Hello,
After the ‘Intros’ application presented here at the end of July (New App : "Intros", to display tutorials inside Nextcloud interface), Val, our intern (who has now gone back to his studies) has developed a second application: ‘Ownership Transfer’.
The app meets a simple need: to provide Nextcloud admins with a graphical interface for transferring files/agendas/contacts from one user to another.
This is basically what the occ files:transfer-ownership https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#file-operations-label command does (same for agenda/contacts), but directly from the Nextcloud administration interface.
There is already an interface for transferring one’s own files to another user, but the use case for our Framaspace Nextcloud farm is rather :
- the instance admin does not have access to
occ - the user whose files/agendas/contacts you want to transfer has already left the organization (this is a relatively common case in non-profit associations, where people can leave without warning).
The code can easily be extended to transfer other apps datas (Deck, etc).
The application is already up and running on our 1,281 Nextcloud instances.
- To discover and test the app, click here: Ownership Transfer - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
- The code can be accessed here : Framasoft / Nextcloud / Ownership Transfer · GitLab
- For more technical details, read Val’s interview (in English): A new application for Framaspace: OwnershipTransfer – Framablog