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The following features were already been discussed at a Jour Fixe and scheduled for an ILIAS version. But due to missing funding or open conceptual issues, they were postponed.

As soon as there is funding for one of the following features it can be rescheduled for an upcoming version. Please contact the coordination team if you have money for funding the development.

1 Postponed from 5.1

 
The following features were scheduled for release 5.1 and had an option or agreement for funding but were not implemented due to missing resources / time.

  1. course assignment: add all users of a role
  2. Date and Time Picker: Streamlining
  3. Delimiter Tag for Paragraphs
  4. DR 5.1 - Issue 03: Scrollable Drop Downs over Scrollable Background
  5. Responsive Table Filters
  6. function to report a post to the moderator
  7. Media object image/media: custom size in percent
  8. New Generic Content Style
  9. No automatic log out / Users stay logged in
  10. Ordering questions: order pictures is not available in horizontal mode
  11. Preselect only categories when copying a category branch
  12. UI: Form

 
The following features had only partly funding:

  1. Design Revision Part 2
  2. Extended Translation Functionality for Container
  3. Improve Deletion of Objects
  4. Introduction of Audience Response System
  5. Online Help: Index
  6. xAPI Activity Repository Object
  7. xAPI: Integrated LRS

 
The following features were scheduled for 5.1 but had no funding!

  1. Better Performance for Recurring Calendar Appointments
  2. Booking also possible when a Timeslot has started
  3. Calendar: Improve Navigation in Side Block
  4. Change default video aspect ratio into more popular one
  5. Letter Avatars
  6. Configuration for Page Elements
  7. Copy and Paste elements in ILIAS Page Editor
  8. Copy Blog Pages
  9. Copy Blogs
  10. Date questions
  11. Drag and Drop of Calendar Events
  12. Excel-Export: disable setting shuffle questions
  13. Extend Copy Options
  14. Extending Span Formatting
  15. Extract Test Results from the Participant tab and make a separate Tab of it
  16. Full Screen mode for images as a greybox
  17. Get mail content over webservice with method
  18. Group Link
  19. increase performance for SCORM 1.2 by changing manner of storing data
  20. Instantly showing/hiding events of selected calendars
  21. Learning Progress: including a genuine percentage score for SCORM modules
  22. Object Terminator
  23. Option to force the global publishing of the personal profile
  24. Replace ilDB/MDB2 with PDO
  25. REST Service
  26. Set Specific Value For IE-compatible Mode
  27. SMTP-Settings-Page
  28. Straightforward Configuration of Result Presentation
  29. Update questions from pools to tests

2 Postponed from 5.0

2.1 Features with interest in funding

The following features were scheduled for release 4.5 and had an option for funding. But due to missing resources or missing time they were not implemented. Please add these features to the Jour Fixe agenda if you like to have them in a future ILIAS.

  1. Accessibility: Improving Accessibility
  2. Course Management / Learning Progress: Show detailed progress in course overview
  3. Course Management / Mail: Course mail templates
  4. Course Management / Mail: Placeholder for course mails
  5. Guidelines: Guideline for Page Layout of Export Screens
  6. ILIAS Page Editor: Extending Span Formatting
  7. ILIAS Page Editor: Delimiter Tag for Paragraphs
  8. ILIAS Page Editor: Interpretation of http URLs
  9. ILIAS Page Editor: Link to User Name
  10. ILIAS Page Editor: Media object image/media: custom size in percent
  11. Learning Module SCORM: SCORM 1.2: Ability to read Interactions
  12. Learning Module SCORM: Export/report detailed Tracking Data
  13. Learning Module SCORM: Importing SCORM metadata into ILIAS metadata
  14. Learning Progress: Sending Mails From Learning Progress
  15. Mail / System Check: Empty Mail Trash via System Check
  16. News: Revision News Presentation
  17. Registration-Login-Authentication: Improvement of Mail-Domain Filter for Self-Registration
  18. Repository: Copy or Link objects: Repository and My memberships
  19. RBAC: Block Role Extension
  20. Search Engine: Autocomplete in member search, part 2
  21. Test: Competence Service for Question Pool
  22. Test: PDF-Export for the several participants
  23. User Interface: Design for the Maintenance Page (Status: conceptual discussion needed)
 

2.2 Partly funded features

The following features were scheduled but only partly funded and therefore not implemented. Please add these features to the Jour Fixe agenda if you like to have them in a future ILIAS.

  1. ILIAS Page Editor: Add subscript and superscript
  2. Learning Module ILIAS: Essay Questions in Learning Modules
  3. Learning Module ILIAS: Full JavaScript support for embedded questions
  4. Learning Module ILIAS: Hints and suggested solutions in LM questions
  5. Main Administration: Configurable TinyMCE
  6. Main Administration / Plugin Slots: Disable & Order Plugins in Add New Object
  7. Survey Usability Improvements
  8. Test: Improving Vertical Ordering Question's Look and Feel
  9. Workflow Engine: Introducing Workflow Engine

2.3 Features without funding

The following features were scheduled for 4.5. But due to missing funding these features were not implemented for 4.5. Please add these features to the Jour Fixe agenda if you like to have them in a future ILIAS.
 

  1. Calendar: Better Performance for Recurring Calendar Appointments
  2. Calendar: Date and Time Picker: Streamlining
  3. Calendar: Drag and Drop of Calendar Events
  4. Calendar: Instantly showing/hiding events of selected calendars
  5. Calendar: Improve Navigation in Side Block
  6. Certificate: Context-Sensitive Date Formats in Certificate
  7. Course Management / Groups / Mail / RBAC: Check permissions when sending mails to course or group members
  8. Course Management / Groups: Improving Process Request Membership
  9. Data Collection - Clear Distinction Between Table And Field Managing
  10. Data Colleciton: Copy Datacollection with all Data Records
  11. Data Collection: Set Link Title in URL-optioned textfields
  12. Data Collection - Grid editing
  13. Data Collection - Tiny editor in textfields
  14. Development Support: Object Terminator
  15. Discussion Forums: Moderators contributions highlighted by anonymized forum
  16. Discussion Forums: Notification for edited Postings
  17. Discussion Forums: Preview of forum postings
  18. Exercise: Individual Deadlines for different users
  19. File Object: Personalized Watermarks for PDFs
  20. General Revision of User Standard Fields
  21. Glossary: Notes and comments in Glossaries
  22. Guidelines: Data Directory Guideline
  23. Guidelines: Explorer Tree Guideline
  24. ILIAS Page Editor: Change default video aspect ratio into more popular one
  25. ILIAS Page Editor: Copy and Paste elements in ILIAS Page Editor
  26. ILIAS Page Editor: Export Content of ILIAS page editor
  27. ILIAS Page Editor: Full Screen mode for images as a greybox
  28. ILIAS Page Editor: Page Editor » Data Table Editing
  29. Learning Module ILIAS: Learning Modules: Learning Progress based on Correct Answers
  30. Learning Module ILIAS: Complete LaTex Support in LM Questions
  31. Learning Module ILIAS: Learning Progress on visited pages
  32. Learning Module SCORM: Default values for newly added SCORM modules
  33. Learning Module SCORM: SCORM 1.2: Ability to adjust cmi.student_data.mastery_score by settings (not only manifest)
  34. Learning Module SCORM: SCORM 2004: Ability to adjust cmi.completion_threshold and cmi.scaled_passing_score by settings (not only manifest)
  35. Learning Module SCORM: SCORM without iframe/frames / Support for HTML5-Learning Modules
  36. Learning Progress: Additional Options and Usability
  37. Logging: Error handling and logging
  38. Mail: Mails with Skin
  39. Mail / RBAC: Mail via role assignment over the personal dektop
  40. Online Help: Online Help: Search
  41. Payment and Shop: Allow multiple payment methods per sellable object
  42. Payment and Shop: Plugin Interface for Payment
  43. Portfolio: Search Portfolios used as Personal Profiles
  44. Precondition Handling: Edit Timings without an ending time
  45. SOAP / Webservices: Get mail content over webservice with method
  46. Survey: Export E-Mail in Personalized surveys
  47. Survey: Show label in Print-View
  48. Support commenting of questions in question pool
  49. Test: Excel-Export: disable setting shuffle questions
  50. Test: Item export: Include hints and media objects
  51. Test: Learning Progress Trigger after Finish
  52. Test: Ordering questions: order pictures is not available in horizontal mode
  53. Test: Question title output: add new option "show only available points"
  54. Test: Preset points input fields with 0 when createing new multiple choice questions
  55. Test: Retake Test
  56. Test: Streamlining Javascript Usage in Tests
  57. User Administration: Profile : Gender
  58. User Handling: Configurable Name Presentation
  59. User Interface: Basic Rich Text Editing
  60. User Interface: Table2GUI - Sorting
  61. WebDAV: Show references as folders

2.4 Suggested but not scheduled yet

The following requests were added to the Jour Fixe agenda in time but not reviewed and recommended by the responsible component maintainer. Therefore, these feature requests have not been discussed in the Jour Fixe and were neither scheduled nor rejected. If you are interested in one of these features, please feel free to add it to a Jour Fixe agenda again.

  1. Administration: Maintenance Jobs
  2. Who is online? tool for awareness
  3. Categories: Office Hours in Categories
  4. Certificate / Course: Export of certificates as zip-file for courses
  5. Contacts: User Connections / Approved Contacts
  6. Course: Include group memberships in course member export
  7. Course / Group: Memberlist - Name sign
  8. Course / Group: Introduction of Individual Assessment
  9. Course: New text box in the right column of courses
  10. Course: Series of Courses
  11. Course: Templates for Courses
  12. Course: Using SCORM modules to validate course objectives
  13. Data Collection Sorting Concept : S+R-Mantis: 1302 - No access to website
  14. Data Collection Slider for Entries : S+R-Mantis: 1304 - No access to website
  15. Group: Member list in nested groups
  16. Group: Role group tutor available by default in new groups
  17. Group: Teams
  18. Group: Unsubscribe more than one course member from a group
  19. On-Screen Chat
  20. Learning Module ILIAS: Essay Questions in LM with Immediate Feedback
  21. Learning Module SCORM: export learning data with ability to import data
  22. Learning Module SCORM: SCORM 1.2: option to support SAVE 1.0, used by german insurance industry
  23. Learning Module SCORM: Set Specific Value For Character Set
  24. Personal Desktop: Remove System Messages from Personal Desktop
  25. RBAC / Object Templates: Allow Multiple ExcludePattern or IncludePattern Items
  26. RBAC / Object Templates: Avoid Inheritance Break of Protected Roles in LocalPolicyAction
  27. RBAC / Object Templates: Introduce Code for ref_id Wildcard in Role Titles
  28. RBAC / Object Templates: Restrict Use of Object Templates
  29. Repository: Moving/Sorting of blocks in courses and groups like on PD
  30. Session: Content Page for Session
  31. Session: « Cannot Attend » Button in Sessions
  32. Sessions: Hide columns in edit participants tab of a session
  33. SOAP / Webservices: Function to assign an existing Ilias user to a course (join course)
  34. Test: Streamlining Answer Input Fields
  35. User: Clickable Links in Personal Profile
  36. User: Explaining the Purpose of the Personal Profile
  37. User: Integration of “category social Media“ in Personal Data
  38. User: Offering Help / Looking for Help
  39. User: Options for Publishing Personal Profile
  40. User: Prompting to Personal Profile in First Access
  41. User: Quick Access to Personal Profile via Main Menue Actions
  42. User: User Clipboard

3 Postponed from 4.4

3.1 Already scheduled but not funded

  1. Custom Metadata Extensions
  2. Clickable Links in Personal Profile
  3. Data Collection - Single view scrolling function
  4. Data Table Guideline
  5. Default Sorting of Objects in Repo
  6. E-Mail notification only once after the end of the survey
  7. Enhanced Permission Handling For DC Contributors
  8. Enhancement of plugin administration
  9. Error and No Permission Screen
  10. Essay question: completed by written text
  11. Export and Import of Data Collections
  12. Extending Data Collection
  13. Extending Test Export
  14. Flexible File Upload Limits
  15. Global Taxonomies
  16. Goto link for password assistance and account registration
  17. Import/Export plugin hooks for Tests
  18. Page Editor » Data Table Editing
  19. Improving Version Handling
  20. Learning Progress for Repository Object Plugins
  21. Linking in ILIAS Editor
  22. Maintenance Jobs
  23. Multiple Choice K'/Kprim
  24. Need for Support & Support Offer Notification
  25. Object Terminator
  26. Selecting recipients for group and course mails
  27. Prevent auto complete and spell checking
  28. Preview of forum postings
  29. Rebirth of Clipboard
  30. Remove System Messages from Personal Desktop
  31. Request For Approval With Mandatory Message
  32. Revision of Actions Menu
  33. Revision of Info Page
  34. Revision of Language Maintenance
  35. Save question-changes in a question-pool to tests
  36. Search in tag cloud
  37. Secure Password Storage
  38. Separating Submission and Navigation
  39. Set Specific Value For IE-compatible Mode
  40. Settings Screen Guideline
  41. Split Password Service Template Variable
  42. Survey Usability Improvements
  43. Tag Cloud on Wiki Pages
  44. Tagging of Single Weblinks

3.2 Suggested but not scheduled yet

Due to the high number of features that have been suggested for 4.4 we have decided to discuss and schedule those features that had already a funding notice and to postpone the discussion of those features that were suggested without any funding information (and would therefore be postponed anyway). Every feature of this list can be suggested again for the next upcoming major release by adding it to the Jour Fixe agenda.

  1. Data Collection - Grid editing
  2. Data Collection - New record in referenced table
  3. Data Collection - Edit button in single view
  4. Data Collection - History
  5. Data Collection - Preview of attachments
  6. Data Collection - Comments
  7. Data Collection - Additional media types
  8. Data Collection - ILIAS module references with action menu
  9. Data Collection - New field type formula
  10. E-Mail notification to the participant of a survey
  11. List of participants in an anonymous survey
  12. Metric rows in matrix questions
  13. Auto-fill for Course waiting list
  14. Repository Object Selection Input GUI
  15. Advanced Event Raising
  16. Client Side Editing of Image Maps
  17. Style Sheet Editor CSS3
  18. Default object settings
  19. Improvements of Tooltip Creation in Online Help
  20. Online Help: Search
  21. Enhance evaluation of ordering questions
  22. Setting Templates Course
  23. Mail via role assignment over the personal dektop
  24. PDF-Printing a Portfolio
  25. Temporary Role Memberships
  26. Object Terminator
  27. Verbesserte Testauswertung (Excel-Export)
  28. Localization of Client List
  29. Assign global role to locale role
  30. RSS-Feed - select what kind of data will be collected from the groups, categories etc.
  31. Select users will always be notified when a new appointment was created
  32. Add action button in root of repository to provide webdav access
  33. Checkbox für Mehrfachbuchungen (Buchungstool)
  34. Subgroup-Item for Groups and Courses
  35. Selectable Updateintervall for RSS-Feeds
  36. Choose text color
  37. Letter Avatars
  38. Password Recovery by using secret question
  39. Discussion page for every wiki page
  40. icons in overview of a blog
  41. Showing Bibliography in Portfolio
  42. Showing Courses and Groups in Portfolio
  43. Bibliography - Detail view
  44. Text Messaging SMS
  45. Maintenance Mode Enhancement

4 Postponed from 4.3

The following features still were already discussed by the Jour Fixe and scheduled for release 4.3. But due to missing funding these features could not be implemented for 4.3.

  1. Abandon Framesets
  2. Additional sorting options for Selected Items
  3. Custom Metadata Extensions
  4. Custom Metadata as Filter in Object Statistics
  5. Authoring As Anonymous on Wiki Pages
  6. Automatic Read Permission Check
  7. Bearbeitungsdauer je Testfrage
  8. Booking Notice for Consultation Hours
  9. List of Improvements for Booking Tool
  10. Breadcrumb navigation: Optionally show reference path in courses
  11. Change Calendar Color
  12. Copying LM Pages with Media Objects
  13. CSS Support Blogs Portfolios in blogs and portfolios
  14. Deactivate Mail to Members in Course Settings
  15. Default values for newly added SCORM modules
  16. Disable Questions in Question Pools
  17. Hard Quota for Personal Workspace
  18. Enhanced Exercise
  19. Extending Test Export
  20. File Name Guideline
  21. Forms: Input Validation Warning Messages
  22. General Notification System
  23. Green Mark when test time is passed
  24. Group and Course Mail Prefix
  25. Import and Export of Competence Categories
  26. Improved Handling of Calendar - Print-View of calendars
  27. Improved Landing Pages
  28. Improvement of Data Table Layout
  29. Indication of an Administrative User for Proxy Connection
  30. Keep left frame/chapter tree open in Learning Modules
  31. Language-sensitive order of first and last name
  32. Learning Progress Status Concept and Documentation
  33. Linebreak in Description Text
  34. Materialized Path
  35. Matrixansicht mit Name und Vorname der Nutzer
  36. Metadata for Groups
  37. Metadata for Mediacasts
  38. Metadata for Wikis
  39. More Sharing Options for e-Portfolios and Blogs
  40. Move and copy of media objects in media pools
  41. Moving Posts
  42. Multilingual content support
  43. Multilingual Titles and Descriptions for All Object Types + Plugins
  44. Permission Read Learning Progress
  45. Notifying All Users on Personal Desktop
  46. Permission to Edit Content of Glossary
  47. Permission to link object
  48. Remove from Desktop for Multiple Objects
  49. Remove System Messages from Personal Desktop
  50. Reorganising Administration
  51. Restrict edit permissions for media objects
  52. Revise My Courses and Groups Page
  53. Revision of Add to Desktop Feature
  54. Revision of Input Handling
  55. Revision of Language Maintenance
  56. Revision of LM Statistics
  57. Revision of Start Objects in Courses
  58. Revision of Test Evaluation
  59. Save Paragraph And Add New
  60. SCORM 1.2: option to support SAVE 1.0, used by german insurance industry
  61. SCORM 2004: option to set cmi.exit automatically to 'suspend'
  62. SCORM 2004: Reporting for interactions
  63. Separate titles for container references
  64. Improving PDF Generation
  65. Set Specific Value For Character Set
  66. Set Specific Value For IE-compatible Mode
  67. Sharing personal calendars
  68. Signing System Mail With Contact Information
  69. Sorting in Survey Statistics
  70. Streamlining Javascript Usage in Tests
  71. Top Actions Guideline
  72. Tracking data details in SCORM modules
  73. Updating Learning Module Content Per Import
  74. Upload ZIP File As Folder
  75. Zugewiesene Angebote unter Meine Mitgliedschaften

5 Postponed from 4.2

  1. Administrative tool(s) for Tagging
  2. Change History of Learning Module Pages
  3. Clear differentiation between calenders
  4. Confirmation Screen Guideline
  5. Contact for User Assistance
  6. Copying LM Pages with Media Objects
  7. Copying Objects Guideline
  8. Course Setting: Learning Progress Determines Passed Status
  9. Delete old or orphaned mails
  10. Empty System’s Trash Bin
  11. File Name Guideline
  12. Handling of PHP-Sessions
  13. HTML-LM Improvements
  14. Improving layout possibilities for categories
  15. Interpretation of http URLs
  16. Last Change
  17. Mahara Interface
  18. Mail search
  19. Show Membership Allocation in repository view for courses and groups
  20. Modifying single appointment
  21. Non-printable Elements in Print View
  22. Notification about expected date of feedback about date of feedback in exercise
  23. Notification only when members are are on waiting-list
  24. General Notification System
  25. Online/Offline Guideline
  26. Poll - Basic Implementation
  27. Popular Pages and Rating
  28. Revision of Course Learning Objectives View
  29. Rich Text Editor Setting
  30. Separate titles for container references
  31. Streamline layout in PD tabs
  32. Test Results: Link the question with an anchor
  33. Test Results: Show right answers in Show users detailed results (marked passed)
  34. User Search Restrictions

6 Postponed from 4.1

  1. Add objects from My memberships to selected items
  2. Changing storage method of forum post attachments
  3. CSS Revision
  4. Copy Course Content
  5. Cursor in Forms
  6. Data Table Guideline
  7. Display only Nickname in Who-is-online? screen
  8. Excel Export Revision
  9. Group Link
  10. Hide Unaccessible Resource Lists
  11. Icon Handling
  12. Icons in the breadcrumb navigation
  13. MyISAM/InnoDB switch
  14. Pagination on Personal Desktop
  15. Materialized Path
  16. Revision of Repository Object Creation Forms
  17. User Tagging by administrators
  18. Valid (X)HTML
  19. Who-is-online Revision
  20. Youtube-like start screen

Last edited: 29. Apr 2021, 14:01, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]