Date: 04.05.2001

Story number: 003.1 / Samu Mielonen

Type (new/fixed): derived (from 003)

Priority (user, 1-3): 1

Risk (programmer, 1-3):

Story estimate (days):

Story: Browsing knowledge building messages

A logged in user can participate in browse building discussion on courses she has been invited to. The user sees running discussions (several per course can be started) on initial KB page (see initial Knowledge Building entry page for a course in FLE2).

When looking at a discussion thread the user can select sorting criteria for the message display list (default is “threaded” that follows the discussion note’s parentage). User can select to sort the messages by:

• Thread (initial message first, then others related to that in below based on parentage)
• Time (oldest first, latest last)
• Author (in alphabetical order according to user name)
• Thinking type (based on the order of thinking types in the list of thinking types)
• Subject (alphabetical based on the first 20 chars or all chars)

The user can also filter (not sort) which messages she wants to see (default none):

• read/unread
• written during last day, last week, last two weeks, last month
• is of thinking type X
• node status (is parent or is NOT parent)

These filtering should be combinable (i.e. show only unread from the last week of category problem).

Finally, the user (if tutor, course admin or higher) can also sort messages within one course by making a meta-discussion page out of all the possible discussions on that course, i.e. the user can select (default: only the discussion the page of which the user initially entered):

• Show messages from ALL discussions on this course

Of course, this meta-group is again sorted and filtered according to the given criteria.

Unread messages are highlighted with bold typeface and read messages are shown with normal typeface.

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