I want to use the 'enrol_manual_enrol_users' function. One required field to do this 'roleid'. I'd like to pull a list of roles from Moodle and present them to user to select which role the student should be enrolled as. I can't see any function which returns a list of roles. Is there a built in web service for this?
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If the answer was helpful, feel free to accept/upvote. – wp78de Aug 09 '19 at 19:37
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AFAIK there is no Web Servies API (Overview) to retrieve the Moodle roles since there is no need to. You can find the role IDs in the mdl_role table. Unless modified they will look like this:
+------+--------+------------------+---------------+-------------+------------------+
| "id" | "name" | "shortname" | "description" | "sortorder" | "archetype" |
+------+--------+------------------+---------------+-------------+------------------+
| "1" | "" | "manager" | "" | "1" | "manager" |
| "2" | "" | "coursecreator" | "" | "2" | "coursecreator" |
| "3" | "" | "editingteacher" | "" | "3" | "editingteacher" |
| "4" | "" | "teacher" | "" | "4" | "teacher" |
| "5" | "" | "student" | "" | "5" | "student" |
| "6" | "" | "guest" | "" | "6" | "guest" |
| "7" | "" | "user" | "" | "7" | "user" |
| "8" | "" | "frontpage" | "" | "8" | "frontpage" |
+------+--------+------------------+---------------+-------------+------------------+
Most probably, you will just need the student and teacher roles.
Since you work with the Moodle Core API, I suggest activating the built-in API documentation ( Administration block > Plugins > Web services > API Documentation) in the settings.
The official Web Services Forum is also a thing to know.
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If you don't have access to the database but have admin access you can go to Site Administration > Users > Permissions > Define Roles and select one, ie Student, and the roleid is a param in the URL
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