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Including Comments in HTML-Export in Blogs, Wikis, Portfolios

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
- 8.1 Administration Settings
- 8.2 Exports

1 Initial Problem

From a learner's perspective the public comments of the teacher and/or of peers and other readers in a personal blog, wiki or portfolio are an important part of learning process. In the actual HTML-Export, these comments are not included.

2 Conceptual Summary

We would like to have the option to choose whether public comments are included in the HTML-export. If after the export a user opens the HTML-export locally he/she should find all the comments in the place and order as in the original online version.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Export as HTML File options of

Blog in personal workspace
Blog in a course or group
Portfolio
Wiki

Start HTML-Export of a Wiki, if selected in the settings

3.2 User Interface Details

We suggest the two following options to realize our feature:

After starting the "Export HTML" function, a popup appears asking, whether public comments should be included in the export or not.
There should be two different menü items or buttons for HTML-Export options:
- Blog: 2 Menu item
  - Export HTML
  - Export HTML including comments
- Portfolio: 2 Buttons
  - Export HTML
  - Export HTML including comments
- Wiki: 2 Items in the section "Wiki Functions"
  - Export HTML
  - Export HTML including comments

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

None, we are using standard modals here.

4 Technical Information

No technical issues. There are no additional performance or security issues.

Privacy: Since user related data can be exported (comments) there will be a privacy settings that allows to deactivate this feature globally.

5 Contact

Author of the Request: , Schilling, Sarah [sarah.schilling]
Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
Implementation of the feature is done by:

6 Funding

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

PH Zürich, , Schilling, Sarah [sarah.schilling]

7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 4 June 2019: First of all thank you very much for this suggestion. I support the general idea of the option to include comments in the exports. Some points I would like to discuss (also with the JF)

Instead of adding two options to the action menus directly we may keep one action and ask the user in a modal dialog whether comments should be included or not. This would keep the action menus less crowded.
Do these features need a global activation for wikis, portfolios etc.? It might be a privacy/user agreement issue to make users comments exportable for other learners this way.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 01 JUL 2019 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for 6.0. We prefer a modal for deciding between HTML export with or without comments and we highly appreciate a privacy setting in Administration » Privacy to allow or prevent the export of comments within the HTML export. Default should be "deactivated" like the current behaviour.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 14 SEP 2020: We still like this suggestion and re-schedule the feature for ILIAS 7. Requests from last JF are still valid.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 8 Nov 2020: The current specification does not include the traditional export tab screens yet (Blog and Wiki). We suggest to add a "HTML including comments" in the export type dropdowns on these screens, too. No need for modals here.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 09 NOV 2020 : We accept the suggested solution for the traditional export screen (tab 'Export') and would like to have an additional entry "HTML including comments".