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1 Description

  • It should be possible to access the Personal Profile as a Website in kiosk mode. The URL should conform to [URL-ILIAS-Installation]/[ILIAS-Username]
  • The template of this website should be adaptable for the ILIAS administrator to the corporate design of the institution.
  • The user should be able to decide with all data records whether these are privately, for announced users or completely public.
  • It should be possible to manage the following data:
  • There should be a date: last modified

2 Status

3 Additional Information

  • If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: studer@ilub.unibe.ch / Universität Bern

There is an interesting thesis by Bernhard Biribauer about integrating ePortfolio functionalities in ILIAS:

ePortfolio & ILIAS

4 Discussion

We highly appreciate this feature. There is more conceptual specification needed.
  • What sections/tabs appear on the screen? An option could be that an administrator manages a list of default sections that can be activated by the user. But we could offer the possibility to allow the user to add additional sections him/herself.
  • For free text screens we would like to use the ILIAS page editor.
  • The design should be adoptable by CSS, like the rest of ILIAS. Question is, whether we need additional style classes, e.g. if we display tabs on the screen, or whether we can use the default tabs styles. We would like to minimize the additional style classes needed.
  • We put this on the agenda for 3.12, 3.11 would be unrealistic.

-- JF 6 Apr 2009
Alex, 13 July 2009: We could try to start with a first implementation for 4.0:
  • Allow TinyMCE-Fields in personal profile
  • A new admin setting "Activate profiles outside ILIAS"
  • A new user setting "Profile visible outside ILIAS"
  • A redirect from <ilias.server>/user/ilias_account_name to the profile

JF 13 July 2009: We will try to provide the a basic implementation for 4.0.

Matthias Kunkel, 31 July 2009: The extension of the personal profile towards a kind of public website is great - even if it is only a first implementation step for 4.0. Some suggestions:
  • I would recommend to show the link of the user's page on the screen "Public Profile" - maybe even as first entry of the right column. Otherwise the user do not know how to link to this personal profile page. But I would show this only in case of activated "Global visible" setting.
  • We need a nice but simple layout for the public profile web page for calls from outside.
  • Will there be a text area for a personal description already in 4.0? This would be very important for the feature.
  • We need a possibility to restrict the use of this feature (and to avoid mis-use of the feature):
    • General setting in "Administration » Personal Desktop" to disable the option "Global Visible"
    • A global role-dependent setting (for a later implementation).
Martin Studer (Universität Bern), 01 September 2009:
  • We agree with all suggestions of Matthias!
  • For a user it should be possible to create some additional tab pages. Those tab pages should have a TinyMCE-Field. This would make it easier, to structure the personal web page. The visit card (e.g at the personal desktop) of a user should have a link to this (advanced) personal web page.
Jour Fixe, 07 SEP '09: There are still several things to improve in the Personal Profile / Website:
  • Missing sorting of personal profile fields
  • Missing possibility to insert costum fields between standard fields (or replace standard fields)
  • Missing hierarchy (page, section, fields).
Unfortunately, we cannot solve these problems for 4.0 but have to skip them to 4.1. But we keep this discussion open.

Alex, 21.Sep.2009: I have added the link. The global settings can be found under "Administration" -> "General Settings" -> "Basic Settings" -> "Public Area".

Please note that the feature cannot be enabled, if the public area is disabled. This would be technically more complicated. I hope it is ok this way.

5 Implementation in 4.0

  • Administration > General Settings > Basic Settings > Public Area (Enabled) > Enable Global Profiles: Allow users to enable a global visible profile
  • Personal Desktop > Personal Profile > Public Profile > Global Visible: Activates a globally visible user profile
  • Link to the profile is http://<server>/goto.php?client=<client_id>&target=usr_<user_id>

6 Discussion (4.1)

Martin Studer (Universität Bern), 14. April 2010:
We should proceed with the development. We propose to make the following further development steps:
  • For a user it should be possible to create some additional tab pages. Have a look at the mock up above. Those tab pages should have a TinyMCE-Textarea-Field with the possibility to upload some files and pictures.
  • A redirect from <ilias.server>/user/ilias_account_name to the profile
  • The public Personal Website should opens in a kiosk mode without the ILIAS-Navigation and the template should be adaptable via the Customizing-Directory
  • The whole data should be accessible via XML. Like this it is possible, to represent the data on different webpages
  • There should be a date: last modified
  • Link to Personal Website - instead of Link to Profile

JF 19 Apr 2010: We also would like to proceed. Our main conceptual "issue" is the overlapping with a possible upcoming e-Portfolio component. We are still unsure whether to use Tiny or the ILIAS page editor here. The planned editor improvements of the ELBA2 project would make it more "usable" for unexperienced users than before.

Matthias Kunkel, 12 May 2010:
  • The current link to the public profile should be improved. Why not using the same presentation as we use for the permanent links. This makes it much easier to copy this address. And we need this link in the search engine style:

Not http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto.php?client=docu&target=usr_115,

but http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_usr_115

Why not use the "ilias_account_name" (see Alex` suggestion)?

Alex 1 July 2010: Still two open discussion points:
  1. Should the tabs that can be added be predefined in the administration or can the user name the tabs in any way he wants? Advantage of a predefined set: The profiles would look more consistently, disadvantage: The user can only provide data that fits into one of the predefined tabs.
  2. Use Tiny or Page Editor? I think with the upcoming Elba improvements for the ILIAS page editor, the page editor will offer more possibilities (like accordions and tabs) and the usability should be ok.

Alex 2 Jul 2010: After a telephone call with Martin, we decided to a) let users decide which tabs are added and b) use the ILIAS page editor for the content.

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Last edited: 17. Apr 2025, 15:10, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]