export doesn't distinguish a 'collections' export from a 'views' export

[Stacey Walker]

Would be good if export distinguished whether a user was downloading collections or pages.

Currently, when you export a few pages as HTML you get collection information included and displayed on the index page as a standard format. This might be confusing to the user if they weren't expecting collection information as well.

I noticed this issue while trying to implement a PDF export a little better as I need the difference clear when creating a table of contents for combined page/collection exporting. :)

[Stacey Walker (stacey)]

I can also confirm that this is the same for leap2a exports.

Say I have a collection with 5 pages in it, but upon export I choose to only export one page in my leap2a package. When I import that later the collection information is recreated as well so I have a replica of the collection with the single page in it.

I think that if a user is wanting/expecting to export a single page that's all they should get and the collection information can be obtained by exporting a collection itself. Otherwise it seems slightly (not completely, but slightly) redundant having the two options at export.

[Stacey Walker (stacey)]

I am actually working on a fix for this anyway as it helps with the PDF export functionality, but would appreciate feedback/ideas if anyone has any.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Good point. If you export just one view in a collection, you should ideally not get the collection info in the export.

[Stacey Walker (stacey)]

Awesome, good to know it's not intentional.

I've added a new const for stating that you're downloading a collection independently of the views (currently it doesn't distinguish) and I'm just looking at html export now to recognise the same difference. Leap2a afterwards.

Will try and get a patch into gerrit soon so it can be reviewed and hopefully added sooner rather than later

[Hugh Davenport (hugh-davenport)]

https://reviews.mahara.org/1396

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/1396
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/2980d23ed6b173cfed4a5c7bb096a49ada5b9e47
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 2980d23ed6b173cfed4a5c7bb096a49ada5b9e47
Author: Stacey Walker <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Aug 15 09:56:47 2011 +0100

new const for exporting collections and views separately (bug #825311)

Change-Id: I1feebe2f977d76e0c090a725232ad936eafdd851
Signed-off-by: Stacey Walker <email address hidden>

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

This one was actually released as part of 1.8.0, but we forgot to update its status.