New H5P Content Type – Information Wall
Earlier today, Oliver Tacke posted a new content type he developed for a special project. You won’t find this type in the H5P content hub, but as Oliver says,
As usual, if you want to use the content type and if are allowed to install H5P libraries, you can simply download this demo content via the Reuse button. Then you upload it to your H5P integration, and then you can use it as if you had installed it from the H5P Hub. If you’re not allowed to install H5P libraries, however, you’ll get a message hinting to missing libraries. Please ask your admin to install Information Wall in that case.
The basic idea seems to be a series of text inputs that appear on the left, and images on the right. Why multiple text fields you ask? Well, each one is called a property in the H5P editor, and you get some control over if that property name is displayed (you’ll see examples of this below), and bold or italic (such as the ingredients list below). You can also determine which properties you would like to be searchable, so in the example below I made the ingredients searchable; a quick way to see what you could make with what you have in the cabinet. The search seems to be limited to exact matches, but an update to the search bar could be added (the beauty of open source). Another interesting feature is that you can drop in an image that will go into any row which does not have a specific image. I used that feature for a couple of items I didn’t have handy images for.
I thought I would take it for a test drive, and when I saw the search bar in Oliver’s example I thought, hey that would be useful for cocktails as earlier this week I was combing through books because we ran out of lemon and a guest requested a cocktail. Looking through the cabinet, the books, and the lack of a citrus left me wanting for searchability.
Enjoy!
I definitely will not develop this content type “much” further, but slightly changing how the search box works is not out of the question.
Would a mode like “search for all the words (+typo tolerance per word)” be enough for your use case? If yes, install the latest version and upgrade your existing content to that version.
Oliver, thank you for your comment, I’m sorry it took so long for me to come back to my blog. I had some time away from writing. I really like the content type, and I definitely would not expect any updates to the content type especially after this long. What I can do is clarify my comment though, again with no expectation that work would be done, especially without fair compensation unless someone had time and interest in adding to it in the spirit of opennness.
When I reviewed the sample you provided, one of the categories was tags. For example the AR Scavenger included this list “augmented reality, scavenger hunt, tour, text, image, video, 3D model, game”. I tried to use the search bar to find items in the list that were both “image” AND “text”, which would require a boolean option for the search. Unfortunately that was not possible, and so that is what my comment was about. I might not have tried that kind of search to filter the items if I hadn’t seen the keywords/tags field.
It was only a reflection on my own behaviour and interaction with the sample content.
As always, thanks for reading and commenting!