I have installed Drupal 6.19, Quiz 6.x-4.0-rc9 and Certify 6.x-1.0-alpha6. Quiz is working. I set up Certify and created the content type certificate and selected the checkbox for my quiz. When I take the quiz and pass it, no certificate is issued and no error is shown. I looked at my recent log entries and do not see any errors. I checked my host error log and did not see any errors. I think I have pdftk configured correctly on the server. I have created the directory for my certificate storage and set it to 777.

Do I need to upload the default_certificate.pdf to the certificate storage directory? I have tried it with and without the default_certificate.pdf in the folder, but I am not getting a certificate or any errors at all.

Should I be getting an error if the certification process fails?

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druupydog commented

I found that I had not completed the set up properly to present the Certificate to the user. For others using this module here are the steps to take:

1.) install pdftk on your server

2.) Install module as described in readme.txt

3.) In Drupal go to user management/permissions and set up the permissions. You will probably want to make the 'view certificate,' 'receive certificate' and 'view certificate in progress' options available to your users. if you want them to be able to see the certificates and download them.

4.) Go to Blocks and find the blocks for each of the certificates you have created and enable the block to display on the page(s) and areas you want to display them on.

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vegardjo commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Hia druuplydog, thanks for updating the issue when you solved it!

To be more specific:

  • 'receive certificate' is the permission that allows a user to generate a certificate they have obtained with pdftk.
  • 'view certificate in progress' is not there anymore, are you sure you use alpha6? it is now called 'view certificate progress summary', and it is actually something you do not want to give normal users, as this is the progress status for all users on a given certificate (the "Users progress" tab on the certificate node)
  • 'view certificate' is the node view permission for the certificate. This can be given to normal users, but as of now it doesn't really contain any useful information, see #955718: Detailed progress report for plans on this.

So actually, you would want a normal user to have the 'receive certificate' permission, and you would want to show them one of the blocks Certify offers, so they can view their own status. These blocks have no access check. 'view certificate progress summary' should only be given to those who control the certificates as it exposes all user statuses, and 'view certificate' isn't really useful yet, but can be given normal users :)

I'm closing this issue for now, please reopen if you have more questions!

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druupydog commented

Ok, than you for the clarification. I see the entry for "view certificate progress summary" in my currrent installation. I must have been looking at another installation of an older version when I made that note.