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Abandon Levels of Details and Movability of Side Blocks on PD

1 Initial Problem

Users do not get the different Levels of Details of the Side Blocks of the Personal Desktop. The Levels of Details thus add unwanted complexity. 

2 Conceptual Summary

• There is only one Level of Detail  for Side Blocks which is not configurable.
• On the Personal Desktops Sideblocks can no longer be moved around by users. 
• Hiding / Showing Side Blocks via Top Actions-Dropdown is not longer possible. 

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Personal Desktop » Overview
• Administration » Personal Desktop

3.2 User Interface Details

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

None.

4 Technical Information

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5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
• Maintainer: {Please add your name before applying for an initial workshop or a Jour Fixe meeting.}
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

6 Funding

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• Technische Hochschule OWL

7 Discussion

Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler], 20.12.2018: Thanks for the great overview, I was able to find my way around quickly. I support this suggestion and thank you for the fact that - from our point of view - very few used functions that offer only little added value are omitted.

One little hint to think about:
Calendar View Mode: The left one should be the default mode. In our opinion "Month" should be default view of marginal calendar in side blocks, for that it should be the first one: Month | Upcoming Events.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 01 FEB 2019 : Two questions and a comment:

• For me it is unclear which level of detail for a block is kept. The FR says only "one" - but which? And which type of information is presented there?
• Why do we need to abandon the option to move the blocks (within the same column because we move to a two-column-layout)? No one needs to change the order of the blocks. But those who prefer to have the Mail block first should do this while others prefer to have the Calendar first.
• I strongly recommend to keep "Upcoming Events" as default presentation of the mini calendar. It gives much better guidance to the user than the month view which is more for overview.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe] : We highly appreciate this suggestion and decide to abandon the following features:

• Top actions for blocks (no more change of sorting, no hiding)
• Setting to enable moving blocks
• Moving blocks feature

We only keep the highest level of Details for the remaining blocks "Task", "Mail" and "News"

8 Implementation

Test Cases

Test cases were deleted on 2019-10-16 by Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

• C1849: Block auf Übersicht ausblenden
• C1850: Block auf Übersicht einblenden
• C1851: Block auf Detailstufe 1 setzen
• C1852: Block auf Detailstufe 2 setzen
• C1853: Block auf Detailstufe 3 setzen

Web Feeds & RSS

• C2028: Change Detail View

Approval

Approved at 2019-11-05 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].