Time for action – Xataface as an enrollment table maintenance tool
One last task Xataface can be used for, that we'll explore in this book, is as a tool to maintain a table in the database to be used by the Moodle enrollment tool. In Chapter 3, Student Account Creation and Enrollment, we explored the various enrollment options available in Moodle and referred forward to this chapter in stating that we would explore the external database enrollment plugin here. Actually, what I propose is to use the Xataface tool to maintain a table, added to the Moodle database, that will be used by the external database plugin. As such, it won't be an external database but Moodle doesn't care. To set up the table, follow these steps:
Navigate to the Enrolments settings window of your Moodle site from the Site Administration block by clicking the Courses link and then on the Enrolments link.
Click on the Edit link for the External Database settings. For the External Database Server Settings, shown in the following...
