Is there any file chooser for nextcloud

[mehrdad-shokri]

Expected behaviour

There should be a button like Choose from Nextcloud that when a user clicks that, another window is promoted to the user and she can select 1 or more files.
This feature is already enabled on Dropbox & Google drive but can't find any documentation for Nextcloud.
For clarification screenshot from drive is included.
Is this feature implemented for nextcloud? any roadmap?

Operating system:
Windows

Web server:
Centos7

Database:
Sqlite

PHP version:
7.1

Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page)
12.0.3

[leonklingele-work]

This feature is already enabled on Dropbox & Google drive

Where is such a "Choose from Google Drive" button currently shown?
Where would you expect a "Choose from Nextcloud" button to be shown?

[mehrdad-shokri]

Where is such a "Choose from Google Drive" button currently shown?

Any web application that has enabled uploading file from Google drive.

Where would you expect a "Choose from Nextcloud" button to be shown?

Currently trying to attach a file from Nextcloud in the rainloop app.

[leonklingele-work]

Given that Nextcloud is self-hosted, how would your app know which Nextcloud service (= domain) to call? Why not create an individual browser extension / Tampermonkey script?

[mehrdad-shokri]

Given that Nextcloud is self-hosted, how would your app know which Nextcloud service (= domain) to call?

Just as Dropbox, Google drive handles it. There's nothing special about Nextclou(At least I think this way).
If Dropbox & Google drive supports a file chooser, then I think it won't be a hard thing for nextcloud developers to add this feature too.

Why not create an individual browser extension / Tampermonkey script?

Can you describe how would that script communicate with Nextcloud and get a list of files?
How would it handle file downloads from Nextcloud after choosing this file?
I do believe that this kinda communication is handled through WebDAV protocol.

Further information is appreciated.

[mehrdad-shokri]

Or Nextcloud could provide OAuth2 authentication just as other services do.
Clients register by Client id, Client secret, API Key.

[juliusstoerrle]

One use case I have is actually for other company internal services. In such a case we also don't have the problem @leonklingele-work mentioned, as we can configure other services with our data.

What i have been thinking about was just creating a Javascript WebDav File Client, which can connect to any WebDav Server but can be configured to only allow a given instance. But that wouldn't be in the scope of nextcloud/server. But some SSO Solution would be interesting too.

i don't have enough technical insights in how Google API is displaying that picker, but just for ref i'm linking the API Doc: https://developers.google.com/picker/docs/

[blizzz]

Or Nextcloud could provide OAuth2 authentication just as other services do.
Clients register by Client id, Client secret, API Key.

It does. Implemented as core app since 12, I believe.

[mehrdad-shokri]

@blizzz so it doesn't provide any native file chooser for external apps, right?

[blizzz]

No, there isn't any I know about. The moodle integration for instances takes the OAuth2 approach.

[MorrisJobke]

Duplicate of #2028

[mehrdad-shokri]

@MorrisJobke I opened this issues since the references issue hasn't got any remarkable answer.
I see this act of closing issues without providing any meaningful solution and referencing an unsolved issue so carelessly.

[MorrisJobke]

@MorrisJobke I opened this issues since the references issue hasn't got any remarkable answer.
I see this act of closing issues without providing any meaningful solution and referencing an unsolved issue so carelessly.

Why is this carelessly? We actually care a lot about a good to use bug tracker. Why should we keep 5 discussions about one specific topic open? We should join discussions and closing a ticket as duplicate is such.

We can not implement every single feature request immediately. Just because nothing is happening in a ticket does not mean we don't care about it. We just don't have time now to work on it, but everybody is welcome to propose a possible solution and then we can give feedback.

So please continue the discussion in #2028 - but avoid to just say "I want this too", because this does not drive the discussion forward (use github reactions for this).

[mehrdad-shokri]

@MorrisJobke sure there shouldn't be duplicate for a feature request but as I didn't see any reaction by Nextcloud core maintainers on that issue, I decided to open another one.
Maybe providing a roadmap for implmenting such features would be great.
Also I think this feature is a top wanted since many companies who provide self hosted cloud service also have other products which they wish to integrate them with nextcloud.
Nextcloud provides WebDAV but for me I couldn't find any way to integrate WebDAV with a file chooser to select multiple files to upload or select.
Maybe I can help with developing this feature if you list requirement and a high level overview of how such feature works.
Regards.

[MorrisJobke]

Maybe providing a roadmap for implmenting such features would be great.

We put it on our roadmap once we plan to implement it.

Also I think this feature is a top wanted since many companies who provide self hosted cloud service also have other products which they wish to integrate them with nextcloud.
Nextcloud provides WebDAV but for me I couldn't find any way to integrate WebDAV with a file chooser to select multiple files to upload or select.
Maybe I can help with developing this feature if you list requirement and a high level overview of how such feature works.
Regards.

Then please comment like this in that ticket. That helps to triage.