nextcloud / nextcloud/collectives
Export/import and transfer collectives between Nextcloud instances
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enhancement
feature: import/export
prio::1
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 195
- Forks
- 51
- Avg merge
- 1d 2h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 48
Description
Collectives misses functionality to properly export a collective in a format that can be imported at another Nextcloud instance.
Suggested workaround for now
- Create the collective on the new instance
- Add all members to the new collective
- Update settings for the new collective as required
- Download the folder with markdown and attachment files from the old collective and upload it to the new collective folder
This will not migrate the following data:
- Page emojis
- Page order
- Collective and page shares
Additionally, links to files and pages might be broken after migration.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the current collective folder contents described in the workaround, including Markdown and attachment files, and compare them with the data that must survive migration. A complete solution should transfer page emojis, page order, collective and page shares, and preserve links where possible between two Nextcloud instances.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100