Revamp Thread-Tab of Forum

1 Initial Problem

The Forum has a very administrative View.

Everything could be presented much more clearly and mobilely. Besides, you can do far too many things that you rarely need.

2 Conceptual Summary

Main Goals of Changes in "Thread"-Tab

• Cleaning up the view
• Better separation of (A) consuming and simply communicating and (B) managing, moderating, structuring user generated content
• Removing clutter
• Better display on small/mobile devices

Revamped Thread-Tab with limited scope of functions and reduced amount of information.

• Use of one "Item" per Thread in a Standard Listing Panel
  • Effects on Actions
    • Only actions that make sense for a single thread are offered
    • A reduced scope of actions is offered.
    • The multi-action and the line selector are omitted.
    • Details:
      • 'Make Threads Sticky' OR 'Make Threads Non-Sticky'
      • 'Close' OR 'Reopen'
      • 'Delete'
      • 'Edit Title'
      • 'Move Thread to another Forum' 
      • 'Merge Postings into other Thread'
      • »» Details of the decision, see the following section.
  • Effects on Presentation
    • Mobile views are supported with the KS Item. The inner column structure is very helpful.
    • Less function to manage brings more focus on the content and interaction with it.
    • Details of Item:
      • Thread Title is used for Item Title {Status [closed] if it is}
      • It is difficult to guess which properties are required for all conceivable UseCases. Therefore, we could also provide two views of different details, which could be controlled via a ViewControl Mode.
      • View Control Mode [Compact | Complete] or [Overview | Details] or better wording
        • Compact / Overview
          • Articles : {#} Unread: {#}
          • Rating : {Stars}
        • Complete / Details
          • Created by : {User Data}
          • Articles : {#} Unread: {#}
          • Latest Article : {dd. Mon yyyy, mm:hh} | From: {User Data}
          • Visits : {#}
          • Rating : {Stars}
• Use a "View Control Sortation"
  • Possible Selection
    • Thread Title A→Z
    • Thread Title Z→A
    • Last Posting Ascending
    • Last Posting Descending
    • Rating Ascending
    • Rating Descending
    • »» Details of the decision, see the following section.
  •  Positioning
    • The following mock-ups show this in the toolbar.
    • Due to the possibility of customizing the page between the toolbar and the thread panel, we would like to place the view control sortation in the thread panel, so the control is placed much closer to the content to be controlled.
• Use a "View Vontrol Pagination"
  • Amount of entries per page: 25 (No selection menu for number of lines as with the table)
  • View Control is hidden if there is only one page.

In order to abandon the table view, the question is how to deal with the functions in this view.  The essential elements of the implementation to date are: 

• The Actions in the Multi-Action
• Performing these Actions for one ore more Threads
• The Sorting of the Threads

Which functions exist, how are they to be transferred to an item representing a thread or even removed? 

• Actions in the Multi-Action and performing these actions for one ore more Threads
  • Enable Notification for this Thread (Option is available in Top-Action of each thread. Enable and Disable works as toggle. Information in Thread-Overwies loads unnecessarily.)
  • Disable Notification for this Thread (Same here.)
  • Make Threads Sticky (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item. Make Sticky and Non-Sticky works as toggle.)
  • Make Threads Non-Sticky (Same here.)
  • Edit Title (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item. The action can only be executed for one thread anyway.)
  • Close (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item. Close and Reopen works as toggle.)
  • Reopen (Same here.)
  • Move Thread to another Forum (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item.)
  • Export as HTML-File (Option is moved to Export-Tab. Using a Modal with selection of Threads to export.)
  • Delete (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item.)
  • Merge Postings into other Thread (Option is moved to Action-Menu of Thread-Item. The action can only be executed for one thread anyway.)
• The sorting of the Thread-Rows moves to View Control Sortation:
  • Threads (changed to 'Thread Title A→Z' and 'Thread Title Z→A')
  • Articles (#) (no longer sortable)
  • Visits (#) (no longer sortable)
  • Latest Article (changed to 'Last Posting Ascending' and 'Last Posting Descending')
  • Rating (changed to 'Rating Ascending' and 'Rating Descending')
  • »» Not sortable in ILIAS 8: 'Created by' and 'Drafts' (#)
• Informations in Rows and how to transfer them to Properties of an Otem:
  • Threads (Thread become Title of Item)
    • 'Notification enabled' (Information is not longer shown in Properties of an item)
    • 'closed' (Information become Suffix of Title of Item)
  • Created by ({User Data}) Property is only visible in mode "Complete"|"Detail")
  • Articles (#)(Number of Articels is shown in possible combination with number of unread Articles) 
  • Visits (#)(Property is only visible in mode "Complete"|"Detail")
  • Drafts (#) (Information is not longer shown in Properties of an item)
  • Latest Article (dd. Mon yyyy, mm:hh | From: {User Data}) (Property is only visible in mode "Complete"|"Detail")
  • Rating (Stars) (Star-Rating is shown as one Property)

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Thread-Tab of Forums with newly splitted subtabs "Show" and Manage"

3.2 User Interface Details

Revamped Thread-Tab

• UI-Framework KitchenSink:
  • Using Standard Listing Panel within Standrad Item with Lead Image to show "Sticky-Threads" (engl., in german: "Top-Themen")
  • Using View Control Sortation
  • Using View Control Pagination (hidden if there is no more than one page)

Action "Edit Title" is called in a Modal

'Export HTML FIle' is now available in 'Export'-Tab

Action "Merge Postings into other Thread" is called in a Modal with all Thread Items

'Drafts' created by the user are no longer displayed above the old thread table or the new thread panel.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

Nothing new.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

no spicific aspects

4 Technical Information

None.

5 Privacy

no special privacy aspects

6 Security

no special security aspects

7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
• Maintainer: Jansen, Michael [mjansen]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

8 Funding

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

• …

9 Discussion

10 Implementation

Test Cases

Edited Test cases completed at 2023-10-26 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].

• C5268 » Titel eines Themas bearbeiten
• C5223 » Forenthema zu Top-Thema machen
• C5224 » Forenthema schließen
• C5225 » Forenthema in anderes Forum verschieben
• C5226 » Forenthemen exportieren
• C5249 » Posts mit anderem Thema verschmelzen
• C5227 » Forenthema löschen
• C7438 » Sortierung von Forenthemen
• C6006 » Löschung eines Themas

Approval

Approved at 2023-10-26 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].