Quick publish journal to page

[Domi Sinclair]

This is an enhancement request/ suggestion / idea not a bug.

I think that Mahara would be more user friendly if some of the steps to complete certain actions were reduced.

An idea I have had to this end is to create a button/ feature to quick publish from the journal section directly to a page.

I imagine it as a button in the journal section that says something like 'Publish to page'.

Once clicked this button would ask you whether you wanted to create a new page or publish to existing.

after making this choice the journal would either be added to a default position on the page (say the top left corner) or it would create a new 1 column/ 1 row page with just the journal on it.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Domi,

Thank you for this suggestion. Aaron's thinking for that is along similar lines. Getting rid of a few clicks will be useful.

Cheers
Kristina

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Yeah, I think the big shared-tenancy Mahara site in Finland (whose name I forget) has something along these lines as one of its customizations.

The way blogs (journals) work in Mahara is a bit different from how they work on other platforms. Other journalling systems, you just write the blog entry, and then you set visibility for the blog entry itself right there. But in Mahara, the blog entry is an artefact, and we don't have the ability to share artefacts without first embedding them in pages, so you have to put the blog entry into a page first, and then share the page. This is true for all artefact types in Mahara, but I think users find it the most confusing, in regards to blog entries.

So really, the deeper fix for this is to get artefact-level sharing implemented.

But that's a big endeavor, so in the meantime, some kind of shortcut from the artefact editing/creation screen, to the page level, would probably help things out. I've heard of some large Mahara sites having customizations along these lines already.

Cheers,
Aaron