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[Kristina Hoeppner <1717379@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: mahara
    Milestone: 18.10.0 => None

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717379

Title:
  Tool to update URLs to internal artefacts etc. in text boxes

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Data in text boxes is stored serialized. Thus, when wanting to make
  changes, it's not as straight forward as simply replacing an old URL
  with a new URL. Changes are necessary when an institution moves to a
  new URL for its Mahara site. Any images that have been placed into
  text boxes, description fields, journal entries, i.e. anything with
  TinMCE will have full URLs listed. The wwwroot part of them will need
  to be changed for the new URL. However, since the image was not
  embedded via the image block but as an image within text, Mahara
  doesn't re-write the URL automatically.

  The same applies to links to other artefacts, pages or collections in
  a text box.

  Thus, a tool would be nice in for the "text" plugin where an admin can
  provide the old wwwroot and the new one - the latter already pre-
  filled - and can then automatically convert all serialized data in one
  go rather than needing to adapt an upgrade script.

  An easy site admin tool would be beneficial as this query had come up
  recently a few times and many Mahara instances will need to move from
  http to https and change links so that there aren't any mixed-content
  warnings.

  For more info, please see
  https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8031#post32261

  See bug #1717380 for the query around relative vs. absolute paths.

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