Deleting videos in Tobira

[oas777]

David: "When users or admins delete a page in Tobira or unmount a series in an existing page in Tobira what expectation do they have considering the links they have shared to the videos of this series? I assume that they assume that these links too stop working. But maybe I'm wrong."

[oas777]

I would argue for a distinction between deletion of pages on the one hand, videos on the other:

Deleting pages in Tobira will not delete videos and the users should be made aware that videos are not deleted. And could still be available with a "Direktlink/Videolink" - especially if we decide that the "Seitenlink" will be forwarded to a "Direktlink/Videolink" in case the page has been deleted.

Deleting videos should be allowed only in the "My videos" section, but for that, we first need to tackle that page so that it also displays "My series" for them to be deleted (instead of deleting each video...).

[oas777]

David:

I'm still quite skeptical that this (a link to a "video in page context" falls back to the direct link, when a page no longer exists) is a good idea. Because, if I get it right, with the now implemented solution I have to delete or unpublish a video I had once inserted on a page and shared via link in order to prevent people from being able to access this video. It is not enough to take it away from this page or to delete the page.

In fact, I picture a lot of users expecting the following:

I have shared a link to a video in a page context.
I delete this page or remove the shared video from this page (for example because it is outdated) because people should not be able to see it anymore (for example because it is outdated).
Then people following the link I shared should NOT be able to see the video anymore.

[oas777]

More thoughts:

• When and where will pages be deleted? On the "institutional level", this doesn't happen very often, it will be more regular on the "users pages" if users created a page "My videos for this semester's course".
• When deleting an institutional page (end of project etc.), you probably don't want to delete video automatically (!). The user would probably expect his videos to also be deleted. So we need an UI anyway to not only inform them but to make a decision.
• In your pages, you can embed "your videos" (owner) and videos that have ACL allowing them to be shared. The former can be deleted when deleting a page, the latter cannot. So more decision-making in the UI...