Profile : Gender

1 Initial Problem

Mantis Ticket #20524: No neutral (gender-unspecific) salutation possible

Jackisch, Ingo [jackisch] Since the datafield "gender" only gives the choices for female or male, people who don't want to be addressed gender-spcific may be offended.
Here we miss a third option for an gender-neutral entry. If such an option is chosen by the user, automatically generated salutation fields should remain empty (or there should be an option to fill in a neutral term in the language variables). 
This fix would additionally increase data-privacy,since users would not to reveal their gender for salutation purposes.

The current user data property "gender" should be renamed to

• Salutation: "Mrs.", "Mr.", "Not Applicable"
• Anrede: "Frau", "Herr", "Keine Angabe"

2 Conceptual Summary

• User property "Gender" is renamed to "Salutation".
• A third option "No salutation" will be added.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Registration
• Administration » User Management » New/Any User Profile (Screen ID: usr/properties/)
• Personal Profile (Screen ID: user/personal_data/)

3.2 User Interface Details

The user property "Salutation" in PERSONAL DATA is extended by a third option "No salutation desired".

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

None

4 Technical Information

Beside 'm' and 'f' the value 'n' will be added to the whitelist for gender handling in the ilUserImportParser and other components.

5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Killing, Alexander [alex],  Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex], Meyer, Stefan [smeyer], Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

6 Funding

If you are interest in funding this feature, please add your name and institution to this list.

• ILIAS-Verein

7 Discussion

JF 17 Feb 2014: We appreciate this change and schedule it for 4.5.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 27 AUG 2018 : We need at least changing five components to tackle this problem. This is far too much for a bug fix. Therefore, we close this report. But we accept this as a feature request for 5.4. Matthias will prepare the feature request and Michael will check the amount of work for this request.

Jansen, Michael [mjansen] 12 SEPT 2018: Mantis Ticket: https://mantis.ilias.de/view.php?id=20524

Bogen, Christian [bogen] 2018-09-25: What will “No salutation desired” mean for the [MAIL_SALUTATION] placeholder? Also see Gender-sensitive address for automatically generated e-mail in gender languages.

8 Implementation

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 12 SEP 2018 by Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]

• C24707 : Selbst anmelden und Anrede auswählen

Approval

Approved at 15 OCT 2018 by Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]