I currently have a documentation site on Sharepoint which hosts thousands of documents and pdfs. I would like to retire Sharepoint.
We already run Nextcloud for many years and it works perfectly for syncing and sharing files. But for this project, I want these files to be accessible from the web, but NOT sync to all my user’s desktops.
What would be “best practice” to do this?
The question is perhaps first of all whether it is sufficient for the documents to be displayed in a web-based Nextcloud. In this case, you can simply share a folder including sub-folders and sub/sub-folders with read permission. There are corresponding apps for a nicer URL for sharing.
Here an example:
Nextcloud
I would solve that with Group folders:
| App-Id | groupfolders |
| App-Name | Group folders |
| Summary | Admin configured folders shared with everyone in a group |
| Categories | files |
| App-Version | 15.3.1 |
| Repository | GitHub - nextcloud/groupfolders: 📁👩👩👧👦 Admin-configured folders shared by everyone in a group. https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/groupfolders |
| Issue-Tracker | Issues · nextcloud/groupfolders · GitHub |
| NC min/max | 27.1 / 27.1 |
| Not-shipped (not included) App available in appstore | |
| Appstore | https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/groupfolders |
and If you would like to create beautifull links, with Configurable Share Links thats no problem :
| App-Id | cfg_share_links |
| App-Name | Configurable Share Links |
| Summary | App adding the ability to specify share tokens |
| Categories | tools files |
| App-Version | 4.2.0 |
| Repository | https://github.com/jimmyl0l3c/cfg_share_links |
| Issue-Tracker | Issues · jimmyl0l3c/cfg_share_links · GitHub |
| PHP min/max | 8.0 / 8.2 |
| NC min/max | 25 / 27 |
| Not-shipped (not included) App available in appstore | |
| Appstore | https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cfg_share_links |
Much luck!
ernolf
Yes, the app Group folders is a good idea, especially if several people are to enter data. And Configurable Share Links is a nice app for better sharing links.
Thanks for all your ideas, i’m trying this tonight.
You could also host a service such as:
Kavita
Paperless-ng
Mayan EDMS
For easy reading, bookmarking, and searching of your folders of PDF documents. They work as digital libraries.