Do we need to show the post attachments in the left panel?

[vikasrohit]

@acshields @vic-topcoder question for you guys.

[acshields]

Yes @vikasrohit

[vic-georgiev]

Until we build a new page where people can access all the files and links, yes, we show it.

[maxceem]

@vikasrohit should we be able to edit/delete post attachments on the left sidebar? Or should we show them here in read-only mode, same how we do for links from the posts?

[vikasrohit]

Let them editable as ideally we want the links to be editable from the left panel as well but we are limited with challenge of updating the link changes to the messages' content. In this case we don't have to change/update the post/message content if some one changes the post attachment from the left panel. So, lets keep them similar to other attachments.

[maxceem]

@vikasrohit is it ok if I merge branch https://github.com/appirio-tech/connect-app/tree/feature/list-links-from-posts where we implemented listing links form the posts on the sidebar to the cf17 branch. So we would have to include that to our release.

The reason for this that most likely we could reuse an accordion component which we use to show links from posts for files from posts.

And just to confirm, that we should show files grouped per posts the same way as we show links. The only difference is that we can edit/delete files on the sidebar.

[vikasrohit]

Agreed on all points @maxceem

[maxceem]

Sum up:

• Can use this project for testing http://local.topcoder-dev.com:3000/projects/8031
• We already have implemented functionality to extract links from all the posts and show them on the sidebar like this:
  
• We should do the same for files inside posts. We should show them on the sidebar grouped by topics as it's done for links.
• The only difference for files is that we should be able to delete them the same way as it's done for normal files (not from the posts). Note, that methods for deleting attachments for posts and regular files are different.

Notes for starting point

• We use component LinksMenuAccordion to show links grouped by topics. Most likely you should add the ability to show delete button in this component and use it for files.
• We use component FileLinksMenu for showing files