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1 Suggestions for Abandoned Features

In the following list you can add a request for removing a feature from ILIAS. The lists below show existing suggestions and already made decisions about abondoned features. For new abandon requests, please use the page template '… New Page for Abandoned Feature' when creating the wiki page.

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Already Suggested

  1. Abandon Advanced Search
  2. Abandon Default Authentication Mode
  3. Abandon Description, Position, Bold and New Line From Display Options
  4. Abandon Dynamic Parameters in Weblinks
  5. Abandon Filters in Categories
  6. Abandon Google Maps
  7. Abandon LogOut-Screen
  8. Abandon News from «Info-Page»
  9. Abandon Opening SCORM Learning Module in the Same Window Underneath the ILIAS Main Menu
  10. Abandon Personal and Shared Resources
  11. Abandon PR333 Stud.IP workaround
  12. Abandon Question Pools for Surveys
  13. Abandon Rating
  14. Abandon Subtype setting from Survey for Question Type Metric Question
  15. Abandon System Check
  16. Abandon Tabs and functional Duplicates of Contacts and Settings in Mail
  17. Abandon Timezones in Calendar
  18. Abandon TinyMCE in Test & Assessment
  19. Abandon User Search
  20. Abandon Weblink Lists in Favour of Individual Links
  21. Abandon Yahoo JS-Library
  22. Abandon «Author» being automatically set in Survey Questions
  23. Abandon «Author» being automatically set  in Test Questions
  24. Abandon «Drafts» in Forum
  25. Abandon «Manage» Tab via UI-Refactoring in Data Collection
  26. Abandon «One E-Mail after all Participants Finished»
  27. Abandon «Seperate E-Mail for Each Finished Survey»
  28. Abandon «Show Survey Code»
  29. Abandon «Users»-Tab in Achievents-Learning Progress
  30. Abandon «View» in SCORM Settings
  31. Abandon „Content Arrangement: By Creation Date“
  32. Abandon „Grouped-by-Type View“
  33. Abandonned Global Switch for Page History
  34. Creating a New Page for Abandoned Feature
  35. Drop HHVM Support
  36. Remove Multiple Competence Assignements to single Question
  37. Remove the import of random tests into pools
  38. TinyMCE: Limit Tag Use

2 Accepted to be Removed

The following features are already accepted to be removed from ILIAS but still are part of the code.

  1. Abandon Hints in Test Questions
  2. Abandon Setting LOM of Courses/Groups/Weblinks via SOAP
  3. Authentication: Abandon CAS
  4. Test: Abandon Personal Default settings

3 Removed Features

The following features have been removed from the code of ILIAS. They are no longer available in the mentioned ILIAS versions (and all newer versions).

Removed with 11

  1. Abandon History in Weblinks

Removed with 10

  1. Abandon Adding Tags on «Info-Page»
  2. Abandon Blog Pages in Portfolios
  3. Abandon Compulsory Questions Setting in Test
  4. Abandon Excel Exports in Question Pools
  5. Abandon Hits/Page as a User Setting
  6. Abandon ILIAS-specific TinyMCE Plugins for Forum and Test & Assessment
  7. Abandon LaTeX in Certificates
  8. Abandon Learning Progress Tab in Administration
  9. Abandon Mail Preview «Message» on Dashboard
  10. Abandon Manage System Styles
  11. Abandon Question Pool Setting in Survey
  12. Abandon Rich Text Editor for Login Page
  13. Abandon Session Mode «Load-Dependent Session Settings»
  14. Abandon Settings for Manual Scoring and Adjustment per Question in Administration
  15. Abandon TinyMCE formattings in Exercise
  16. Abandon User-Tab in Learning Progress in Main Bar
  17. Abandon «Monitor and Set Status Themselves» Status in Learning Module
  18. Abandon «Save Current View» for Tables in Content in Data Collection
  19. Abandon «Session History» in Repository Chat
  20. Abandon «View given answers» in Survey
  21. Abandon ‘Views‘ in Learning Progress Tables
  22. Abandon Consultation Hour Groups
  23. Blog: Abandon Banner Image
  24. Learning Module: Abandon Change History and Comments
  25. Learning Module: Abandon Public Area Settings
  26. Media Pool: Abandon Upload Directory
  27. Portfolio: Abandon Banner Image
  28. Portfolio: Abandon Portfolio as User Profile
  29. Study Programme: Abandon Dynamic Tree in Manage View
  30. Survey: Abandon TinyMCE Configuration
  31. Survey: Abandon Width/Height Setting in Essay Question
  32. Test: Remove Option to Disable Taxonomies from QPL

Removed with 9

  1. Abandon Content for Recapitulation - Type text
  2. Abandon Copying from Create Dialogue
  3. Abandon Creation of Async Reference Entry in Data Collection
  4. Abandon Custom LOM Quick Edit for SCORM Modules
  5. Abandon ECTS Grades in ILIAS Test
  6. Abandon Emoticons in Repository Chat and OnScreen-Chat
  7. Abandon Generate PDF by User in ILIAS Test
  8. Abandon Item Analysis Export for Pure Single Choice Tests
  9. Abandon Line Break Setting in Users Mail Setting
  10. Abandon Milestones from Calendar
  11. Abandon Multiple Definitions per Term in Glossary
  12. Abandon Page View in Survey
  13. Abandon PDFService
  14. Abandon Phrases in Survey
  15. Abandon Private Rooms (Separees)
  16. Abandon Question Materials
  17. Abandon RTL-Support
  18. Abandon Setting Scored Answers on single pages
  19. Abandon SOAP::distributeMails
  20. Abandon Sorting of Instruction Files
  21. Abandon Special Character Selector
  22. Abandon Taxonomy Filter as Navigation Tree
  23. Abandon Test Setting Digitally Sign Test Submissions and Plugin Slot to sign Tests
  24. Abandon the booking of different time slots within one reservation process
  25. Abandon Undocumented Plugin Slot in Survey
  26. Abandon Virtual Modes of Glossaries
  27. Abandon Workflow Engine
  28. Abandon «Alphabetical Navigation in User Administration»
  29. Abandon »New« Status in Forums
  30. Abandon »Sticky Threads Sorting« in Forum
  31. Abandon ‘View Configuration‘ by UI Workflow in Data Collection
  32. Remove Settings-Templates for Tests
  33. Remove Setting «Limit Number of Concurrent Participants»
  34. Removing Legacy-UI » Toolbar » ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Submit‘
  35. Removing Legacy-UI » Toolbar » ‘Label‘ + ‘Legacy Dropdown‘ + ‘Submit‘ (in ILIAS 9)
  36. Test: Remove Setting Result Filter

Removed with 8

  1. Abandon (deprecated) SOAP-methods
  2. Abandon (experimental) Postgres Support
  3. Abandon Access Keys
  4. Abandon Captcha for Wiki, Forum and Authentication
  5. Abandon Cloud Object
  6. Abandon CTM
  7. Abandon External Webfeeds
  8. Abandon HTML/Javascript in Page Editor Text Paragraphs
  9. Abandon Legacy Views in Mediacast
  10. Abandon Link Checker
  11. Abandon mimetex support
  12. Abandon Radius Support
  13. Abandon Random Selection Button in ILIAS Tests
  14. Abandon SCORM Editor HTML Export
  15. Abandon SCORM export for ILIAS Learning Modules
  16. Abandon SCORM Offline Player
  17. Abandon SCORM Online Editor
  18. Abandon Settings-Templates for Surveys
  19. Abandon Slots-Table
  20. Abandon Start Button in Page & List View in ILIAS Test
  21. Abandon support for MyISAM engine and MySQL fulltext search
  22. Abandon TinyMCE in News
  23. Abandon Working Time in Test Questions and ILIAS Tests
  24. Global Cache: Abandon xCache-Support
  25. Remove PDF Generation from Survey
  26. Remove PDF Generation from Wiki
  27. Removing PDF Generation from Portfolio

removed with 7

  1. Abandon Adding Certificates in Personal Workspace
  2. Abandon Disk-Quota
  3. Abandon File-Manager
  4. Abandon obsolete settings of media objects
  5. Abandon Page View in Test
  6. Abandon PhantomJS
  7. Setup - Abandon Maintenance Mode
  8. Setup - Abandon Multi Client
  9. Setup - Abandon web based GUI

Removed with 6

  1. Abandon Bookmarks
  2. Abandon Chat Viewer Block on Personal Desktop
  3. Abandon IE11 Support
  4. Abandon Learning Module Default Layouts
  5. Abandon Levels of Details and Movability of Side Blocks on PD
  6. Abandon Portfolio Block on Personal Desktop
  7. Abandon Separators in Customizable Main Menu
  8. Abandon System Messages all together
  9. Abandon RSS Feed Block on Personal Desktop
  10. Setup - Abandon i18n in Setup

removed with 5.4

  1. Abandon Client-independent User Agreements
  2. Abandon License Service
  3. Abandon Oracle Support
  4. Get rid of Pop-Up in Test
  5. Remove Question Types Flash and Java Applet
  6. Remove the functionality to open collections in a Browser over WebDAV

removed with 5.3

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Removed with 5.2

  1. Abandon AICC and HACP support
  2. Abandon Auto-Indentation in Source Code Elements
  3. Abandon Feature - Bibliographical Data in HTML Learning Modules
  4. Abandon Feature - Predefined Passwords
  5. Abandon Instant Messengers in User Data
  6. Abandon Integrated Payment
  7. Abandon JAVA Path in Setup
  8. Abandon MD5 Password Encryption
  9. Abandon PDF Storage of e-Exams
  10. Abandon SCORM 1.2-Emulation
  11. Abandon Social Bookmarks
  12. Abandon ‘Changed Inside’
  13. Drop IE9 + IE10 Support
  14. Drop Support for PHP 5.3 and 5.4
  15. Remove Open ID

Removed with 5.1

  1. Abandon Address Book

Removed with 5.0

  1. Drop IE8 Support

Removed with 4.4:

Removed with 4.3:

Removed with 4.2:

  • Former chat implementation (see Replacement of the Chat System)
  • Digilib Books (first step: creation deacitvated; feature will be abandonned in 4.3)
  • SCORM editor: PDF/ISO Image export

Removed with 4.1:

  • Feature that allows users to start the tasks of a cron job via a HTTP request in 4.1
  • Import of ILIAS 2 forums into ILIAS 4 in 4.1
  • Course archives (obsolete due to new export feature) in 4.1

Removed with 4.0:

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Creating a New Page for Abandoned Feature

Last edited: 2. Apr 2025, 12:31, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]