Unable to pass new parameter while creating the course

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Hi,
I’m trying to submit the course from the form by adding extra input field. which is not going in XHR request.
four values only passing in the ajax call.

{“org”:“Test01”,“number”:“Test01”,“display_name”:“Test01”,“run”:“Test01”}

can you please help!

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Hey @Giridhar_M !

Can you provide more information on what you are trying to do, and what you have changed?

My understanding is that you have already updated the templates inside cms to show another field, right? If that’s the case, you’ll need now to update the JavaScript function that sends the XHR request to the API endpoint to include the new inputs data. You can find it here.

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Hi @viadanna thanks for the quick reply!

Like you said i’ve already added the additional parameter in the same place where you have mentioned. But still i can not able to get the data in the “inspect element XHR request”.

The new parameter is department which has been added as new

I’ve shared the screenshots below please check

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check the additional screenshot too as i have added the new line in the beginning of the code in the same file index.js.
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please guide me on this.

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The code looks correct to me. Did you compile the static assets after making the changes?

If running the devstack, you can:

~/devstack$ make dev.static.studio

Otherwise, if a native installation:

/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform$ paver update_assets
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No. I did not compile the static assets.

Since it is native installation I’ve tired to run the 2nd command but it throws a bunch of import errors.

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Is it necessary to resolve all those errors or should i install specific version of paver ?

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Hi @viadanna ,

can you please help me on this ?

Waiting for your reply since 5 days.

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The default install creates a Python virtualenv in /edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp with all the packages necessary for running the platform. It seems you customised the installation path, so you might have it inside /opt/...

Activating the correct virtual environment and running the paver command should get you what you are trying to do.

Advice: Instead of modifying the native installation directly, I recommend getting the modifications tested on a devstack first as it’s much easier and faster to iterate.

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Hi Viadanna,

Im also facing same issue
could you please elaborate where to run that command exactly. Please share the path if possible.

Cheers,
Madhu

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Hello @madhumohan

If you activate the Python virtualenv used by the edx-platform, the paver command is added to the PATH and it reads from /edx/etc/*yml to find where the themes are installed, so you can run this from anywhere really.

Can you share more information on the errors and what you are trying to do?

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Hi Viadanna,
I got the paver.edxapp file in /opt/edx-ironwood.2-0/apps/edx/bin
This file having below contant
#!/bin/sh
. /opt/edx-ironwood.2-0/apps/edx/conf/edxapp_env
cd /opt/edx-ironwood.2-0/apps/edx/edx-platform
paver $@

Please do the needful

Cheers,
Madhu

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Hi Viadanna,
Could you please update on this