Abandon Virtual Modes of Glossaries

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

Glossaries have Modes, allowing to gather terms and definitions from other glossaries in the same container or from subsequent containers. 

This adds a lot of complexity and should be dropped. 
All glossaries will be set to normal mode and could be empty. People would have to decide what to do with it.

2 Technical Information

No technical issues.

3 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.}

4 Funding

Removing the feature from the ILIAS code base might need funding. If you are interest in funding this request, please add your name and institution to this list.

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5 Discussion

Use the following discussion section to express your objections against this request or your consent to get rid of this feature.

Edith Mechelke-Schwede from Anwendungszentrum (AWZ), DHBW:
The DHBW and all universities that use the optes materials (> 20) rely on the virtual glossary in ILIAS.
Our glossaries are structured in such a way that we have one glossary for the basic curriculum and a separate glossary for each of the 5 other courses. The virtual glossary (we call it a collective glossary) combines all 6 glossaries. This way, those who only use the basic curriculum can easily access the glossary for the basic curriculum.
In our 42 learning modules we refer to the collective glossary at the bottom of each page. And in the individual learning modules, when a glossary term is called up, the links to the individual glossaries are set.
At the moment we have about 580 terms in the mathematics glossary for the basic curriculum and another 420 terms in the 5 other glossaries for the extended curriculum.
If the feature is removed, this would mean that we would have to copy all 420 terms from the 5 glossaries into the base glossary (moving them is not possible). This would also mean that the links in one glossary term to other glossary terms would no longer work and would have to be recreated. Much worse, however, would be that all links from the learning modules to the copied glossary terms would be lost and have to be reset. This then affects hundreds (if not thousands) of links that we would have to set manually in our 42 learning modules.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 28 OCT 2022 : I have created the requested FR Revision of Collection Glossaries where I suggest how the future behaviour of Collection Glossaries should be.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 31 OCT 2022 : We abandon the virtual mode of glossaries with the automatism of collecting terms from other glossaries of the same repo level or the entire subtree with this request. The option to collect terms of Standard Glossaries in a Collection Glossary will be kept and revised with the request "Revision of Collection Glossaries for ILIAS 9. This will allow to continue to offer glossaries consisting of terms from other glossaries - as requested by several institutions above.

Removed Testcases

The following testcases have been removed from Testrail or modified because the feature is no longer part of the ILIAS core.

• Integrieren Sie Begriffe aus anderen Glossaren in Ihr eigenes Glossar. 

Approval

Approved at 2023-02-02 by Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

The old feature was abandonned and replaced by Revision of Collection Glossaries