Docs in Drive

[virgile-dev]

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem or unsupported use case? Please describe?
Currently, Docs (collaborative document editor) and Drive (collaborative file-sharing platform) operate as separate applications with independent permission systems, sharing only OIDC identification for authentication. This separation creates friction for users who want to organize their documents into Drive folders directly from Docs.

For example:

• A user creates a document in Docs and wants to save it to a specific folder in Drive.
• Since the two apps are separate, the user must:
  1. Save the document in Docs.
  2. Open Drive in a new tab.
  3. Locate the document.
  4. Move it to the desired folder.
     This workflow is inefficient, disrupts productivity, and increases the risk of misplacing documents.

Describe the solution you'd like
To address this, I propose implementing a cross-application interoperability layer that enables seamless interaction between Docs and Drive. We have to figure out how to implement this.

The goal of integration is:

→ Initial mockups (basis for reflection) (minor updates in progress by Robin)

• Ability to create a document in Fichiers
• Ability to move a document into a folder
• Manage document permissions in both Fichiers AND Docs
• Creating a document in Docs makes it appear at the root of Fichiers

Constraints

• In its open-source version, Docs will come with a basic permission system (the one we currently have).
  • If the reuser also hosts Drive, they can choose to use Drive's permission system so that both apps are integrated.
  • In its LaSuite version, Docs will use Fichiers' permissions.
• Docs is not developing a nested document system to facilitate integration between the two apps. However, the integration of Docs into Drive should not close the door on this possibility, which could be developed in the future.
• This project should enable Docs to integrate with other Drive applications (related issue Support WOPI protocol for Nextcloud / OpenCloud integration #815)

[Wqrld]

A nice side effect of this would probably be being able to share a set of documents with with someone, so you can have a sort of "team folder" where you don't have to manually add every member to every new documents.

[virgile-dev]

That's another feature. We call it groups. It's already implemented in the backend.
At the LaSuite level we still lack a place where to create groups so we don't have groups / teams to consume yet.