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Integrating Joomdle with Tienda 0.50 or higher

This "feature" is provided as is and no warranties, guarantees or otherwise, expressed or implied, are provided. Joomdle and individuals associated with its development and support shall not be held responsible for any loss of data, reputation, and/or money in any currency whatsoever. It is strongly advised that this "feature" be installed, configured, tested and proven working in a test environment prior to being implemented in a production site.


Limitations

  • Disabling or hiding a course in Moodle does not automatically unpublish the Tienda product in Joomla. You should unpublish the course first in Joomla, then disable / hide the course in Moodle.

Features

  • Allows webmasters to publish Moodle courses inside a Tienda storefront
  • Allows Buyers to purchase a Moodle course like any other product offered through Tienda
  • Automatically enrolls the Buyer in the selected course(s).
  • Sends a "customised" email to the Buyer confirming their purchase / provide instructions on gaining access.

Tienda Configuration

Ensure you have Tienda installed and working properly before you begin.

Create a new Tienda Product Category

Under the Tienda Catalog Menu, create a new Category to group your Moodle courses. Take note of the Category's ID, as you will it later to enter into Joomdle Component configuration.


Joomdle Configuration

Moodle

The package enrol_joomdle.zip contains a new enrolment method for Moodle.

To install, unzip enrol_joomdle.zip into a temp folder and copy the files to the moodle/enrol folder on your web server (you should have a new folder called moodle/enrol/joomdle now).

Enter Moodle as an administrator.

A new enrol method, called Joomdle, should appear in Courses/Enrolments. Enable it and set it as default.

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Click Edit to configure its options:

  • Default cost: The default cost to enroll in courses
  • Currency: Your preferred default currency for courses
  • Enrol message: A message to show to the user if he tries to access the course without having paid. You can include the string BUY_COURSE_URL to show a link the the product page in Tienda.
Joomla

To start using Joomdle's Tienda integration, enable it in Joomdle Component Configuration, by selecting Tienda in the Shop Integration option. You can also select Tienda as the Additional Data Source, so billing info will be used to fill user details in Moodle.

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Enter the Tienda Product Category ID for which you wish Moodle's courses to appear. This means you will not need to manually create Tienda products.

Moodle courses will automatically be created in Tienda and Published.

In addition, you can configure Joomdle to send out an email to the buyer once the payment has been completed successfully.

  • Either enter the Subject and Body of the email you wish to send; or
  • Enter COURSE_NAME and COURSE_URL for Joomdle to "grab" the values from Moodle.


You will also need to make sure the joomdletienda plugin is installed and enabled.


This "feature" is provided as is and no warranties, guarantees or otherwise, expressed or implied, are provided. Joomdle and individuals associated with its development and support shall not be held responsible for any loss of data, reputation, and/or money in any currency whatsoever. It is strongly advised that this "feature" be installed, configured, tested and proven working in a test environment connected to Paypal's Sandbox development environment prior to being implemented in a production site.