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Abandon Personal and Shared Resources

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It is possible to "save" functionality which is important to organisations

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

Personal and Shared Resources are not used very much, the usability would need improvement.

Many organisations switch it off, since administrators have no access to it. Many consider it unadvisable, having to answer for something they cannot patrol. 

This functionality is not important enough for the ccommunity and should be abandoned altogether, comprising

  •  My Resources: Files, Weblinks, Blogs, Folders.
  • Resources of Other Users
  • My Repository Objects

2 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.}

3 Contact

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.

Kiegel, Colin [kiegel] 2025-01-30: When abandoning this, please offer some kind of migration step, e.g. moving the personal workspace to newly created group objects, or something like that. Otherwise it would be hard to upgrade installations that have used this feature in the past. As it is mentioned in the introduction of this request: Administrators have no access to the personal workspace and are therefore unable to manually migrate the content of the users.

Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt] 2025-02-20: User should migrate what they really want to keep. 

  • All Files can be downloaded at once with multi-Actions. 
  • Weblinks can be exported. 
  • Blogs can be exported as HTML.
  • They only loose their Folders.

This should be announced well in advance.

SIG Portfolio & Competence Management has a discussion on migrating Personal Blogs to Repository Blogs. Since this would betray the trust of users this is not appreciated.

Moving Personal Blogs to their own home seems the better solution. 

Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe] 2025-02-21: We as Databay AG have a bunch of customers, who use the Personal and Shared Resources, especially the Personal and Shared Resources and not the tab "My Repository Objects" for sharing Files with other users.

6 Implementation

{The maintainer has to give a description of the final implementation and possible consequences for existing installations.}

Removed Testcases

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

  • {Test case number linked to Testrail} : {test case title}

Approval

Approved at {date} by {user}.

Last edited: 21. Feb 2025, 11:47, Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe]