user wants to share a folder, with a sharing name different than the original one

[rloutrel]

First of all, I looked all opened issues there, to be sure, this would not be a duplicate

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Steps to reproduce (in the Web App)

1. alice has a folder name "foo"
2. alice opens the sharing box for "foo"

Expected behaviour (after a successful sharing)

alice sees an (optional) input dialog where she can suggest a folder name to the sharee (default / empty = real folder name)
Once she has shared it to bob as "bar", bob will see it as bar the first time he sees the shared folder

Actual behaviour

alice can only share "foo" as "foo" and bob would have to change the name himself

Server configuration (I provide it even if I think, that it will not help)

Operating system:
Ubuntu 14.04

Web server:
apache2

Database:
mysql

PHP version:
PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.20

ownCloud version: (see ownCloud admin page)
owncloud ubuntu package: 9.1.2-1.1

Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install:
Updated (I guess original was 8.0.x)

Where did you install ownCloud from:
Official repositories

Signing status (ownCloud 9.0 and above):

No errors have been found.

List of activated apps:

Enabled:
  - activity: 2.3.2
  - audioplayer: 1.3.1
  - calendar: 1.4.1
  - comments: 0.3.0
  - contacts: 1.4.0.0
  - dav: 0.2.7
  - documents: 0.13.1
  - federatedfilesharing: 0.3.0
  - federation: 0.1.0
  - files: 1.5.1
  - files_antivirus: 0.9.0.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 0.8.1
  - files_sharing: 0.10.0
  - files_texteditor: 2.1
  - files_trashbin: 0.9.0
  - files_versions: 1.3.0
  - files_videoplayer: 0.9.8
  - firstrunwizard: 1.1
  - galleryplus: 15.0.0
  - notifications: 0.3.0
  - ownnote: 1.08
  - provisioning_api: 0.5.0
  - systemtags: 0.3.0
  - tasks: 0.9.3
  - updatenotification: 0.2.1
Disabled:
  - encryption
  - external
  - files_external
  - gallery
  - notes
  - templateeditor
  - user_external
  - user_ldap

The content of config/config.php:

{
    "system": {
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "\/var\/www\/owncloud\/data",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "http:\/\/***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "9.1.2.5",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "logtimezone": "UTC",
        "installed": true,
        "theme": "",
        "maintenance": false,
        "loglevel": 2,
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "updatechecker": false
    }
}

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: local/smb/sftp/...
No

Are you using encryption:
No

[PVince81]

Any particular reason why a user might want to do that ?

In theory it's already possible right now but needs a bit of manual fiddling:

1. Rename folder to the "suggested name"
2. Share with recipients
3. Rename folder back to original name.

Tagging as enhancement.

[rloutrel]

Hi @PVince81 ,

thank you for your quick reply.

I describe a typical use case (mine) here, since I guess, github is not the place where to discuss if it is relevant or not, where the forum is. (but maybe I am wrong...)

Thank you for your workaround suggestion, but I guess I will not really use it.

[ownclouders]

Hey, this issue has been closed because the label status/STALE is set and there were no updates for 7 days. Feel free to reopen this issue if you deem it appropriate.

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