Copy/move only works with personal space

[kulmann]

With the share jail being merged the LocationPicker view, which let's you select a target location for a copy or move action, only lists a single webdav endpoint, namely the personal space. As each accepted share and any project space have their own webdav endpoint we need to come up with a solution to list alternative target locations. This is a regression and needs to be tackled as soon as possible.

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit personal space
2. Select "Copy" or "Move" in the right-click context menu of any file or folder

Expected behaviour

Get presented with all available target locations and be able to navigate into any of their subfolders

Actual behaviour

Only see the content of the personal space

Things to consider

This is not just a matter of listing all available webdav endpoints in the LocationPicker view. It requires further UX adaoptions in the web UI. As a cross-storage-move in reality is a combination of copy and delete backend-side it is in fact a slow operation. Probably important to make this transparent to the user. One solution could be that our until now separated Copy and Move actions in the web UI get merged into one Copy or move action. The LocationPicker view could then have multiple submit buttons, depending on what operation is available in the target location, e.g. Move, Copy or Copy and delete.

First step

Needs a clear UI/UX concept. Nothing to implement, yet.

Followup tasks when this is done

• re-enable the Copy and Move actions in the spaces share route / SharedResource view

cc @tbsbdr @butonic

[kulmann]

This has been mitigated via keyboard actions which are available on all relevant views now (Personal, shares/SharedResource, spaces/Project and PublicFiles). This also enables cross-webdav-endpoint copy / move in the web ui.

[tbsbdr]

This also enables cross-webdav-endpoint copy / move in the web ui.

awesome 🤩

[tbsbdr]

• contextmenu cut/move
• add "paste" to breadcrumb 3-dots context-menu
• make context-menu available via click in white space if time / efforts permits
• nice to have: show keyboard shortcuts in context menu

paste here button should be dismissable, eg via a drop menu or split button with "X"

[tbsbdr]

@lookacat for a first step I'd propose to not show the "Paste here" button next to the upload button but only have the "paste here" option in the context menu (MVP: breadcrumb 3-dots)

I would like to test if users really need the "Paste here" button nextx to "Upload" (my bet: yes) but lets test it.

would that procedure be ok for you?

[lookacat]

ok

[tbsbdr]

• move should only be possible within Spaces (not possible cross storage space)
• needs ui representation and proper dialog for copy @tbsbdr (prohibit if user cuts and pastes into different space like "cant move here, do you want to copy?" / behaviour like upload, shares & links get removed)

[tbsbdr]

Proposals for the dialog.

What title is best?

I favour option 2 "Short question" as it's the shortest for "Only Title Reading Users" and as it is not a negative (defect-orientated) wording but more positive, solution orientated.

Negative:

Short question:

Long question:

The target for "Learn more" does not exist yet. Context-Helper could also do the job.

Any objections or additions against / to option 2 @lookacat @kulmann ?

[kulmann]

thank you for thinking this through @tbsbdr !

I'm also in favour of option 2 (same reasoning, simple, focused on solution, reading the title gives the most important information).

For the description I'd like to suggest that we find a more generic text which works for single- and multi-file move attempts. Something like Moving files from one space to another is not possible. Do you want to copy instead?. What do you think?

And yes, context-helper would be good for Learn more.

[tbsbdr]

yep, fine 👍 so lets go with:

[lookacat]

will look into it

[kulmann]

@lookacat thank you 😇

@tbsbdr could you provide a mockup for the contextual helper?

[tbsbdr]

Contextual helper proposal:

• singular/plural wording if one or many items are copied
• dynamic insertion of the parent folder or Space (if it gets copied to a Space root)

figma link

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