Linking collaboration things™

[nickvergessen]

Currently we have multiple things™ that can be shared to a group of people:

• Boards of the dash app
• Conversations of the talk app
• Files/folders of the files app
• Calendars of the calendar app

The idea is to allow apps to link all those different things™ together, for easier and fast collaboration. E.g. a project could consist of a conversation, a dashboard and multiple shared folders. Those should all be "linked" with each others and have a quick access option available, e.g. in the sidebar.

cc @juliushaertl

[Spartachetto]

You could consider if this is related to #7435 .

"Linking collaboration things could be a case of "linking things".... if the tech details allow it.

[nickvergessen]

Yes, thanks I didn't know that issue existed. It will lay the basement for this on a technical level. But mentioning calendars etc is a whole other story.

[Spartachetto]

@nickvergessen I think you could have a look at https://help.nextcloud.com/t/email-automation-comparable-to-mixmax-gmelius-cloudhq-etc/36699

He is asking for Email automation comparable to MixMax, Gmelius, CloudHQ etc . This includes also integration between the email client and calendar and kanban (deck).

That could be interesting information for this issue...

[sehucke]

Would love to see this feature in NC.

I think the key point - beside the UI - is to have an extensible concept so that other apps could add their own "things" the users can reference from other apps. E.g. if I would write a recipes app I would "instantly" be able to reference a recipe in a calendar appointment and vice versa. Maybe something like a publish/subscribe service for object referencing. This could also provide a central API (and maybe UI components) for auto completion.

[nickvergessen]

Similar to Spartachetto you also got it wrong. This issue here is not about autocompletion or anything.

[sehucke]

So what is it all about - if it is not about "anything"? :-)

The main point I was making was not about an autocompletion feature... It was instead: If you try to "link collaboration things" please have the big picture in mind - I mean all the plugins and not only the ones you guys at Nextcloud take (very good) care of. Therefore an extensible system would be great.

... Just read the first comment again while writing... Now I am wondering: Did you mean something that is more like Microsoft Teams instead? Indeed, that would be a nice feature for enterprises and has imho a huge potential to push NC forward.

Regardless of what you meant, I think both features would be very valuable. ;-)