Self-registration: no pre-selection of roles

1 Initial Problem

Several roles can be offered for selection during self-registration. By default, the first role in the dropdown is preselected in the registration form. An inattentive user could overlook this field and accidentally register with this role. 

2 Conceptual Summary

Placeholder in dropdown

Therefore, a placeholder should be preselected instead, which is recognised as invalid when saving and then leads to an error message.

Error Message 

If no role is selected, the error message could be as follows: "Please select a role before saving the form."

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Registration Form << Settings Section

3.2 User Interface Details

New Entry "Non selected"  in Dropdown (Settings Section in Registration Form) is pre-selected:

Error message being shown, if no role has been selected by the user:

 see UI documentation message box failure

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

3.4 Accessibility Implications

None

4 Technical Information

{ The maintainer has to provide necessary technical information, e.g. dependencies on other ILIAS components, necessary modifications in general services/architecture, potential security or performance issues. }

5 Privacy

No new information is stored

6 Security

No security relevant changes will be made. Only a new option to a dropdown field.

7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Lorenz, Katharina [klorenz]
• Maintainer: Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard]

8 Funding

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

• FHV

9 Discussion

Seeland, Per Pascal [PerPascalSeeland] I like the suggestion and think it would improve the overall usablity. The integration should be part of the overall migration of the UI to the new UI components, which is on the roadmap for ILIAS9

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 07 AUG 2023 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 9.

10 Implementation

The Implementation is exactly as defined above.

Test Cases

Test cases completed at {date} by {user}

• #63372 : Selbst anmelden und Rolle auswählen 

Approval

Approved at 28 AUG 2023 by Lorenz, Katharina [klorenz].