[Contrib: Evaluation System] confsuing template behaviour

[Adam Marshall]

It does make sense, however, I think we will issue a warning when using an existing question that editing it will change other templates behind the scenes. I worry that somebody may create and assign a survey from a template they "know to be correct" as they used it the previous week not realising that it has actually been changed by virtue of editing an existing question on another template.

adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: azeckoski at gmail.com [mailto:azeckoski at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Aaron Zeckoski
> Sent: 01 December 2011 16:26
> To: Adam Marshall
> Cc: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] confsuing template behaviour
> 
> It happens because copying a template creates new copies of the items
> (this was not always the case but it was changed because the other
> behavior was deemed as too confusing by the eval community). Editing
> an item.... well, it edits the item so if you have not copied the
> template or the item itself you will be editing the same item no
> matter which template it happens to be in at the time.
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Adam Marshall
> <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Add a new question, Q1, to Template T1.
> >
> > Edit template T2 & add Q1 (via "existing question"). Edit question Q1 via T2.
> Q1 will change on template T1 without warning.
> >
> > Copy template T1, call this template T3, edit Q1 on T3, Q1 does not change
> on T2
> >
> > Arrgghh!!!
> >
> > Anybody care to comment?
> >
> > adam
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