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Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Minor
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3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4, 3.4.1
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MOODLE_33_STABLE, MOODLE_34_STABLE
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MOODLE_33_STABLE, MOODLE_34_STABLE
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MDL-59691-master -
During the latter stages of development on -- a decision was made to position comment marker icons at the bottom-left corner of the comment rather than the top-left. It is now becoming apparent, as we test our 3.3 upgrade, that this was a mistake. There seem to be two fundamental issues, which affect both new and existing (pre-upgrade) comments:MDL-55459
- Comments cannot be drawn (or moved) to extend beyond the top of the page, but they can extend below the bottom of the page. If a new comment is drawn anywhere on a page, the comment box will naturally extend down the page as the teacher types, and will therefore collapse to a marker icon further down the page than was intended (much more so after saving the grading changes, which is a separate bug in itself). The teacher will then attempt to move the comment back up the page to make the icon appear in the correct location, but in the case of comments located close to the top of the page, will be restricted from doing so by the top boundary. Even in the case of comments located further down the page, this seems like an unnecessary additional step and makes the whole process seem very unintuitive.
- The natural tendency (at least amongst our teachers) seems to be to position a comment so that it starts at the point in the document that it relates to, so for existing pre-upgrade comments the new marker icon will usually end up much further down the page than the text it relates to, especially for long comments. Indeed for comments located towards the bottom of the page, the marker icon will often appear far below the bottom of the page.
- has a non-specific relationship to
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MDL-55459 Make annotated PDF comments collapsible
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- Closed
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