New updates do not display on course page

[Mike Kelly]

As an LMS user, once I dismiss an update on the Course page, new updates with a later post date do not display. All updates thereafter are hidden and can only be viewed via the Updates link. This is the case in both Hawthorn.2 and Ironwood.1. This is contrary to what the documentation specifies should happen. Is there a workaround to "undismiss" updates for users so that they do not need to check for new updates by clicking the Updates link?

[Giovanni Cimolin da Silva]

Hi Mike,

I'm Giovanni from Opencraft. I hope you are doing well.

I could reproduce the behaviour you described on my local devstack.

All the updates posted automatically go to the Updates page, however once the welcome banner is dismissed, it doesn't appear back when a new update is posted.

I'm not sure if the small banner was initially conceived to show all updates, but looking from this perspective, it seems like there's a small bug on the platform.

I haven't looked into this in great detail, but workaround it would be to set the view-welcome-message course tag to True. This can be done with set_course_tag from openedx.core.djangoapps.user_api.course_tag.api, for each user in the course.

[Mike Kelly]

I have found that even if you don't dismiss the message, once the default display time passes and the current message gets hidden, new messages do not display. This is a very unfortunate defect. Please consider bringing back the Unhide feature!