File validation app development

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Hello,

I’m trying to develop a simple validation file application.
Basically, it would give the following features:

  • A user with edit rights on a share has the ability to validate (approve) files by clicking on a checkbox next to each files
  • A user with edit rights on a share has a custom view with the global validation status (in percent of files validated)

There are two technical difficulties for which I couldn’t find any documentation.

  1. Is there a clean way to modify core views, so I can add a checkbox for each file in the file list view?

  2. To keep track of the validation status in database, what would be the best approach?

  • Having a “validated” application tag? (Pros: I can use the tagging methods. Cons: I don’t find any way to make a tag exclusive to an application)
  • Create a validation table to track all files (Pros: it works. Cons: Will have to redevelop a bunch of methods already existing in tags scope)

Any suggestion or app examples to help me develop that would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:
Thanks!

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  1. Yes, afaik there is a file actions js API, however its undocumented and you will need to read the source of other apps that do similar things.
  2. Simply create a table where one column is your approved boolean and another column is the foreign key to the specific file
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Hi!

Thanks for the advice!
Regarding this fileaction API, do you have any example in mind? I’ve browsed the app store, and I didn’t find any apps providing this kind of feature

Thanks,

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Just check the files app.

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Very good feature ! That could be good to add an “Approved” and “Refuse” rule to “File automated tagging”.