Nextcloud project developing free cloud storage ownCloud, new platform , which provides a self-sufficient solution for organizing joint work of employees of enterprises and teams developing various projects. In terms of tasks to be solved, Nextcloud Hub resembles Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but allows you to deploy a fully controlled collaboration infrastructure that operates on its own servers and is not tied to external cloud services. Nextcloud sources under the AGPL license.
Nextcloud Hub combines several add-on applications over the Nextcloud cloud platform that allow you to work collaboratively with office documents, files and information for planning tasks and events. The platform also includes add-ons for email access, messaging, video conferencing and chats.
User authentication can both locally and through integration with LDAP / Active Directory, Kerberos, IMAP and Shibboleth / SAML 2.0, including using two-factor authentication, SSO (Single-sign-on) and linking new systems to an account via QR- code. Version control allows you to track changes to files, comments, sharing rules, and tags.
Simultaneously the release of the platform core - Nextcloud 18, a cloud storage with support for synchronization and data exchange, which provides the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere in the network. Access to data can be organized both using the web interface and using the WebDAV protocol and its CardDAV and CalDAV extensions. The Nextcloud server can be deployed on any hosting that supports PHP scripts and provides access to SQLite, MariaDB/MySQL or PostgreSQL.
The main components of the Nextcloud Hub platform and the innovations of Nextcloud 18:
- — organization of storage, synchronization, sharing and exchange of files. Access can be made both via the Web and using client software for desktop and mobile systems. Provides advanced features such as full-text search, attaching files when posting comments, selective access control, creating password-protected download links, with external storages (FTP, CIFS/SMB, SharePoint, NFS, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
Nextcloud 18 introduces an improved sidebar that shows users who have access to files, even if those files are in subdirectories. Now you can transfer rights to a directory to another user and generate a secure password when sharing. To simplify the work, the concept of workspaces is proposed, in which you can add notes, links and task lists in relation to file directories, pin files to the top. The function of setting a lock until the end of work with the file is provided to avoid conflicts when co-editing.
- — optimizes business processes by automating the execution of typical work, such as converting documents to PDF, sending messages to chats when new files are uploaded to certain directories, automatic tagging. It is possible to create your own handlers that perform actions in relation to certain events.
- collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations based on the package , which supports Microsoft Office formats. Full integration of ONLYOFFICE with the rest of the platform components is provided, for example, several participants can edit one document at the same time, while discussing changes in a video chat and leaving notes.
- Photos is a new image gallery that makes it easy to find, share, and navigate your collaborative collection of photos and images.
Supports ranking photos by time, place, tags and frequency of viewing. - — a calendar-scheduler that allows you to coordinate meetings, schedule chats and video conferences. Integration with iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, Outlook, and Thunderbird groupware is provided. Loading events from external resources that support the WebCal protocol is supported. The new release has significantly redesigned the interface, added advanced features for repeating typical events, offered a visual mode for assessing busyness when scheduling meetings, added support for attaching chats and video calls to events.
- - a joint address book and a web-interface for working with e-mail. It is possible to bind several accounts to one inbox. Encryption of letters and attachment of digital signatures based on OpenPGP are supported. It is possible to synchronize the address book using CalDAV.
The new version implements the ability to automatically make entries in the calendar-scheduler based on information about tickets and reservations, extracted from letters sent by transport companies or services such as Booking. Complete processing of letters with HTML markup is provided. - — messaging and web-conferencing system (chat, audio and video). There is the ability to provide access to the contents of the screen and support for SIP gateways for integration with conventional telephony. The new version has completely redesigned the interface, added support for delivery notifications and delayed messages. Provided integration with the application , which allows you to use groups in Talk. Added reply mode with quoting the original message. Implemented display of notifications about new messages in the background tab. Integration with Flow and Calendar apps is provided.
Source: opennet.ru