As a feature, it can lead to somewhat unwanted effects such as unintentionally creating a series with a similar name to an existing series, but lacking metadata or permission settings. And as the default permission settings are for public view, it could lead administrators to inadvertently make public recordings which should not be.
If this feature remains, the UI definitely needs to either require a more explicit action (e.g. an "Add" button/icon next to the Series field to create a new one), or at the least make it clearly visible to the user that a new series has been created as a side-effect of scheduling the recording. Regards Stephen Stephen Marquard, Acting Director Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Email/IM/XMPP: [email protected] Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 >>> Judy Stern <[email protected]> 2/24/2012 7:55 PM >>> The intent was to allow admins to schedule a new set of recordings (recurring event) or upload without having to first go thru the separate (and disconnected) process of creating a series. It's a convenience. I don't have time now to dig up the history of this feature, and to determine how much (or little) of a pain point it will be if this is no longer functional, but it definitely leads to an awkward user experience if one starts to schedule or upload and then has to stop and got out and create the series. I'm pretty sure the automatic creation has been buggy in the past and has been working on and off in different releases...if there's a pressing reason to remove it again it would be unfortunate but not the end of the world. Judy On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Markus Moormann wrote: > MH-8597 of course is a bug, where as Edmore already created a patch for. But it's defenitly intended that a Series is created if it doesn't exist. I can't remember which UseCase that was, but I remember that I implemented that on Judys "will". > > Markus > > Am 23.02.2012 12:19, schrieb David Horwitz: >> I think we're talking about slightly different things. In this case its from the UI in the upload or schedule screen if you trype in a name that doesn't match a series it gets created .... >> >> >> David >> >> On 02/23/2012 01:13 PM, Tobias Wunden wrote: >>> Hi Edmore, >>> >>> the idea behind the automatic creation of series is to satisfy ingest of media packages via the inbox that *do* contain a series dublin core. This would be the case if you were to import mediapackages from a different university or another system. >>> >>> Does that make sense? >>> >>> Tobias >>> >>> On 23.02.2012, at 11:19, Edmore Moyo<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> We have recently been making changes to the Admin UI on our UCT branch. We noticed a duplication bug in the automatic creation of a series via the Uploading Recording / Schedule Recording UIs ( http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-8597 ). >>>> Our initial thought was to disable the automatic creation of a non-existing series completely but we figured it would be best to first fix that bug and to find out from the community the rationale behind the automatic creation feature. For instance a series created in that manner does not have any metadata. >>>> Should this feature be part of the Uploading Recording / Schedule Recording UI or simply be localised to the Series Creation UI ? What are your thoughts on this? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Edmore Moyo >>>> UCT >>>> >>>> ### >>>> >>>> UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN >>>> >>>> >>>> This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. 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