Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
**Ubuntu 22.04**
Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
**Nginx 1.18**
PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
**8.3**
Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
**Bare Metal/Archive**
Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
**No**
Summary of the issue you are facing:
One of my users has pointed out that he can find no way of opening āanotherā file in Writer aside closing the file heās working on and from going back to the Files app to select another. As he often works on multiple documents and compares, refers, copies and pastes, between them itās very frustrating. He was a long time Google Drive/Docs user and is used to being able to open as many documents as he likes with no issue (heās a school teacher). At the moment the only way I can see that he can open more than one doc at a time is (perhaps) to open multiple new browser tabs for the Files app? A very clunky workaround (if it works that is) - Once Writer is open I canāt find any āOpenā or āNewā option under the Files menu, so if anyone can help/advise it would be āmost agreeableā
In all other respects Nextcloud Office/Collabora works absolutely fine.
Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):
Click on a doc in the Files app - it opens in Writer
Try and open another whilst keeping the existing one open
Yes, as much as I like Nextcloud, thatās something I really donāt understand. The missing āNewā button isnāt even the main problem, because if Nextcloud would open files in a new tab, like Google Drive does, you could at least switch back to the original tab and continue opening or creating files from there.
But Nextcloud seems to think that its users only should work on one file at a time, so it does neither, i.e. doesnāt open files in a new tab and doesnāt offer a āNewā or āOpenā button inside its apps.
A (rather clunky) workaround, if you didnāt clone the tab before opening the document, is to clone it afterwards, with the document already open, then close the document in the cloned tab and create or open a new file from there. Of course, you can also just open a new tab, launch the Nextcloud Files app again, and navigate back to the desired folder, but thatās not exactly a great solution either.
At least I donāt know of any better solutions, except maybe via some third party browser extensionsā¦?
