Hey everyone,

I’m reaching out because I could use some help or guidance here. So, I kinda ended up being the go-to person for collecting and storing data in a project I’m involved in with my team. We’ve got a bunch of data, like tens of thousands of files, and we’re using nextcloud to make it accessible to our users. The thing is, we’re facing a bit of a challenge with the search function on nextcloud when accessed through a public link. Being that there isn’t a search function. While we really appreciate the features it offers from an administrative standpoint, it’s not working that well for our users.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or resources that could point us in the right direction for this project? It would be super awesome if it’s something open-source and privacy retaining. 😄

Thanks a bunch in advance!

  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Just want to let you know there is a nextcloud and selfhosted community on lemmy

    • 500PuzzlePieces@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah our problem is we are hosting everything on a website for public use. I didn’t know that they were working on public search I will give that a read thank you!

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        1 year ago

        I’ve had it hosted for a bit, but there’s no branding options I know of like Nextcloud has so I only use it as a backup file server. One thing I really like it has built in 2FA.

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    If they’re well named files, just spin up a webDAV server via rclone and search by file name in the browser. You could also use davfs2 to mount the server locally in a directory and then filter through the content with fd | fzf

    If they’re text files, spin up a docker with Forgejo (formerly gitea) and enable the bleve search indexer.

    If you wanted to get really fancy, you could have wikijs in the same docker container, use git as a backend and get a wiki that’s easy to fork and distribute among the team.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Have you looked into combining Cryptomator with commercial cloud storage? Once mounted, you can search the directory like any other local drive. I only use it for my work directory so that I can maintain an encrypted cloud backup, so I am not sure how well it does when working in a multi-user environment with different levels of access.