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Change Style of Test

1 Initial Problem

  • I cannot apply the Content-Style I defined in the Administration to a test. 
  • I cannot change between stlyes. 

2 Conceptual Summary

I would like to be able to apply a style to a test very much  in the fashion I can do it for glossaries and wikis and learning modules. 

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

  • The editing part does exist in Administration > Layout > Contentstyles > TITLE OF STYLE > Tab "Style Classes" > Subtab "Question" and does not need to be changed. 
  • The selection part does not exist in the test and should be exactly done as in the glossary.  It should be a new sub-tab "Style" of the Settings-tab in the Test. 

3.2 User Interface Details

UI Element = Form 

  • Headline = Test Style
  • Drop Down for selecting one of the styles as defined in Content-Styles in Administration = Current Style
  • Labels in Drop Down come from Content-Styles in Administration
Interaction = Upon "Style + Save"  the selected Style is applied to the test. 

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

This is an all-standard Form. Please reuse from other stlye-setting components like glossary etc. 

4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

6 Funding

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7 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], Dec 02, 2016: A similar request has already been made by Yvonne Seiler in 2014, see below. I have deleted that page so this page is the one and only for this request - which I fully support!

Yvonne Seiler wrote:

There is a need for different styles in tests. Each test can have the standard content style of the system or you can create your own style. F.e. like in learning modules (Settings > Layout).

Heyser, Björn [bheyser], 16 Aug 2017: As I needed to answer the question why this feature seems to be supported partly but not in total, i can strongly agree with a full support for this feature. There is indeed a serious need for its functionality.

As a note for myself, i leave a just found code line from my components main command execution method, that should explain the confusing behaviour of the test layout to consider the styles partly.

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if(method_exists($this->object, "getTestStyleLocation")) $this->tpl->addCss($this->object->getTestStyleLocation("output"), "screen");

GIT Rev 6ec1f4350480d56281f1efe4b1a47d5e16746f04

(investigations on this later, i just needed to document for the moment)

8 Implementation

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Test Cases

Test cases completed at {date} by {user}

  • {Test case number linked to Testrail} : {test case title}

Approval

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Last edited: 17. Aug 2017, 09:29, Heyser, Björn [bheyser]