Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceReadConfirmation

What is BlueSpiceReadConfirmation?

Read Confirmation asks for confirmation that an article was read by certain users.

Using BlueSpiceReadConfirmation

The prompt to confirm reading the page will appear for any user that is assigned to a page. It helps make sure all assigned users actually read the page they are assigned to.

Enabling read confirmation

The extension ReadConfirmation allows to request read confirmations from users. If a user is assigned to a page, a mandatory read confirmation can be added to the page.

Enabling read confirmations

Before read confirmation prompt will appear on a page, BlueSpiceReadConfirmation must previously be enabled An administrator must enable read confirmations for the namespace the page belongs to. This can be set using the BlueSpiceNamespaceManager.

Confirming reading a page

Namespace manager:

Activating read confirmations in a namespace

Display

Once BlueSpiceReadConfirmation is enabled for the namespace, upon opening a page, assigned user will see read

Read confirmation checkbox

When read confirmations are active on a namespace, assigned users see a confirmation prompt. After checking the checkbox "Yes, I have completely read this article", and clicking on "Confirm", the page will be marked as read by that user.

Overview

Administration of read confirmations

Wiki admins can also see an overview of all read confirmation. This information is built in the overview of BlueSpicePageAssignments. Read confirmation information are located in "Read on" column. Page confirmations by navigating to Global actions > Management > Assignment management. Read confirmation information is shown in the column Read on. A page can have multiple states:

• Read confirmation not enabled - in case : BlueSpiceReadConfirmation is not enabled for the namespace that to which the page belongs to.
• Not read - in case : BlueSpiceReadConfirmation is enabled, but the assigned user has users have not yet read the page.
• [timestamp] - date and time when the page was read.

See also

• Actions: In the columns for actions, there are two items related to read confirmations.
  • Read confirmation log: Link to the read confirmation log for the page.
  • Request read confirmation: Users get a reminder for their read confirmation.

Reviewing read confirmations

Read confirmation in connection with page approval

Reference page for this extension.

If the approval feature is activated in a namespace at the same time, the read confirmation is triggered when a new draft is created. This can be changed via server configuration so that the read confirmaation is required after the draft page has been approved.

Related info

• Reference:BlueSpiceReadConfirmation