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This feature request is a part of the General Layout and Menu Revision. It collects the metabar items, that should be visible in ILIAS 6.0. It shows the state of the different conceptual/development range.

Default Configuration of Main Bar Items (ILIAS 6) is laying out suggestion for main bar in ILIAS 6.0.

The attached PDF-file provides an overview of the current status of the Page Layout Rersion. All elements of the new layout are described and clearly separated. Mock Ups help you to uniquely identify the elements. In addition, rules are defined for the behavior of all elements.

Current Status

1 Initial Problem

The items in the upper right corner of ILIAS are a collection of tools designed to attract the user's attention.

With the concept of General Layout and Menu Revision and ILIAS 6.0 there is a new concept for the Metabar (top menu bar) which items should get a place in this prominent place. This also depends on the Default Configuration of Main Bar Items (ILIAS 6).

2 Conceptual Summary

The Meta Bar is a unique page section to accomodate elements that * should permamently be in sight of the user. * The Meta Bar shall, first of all, host Prompts, i.e. notifications * from the System to the user, but may also accomodate components and * links deemed important, like help or search. The content of the bar * does not change when navigating the system, but may depend on a * configuration. (source: PR)

Nr.

Glyph

Urgency

Effect

Reason / Purpose

Description

1

Search / Suche

do first

Click on glyph > opens pop-over

Criterion:

  • external consistency to other tools, where search is available on the top right

2

Help / Hilfe

do first

Click on glyph > opens Slate > Tool

Criterion:

  • visibility
  • external consistency to other tools, where help is available on the top right

3

Conversation

do middle

Click on glyph > opens Slate > Tool entry

Criterion:

  • visibility for learning group environement

remains in TopMenu until a solution for NotificationCenter is available

4

Who-is-online

do middle

Click on glyph > opens Slate > Tool entry

Criterion:

  • visibility for learning group environement

remains in TopMenu until a solution for NotificationCenter is available

Notification Center / Benachrichtigungstool

do last (important but a new thing that need to be concepted and developed)

Click on glyph > opens dropdown

Criterion:

  • system calls user (notification glyph necessary)
  • external consistency to other tools, where notification tool is available on the top right

Vision to go, concept still open

5

User / Benutzer (Avatar)

do first

Click on glyph > opens dropdown

Criterion:

  • external consistency to other tools, where user account options are available on the top right

Contains

  • Account and Privacy / Konto und Privatsphäre (ehemals Persönliche Daten und Profil)
  • Settings / Einstellungen
  • Logout / Abmelden

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

  • Header

3.2 User Interface Details

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

{If the proposal introduces any completely new user interface elements, you might consult UI Kitchen Sink in order to find the necessary information to propose new UI-Concepts. Note that any maintainer might gladly assist you with this.}

4 Technical Information

none

5 Contact

6 Funding

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

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7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 29 Jan 2019: I have been asked to put this on the JF agenda, but I am not sure how to discuss this. I am listed as maintainer (Fabian too), but I think configuration is not necessarily something we should decide upon. Even more crucial, do we have a FW request for a Customisable Metabar at all? Something like Customisable Main Menu for the metabar? It think this is missing.

Seiler, Yvonne [yvseiler], 30 JAN 2019: That was a misunderstanding. This entry is not about introducing a customizable metabar. I have now changed the name of the page.

It is a decoupling from the discussion of the Main Menu entries and it should not get lost which elements in the discussion were regarded as entries in the Metabar at that time. Currently this page is to be understood as an overview of the steps still to be taken (what has to be done with "Help", "Search", "Notification Center", etc. to fit into the Metabar of ILIAS 6.0). As soon as we know how the "Help" behaves (see column Effect), we can link the corresponding FW pages here.

I removed the FW entry here from the JF agenda.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 31 Jan 2019: Sorry for my misunderstanding. I think it is a good idea to discuss this in JF, I would suggest that Matthias as a PM leads this topic, since multiple maintainers are involved and this is a very general issue and decision.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 04 FEB 2019 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the mentioned items for the metabar. Related questions for selected items will be discussed in separate feature requests, e.g. notification center. Nevertheless, we still might change this list of items in case of implementation problems or other conceptual issues.

8 Implementation

8.1 Adapt Who-Is-Online to MetaBar

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 25 NOV 2019 by Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen]

  • C5709: "Wer ist online?"-Anzeige für "Alle Benutzer", die gerade online sind

Approval

Approved at 2019-12-05 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].

8.2 Integration of Online Help into new Layout

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 25 NOV 2019 by Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen]

  • C5058: Links zwischen Hilfe Seiten werden angezeigt und funktionieren

Approval

Approved at 6.12.2019 by Amstutz, Timon [amstutz].

8.3 Search and Avatar

No changes besides the new glyph.

8.4 Notification Center

Has a feature request of its own: Notification Center

Last edited: 9. Dec 2019, 12:03, Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen]