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Carousel

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1 Requirements
2 Additional Information
3 Discussion
4 Implementation

1 Requirements

The ILIAS homepage uses a carousel to display selected testimonials of different users. This is currently realised with embedded HTML code and some JavaScript. I would like to have it as a general feature of the ILIAS page editor. According to Alexander Killing, such a merry-go-round could be realised as an extension of the existing page element Accordion. Requirements would be:

To use (at least) paragraphs and media objects as content of a slide
To define the exact size of the element, e.g. 150 x 150 px
To define the speed
To define a proper CSS style for this kind of accordion
To have the option of a random selected start item to avoid that always the same item is shown when opening the page [1]

Using OWL Carousel

The challenge of an implementation (and the existing accordions) is to provide a mode that offers at least some responsiveness. The Owl Carousel is a nice example. The OWL carousel offers everything we need - except nesting carousels into carousels. But this does not seem to be a very relevant use case.

2 Additional Information

Idea / concept: Matthias Kunkel
Interest in funding: ILIAS-Verein
Maintainer: Alexander Killiing
Implementation of the feature is done by Leifos GmbH
Contract settled: Yes
Tested by / status: Matthias Kunkel

3 Discussion

AT 2015-02-18: I like the Owl thing. Something like that would be very nice.

JF 30 Mar 2015: We appreciate the feature and schedule it for 5.1. The Carousel view should be an additional option for the existing "Tabs" element. We start with a minimum representation (one item, no manual navigation).