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- For 2.11.3 (modified)
  Include changes in 1.45

- For 2.11.2 modified
  Include changes in 1.43, 1.45

- Bug 6400
  Options for transfer or creation of tiny URLs when cloning.

- For 2.11.2 (modified)
  Include changes in 1.44

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.44

- "Open all assessments" option during course creation now allows the start
  date to be chosen (default is current time) for the course-level opendate.

- For 2.11
  Backport 1.43

- Devalidate cache for self-cataloging of courses, based on institutional
  code for institution's nodes, when creating an "official" course.

- For 2.11
  - Backport 1.42

- Courses created by process a course request will have comment.email set
  to username:domain of requester.
- XML file used for batch course creation can also include <setcomment> tag
  which when set to 1 will have the same result.

- Bug 6808. New course container -- "Placement" for Placement Tests.
  Work in progress.

- Store title of textbook cloned for 'textbook' courses (as internal.textbook)
  in course's environment.db.

- Unique six character identifier for a course can be created automatically,
  when a course is created, if domain configuration set to include this for
  course requests.
  - Initial use case is for a separate portal (toke-based auth) where students
    enter the code to sign up for a specific "textbook" course.

- Course credits for a particular institutional code can be provided as a
  third item returned by localenroll::validate_instcode()
- Course credits can be specified for an official course (or retrieved from
  localenroll::validate_instcode) or an unofficial course as part of a course
  request
- Credits earned for a course can also be different for a specific student
  (e.g., retrieved from institutional classlist data), or specified when
  CC adds a student to a course via the web GUI.

Centralize knowledge of where the tmp directory is within LONCAPA.pm

- A syllabus doesn't make sense for a Community.

- Customization for GCI_3
  - Include cloneroster in courseargs hash in &build_course().

Corrected typo in rev. 1.34

- &escape moved from lonnet.pm to LONCAPA.pm some time ago.

- Accommodate Communities.
- "co" is a possible role for Communities.

- Accommodate Communities.
 - Coordinator role is "co".
 - Role names depend on course type.

- Batch course creation can now create custom roles in a course.
- Check requested roles are legitimate.
- Check requested custom role was defined by course owner.
- Ignore sections in batch request if defined for a CC role.

Course Requests.
- Pass additional arg to loncommon::construct_course() - category to identify whether requested course is official, unofficial or community.
- Pass two additional args to lonnet::createcourse() - context  (e.g., requestcourses) and category
  - used when checking that requestor has rights to request a course (check via &usertools_access())
- Additional role assgnment rights check in &lonnet::assignrole().
   Support case where a requestor is creating a course, and as course owner needs CC role
   These rights only applies where context is "requestcourses", and user is adding his/her own cc role, and is identified as course owner.
- Defalt to using $en{'user.name'} and $env{'user.domain'} if not supplied in the args to &store_userdata().

- Simplify data structure in &build_course().
  - Pass the (inner) hash reference of course details instead of a reference to the (outer) hash of a hash.

Course Requests
- lonnet.pm
  - generation of unique coursenum move to own routine: &generate_coursenum()
  - prefacing of coursenum with number then letter added to second attempt
      to generate an ID (to duplicate change in first attempt in rev 1.674).
  - additional optional argument to &createcourse() - can use a previously
      generated, but unused, coursenum (will be hashkey in a queued course request).

- loncommon.pm
  - additional optional argument to &construct_course() - $cnum, previously
      generated, but unused, coursenum.
  - check_clone() - unrestricted cloning in course's in role's domain now
                    requires creator has ccc privilege in role's domain.

- batchcreatecourse.pm
  - &build_course() - update documentation, and new optional arg
                      previously generated, but unused, coursenum

- default datemode and dateshift set for courses created via batch course creation and cloned from an existing course.
- datemode and dateshift can be specified in the XML course description file.

Bug 5176. Record role changes for course in nohist_rolelog.db
- Include $context in call to &lonnet:;assignrole()

- courseIDs include the domain, but $LONCAPA::match_courseid is a regexp for just the cnum part, so validation of the new courseID was failing.

bug 5378.
lonparmset.pm
- Users allowed to clone course:
  - can use wildcards (*:domain and *) for unrestricted cloning within a domain, and unrestricted cloning in all domains respectively.
  - warning messages about invalid data separated into (a) invlaid format, invalid domain, non-existent user.

loncommon.pm
- cloning rights check accommodates wildcards.
- let the user know the course was not created, when the specified course to clone was non-existent, or cloning rights were missing.

Autocreate.pl
- improve format of logged messages.

batchcreatecourse.pm
- Since loncommon::construct_course() now terminates course creation when cloning rights check is not passed, early out to stop user creation and attempted enrollment in an uncreated course.

- BUG#5377 don't create a course if cloning rights check fails

- move clone authorization check from loncreatecourse.pm to loncommon.pm
- more information stored in autocreation log
- include context as argument in loncommon::commit_standardrole and commit_studentrole
  to set appropriate line feeds (with/without <br /> for web/auto context).
- more information displayed on screen after course creation from uploaded attributes file (XML)
- language handler for Autocreate.pl

Bug 5134. If the course owner was not an existing user and needed to be added as a new user, this would fail for a user with auth type = localauth because no homeserver existed for the course for lonnet::auto_create_password().
- now pass an extra argument (domain of new user) and contact primary domain server for this domain to access localauth password cretion in localenroll.pm
- extra logging in Enrollment.pm to log case where authchk fails for localauth case
- batchcreatecourse.pm now checks whether a valid courseID was returned for the new course.

- switch to lonnet for get the library server for a domain

- updating doc on <keyauth>

- bug#4965

- start of BUG#4965 - Apache2 and Autocreate.pl

Autoenroll.pl should only perform auto-enrollment in standard courses.  Documentation corrected in batchcoursecreate.pm.

XML used to describe courses can now include course type (Course or Group), and course disk quota (disk quota for all portfolio files in course groups).

Silly typos.

When creating courses can choose to create as a course or as an ANGEL-style Group. Can also upload a file containing XML describing course(s) or group(s) to be created. Additional course environment parameter ('type') is now set to 'Course' or 'Group', and included in value in key=value pairs in nohist_courseids.db

- style
- leap year detector missed the special case years

Fix typo.

Prevent invalid dates from causing batchcreatecourse.pm to stop creating courses. &process_date() now includes code to ensure values passed to timelocal() fall inside valid range.

Fix some typos. Also new users were being created without first name and last name, because hash name did not match tag in XML file.

Fix typo and unabbreviate hash keys, so that new LON-CAPA users can be created using all the provided user information.

Key for domain in ownerargs and userargs hash is udom.

Pass %courseinfo by ref. Minor ordering change to improve readability.

Bug fixes and inclusion of class ID information for better integration with automated course creation.

- adding missing GPL headers

Pass along username and domain of Domain Coordinator creating course - used for DC notification of auto-enrollment changes. Also disposition of XML course description file after processing is now handled by the calling script.

Allow this to work from the command line.

Collection of routines for batch creation of courses from file(s) containing XML description of courses.  Intended to be called from command line script, or from a web page by a Domain Coordinator.