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Hide Title, Icons and Top Actions

1 Initial Problem

In ILIAS 5.3 you can already hide title and icon of the root node of the repository.
That root node of the repository has no Top Actions.
This makes it possible to have top node offering focus instead of  distraction. 

2 Conceptual Summary

The "Additional Features" section of the "Settings" tab of the following objects should be amended:

• Category
• Course
• Group
• Folder

Show Title and Icon	☑	(default on)
Show Top Actions	☑	(default on)

The setting should be proagated to all immediate container children objects. 

Edit 16 Oct 2018, Killing, Alexander [alex]: Just to make clear what propagation means. When a container is created manually in the repository, it will check these settings from the parent container and adopt them. We will not override these settings for existing children containers (this would be chaos).

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Category > Settings 
• Course > Settings
• Group > Settings
• Folder > Settings

3.2 User Interface Details

Titles, Icons an Top Actions are presented 

Titles, Icons an Top Actions hidden 

4 Technical Information

No technical issues.

5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Lenich, André [andre.lenich]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex] for categories and folders, Meyer, Stefan [smeyer] for courses and groups
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

6 Funding

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

• BGHW

7 Discussion

27. September 2017 Amstutz, Timon [amstutz]: Thanks for this request. In generel a like it, especially the proposal to do that in the same fashion for all container items. Two remarks:

• Use "Show Icon and Title" and "Show Top Action" with a default of "on" to make positive statements in settings (See accepted guideline in KS-Entry: Form Settings). 
• Do not put that in "Additional Features". To me it seems a long stretch to sell icon and title or even the Top Action as feature and there is a much better place: COURSE PRESENTATION (or whetever container is to be configured).

Killing, Alexander [alex], 2 Oct 2017: I support the idea. Stefan needs to confirm this, too.

Kiegel, Colin [kiegel] 2017-10-09: I support the general idea.

I have only one concern: In my experience there is sometimes a difference between "inner-actions" and "outer-actions". With "inner-actions" I refer to the actions-menu in the title. With "outer-actions" I refer to the actions-menu in the repository listings. I always felt like it's wrong to present different actions there. Now, if the action menu is hidden, some "inside-only" actions may be burried. I feel this is a bit problematic given the non-obvious distinction between inside/outside-actions.

Example for a course (https://ilias.de/test53/goto.php?target=crs_45343&client_id=test53)

inside-actions

• Open as webfolder
• Open With File Manager
• Activate Notification
• Remove from Desktop
• Download Multiple Objects
• Comments
• Notes
• Set Tags

outside-actions

• Open With File Manager
• Unsubscribe from Course
• Open as webfolder
• Edit Content
• Settings
• Info
• Availability
• Delete
• Move
• Copy
• Remove from Desktop
• Comments
• Notes
• Set Tags

UPDATE: There is also a completely different set of desktop-actions.

• Open With File Manager
• Unsubscribe from Course
• Open as webfolder
• Edit Content
• Settings
• Info
• Remove from Desktop

So the question could either be "which inside-actions are not accessible from the desktop?" or ".. from the repository?".

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], October 09, 2017: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Please place the new setting within the sub-section 'Course Presentation' and not as an additional feature.

8 Implementation

{The maintainer has to give a description of the final implementation and add screenshots if possible.}

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 2018-10-21 by Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

• 24843 : Ordner-Titel ausblenden
• 24846 : Ordner Top-Aktionen ausblenden
• 24847 : Kategorie-Titel ausblenden
• 24848 : Kategorie Top-Aktionen ausblenden
• 24844 : Gruppen-Titel ausblenden
• 24849 : Gruppen Top-Aktionen ausblenden
• 24850 : Kurs-Titel ausblenden
• 24851 : Kurs Top-Aktionen ausblenden

Approval

Approved at 26.10.2018 by Wagner, Michael [Michael.Wagner].