User Documentation - Getting Started

This tutorial will walk you through the basics of the Collectives app. It assumes you already have a user account on a Nextcloud installation with the Collectives app enabled.

✨ Create a new collective

Visit the Collectives app by clicking its icon in the toolbar at the top of the screen:

On the left of the screen you will find a list of all of your collectives. It’s probably empty if you have not been added to any yet. Click “New collective” and type a name for your collective. You can also pick an emoji to easily find your collective later:

🌱 Bring life to your collective

Create pages and share the knowledge that really matters.

Click the “Add a page” button in the upper left and a new page will appear.

You can type in a title right away or add some content first and settle on a title later.

🛋️ Edit the landing page to feel like home

When you create a new collective, it will start with some initial content. Push the pencil button on the top left of the start page ↗️ to adjust it to your collectives needs.

🐾 Add your comrades to the collective

Follow the “manage members” link that you find in the action menu inside the collectives list on the left to manage members.

If your Nextcloud instance is configured to allow groups in teams you can even add entire groups to your collectives.

Also good to know

• Multiple people can edit the same page simultaneously.
• Link pages by drag & dropping them from the page list into the editor.
• Add templates for future subpages via “Manage templates” in the landing page three-dot-menu.
• Ask the community for help in case of questions.

Searching Collectives

Use the search input on top of the page list (top left) to filter your collectives by page titles. Use the Nextcloud unified search (top right) to search within the contents of Collectives.

Access the Markdown files via Files app

The pages of your collectives are stored in Markdown files. You can access them via the Files app. Per default, the folder is hidden as it’s called “.Collectives” (or a translated version of it). To access the hidden folder, enable “Show hidden files” in the Files app settings.

You can also change the name of the folder in the Collectives settings. The setting is located at the bottom of the Collectives list. If you want the folder to be visible permanently without showing other hidden files, set the folder setting to a name without leading dot (e.g. “Collectives”).