Administrator Documentation
Runtime Dependencies
This app requires the following apps to be enabled:
Install Nextcloud Collectives
The Collectives app can be installed from the Nextcloud App Store.
In your Nextcloud instance, simply navigate to »Apps«, find the »Collectives« app and enable it.
Collectives and server-side encryption
With server-side encryption enabled, the files in a Collective will be stored encrypted on the filesystem as well.
Please note that index files for the full-text search will not be encrypted though. Also, please read the Nextcloud server documentation about limitations carefully.
Collectives and guest users
In order to allow guest users (as provided by the guests app) to access collectives, add the Collectives and Teams apps to the list of enabled apps for guest users in admin settings.
Please note that this enables guest users to create new collectives.
Searching Collectives
To enable searching of collectives from the unified Nextcloud search, make sure the ext-pdo and ext-pdo_sqlite PHP extensions are installed and the Nextcloud cronjob is running. The index of collectives page contents should update with every cronjob run.
Tip: On Ubuntu 22.04, the relevant package to install is phpXX-sqlite3 - with the XX being replaced with your PHP version. E.g. php8.1-sqlite3 for PHP 8.1.
Public shares
WebDAV access to public shares must not be disabled (i.e it must be enabled) for publically shared collectives to work. Please make sure that the following admin option is enabled and not disabled: “Allow users on this server to send shares to other servers (This option also enables WebDAV access to public shares)” under “Sharing -> Federated Cloud Sharing”.
Configuration
Initial Content for new collectives
It’s possible to create custom content for new collectives by putting files
in the app skeleton directory at data/app_<INSTANCE_ID>/collectives/skeleton.
New collectives start with the contents of this directory.
Create a Readme.md to change the landing page that is opened automatically
when entering a collective.
If the skeleton directory doesn’t contain a Readme.md, the default landing
page from apps/collectives/skeleton/Readme.md will be copied into the
collectives directory instead.
Allow for groups in your collectives
You can configure the teams app to allow adding groups to teams. Since the collectives app relies on the teams app for user management this also allows adding entire groups to collectives.
Keep in mind thought that in contrast to teams, groups can only be managed by server admins.