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Bibliographic List Item: Filters for Fields

Page Overview

1 Initial Problem
2 Conceptual Summary
3 User Interface Modifications
- 3.1 List of Affected Views
- 3.2 User Interface Details
- 3.3 New User Interface Concepts
4 Technical Information
5 Contact
6 Funding
7 Discussion
8 Implementation

1 Initial Problem

There is currently no possibility to filter entries in a "Bibliographic List Item"-Table in ILIAS. All Items are always listed in the Table.

2 Conceptual Summary

The "Bibliographic List Item" in ILIAS currently supports the file-types: BibTex (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX) and Ris (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(Dateiformat) ). Both file-types lack af a clear definition, wich fields can exist in the file. Therefore it will be impossible to define a set of filters which will appear for the table. Every "Bibliographic List Item" in ILIAS can have other fields.

Therefore a configuration of the displayed filters is needed.

It shall be possible to add Filters for fields wich are available in the current Bibl. List Item. When adding a new Filter, you can choose from all available fields (except the ones which already have a filter) and select one of the following filter-types:

Textinput (-> will be a LIKE %...% search)
Selectinput (-> will be a = search)
Multi-Selectinput (-> will be a IN(...) search)

Adding a Filter is simple, by clicking the "Filter hinzufügen" Button, a form with two inputs is displayed:

Feld/Field: List of available Fields in this Object
Filter Type: Textinput, Selectinput, Multi-Selectinput

The representation in the Table will be done with ILIAS-Standard-Table-Filters

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

bibl/setting: New Subtab "Filters" (bibl/filters): See screenshot above

3.2 User Interface Details

(new) bibl/filters:

Primary-Button in Toolbar "Add Filter"
Data-Table with Columns "Field", "Filter-Type" and "Actions", Rows with according Data and Action-Menu in last Column with entries: Edit, Delete

(new) bibl/editfilter

Propery-Form with
- Select-Input "Field".
- Radio-Option "Filter-Type", Options "Textinput", "Selectinput" and "Multi-Selectinput"
- "Save" and "Cancel"

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

4 Technical Information

There are no necessary technical information.

5 Contact

Author of the Request: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]
Maintainer: Schmid, Fabian [fschmid]
Implementation of the feature is done by: Benjamin Seglias

6 Funding

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

DHBW

7 Discussion

AT 2017-11-15: Please complete mockups for the whole workflow: 1. add filter, 2. select types of filters from available options, 3. manage selected set of filters/ explain in greater detail how these steps will be carrie out. Please also add a mock up of how the filters will be displayed and work.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 20 NOV 2017: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 5.4. Please implement the filter editing screen as a modal.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 18 JUN 2018 : We accept to use the "underworld" for add and edit filters and to use a modal only for the delete workflow. Reason is that we do not have a rule for the modal use in ADD and EDIT workflows.

8 Implementation

The feature was implemented as described in the conceptual summary. Adding and Editing Filters is not implemented in modals, deleting filters uses an interruptive modal.