Add Sharing / Use share api [$145]

[eMerzh]

The Current version of bookmark does not allow to share bookmark using the sharing api.

Let the user share a tag with users and using a "private link".

Export a simple page with the bookmarks and an feed (atom, rss, ..) .

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[eMerzh]

ref owncloud-archive/apps#95

[johnwiesel]

looking forward to seeing this implemented :)

[backendoadmin]

Hi guys,

what about this feature? Somebody knows something else this function and implementation stage? I think necessery update the owncloud stream with bookmark information (new, delete, update).

best regards

[moritzreiter]

Still nothing happening here? I would really like to see a sharing feature in the ownCloud Bookmark App.

[Niklas81]

Also voting for this to be implemented. As bookmarks are a part of the built-in features, I really think this should work; the whole thing is about collaboration, right?

[foudfou]

+1, especially the RSS/Atom part.

[pixi]

Any news on the sharing?

[markus61]

+1

[shaneonabike]

I definitely think this would be really useful and practical to have the ability to share all your bookmarks or a few with other users like calendars

[BugHunter2k]

Any News? I'd like to see this too.

[ronnystandtke]

Another +1. We would like to share a collection of bookmarks for a project with external people (they have no user account on our ownCloud instance). We already share some files with these external people via a public link. It would be cool if we could just integrate our bookmarks into this shared file folder as clickable links (maybe even visually separated from the ordinary shared files and folders). This way we only have to share one link and everything that is needed for our project is easily accessible for our external people.

[brozkeff]

+1
Our company is looking exactly for this functionality, lack of sharing in current bookmarks implementation means it is useless for us at this moment.

[pascaldaniela]

+1
exactly what we're looking for to avoid having yet another service to add in our organization. Could we have any feedback from an owncloud developer?
thanks!

[xila76]

👍

[TheNomad11]

Yes, please, I actually expected this feature when I installed it :)

[marcelklehr]

👍 :)

[Endogen]

Any news on this? I would really love to have this feature

[marcelklehr]

This is the status quo on this feature:
Currently, there is a database field for each bookmark reserved to hold information whether it is public or private. The API can handle the field and even querying it is supported, so you can for example retrieve the public bookmarks of a specific user.

So going forward, we'd have to discuss the exact concept for sharing, specifically whether a private/public mode is sufficient (I've never used the sharing API myself, so I'd have to do some reading on it). Also, some concept would need to be developed for how sharing should work in the ui.

I'm open to implementing this, but the ETA is unknown as of yet.

[ccoenen]

My personal use case is "hey, everybody! This is stuff worth reading!" - which is a subset of my bookmarks. Having only public and private would be totally fine for me.

[oparoz]

Ultimately, I'd like to see the full sidebar implemented, but that requires changes in the server part.

In the meantime, something like the Gallery or Deck sharing dialogue could be implemented, making it easy to share bookmarks with other users or even publicly via a link.

[blizzz]

The sidebar crossed my mind recently as well. The UI could use some love anyhow.

[marcelklehr]

Sharing would also be nice for tags, so you don't need to manually share every new bookmark you add to a tag.

[9662]

My personal use case is "hey, everybody! This is stuff worth reading!"

And FWIW, in addition to the above mine would be to share bookmarks within an organisation, so e.g., sharing with a specific group or user.

I guess in the long term a common sharing philosophy for all Nextcloud apps would be desirable, though this is way out of the scope of this issue.

[marcelklehr]

... while I have you folks here, what, if there is one, is the use case for sharing a single bookmark with another user? Sharing folders makes sense, sharing a single file makes sense, too, but sharing a single bookmark?

[ccoenen]

Personally, I can't imagine the case for "single" link share. Perhaps other than link-shortener and tracking stuff, both of which I would actively like to avoid. It's a web-breaking practice mostly used to spy on people[1]. In my opinion, share a bundle/folder/collection/whatever of links.

If you need to share "just one", put it in a collection or pass on the link directly.

[1] except for the added benefit of getting rid of referrer-headers, but that can be achieved by other means, and does not apply in this case anyway.

[sunjam]

The main strength of individual link sharing I can think of is to send a link to Wallabag, as intended in issue #524, otherwise I'll stick to sharing by group or tag

[ccoenen]

I think the word "share" is used for very different things in these two cases. In this case here, it's about "I want to give this list of links to people with (or without) accounts", in that other one, it's more like "automatically integrate wallabag and bookmarks", I think we should keep these two cases seperate.

[12nick12]

Just to add a comment. I'd like to be able to share bookmarks like a folder. So I could make a shopping list and share it with people who and don't have accounts. Just like file folders.

[alexanderdd]

@marcelklehr do I understand correctly that the UI is the only thing missing? See checklist here #870
Would it be helpful if we provide some mockups?

[marcelklehr]

I'm sorry for the wait. I got sidetracked because I decided to refactor the db schema again. (And because floccus needed a lot of bugfixes.) I have some idea of how the UI might look like, especially, since there are quite a few reusable nextcloud components now. I have the server-side tests passing again, now, and will be able to focus on the UI next week, thanks to the corona shut down. :)

[marcelklehr]

If you are technically inclined you may want to give #952 a go -- preferably on a testing instance or after making a database backup. Instructions on how to install are in the README.

[marcelklehr]

...and here's the first beta version: #965

[marcelklehr]

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