[Owncloud] File upload

Thu Aug 9 00:52:58 UTC 2012

The same suggestion came up last year, as the webmaster of my
university mentioned that would be a great thing to have.
I discussed it with Michael and we decided it would be best to couple
it with sharing.

It would simply add a checkbox »allow upload« to the public part of
the sharing dropdown. With that, everyone who has the link for that
folder can upload into it, no matter if they have ownCloud or not.

It will look like a shared folder does now, except that the New/Upload
button is present.
As far as file modification goes, people with the link (not on
ownCloud) can only upload and modify files they themselves uploaded –
this includes move (into subfolders), edit and deletion, for example
when a file was uploaded mistakenly.

[Wiki entry for reference: »enable people (not on ownCloud) to upload
files when you give them a specific link (to a public folder for
example)«, from Sharing on https://gitorious.org/owncloud/pages/Home ]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Michael Grosser
<owncloud at seetheprogress.net> wrote:
> I would say profile page is bad.
> Using usernames is bad too.
> The suggestion I would make is using the sharing functionality.
> We could just provide another sharing option. (aka writeaccess)
> So you can share a folder link (pretty secure - token etc.) and give
> write access. If you don't want it anymore just edit the sharing
> permissions and done.
>
> Some additional suddestion for sharing (just came to my mind) an
> overview table on what is shared with what permission and an easy way
> to edit the permissions or delete the share. I know it's in the
> database, but some sort of interface would be cool. So you don't have
> to dig through all your folders etc.
>
> Cheers Michael
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Christian van de Weyer
> <christian at vandeweyer.de> wrote:
>> Hello Tom,
>>
>> I am just an ordinary user (and new to oC).
>> This is exactly what I need for my customers:
>>
>> the feature to allow file upload to a user space by somebody else
>>
>>
>> I can imagine, that - if implemented in a proper way - could be a „killer
>> feature” on the market.
>>
>>
>> Many Greetings and thanks for the work you (all) put in oC!
>> _____________________
>> Christian van de Weyer
>>
>> 90768 Fürth
>> christian at vandeweyer.de
>>
>>
>> Am 06.08.2012 um 12:06 schrieb Thomas Müller:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently got feedback from one of our users, who showed some interest
>> in the feature to allow file upload to a user space by somebody else.
>>
>> This topic has been discussed on this ticket:
>> http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-190
>>
>> Some basic implementation can be found here (worked for OC3):
>> https://gitorious.org/my-owncloud-apps/file_drop
>>
>> I'm interested in your opinion on this feature:
>> - Is it something we'd like to have as an core app like e.g. contacts or is
>> it something for the appstore?
>>
>> - Do we want to merge the feature with some kind of general user page?
>>  (Display profile pic, name email ....)
>>
>> - The current implementation requires the external user to enter the user
>> name to where the file should be uploaded.
>>  From an UX point of view this is bad - from a security point of view it
>> might be better than a user page which could be crawled by bots.
>>
>>
>> THX,
>>
>> Tom
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