Integrate ILIAS-Page Editor into Personal Desktop

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1 Initial Problem

The "Personal Desktop" is the point of entry for many ILIAS users. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow to welcome the user with a welcome banner or short info message. In several cases, it would be useful to provide the user with information (such as how to use ILIAS) by means of texts, images and / or videos.
In another case, it might be interessting to promote a particular course or ILIAS object (e.g. PDF document which describes the training offers).

2 Conceptual Summary

The ILIAS page editor is a handy editor which allows to publish content in the top area of ILIAS categories and courses. It is also used to customize the ILIAS login page.

If it was to be integrated into the "Personal Desktop", one could achieve great results with regard to the requirements described above.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

This feature request is based on the logic of the ILIAS page editor which is used to customize the ILIAS login page (Administration  --> Authentication and Registration --> Loginscreen Editor).

Enable Page Editor

To enable the page editor, one would click on the "Page Editor" link in the top left corner of the "Personal Desktop Overview".

Activate page for ILIAS installation language(s)

Similiar to the login page editor, it would be great if the page could be created for each language individually.

Edit page

One would edit the page in the same way as one does with the login page editor.

Insert Pesonal Desktop Elements

In order to (re-)arrange other elements from the "Personal Desktop", the editor should allow to add the following components to any place within the page (similarly to login page editor):

• Selected items
• Calendar
• My Portfolios
• Mail
• Notes
• Bookmarks
• My Tags
• Repository Element (this would allow to include guidelines such as PDF documents but also to promote courses etc.)

3.2 User Interface Details

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3.3 New User Interface Concepts

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4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Max Mayer (mmayer@cat06.de)
  
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6 Funding

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7 Discussion

8 Implementation

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