Files app: shared drive

[fulldecent]

There is a set of features for managing access to files for a group called a "shared drive". This is a common paradigm that people understand and expect in group collaboration and workspace software. This issue serves to document and specify these features so that we may add them into Nextcloud where people are expecting them.

The features

• Each shared drive is featured prominently in the file explorer
  • They look different than folders
  • They do not show up inside "my" folders "my documents" because they are owned by something bigger than you
• Permissions for the shared drive are set for the drive as a whole:
  • Super (can set permissions for others)
  • Read/write/delete
  • Read/write (but cannot delete existing files/folders)
  • Read only

Story

Typically shared drives are set up for specific organizational teams, like "Marketing share drive" or "Finance shared drive".

These are so important, and coworkers are so dumb, that it is important to restrict against deleting things in these folders.

Here is how this feature is implemented in Google Workspace:

Admin view:

Here is how shared drives are implemented on OneDrive:

And if you have used Windows or DOS, they call them network drives.

This feature is so popular that most companies name their shared drive "S://" because "s" stands for "shared".

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In the demo account of Nextcloud, I do not see this feature:

[solracsf]

Does "Group Folders" app answer some of these requests?
https://github.com/nextcloud/groupfolders?tab=readme-ov-file#group-folders

[fulldecent]

@solracsf thanks for sharing. I'm not sure, this feature is does not appear available on Nextcloud. Here is the demo account I just created.

I signed up at https://try.nextcloud.com/. It does not tell me there are any limitations.

And this is what I see:

[solracsf]

You can't install apps on the Demo; you must install it (and any other apps) on your own server (or a managed provider).
https://apps.nextcloud.com/

[fulldecent]

Got it, thank you, I see this feature requires an extra install to use