Migrate News on Communication » News to Timeline

This request is rooted in the Concept for Learning Communities: Building on the need of making users more visible, facilitating interaction and communication.

1 Initial Problem

In Courses and Groups News are displayed in the Timeline. They are interactive elements, making collaboaration visible and showing learning is going on. They are more of a interactive / communicative element than strictly instructional. 

News in Communication » News are displayed as old full form. This looks bit drab, it is hard to recognize these News are the aggregate of those in Courses and Groups: The comments are missing as are the likes and hearts and all the more interactive aspects of the Timeline.

Screenshots from News in Course / Group as Timeline and Side Panel

2 Conceptual Summary

The News are displayed in a Timeline-fashion. 

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Communication » News 

3.2 User Interface Details

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

This feature request does not envisgae new interface elements but replaces one heritage element with another.
This is however not the intended state of things: Devising a KS Personal Item which could serve in comments, postings, news and the like seems the way to go.

4 Technical Information

No technical issues.

5 Privacy Information

See https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/Services/News/PRIVACY.md

6 Security Implications

No security implications.

7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

8 Funding

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

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9 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 19 FE 2019: Two questions:

• Filter be the same as now, right? Time period and context. Will you take the chance to move to the new filter UI element?
• Due to the existing filters there is no "Show more" at the bottom, right? If "Last Month" is selected, all news of the last month are presented in the timeline at once, aren't they?

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt] 2019-02-19: If the filters are available befor this is implemented we can use the filters. If not the old control stays as it is. 

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 11 MAR 2019 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for 6.0. Using the new UI Filter would be great if possible.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 20 SEP 2021 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9. We continue the discussion about the KS Personal Item in the KS group.

10 Implementation

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 10 OCT 2022 by Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen]

• 50116:  Activate 'Internal News ' in Administration » Communication  
• C50117: Add reactions to news entries 
• C50118: Add and edit comments to news entries 
• C50119: Download a file from the overview 
• C50121: Open the origin object of a news entry 
• C50120: Delete news 

Approval

Approved at 2023-04-03 by Stefanie Gerl, FAU