Active Module Not Showing in Menu

Developers
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Hi, I’ve been working on this system for some days now trying to fit to our needs. I’ve had encountered issues and they were resolved. Two major things happened before:

Problem: Locally, I’ve change location the location of the system and so I wasn’t able to access the system.
Solution: So, I accessed the db gibbonsetting and changed the absolute url. Somehow, it worked except for the images I have already uploaded, I had to reupload the images specially in the free learning module.

Problem: I tried setting up the user permissions, upon saving the changes, for some reason I felt it was not successful as my administrator account seemed to lost all user admin, school admin ans system admin features.
Diagnosis: I believe it was truncated. I checked my php.ini but the line max_input_vars=3000 is already 3000
Solution: Accessed my db table gibbonpermission and deleted it. I had to reupload my backup db table gibbon permission.

Now, I don’t know if the previous issues has something to do with my problem on modules upon reactivation won’t show on the menu. Existing module menu like free learning somehow works fine. I deactivated and reactivated free learning, and it showed in the menu. For some reasons, the module I have deactivated probably before the 2 problems mentioned above happened. I suspect it has something to do with url?

I tried to install new extension modules, and it worked fine. I can activate and reactivate them with no problem. The deactivated modules before the 2 problems happened seemed unable to show in the menu upon reactivation.

Solution I’ve tried.

  1. deleting the the modules in the module folder. You’ll get a notification that the module present in the db has been deleted. So I pasted the modules again and tried to reactivate them. Somehow, it still wont show in the menu

Anyone who have had the same issue before?

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Found the cause of problem > values in the gibbonpermission table.

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Solution as of the moment: I had to load the default gibbonpermission table values. Thereafter, I had to set the role permissions again in the interface.

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Glad to hear you got it resolved. Any thoughts on what might have caused this issue? It is not a known issue for us. Ross.

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I am not sure what caused the problem. Got messed up when I tried updating the user permissions even if I have already set max_input_vars=3000. So i had to import the default permission values in the database.

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Hi betasystem101,

I’ve noticed if you deactivate a module, and then update permissions system-wide using Manage Permissions, then the deactivated module’s permissions will have been removed. One reason this happens is using the full-page submits permissions for only the active modules. A way to avoid this is to change permissions per module, using the drop-down filter at the top. I tend to do this, because it also avoid the max_input_vars issue because there’s many less permissions per module than changing the whole system in one submit.

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Seems likely. Thank you @ross for the tip using the drop-down.