[GUIDE] How to import a Cospend Project

[matteo-collina]

Hi everyone,

I was digging to understand how to import a Project from Cospend in the app as it is not straightforward as it looks like. I thought to make a guide, so hopefully, it will be easy for everyone. Just to make things clear, the QR Code does not work unfortunately (at least for me).

SERVER
To set the app, on the server enterhttps://yourserver.domain.whatever/index.php/apps/cospend/. You can retrieve and check the URL by simply going to the Cospend homepage through your browser with your computer.

PROJECT ID
To retrieve the project ID, go in the Cospend app in Nextcloud with your computer browser. Then click on the project and click Share, and then generate a QRCode. On the bottom of the QRCode image, there is a section named QRCode Content and you will see an URL similar too: cospend://yourserver.domain.whatever/alongsequenceofcharacter/no-pass. The long sequence of character between your domain and /no-pass is your Project ID.

PASSWORD
there is no password to set, so you can enter whatever you want. I entered no-pass and it worked.

I hope it is helpful for everyone. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Matteo

[ruedigerkupper]

Thanks for sharing this documentation. Unfortunately, even following this guide, I cannot add a Cospend project.
Symptoms: Payforme-App always reports „Could not find server“.
(I remember having added a project this way last year, but it does not work any longer.)
Anything I can try to make it work?

[ruedigerkupper]

Should I file a separate issue report for this?

[ruedigerkupper]

Okay, I was hit by the brute-force-protection issue.
Please see julien-nc/cospend-nc#258 (comment) for details.