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calc - "To paste outside Nextcloud Office, please first click the 'download' button"
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Description
Describe the bug
When copy-pasting from Nextcloud Office calc, I often get an error message when pasting the content elsewhere (i.e. local text file): To paste outside Nextcloud Office, please first click the 'download' button
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the phrase
please first click the 'download' buttonis very misleading in this context - there is no download button! What does this mean in this context? Confusing for the user. -
This behaviour is... seems intermittent: on the same internet connection it occurs for some copy-paste tasks, but not all. Given I'm typically copy-pasting text from calc cells, this seems inconsistent and unnecessary?
issue has been persistent for 1 year+
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- open calc doc w lots of text in cells (i.e. social media-length text, ~280 characters or more)
- double-click a cell into edit mode
- select all text (ctrl-a)
- copy (ctrl-c)
- paste into text editor locally
Expected behavior
Paste the text in clipboard (i.e. the text that was copied from the cell)
** Actual behaviour **
text pasted is: To paste outside Nextcloud Office, please first click the 'download' button
Screenshots
Client details:
- OS: Linux desktop (NixOS 24.11)
- Browser Chromium 128.0.6613.119
- Device: desktop
Server details
Operating system:
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Web server:
Database:
PHP version:
Nextcloud version:
30.0.0
Version of the richdocuments app
Version of Collabora Online
24.04.5.4
Configuration of the richdocuments app
Insert the output of `./occ config:list richdocuments` (or equivalent adapted for your runtime environment)
Logs
Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)
Insert your Nextcloud log here
Browser log
Insert your browser log here, this could for example include:
a) The javascript console log
b) The network log
c) ...
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the copy-paste steps in a Calc document with longer cell text, using the reported Nextcloud, Chromium, and Collabora versions. Inspect the browser and Nextcloud logs, which are not provided, to determine whether the message originates in the integration or Collabora Online. Done means the copied cell text pastes locally reliably and the misleading message no longer appears.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100