Be able to view the full collection description

[Kristina Hoeppner]

https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=7947

We should figure out a way to display the full collection and page description in the "My portfolios" block as well as the new "Pages and collections" screen if the description is very long and doesn't fit into the available space.

The collection description is plain text whereas the page description isn't and thus could contain a whole lot more than just text.

I would not turn the collection description field into TinyMCE anymore as we don't need the description to contain content like in the past for pages to allow for ta top banner.

Possibilities are:

- Hover over the description and show the full description
- little chevron to expand it (wouldn't really work on "Pages and collections" though)
- ?

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

This will be tackled when we look at https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Developer_Area/Specifications_in_Development/Page_layout_revision in phase 2 outsourcing the metadata to the modal.

[Doris Tam (doristam)]

At Mahara 22.04 main, we can see the description in the 'Pages and Collections' screen but page descriptions are still unseen and are only metadata at this point.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Page descriptions are displayed when they are not part of a collection, which is expected behaviour. If you have a collection, its description is displayed, but as stated, long descriptions are cut off because they don't fit into the field. All description fields are now plain text and don't allow formatting any more. We haven't yet implemented a 'metadata' option yet that is displayed in a modal for a page.