🗒️ Create empty text document within conversation

[tobiasKaminsky]

Use case

• have a call with a group / colleague
• want to e.g. notes, brainstorm via whiteboard, etc.

Right now: or those one have to open files app, create desired file, share to conversation)

Better to have this direct in conversation, within this dialog probably?

• API: Normal WebDAV + sharing
• Web
• iOS
• Android

[nickvergessen]

Ref nextcloud-libraries/nextcloud-dialogs#264

[nickvergessen]

But that might actually be a level further away, but not sure how scalable it is to put it directly into the menu. I think it needs at least one parent menu when I see all the things the file app allows to create

[Spartachetto]

No idea if it is too far fetched, but maybe it could be interesting to offer the possibility to create a project from the conversation and then to associate to the project all the available Nextcloud functionalities (creating files, calendar appointments, etc. ....)

[nickvergessen]

The projects feature is already there

[tobiasKaminsky]

But that might actually be a level further away, but not sure how scalable it is to put it directly into the menu. I think it needs at least one parent menu when I see all the things the file app allows to create

• upload new files
• share from files
• create new

would be totally ok, in my opinion 👍

[nickvergessen]

UI (Web)
attachment menu becomes a + that allows to create an empty text file
specify file name (required step before creating the file)
once the file is created it is immediately shared to the conversation

• Mobile apps? -> Not for now

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In the future (create follow-up issue)

• Multiple file types + Template picker support

[nickvergessen]

• Effort estimation to bring all the different types into the dropdown, instead of only text?

[tobiasKaminsky]

In this issue I would focus on text.
Text can give you a list of templates, with a preview.

You can get infos about it in:
/ocs/v2.php/apps/files/api/v1/directEditing

I cannot find a real documentation, only the PR: nextcloud/server#17625

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