News Timeline: pdf-Upload

1 Initial Problem

The News Timeline within Courses and Groups allows to upload different file types such as .jpg, .gif, .mp4, .mp3. In order to pass information to our students we would like to add the upload of .pdf files to this list. These .pdfs would present information such as flyers or other stuff that assists students' learning.

2 Conceptual Summary

Pre 2022/11/15

The upload in the news timeline should support .pdf files as well. This .pdf file could either be shown within the news timeline or be downloadable such as uploaded files within the course/group. The "usual" upload does not allow to add text. Allowing to add text could be a workaround which needs to be discussed.

The upload in the timeline of a course should support .pdf files as well. These are supposed to be presented the way they are currently presented when the autoupload feature is active (Screenshot 1).

The new desired screens can be found in Screenshot 2 and Screenshot 3.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• No new screen but a .pdf addition to the news timeline.

3.2 User Interface Details

See mockups in Conceptual Summary.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No new user interface components.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

We did not identify any special accessibilty implications.

4 Technical Information

Killing, Alexander [alex], 23 Jan 2023:

The news service re-uses the media object service here. Migration to IRSS should be possible, but would require the migration of media objects and tackling /checking this in all its contexts, e.g. media casts, media pools, page editor, learning modules, wiki, .... incl. rendering, exports to XML and especially HTML. This will multiply the effort for this feature by almost 10.

In general I would prefer to migrate to IRSS under a shared project management incl. shared estimations and schedules, planning and information exchange for all involved components, see https://docu.ilias.de/goto_docu_wiki_wpage_6313_1357.html

5 Privacy

Current status of privacy in the News service: https://github.com/ILIAS-eLearning/ILIAS/blob/trunk/Services/News/PRIVACY.md

There will be no additional privacy implications due to this implementation.

6 Security

No security issues.

7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Falkenstein, Rob [rob]
• Maintainer: {Please add your name before applying for an initial workshop or a Jour Fixe meeting.}
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

8 Funding

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• Uni Freiburg

9 Discussion

Schmid, Fabian [fschmid] 2022-12-13: I highly recommend that as part of the implementation, the storage of files in news context is migrated to the IRSS, see PR#5158.

10 Implementation

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 2023-10-13 by Spirou, Ilias [ispirou]

• 13023 : Per Hand Neuigkeiten im Reiter Timeline anlegen

Approval

Approved at 2023-10-16 by Falkenstein, Rob [rob].