Agenda for the next meeting Feb 28, 2005

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Date / Time / Place

28 Feb 2005 / 10:00 / Brussels

(D�nes Nagy is coming from Hungary for this meeting)

Topics

Security

  • no global variables and no code that imitates this = cleaning claro_init_global.inc.php
  • data filtering

Groups refactoring

    • Delete group-tool for platform-admin? forum topic
    • Which tools will we make group-based?
      • Currently only forum and documents
      • Group based agenda will be added
      • What about other tools (Announcements, Links, ...)

Various

  • LaTeX: gif rendering
  • Session problems are the main cause of errors
  • Developer discussion: if people have scripts with code tests and examples, should we store this in the CVS or not? Should this test code be e.g. a subfolder of a package (like the existing dokeos.metadata.doc), or a separate dokeos.test package?
  • Learning Path and Scorm export
  • Personal Space
  • Will we further develop Virtual course support for next release? (So we can drop our own implementation)
  • mod_rewrite vs AcceptPathInfo : let's make a decision... (With both systems there are some problems with images with special characters, but that doesn't even work on a normal webpage outside Dokeos (only in Internet Explorer))
  • change get_lang api (removing lang from all the language variables). The distinction between language variables and code variables is made through the coding rules: Cammelcase for language strings and underscoring for code variables.
    The reason for this change is that there are a lot of language variables that do not start with $lang. Also removing "lang" saves some space (in the language variables itself but also in the code and the you will always call the exact language variable 
function get_lang($language_string)
{
	return $GLOBALS[$language_string];
}

Backup/Copy/Restore tool

(forum):

  • What should be the name of this tool?
  • Where will we put the tool (suggestion: A new teacher tool on the course homepage, what icon will we use?)
  • Will we delete the old backup and restore functionality?

Interface

Interface (forum), below you find a summary of the forum topics, more can be found http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/User_interface_remarks

  • left bar with tools
  • feedback on action => status message on same page (not like in the announcements tool)
  • deleting => javascript check + return page (not lik in forum)
  • Student View | Teacher view in Learning Path
  • toolshortcuts: default = off (AWACS)
  • help on the right
  • look of status message
  • breadcrumbs vs toolshortcuts
  • banner smaller?
  • color scheme
  • replace upload form in documents by a link (upload file | create document | create directory | save (zip)| view slideshow
  • edit document => only one OK button
  • body margins = 0
  • links: platform admin decides between _blank, _parent, _self, _top
  • scrolling
  • remove cancel button
  • move student/teacher view to the banner
  • system announcements: checkboxes first
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