Confirmation Screen Guideline

1 Description

Confirmation screens (mostly used for delete actions) should use "ilConfirmationGUI" (Services/Utilities).

• First button should be the concrete action "Delete"
• Second button should be "Cancel"
• Additional content should not be shown (as happen in forum on thread deletion in 4.1)

Confirmation screens must be displayed, when content/data is going to be deleted without the possibility to restore it quickly afterwards. Examples:

• Moving items to the trash must show a confirmation screen, since the user cannot restore the object herself.
• Moving threads within forums does not need to show a confirmation screen, since the user can quickly undo the operation.

2 Status

• Scheduled for Release: Release 4.3
• Funding: Universität Bern
• Development: Feature is to be developed by all

Matthias Kunkel, 30 May 2011: Removed from 4.2 feature list due to missing funding. New status is « scheduled for Release 4.3 ».

3 Additional Information

• If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: alex.killing (at) gmx.de

4 Discussion

JF 15 Nov 2010: We highly appreciate the idea.

JL, 28 Mar 2012: most of the existing confirmation screens are now using ilConfirmationGUI. 2 older implementations have been removed. As this was part of the template-clean-up confirmation screens which use module-specific templates are unchanged - but this shouldn't be too many.

Situation in ILIAS 4.1

a) ILIAS-learningmodul - page: "cancel" and "confirm" are below the object.
b) Forum-thread: "confirm" and "cancel" are on the right side of the page. And: you see also the forum.
c) Delete wiki-page: "delete" and "cancel" are on the right side of the page.
d) Assessment and test (delete participants): interface is not correct.

Situation in 4.2
=> Test and Assessment: Delete questions, delete participants
=> Survey-Pool: Delete questions