Added a placeholder for link and link-html in email templates

step/email/lib.php

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class email extends libbase {
                     array('instanceid' => $step->id,
                         'touser' => $user->id));
 
-                $parsedsettings = $this->replace_placeholders($settings, $user);
+                $parsedsettings = $this->replace_placeholders($settings, $user, $step->id);
 
                 $subject = $parsedsettings['subject'];
                 $content = $parsedsettings['content'];
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ class email extends libbase {
      * @param mixed $user user object
      * @return string[] array of mail text.
      */
-    private function replace_placeholders($strings, $user) {
+    private function replace_placeholders($strings, $user, $stepid) {
+        global $CFG;
 
         $patterns = array();
         $replacements = array();
@@ -140,6 +141,14 @@ class email extends libbase {
         $patterns [] = '##lastname##';
         $replacements [] = $user->lastname;
 
+        $url = $CFG->wwwroot . '/' . $this->get_interaction_link($stepid)->out();
+
+        $patterns [] = '##link##';
+        $replacements [] = $url;
+
+        $patterns [] = '##link-html##';
+        $replacements [] = \html_writer::link($url, $url);
+
         return str_ireplace($patterns, $replacements, $strings);
     }
 

step/interactionlib.php

@@ -72,4 +72,5 @@ abstract class interactionlibbase {
      * @param string $action action string
      */
     public abstract function handle_interaction($process, $step, $action);
+
 }
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step/lib.php

@@ -105,6 +105,16 @@ abstract class libbase {
     public function extend_add_instance_form_definition_after_data($mform, $settings) {
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Generates the link to the interaction table of the respective step
+     * @param int $stepid id of the step
+     * @return \moodle_url
+     */
+    public function get_interaction_link($stepid) {
+        return new \moodle_url('admin/tool/cleanupcourses/view.php', array('stepid' => $stepid));
+    }
+
 }
 
 /**