Clearer Division between View and Manage in Weblinks

1 Summary

The 'View'-subtab in the 'Content'-tab of Weblinks will not offer any editing (or creating) of links anymore. This will only be possible in the 'Manage'-subtab.

2 Problem Statement

The 'View'-subtab in the 'Content'-tab of Weblinks has an 'Edit' action for links, which offers the exact same functionality as the table shown in the 'Manage'-subtab. This redundancy is unnecessary. Further, the 'Manage'-table is full of inputs and other custom HTML, making it impossible to directly replace by a KS data table.

3 Concept

The 'View'-subtab will only present the available links (with title, description, and target), and not offer any actions anymore (except 'Export as HTML File').

The 'Manage'-subtab instead shows a table of the links with all their properties, and offers the actions previously on the 'View'-subtab ('Delete', 'Deactivate', and 'Edit').

The 'Sorting'-subtab will be removed. Instead, if 'Weblink Sorting' is set to 'Sort Manually', the 'Manage'-subtab will allow ordering of links.

4 User Interface Modifications

4.1 List of Affected Views

4.2 User Interface Details

The 'View'-subtab will contain all active links as items in a listing panel. Header is the linked title of the link. Further, the description of the link is shown in the item. The items will have no further actions.

The 'Manage'-subtab will contain either an ordering table if 'Weblink Sorting' is set to 'Sort Manually', else a data table. Columns will be 'Title', 'Description', 'Target' (URL for external links, object type and title for internal links), and a status icon 'Active'.

Depending on the acceptance of Abandon Dynamic Parameters in Weblinks, the table might also come with a 'Parameters' column, containing all dynamic parameters as a listing. The column will not be shown if 'Dynamic Weblink Parameters' are disabled in the Weblink administration.

The table will have 'Edit' as a single action, which will behave like the current 'Edit' action on the 'View'-subtab and lead to an edit form on a separate page. 'Deactivate' and 'Delete' will be standard actions, and will also behave like they do now.

The toolbar buttons will each be exclusive to one of the subtabs: The 'Manage'-subtab will only have 'Add Weblink', and the 'View'-subtab will only have 'Export as HTML File'.

The 'Sorting'-subtab will be removed entirely.

With Parameters

4.3 New User Interface Concepts

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4.4 Technical Aspects

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5 Non-Functional Implications

5.1 Security

No security implications.

5.2 Privacy

No privacy implications.

5.3 Accessibility Implications

Only KS components are used.

6 Process Information

6.1 Involved Authorities

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6.2 Contact

Person to be contacted in case of questions about the feature or for funding offers: Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]

6.3 Funding

Funding status and funding parties are listed in the block 'Status of Feature' in the right column of this page.

If you are interested to give funding for this feature, please get into contact with the person mentioned above as 'Contact'.

7 Discussion

8 Implementation

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