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[Kristina Hoeppner <1376073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The soft copy would only be available until the user starts editing the
page. Once the first edit has been made, the link is gone automatically.

A typical use case is:

An institution creates a collection of pages (or individual pages) that
all new users shall receive when they get an account. Since they are new
in setting up templates, they realize that they need to update a link
and add some more instructions after having tested the template with 10
students. However, all 1000 students of the institution already have the
template in their account. What to do? Ask the students to delete the
collection and copy it manually again? Go into the database and remove
all pages? It would be much easier if the template pages that the
students got copied into their account were automatically updated with
the changes made in the template because they haven't actually made
changes to these pages anyway. Of course, once they've made changes,
i.e. the first 10 students, the pages cannot be updated automatically
anymore because Mahara doesn't know what to keep and what to remove.
Those students would need to copy the template anew, but since they were
the test group anyway, that wouldn't be so hard.

Another use case is:

A teacher creates a template for her students that all students copy
into their own portfolio during the first class. However, they do not
yet make changes to it but practice on using their portfolio on another
page first. At the end of the class, the teacher realizes that there are
some spelling mistakes in the template and that some instructions are
too difficult for the students. She makes these changes quickly and the
changes are updated in the students' portfolios before they start with
the task.

So essentially, this system would allow template pages to be updated
easily that have already made it into a user's account but need some
small tweaking.

Nigel: For the SmartEvidence functionality, we've been discussing
creating a category chooser so that we can identify certain pages /
collections more easily. Thus, a category could be "Templates". This may
not really have any direct impact on this feature though. Just wanted to
let you know.

For the category chooser I was thinking that we could identify
SmartEvidence pages, Template pages etc. more easily in a user's
portfolio or when searching for pages. When a user copies a "Template"
page / collection, that category though would be removed I'd think
because it's not a template page anymore.

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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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