Make sure the activity correctly observes the course/group mode settings and capabilities (especially important for Workplace: https://docs.moodle.org/402/en/Multi-tenancy#Shared_Content)

If an option contains & character, & is shown. It should show exactly as it is written in the options.

I have added a preference voting system to a moodle course and it works fine. When I use the link to preference voting in the activities block, I get the error documented. Can you please help? We use the activities block for short-cuts to particular types of activities.
Have also added screenshot of debugging messages for developer. Hope this helps.
Norbert

ROUND on the results query makes the results be less precise. It was there because the average position was shown on the results on the first version. Now that the position is calculated after the query, ROUND only makes the results not to be precise.

Add a setting to make voting anonymous (this will make sense after #22 is done).
Once the user voted when the voting was anonymous, keep it anonymous even if the status changes later.

If a user that can see the results tries to see the results from an empty group, there is an error.

If the activity is set to be possible to update the vote, it would be more clear if the button showed "Update" instead of "Save" when the user has already voted.

The results table contains the m-3 class, which unaligns the table: https://github.com/odeialba/moodle-mod_sortvoting/blob/f1e4ddf73d65bb82e97de5155674b2d7e96b6c88/templates/sort_voting_results.mustache#L53C6-L53C6
Remove it so it looks good.
Remove also the left margin on the voting tab options.

To replicate, create a new sortvoting activity and view the results before any vote has been submitted.

At the moment the reports are showing only the general results of the voting. It would be nice to have more detailed report showing what positions each option received, each voting of each user, etc.

Show how many votes the activity received somewhere in the results tab.

If there is an option that received a different amount of votes, show the number of votes next to the option (maybe a new column). That can happen because of this known bug: #16

Make it look nice. There are two classes added by core/sortable_list component during element drag/drop

• 'sortable-list-is-dragged'
• 'sortable-list-is-dropped'

Reference: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blame/f30110b5ebf9090ee484986e020d43a7819fc436/lib/amd/src/sortable_list.js#L83-L84

When creating a new role, the capability strings are missing.

If the activity is set for students to be able to see the results, on the browser the student can change the group, but in the app the student can only see the first group that he belongs to (or maybe from a group that they don't even belong).

So it shows up in the activity logs

When viewing a sort voting page - it's not immediately clear in the UI that I have already voted and the display shows the vote I have cast.

At the moment the students have to click on the 'responses' option within the menu bar at top to see the responses, this isn't obvious and especially on a small screen where this items disappears into the hamburger icon - is easily missed. Could it be changed so that if the item is set to allow students to see the results, when they save their response it automatically takes them to the results page (this is what the choice activity does).

Add in some standard instructions e.g. "Change the options below into the desired order, so your first choice is at the top....."

Add an option in the settings to allow students to see the results after they have voted.

Make sure the plugin works with Moodle 4.3, add the version in supported versions and add the version to the ci file.

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Moodle uses a privacy API for GDPR compliance to allow plugins to specify how they deal with user data. Your plugin stores user data in a number of tables which will need to be included in the privaci api classes.

Sites that use continuous integration processes will not be able to use your plugin because Moodle runs unit tests which check to see if all extra plugins include the privacy class.

More information on the privacy class is here:
https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Privacy_API

There is an option that allows the students to see the results after they have submitted a vote. There is a bug that allows users to see the results before they have voted when this option is enabled.

Once the vote has been submitted and the user can't vote again, if a new option is added, the user will be able to vote again.

The problem is that if only one user votes, the new option will be placed in the wrong place, because the average position is where that user placed it (because only one user has voted for it).

There is no perfect solution, but here are some ideas:

• Take in count only votes of users after the new option was added.
• Mark with a different color the options that don't have all the votes.
• Add two tables: One with only old options and one with new options (adding only votes containing the new option).
• Add a counter of votes next to each option.
• ...

On the results page, could you identify how many people have voted - if the student is the first person to vote, then the response will match their answer, but they won't know if that is because they are the only contributor or if there are lots of contributors and the collective have agreed with that individual.

I am aware that hovering over the table heading shows this - but this isn't obvious, and would be clearer if displayed somehow without the need to hover.

Fix the error caused by the new completion suffix: https://github.com/moodle/devdocs/pull/699/files

After releasing the last version, the css and js prechecks in the plugin directory started failing. They should be fixed.

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_sortvoting/1.0.8/30973?smurf=html#js
https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_sortvoting/1.0.8/30973?smurf=html#css

Some of the tests run by the Moodle.org plugins db can be run via github actions on each commit in your github repo. Enabling this helps you to make sure future changes to your plugin will continue to follow the guidelines.

the short version - grab this file:
https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-plugin-ci/blob/master/gha.dist.yml
rename it as ci.yml and put into the directory .github/workflows within tyour project eg:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-mod_attendance/blob/MOODLE_311_STABLE/.github/workflows/ci.yml

then on every commit you make to github it will fire off a request to run the tests and will give you traffic lights beside each commit and generate a report.

After voting, I still see "Change the options below into the desired order, so your preferred choice is at the top and your least favourite choice is at the bottom." on the main tab

I can't edit the options though, so maybe we could improve this text?

The result table can be reactive component to reflect changes on the fly when the user has voted.

I could not replicate it, but this bug was reported:
This error happens only in the app. If you have a user without any group and you have the option 'Allow students to see the results' enabled, when the user submits a vote, there is an error saying: Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: moodle_database::get_in_or_equal() does not accept empty arrays
The error might come from trying to show the results from a group that doesn't exist.
If the user is in a group or if the options 'Allow students to see the results' is disabled, there is no error.

Is it worth making the draggable cards slightly more distinct - I have done this by adding some CSS to give the cards a thin grey border, but not everyone will have the ability or know-how to do this.

This was the CSS that I personally added to my site:

/Adds a border around the cards in the preference sorting activity/
li.d-flex.card.p-3.mb-2.optionitem.draggable {
border-style: solid;
border-color: #c0c0c0;
border-width: thin;
}