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Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page

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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
- 3.4 Accessibility Implications
4 Technical Information
5 Privacy
6 Security
7 Contact
8 Funding
9 Discussion
10 Implementation

This feature request is part of a couple of request to centralise the online/offline status in ILIAS objects:

Centralizing online/offline status - step 1 → ILIAS 5.4
Centralizing online/offline status - step 2: forum and content page → ILIAS 8
Centralizing online/offline status - step 3 → ILIAS 9
Centralizing online/offline status - step 4 → ILIAS 10

1 Initial Problem

Currently there is no centralized implementation for handling the offline status in different modules.
Centralized online/offline status actual is supported by the following object types:

Course
ILIAS Learning Module
HTML Learning Module
SCORM Learning Module
Survey
Test

Almost all other objects either have their own implementation or no offline/online status or intentionally not supposed to have a offline/online status.

2 Conceptual Summary

The following table shows:

which objects do not yet have an online/offline status,
which most probably do not have a centralised online/offline status and
for which the form in the settings screen needs an adjustment.

There is still work to be done in many ways. A complete list of all required changes is shown in the following accordion.
If there is a red entry, there is something to do.

Requirements in all objects

Object	online/offline	centralized online/offline	reorganisation of form section "availability" required	Comment
xAPI/cmi5 need	yes	no	yes
Bibliographic list item	yes	no	yes
Blog	no	no	yes
Booking Pool	yes	no	yes
Content Page	no	no	yes
Chat	yes	no	no
DataCollection	yes	no	yes
Exercise	no	no	yes
Forum	no	no	yes
Glossary	yes	no	no
Group	no	no	open	should groups have ?
Individual Assessment	no	no	yes
Learning Sequence	yes	no	no
Mediacast	yes	no	no
Mediapool	no	no	yes
Folder	no	no	no	folders should not have
Portfolio Template	yes	no	no
Session	no	no	no
Test Pool	yes	no	yes
Item Group	no	no	no	item group should not have
Weblink	no	no	open	should weblinks have ?
RSS Feed	no	no	open	should rss feeds have ?
Wiki	yes	no	yes
LTI Consumer	yes	no	yes
Poll	yes	no	no
Survey Pool	yes	no	yes
Cloud object	yes	no	yes
Category	no	no	no	categorys should not have
Study Programm	no	no	no	other status
File	no	no	open	should files have ?

This requirement – "Centralizing online/offline status - step 2" – only deals with
the solution for the objects: forum and content page.

Note: The inclusion of a read-only area to display the setting "Timings" in Availiability is not considered in the question of revising the form, as this is dealt with via article Revision of Access to Timings Settings of Objects.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Settings-Screen of Forums and Content Pages
List GUI in Repository showing status "offline" if it is set.

3.2 User Interface Details

In the Settings tab of each item, the second form section should be "Availability".
The first entry in the form section is "Status" and offers a checkbox "Online", which is deactivated by default.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

Nothing new.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

No special requirements in respect of accessibility are to be expected.

4 Technical Information

All object types wil use the centralized `offline` flag in database table `object_data`.

5 Privacy

No personal data is stored or processed to implement this feature.

6 Security

We do not see any changes for special security issues.

7 Contact

Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
Maintainer: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
Implementation of the feature is done by: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]

8 Funding

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

DHBW Karlsruhe

9 Discussion

Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila], 08 NOV 2021:
Dear maintainers, please let us make the next steps on this topic – also as a basis for availability and preconditions. The first six objects have been adapted for ILIAS 5.4. Nothing has happened in ILIAS 6 and 7. With ILIAS 8, two objects should be adapted. 25 remain.
»» Centralizing online/offline status - step 3

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 15 NOV 2021 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and accept the introduction of online / offline status for content page and forum for ILIAS 8.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 07 DEC 2021 : I have renamed the page from "Centralizing online/offline status - step 2" to "Centralizing online/offline status: forum and content page" to indicate that only these two components have been tackled. This is more helpful for readers of the feature list of ILIAS 8.