Flow and Forms

[Spartachetto]

reading the issues #790 and #789, I thought that it would be interesting to make a further step and integrate Forms with Flow.

There are a lot of possible conditions and actions that could be of interest, like for example:

• when someone answered a form (then send a Talk message to user x)
• when someone sends this message to the group y then answer with the csv file of the answers
• when someone answered a form then send to that user a message (email, whatever, ...) thanking for the feedback

and so on...

An hypothesis of schema

conditions

• When someone create a form

• When someone answers a form

• When someone answers the form x

• When someone shares a form

• actions

• then share the form x with the user

• then send the files with the answers of the form x to the user y (via email, sharing the file, ...)

• then update an analytics report

I put only the actions specific to the Forms app, it is clear that all the other actions would be usable.

[susnux]

As I have a use case for this, I started looking into it (see my branch), this will require quite a lot of work:

• [ ] Nextcloud events for form creation / modification / removal, submissions
• [ ] Workflow entities mapping those Nextcloud events
• [ ] Custom workflow checks to filter those entities
• [ ] (optional) some actions like sending an email

[gotjoshua]

@susnux

I started looking into it,

me too! and i started a repo where i will try to create a flow from forms to deck.

However, I am a bit unsure how to proceed:

1. never hacked on a nextcloud plugin before = D
2. none of the flow specific events are being emitted
3. hoping that i can listen for this activity thingy

is this a reasonable idea? any help?

[BarBaar44]

Yes! Very much support this!

I have an intake form for new clients. I would like to create a new user based on the information in the intake form. It would be a super simple flow:

1. Share unique link to form with a potential client
2. The client fills out the form and submits
3. NextCloud creates a user account (etc) based on the input of the form (username == e-mail address)

[tatrapikao]

this would be brilliant! There are multiple usecases coming to mind. Would it be possible to check a specific question and send e.g. talk messages to different accounts based on the answer maybe with the content of one or different answers of the same form?

[Rello]

https://github.com/nextcloud/forms/pull/2195

I am working to add Forms as a direct data source to Analytics. stay tuned...

[QuantenToast]

What is the current status on this? I would like to contribute to this issue and would like to know what I can do, for example: should I work off the branch @susnux created or is that one a "dead end"? If so, what progress has already been made?