Allow text blocks to *not* be stored as notes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mahara |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As described here: https:/
Sometimes (perhaps more often than not!) you just want to put some text on a Page and you don't want it to be stored in a centrally-editable Note that shows up on your Notes list.
Often, as well, a user wants to copy some text that they've put on the page, but, again, not make it so that they've now linked together the two copies so that editing one also affects the other.
So, I propose we add a control to the Text block which indicates whether its contents should be stored as a Note or not. With the default being the creation of a one-off text block, rather than a centrally-editable note.
Changed in mahara: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | added: notes usability |
description: | updated |
As part of this functionality, when you delete a note from the Notes page, you should be able to leave its text as unlinked text in all the text blocks that are using it.
That should probably be the default behavior. In fact, I'm not entirely sure we even need to make it an option... although probably there is someone out there with a workflow that depends on the ability to remove a whole bunch of identical text blocks on many pages all at once.