Roadmap

Certificates are used by different components to symbolize the successful completion of the Service/Module.

This file aims to serve a basic overview of the planned and already implemented Features. This file should be updated regularly to avoid collision with other development processes and give anybody a fair overview of the planned features of this service.

Versions

v1.0.0 (ILIAS < 5.4)

• Certificate templates can be created via file in the filesystem
• Certificates can be downloaded by users(based on the certificate template)

v2.0.0 (ILIAS 5.4)

• Persist templates and certificates in the database
• Visioning of templates and certificates
• Refactoring and extracting of classes
• Add Unittests
• Eliminate the need for Certificate adapters
• User Interface with list of achieved certificates
• Elimination of unused methods and code
• Alternative concept to queuing and process via cron job to avoid idle times

v2.1.0 (ILIAS 6)

• Abandon certificate migration according to https://docu.ilias.de/goto.php?target=wiki_1357_Persisting_Certificates

v2.2.0 (ILIAS 7)

• Increase peformance when learners complete a learning object and course certificates are evaluated

v2.3.0 (ILIAS 8)

• Increase peformance even more when learners complete a learning object and course certificates are evaluated

Mid Term

• Use a local dependency injection container instead of the Huge Constructor with Defaults pattern where applicable
• Invert dependencies to support (new) object types and even repository object plugins without changing certificate related code: Use interfaces and ILIAS artifacts instead
• Add an administration user interface to manage user certificates (issue, delete) or even certificate templates globally
• Increase performance in \ilCertificateAppEventListener::handleLPUpdate if course certificate trigger objects are referenced

// Instead of iterating over references (like shown below), we should try to achieve O(1) by evaluating a collection of ref_ids
foreach (ilObject::_getAllReferences($objectId) as $refId) {
    $templatesOfCompletedCourses = $progressEvaluation->evaluate($refId, $userId);
}
// ...