Change Recording title

[Matt S]

I need to figure out how to update the title of a recording after it's been done (Moodle Integration).  It looked to grab the title of the course, so I changed that... now the recording is still showing the old name of the course, so I'm not sure where it grabs the name from.  Is there a way to fix that?  Is it on the backend of the BBB server?

[Matt S]

FYI... the name must be imprinted in the XML during course creation or initial recording... I was able to change the title here after the fact:

/var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/<long number from URL>/ metadata.xml

Thanks

[Jesus Federico]

Hi Matt,

Depending of the version of the plugin and BBB you are using, it may be either impossible or as as as cclicking on the name/description to edit it.

Lets start with, where the name/description is stored.

When the meeting is created, as you noticed, the name of the activity is passed to BBB as the name of the meeting, along with a buch of other information like the version of moodle you have, the version of the plugin, the context (or course) etc. All that information is part of the recording archive as metadata, so whatever change you do to the Activity in Moodle won;t affect the passed recordings, only the new ones.

Until BBB 1.0/BigBlueButtonBN 2.2.x it was not possible to change thos values. No through the plugin anyways. 

I am assuming you are using v2.1.x. If this is the case, you have two options. You either update to 2.2.4 (the latest version) or you do it using an external tool called api-mate.

On BigBlueButtonBN 2.2.x you should see a little pencil next to the name (and description) for editing the name. Same as the icon shown for editing the name of the activity in Moodle (assuming that you are on 3.3 or newer).

I hope this helps. If it doesn;t send us the versions you have (all of them) and we may be able to give you a better advice.

Cheers,

Jesus Federico

[Matt S]

Thanks Jesus.  We're on 2.2 and the pencil changed the name represented inside of Moodle, but not the recording itself... we ended up changing it in the backend here: /var/bigbluebutton/published/presentation/<long number from URL>/ metadata.xml

Thanks,

~Matt

[Jesus Federico]

Hi Matt,

That is fine. It will be the only way to do it for the moment. It turns out that there is bug in BBB 2.0 (I did not notice before, sorry my bad), so, the updateRecording request is not updating the values in the way it should. We may have a fix soon.

Just to confirm. What version of BBB are you using?

Jesus

[Jesus Federico]

Wait, just to clarify. 

You mean changing the recording name that is shown as a title when you playback the recording, and not the tag that is used to show a name and description in Moodle, right?

Thanks,

JF