[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-11-05 Thread Aaron Wells
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[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-11-01 Thread Kristina Hoeppner
The soft copy would only be available until the user starts editing the page. Once the first edit has been made, the link is gone automatically. A typical use case is: An institution creates a collection of pages (or individual pages) that all new users shall receive when they get an account. Sin

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-10-07 Thread Aaron Wells
The big difficulty with a "soft link" system is coming up with a sensible interface. So we need to think hard about how we would do this right. What's the use-case for it, to start with? We don't want to repeat the same problems we had with the Text block in Mahara 1.5 - 1.9. We wound up having to

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-10-07 Thread Aaron Wells
It's worth noting that Mahara has a tiny bit of "soft copy" already. Specifically, when a user copies another user's page, if the page contains any file artefacts we don't make a copy of the underlying file on the filesystem; instead we point the new artefact at the same filesystem file. This does

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-10-05 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Mmm. With this change, they'll still get any modifications made to the template afterwards. A further idea, to be put in another wishlist item when I find the time, is to start recording revisions to artefacts. Combining this idea with that would then allow users to see what changes had been made

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1376073] Re: Soft copies of templates

2014-10-01 Thread Robert Lyon
This sounds a great idea - probably just want it to be restricted to site/institution pages to start with maybe. It does sound good for the templates that get copied to a new user on on user creation where all the users are created on day 1 but many of them don't actually login until later and so