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[Aaron Wells <1376073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The big difficulty with a "soft link" system is coming up with a
sensible interface. So we need to think hard about how we would do this
right. What's the use-case for it, to start with?

We don't want to repeat the same problems we had with the Text block in
Mahara 1.5 - 1.9. We wound up having to add a lot of confusing controls
and links to the Text block to handle all the different permutations of
its behavior, and users still got confused when updates to one text box
translated into updates to another text box; or when they didn't!

That said, I can perhaps see some use for this specifically in the case
of user profile pages, dashboards, and group pages. Currently sysadmins
can change the templates for these, which causes changes in *new* users
and groups, but there's no way to send out changes to *existing* users
and groups.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1376073

Title:
  Soft copies of templates

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  Feature idea from ePortfolio workshop:

  Make templates do soft copies (by default?), saving a link to the
  original content rather than actually copying it. Updates to the
  original template could then be automatically reflected in copies.
  When a user edits their copy, the soft link is broken so that updates
  to the template don't overwrite the modified content.

  Soft copies would also reduce the cost in time and disk usage of
  creating a copy.

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