Project specific id's

[canstudios-louisem]

When copying a course any components or styling that use specific id's break

Affected Area

Course Copying

Requested Feature

No longer use the _id on ABC's but a _courseId that is not regenerated when the course is copied

Additional Information

We have written a detailed proposal on how we would like to tackle this https://docs.google.com/document/d/17JNGj6szijXtxHcFehNLXfi18D2jO4DHcMHeXuf2c5g/edit?usp=sharing

[Janooba]

I'd like to add my support for this feature, as it would be extremely important for our team. We currently do not use the authoring tool because of this alone. The ID's are not human-readable and once exported, manually editing the course (as its often required for us) becomes nearly impossible.

If I may make a suggestion, I'd like the generated _id's to follow a similar readable standard to the following.

The goal of this naming convention is to meet the following criteria. It must be:

• Concise (As small and easy to type as possible)
• Readable (Should be distinct and simple to read)
• Self-documenting (Should trace back exactly where this element is located within the structure)

Content Object: [#]
Article: [A-Z]
_ (Underscore)
Block: [#]
Component: [a|b]

Examples:

• 01B_16a
• 02A_04b

Our team has been using this structure to manually develop Adapt courses for a while now with great success.

Cheers!

[taylortom]

wontfix for legacy, will be introduced in v1.0. Some discussion here adapt-security/adapt-authoring-ui#193