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Centralizing online/offline status - step 4

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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
Content Page
Forum
ILIAS Learning Module
HTML Learning Module
Poll
SCORM Learning Module
Survey
Test
Bibliographic list item *¹
Chat (Repository) *¹
File *¹
Individual Assessment *¹
Learning Sequence *¹
LTI Consumer *¹
Test Pool *¹
xAPI/cmi5 *¹

*^{1 … with ILIAS 9}

Other objects have their own implementation or no offline/online status or intentionally not supposed to have a offline/online status.

2 Conceptual Summary

In this hopefully last step, the following components are to be migrated to the centralized online/offline status and, if necessary, the settings form is to be modified in it's order. (See Chap. 3.2)

Blog
Booking Pool
Data Collection
Exercise
Glossary
Group *²
Mediacast
Media Pool
Portfolio Template
Survey Pool
Weblink
Wiki

*^{2 … For closed groups, there could be the disruption of the habit that members simply have to sign in to get access. In future, however, the online setting will still be required. It is expected, however, that the new mode of operation will be learned quickly, especially due to streamlining.}

The following table shows:

which objects do not yet have an online/offline status,
which most probably do not have a centralized online/offline status.

Object	online/offline	centralized online/offline
Blog	no	no
Booking Pool	yes	no
Data Collection	yes	no
Exercise	no	no
Glossary	yes	no
Group	no	no
Mediacast	yes	no
Mediapool	no	no
Portfolio Template	yes	no
Weblink	no	no
Wiki	yes	no
Survey Pool	yes	no

Objects that should not have an online/offline status:

Object
Category
Folder
Item Group
RSS Feed
Session
Study Program

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Settings-Screen of Objects
Listing Panels on Dashboard and List GUI in Repository showing status "offline" if it is set. (Also in Listing Panels if it is used in the meantime.)

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 after object creation.

The KitchenSink forms must be used for the settings forms. This will take work away from ILIAS 10 when we have to get rid of the old UI-components.

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

See Documentation for Implementation KS-Forms for Common Properties of an Object

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: Kergomard, Stephan [skergomard], Meyer, Stefan [smeyer] & Killing, Alexander [alex]
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

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 24 JUL 2023 : We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule the feature for ILIAS 10. Please introduce the centralised online status also for the repository object pluginslot. This will allow repository plugins to use this service and its related features, too.

Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila], 13 SEP 2024:
Dear JourFixe,
with ILIAS 9, the centralised online/offline status should actually already be used in the data collection - see step 3. At the time of the discussion of step 4, it was not predictable that this would not be the case. See ‘Data Collection (still not implemented with ILIAS 9)’ in Chap 1 Initial Problem.
This DevIssue simply asks to be able to transfer the DataCollection with ILIAS 10 as well to centralised online/offline status.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 16 SEP 2024: Implementing the centralised online / offline status also for the data collection with ILIAS 10 is highly appreciated and accepted.