The certificate plugin offers an enhanced support for creating and administrating certificates inside ILIAS.
- Multiple certificate types with different layouts
- Generate pretty PDF layouts with JasperReports, the world’s most popular open source reporting engine
- Custom placeholders in certificates
- Multiple languages
- Certificates (pdf files) are stored in the ILIAS data directory instead of getting generated dynamically
- Revision of files
- Rendering PDF certificates with the integraded PDF Service in ILIAS (>= 4.4) or with JasperReports
- ILIAS 10
- PHP 8.2+
Start at your ILIAS root directory
mkdir -p public/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/UIComponent/UserInterfaceHook
cd public/Customizing/global/plugins/Services/UIComponent/UserInterfaceHook
git clone https://github.com/DEEP-eAcademy/Certificate.git CertificateUpdate and activate the plugin in the ILIAS Plugin Administration
The certificate cron job is bundled with the plugin and becomes available automatically after activation.
An installation and user guide is available in the doc/Documentation.pdf file.
If custom fonts are needed you can insert them inside directory below:
public/Customizing/global/plugins/components/ILIAS/UIComponent/UserInterfaceHook/Certificate/vendor/rdpascua/jasperstarter/jdbc/
They need to have .jar extension, you can generate them inside Jasper Studio.
Before image path you need to add this parameter:
$P{[[CERT_TEMPLATE_PATH]]} + PATH
javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(Base64.getDecoder().decode($P{[[DIGITAL_SIGNATURE_QR_CODE]]})))
Change the PHP code of the class responsible for displaing validation message
Customizing/global/plugins/components/ILIAS/UIComponent/UserInterfaceHook/Certificate/classes/checkCertificate.php
- Incorrect java version (should be OpenJDK 8)
srCertificateDefinitionGUI::previewCertificate:160 srCertificateTemplyteTypeJasper::generate() Report file of certificate with ID 0 was not created by Jasper: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap'), at de.cenote.tools.classpath.ApplicationClasspath.add(ApplicationClasspath.java:75), at de.cenote.tools.classpath.ApplicationClasspath.add(ApplicationClasspath.java:65), at de.cenote.tools.classpath.ApplicationClasspath.addJars(ApplicationClasspath.java:134), at de.cenote.tools.classpath.ApplicationClasspath.addJarsRelative(ApplicationClasspath.java:151), at de.cenote.jasperstarter.App.processReport(App.java:178), at de.cenote.jasperstarter.App.main(App.java:109)