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Make Personal Profile aka vCard a Modal

1 Initial Problem

When clicking on a username with published profile, ILIAS opens a new page and presents the Personal Profile / vCard of this user. Additionally, it offers a 'Back' link. But this link does not direct you back to the place where you clicked the username but to the Dashboard or Repository. This is not helpful for users and should be improved.

2 Conceptual Summary

Instead of presenting the profile as a dedicated page it would be much better to present it as a roundtrip modal (in case a portfolio is not used as profile). This is exactly the purpose of this UI element in the KS documentation:

Purpose
Round-Trip modals are to be used if the context would be lost by performing this action otherwise.

Effect: a user that is interested in another user's profile clicks on the username and gets the profile information as a modal, incl. the option to get connected to the user. In the next step, the modal can be closed and the user is back at the place where she/he started the "roundtrip". Users are no longer annoyed with unwanted re-directs to the Dashboard. And there is no need to implement an "intelligent" 'Back' link that knows where a user comes from.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Personal Profile

3.2 User Interface Details

Content of Personal Profile / vCard should be moved to a Roundtrip Modal (when profile is not a portfolio).

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No new UI elements. We already have 'em all ...

4 Technical Information

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5 Privacy Information

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6 Security Implications

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7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
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8 Funding

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9 Discussion

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt] On a practical level only vcards would work properly in the modal. Portfolios would not work in the modal. This would mean that portfolios could no longer be set as personal profile. 
Abandonning the option to set portfolios as personal profile would not be the end of things, though. 

On a conceptual level it would be hugely beneficial is to better understand purposes of / define the specific value added by  

• Vcard
• Profile
• Portfolio

On a technical lecel: As far as I know there is no general implementation  of uses of profile / vcard,  one would have to work on different implementatops in contacts and formum and so forth. 

10 Implementation

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