Anonymous sharing must not require logging into scidrive in order to view shared folder

[jkim485]

Test on pre-prod

1. User A chooses folder and selects sharing icon.
2. Select ‘no group’ and ‘read-only’.
3. Create share.
4. Send the link to other user B.
5. B enters the link to his browser.
6. B is asked to login to sciserver.

The expected behavior is that B is not asked to look into scidrive/SciServer.

[dimm0]

Confirming the behaviour Is it true that "no group" means everyone, and not all registered sciserver users?

[jkim485]

according to the interface it says: no group: anonymous access.

I sent you an question earlier and your reply was that anonymous access is for accessing w/o registration..

[jkim485]

ps we need to get rid of option for choosing a group.

[jkim485]

Share doesn't work:

1. Click on option for share for a selected folder.
2. Click create share with an option "read only" checked.
3. Copy share URL.
4. Paste the copied share URL to a new browser, got the following error message HTTP 404 status HTTP Status 404 - /scidrive/scidrive.html%3Fshare%3DRqJya9QTW9eQaJT

type Status report

message /scidrive/scidrive.html%3Fshare%3DRqJya9QTW9eQaJT

description The requested resource is not available.

[jkim485]

Question: if user unselect "read-only" option for create share option,, how is this different from the case if read-only option is selected?

[dimm0]

REad-only means user can't upload and delete files in that folder

[dimm0]

URL is fixed, but now there's an issue with uploading and downloading files in non-Read Only shares. TBD

[jkim485]

Thanks for the fix. Unfortunately I cannot do test it right now because it hangs when log into scidrive.

[dimm0]

It hangs when nobody's testing it for long :)

[jkim485]

:(

[dimm0]

We're working on it...

[jkim485]

I am now able to log into scidrive. Tried anonymous sharing (read-only): 1 user a creates anonymous sharing. 2 user b enters the share URL to browser. 3 user B can access to shared folder.(see comments* below in this cell) 4 if user a removes sharing of the shared folder user B could do not access to shared a folder any longer: scidrive gives an error message including "log out".

Comments* for anonymous read-only sharing UI(eg, what user B sees in step three above) 1 log out button: not sure whether it's necessary to have log out option for anonymous sharing. 2 create folder/create file from URL buttons: user B was allowed to click 'create folder' as well as 'create folder from URL' buttons . But when user B click submit after filling up necessary information for these two options nothing happened. No error message or warning appeared on the UI. I think it's better not to make these options visible for read-only sharing. @mikear69 : what do you think about these comments? I talked to Mike about it and he agrees on 'hiding' these two options. I will create a separate issue about it.

[jkim485]

Tested anonymous sharing (writing enabled) 1 user A creates anonymous sharing write enabled. 2 user B enters the share URL to browser. 3 user B can access to shared folder.(see comments* below in this cell)

4. User B is able to create a folder under shared folder. 5 user B is not able to create a file from URL: entered necessary information on the dialog box on creating files from URL and clicked submit but nothing happened.
5. user A removes sharing of the shared folder user B could do not access to shared a folder any longer: scidrive gives an error message including "log out".