Bulk Edit in Test Question Pool

1 Initial Problem

Currently, it is not possible to change the Author, the Lifecycle of Questions and the assignment to taxonomies as bulk action in the question pool. Contrary to other fields, these fields bring the possibility of a bulk action. Other fields normally are not having similar values or differ between the different question types.

There a lot of steps/clicks needed to change these fields for every question on it's own.

2 Conceptual Summary

There are three bulk actions added to the question pool:

• Set Author
• Set Lifecycle
• Set Taxonomies

All three actions lead to a new screen, where the relevant input fields are given. When saving the entered inputs, these fields are overwritten at the selected questions. At the taxonomies this behaviour differs a bit, please look at the detailed View below.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Tab "Questions" in Question Pool
• Modal "Actions for Entire Table"
• New Screen "Set Author"
• New Screen "Set Lifecycle"
• New Screen "Set Taxonomies"

3.2 User Interface Details

3.2.1 Tab "Questions" in Question Pool

The "Bulk Actions" Dropdown gets new Actions.

3.2.2 Modal "Actions for Entire Table"

The Dropdown "Action for All Entries" gets new Actions.

3.2.3 New Screen "Set Author"

A new Screen is added, which is triggered by the previous described action "Set Author". The Screen enables the user to change the field "Author" of the selected questions.

3.2.4 New Screen "Set Lifycycle"

A new Screen is added, which is triggered by the previous described action "Set Lifecycle". The Screen enables the user to change the field "Lifecycle" of the selected questions.

3.2.5 New Screen "Set Taxonomies"

A new Screen is added, which is triggered by the previous described action "Set Taxonomies". The Screen enables the user to assign taxonomies to the selected questions. The selected taxonomies can be added to the previous assigned nodes or overwrite those.

The selection of the taxonomies works like for a single question, there is no new concept needed.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

The new screens use Kitchen Sink input fields. The exception is the selection of taxonomies: these UI elements are coming from the taxonomy service. On the long term, this could be replaced by the new UI TreeSelect or TreeMultiSelect.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

With the use of standard KS UI Elements, we have the same a11y implications as described in the KS Documentation.

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

This feature does not collect any additional personal data.

6 Security

In our opinion, this feature does not create any additional points of attack.

7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe]
• Authority: Strassner, Denis [dstrassner]
• 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.

• ILIAS.nrw

9 Discussion

10 Implementation

This Feature will be implemented with the merge of PR 7961

Feature is implemented as described above.

Screenshots

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 30 AUG 2024 by Strassner, Denis [dstrassner]

• C76569 : Taxonomie(n) für mehrere Fragen ändern
• C76570 : Autor:in für mehrere Fragen ändern
• C76572 : Lebenszyklus für mehrere Fragen ändern

Privacy

No change required

Approval

Approved at 23 SEP 2024 by Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe].