of courses you are enrolled in, that would simplify the call.

But I am not sure if this function is useful. Because you can just rename a course as you want in the configuration.

[marcoscale98]

To find out the category of a course there are basically only two functions: core_course_get_courses_by_field and core_course_get_categories. But a call to core_course_get_categories can take several seconds to minutes in the worst case in a large Moodle.

I think you can allow this with a parameter in initial configuration. My moodle is always quick to load

[C0D3D3V]

If the API call takes to long, we could call the API once to get the sturcture and save it in the config for every configuered course. So you do not need to make the call every time you run moodle-dl. Since the structure will only very rarly change, this should be fine...