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Tabs Guideline

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1 Guideline
- 1.1 Issues
2 Status
3 Components that are not compliant with the Guideline
4 Discussion
5 Implementation
- 5.1 Changes in ILIAS 9
- 5.2 Tabs
- 5.3 Compliant to Guidelines in 4.1
- 5.4 Still to do for ILIAS 4.1
- 5.5 Open Decisions

1 Guideline

Tabs guideline as decided at JF, 22. Feb 2010. Keep the following order:

Content-related tabs, if content is not a "separate view" (like SCORM)
Info tab
Settings tab (rename "Properties" to "Settings")
Member or similar user lists
Learning Progress tab
All other tabs (not in this list)
Metadata tab
Export tab
Permissions tab

Additionally the Settings tab should always contain title/description settings, even if it is stored in Metadata redundantly.

1.1 Issues

Edit Properties vs. Settings vs. Properties (-> Settings!)
Where to place a general Export tab (Last one before Permissions!)
Forum: Moderators tab after Edit Properties? (Yes: "Settings", "Moderators")
File: Rename Edit tab? (Open issue)
Some objects start with Info tab. Would there be a "content" like first tab? See "Content/Separate View" rule above. File, Wiki, Learning Module ILIAS (Edit), Learning Module SCORM, Exercise (Yes, make content-like tabs coming first, then info)
Learning Modules ILIAS (Edit) alterntive beginning tabs: Chapters | Info | Properties | All Pages (No: Chapters, All Pages, Info, Settings!)
Learning Modules ILIAS (Edit): History tab before Learning Progress (Yes)
Exercise: Your Submission before Info? (Open -> Exercise Revision)
Test: History before Learning Progress? (Yes)
Media Pools: Folders | Info | Edit Properties | All Media Objects | Clipboard | Permissions? (No: Folders, Alle Media Objects, Info, Settings, Clipboard, Permissions!)
Do we allow more "Content"-like tabs at the beginning, e.g. Media Pools: Folders | All Media Objects; Learning Modules ILIAS (Edit): Chapters | All Pages (Yes!)

2 Status

Effective from release: ILIAS Release 4.1
Approved by Jour Fixe at: February 22, 2010
Implementation status: implemented completely
Implementation of guideline: all developers

3 Components that are not compliant with the Guideline

4 Discussion

JF 16 Nov 2009: In general we highly support a streamlining of the tabs.

We prefer to use "Settings" all the time instead of "Properties" or "Edit Properties"
The position of Export will be discussed when the export revision starts
Title and Description should always be put at the top of the first (if there are multiple subtabs) settings screen. Even if the object has a metadata tab and the information is editable in both places.
We have different opinions on whether the metadata tab should be located more on the right (e.g. always before learning progress / permissions) or not
We agree that member/user lists should be placed after settings, so the forum moderators tabs should be located behind the settings tab.
We agree that multiple content-like tabs may appear at the beginning of the tabs.
The History and Clipboard tabs mentioned above should be fixed.
The exercise tabs will be discussed when the "multiple assignments per exercise" feature implementation starts

Alex, 13 Feb 2009: I revised the candidate guideline. Proposal for export: Tab before Permission. Major open issue: Metadata tab. My current preference: Put it before Export. If we put it there, it's even more important to put title/description into the settings tab redundantly.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 01 FEB 2023: I would like to extend the existing guideline by a rule for the first sub-tab of all Settings tabs with sub-tabs. Instead of different labels in the various objects a general lang var should be used by all object types. Suggested lang var would be common#:#general# with label 'General' / 'Allgemein'. The rule only applies to objects that have a Settings tab with sub-tabs. I would provide the respective PRs to reduce the effort of involved maintainers.

The extended guideline (incl. some editorial revision) would be the following:

Order of Tabs
Keep the following order of tabs in all objects:
- Content-related tabs, if content is not a "separate view" (like SCORM)
- Info tab
- Settings tab (rename "Properties" to "Settings")
- Members tab or similar user-related tabs
- Learning Progress tab
- All other tabs (not in this list)
- Metadata tab
- Export tab
- Permissions tab
Settings Tab
1. The Settings tab should always contain the text inputs for Title and Description, even if both are also stored in Metadata redundantly.
2. The first sub-tab of Settings should always be labeled General and use the related language var common#:#general#.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 06 FEB 2023: We highly appreciate the suggested extension of the Tabs Guideline and accept it for ILIAS 9.

5 Implementation

5.1 Changes in ILIAS 9

5.2 Tabs

as of ILIAS 4.0.1

Root Node (Repository)
Content | Edit Properties | Permissions

Category
Content | Info | Edit Properties | Local User Administration | Permissions

Folder
Content | Info | Edit Properties | Learning Progress | Permissions

Forum
Topics | Moderators | Info | Edit Properties | Permissions

Webfeed
Edit Properties | Permissions

File
Info | Edit | Metadata | Versions | Permissions

Mediacast
View Content | Info | Settings | Permissions

Wiki
Info | Settings | Pages | Contributors | Permissions

5.3 Compliant to Guidelines in 4.1

Root Node
Categories
Groups
Folders
Learning Modules (ILIAS)
Mediapools
Chat
Forum
Exercises
Course
Web feed
File
Weblink
Mediacast
Learning Modules (HTML)
Glossary
Survey
Test
Question Pool Test
Question Pool Survey
Wiki

5.4 Still to do for ILIAS 4.1

Last change: 05 May 2010; Please remove object's entry when tab sorting has been updated.

5.5 Open Decisions

Concerning Learning Modules:

I suggest to merge the tabs for Links and Weblinks to reduce the number of tabs and to put together what is related which each other. (Matthias Kunkel, 29 Mar 2010)

Concerning Learning Modules SCORM and HTML:

How about using Content instead of List Files?

Last edited: 27. Jul 2023, 17:12, Gruber, Ann-Christin [acgruber]