Server: Add tags to multiple files at once (bulk edit option)

[snakyjake1]

I want to select multiple files and add tags to those files.

[nextcloud-bot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/10258 (files dates ( enhancement )), https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/10673 ([enhancement] Pin File Details Pane ), https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1791 (show shared files with full path - enhancement), https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/10194 (multiple attachments), and https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/10649 (Enhancement: more sorting options in file app. ).

[MorrisJobke]

cc @nextcloud/designers

[laurentiu2]

Would be a great feature! What about this approach?

[jancborchardt]

@laurentiu2 sure, looks good! :)

• It should say "Tags"
• Be sorted between "Download" and "Delete"
• Use "icon-tag" for the icon instead of the same as Move/copy

[Kurlee]

Is anyone working on this feature? I am working on a project that would greatly benefit from this feature. I have a dev or two here that can help out if someone wants to point us in the right direction

[wiswedel]

@Kurlee Thanks for your initiative. We'll be happy to assist you with the direction.
Do you already have concrete questions?

[wiswedel]

Would be a great feature! What about this approach?

@skjnldsv

[Kurlee]

@Kurlee Thanks for your initiative. We'll be happy to assist you with the direction.
Do you already have concrete questions?

Is there an offline channel I can discuss with you? I am on the dev IRC and the help forums

[wiswedel]

Is there an offline channel I can discuss with you?

@Kurlee Since we're Open Source, why not discuss here in public?

[Kurlee]

@Kurlee Since we're Open Source, why not discuss here in public?

Sounds good! So we have a good grasp of the API and how to implement bulk tagging using a curl script and webdav, but obviously, this is a bandaid.
It looks like the client triggers the call to add the tag in the db with the js scripts in the systemtags file.
We are unsure about how to copy the bulk move/copy function in bulk because we are having an issue figuring out how the multi-select feature and these calls work together, and the function flow path.

We might be over our heads in this but we are dedicated to figuring it out and making a contribution to this project

[wiswedel]

@jancborchardt Do you think you can assist here a bit?

[jancborchardt]

Sorry but this is out of my expertise – someone from @nextcloud/javascript would have to help @Kurlee here. :)

[Kurlee]

So more specifically (after poking around a bit), we just are having a hard time sorting out how the selected files are passed to client.js. Selecting function and menu all seem to be handled by jquery. Stepping through the functions is very difficult with jquery so I am stalled a bit. I think I would only need a few mins of time from someone who knows what they are doing to get over this hump and move forward.

[jancborchardt]

Who is the right person to help @Kurlee here @rullzer @MorrisJobke? :)

[Kurlee]

Made some progress on this today and answered some of the questions I had yesterday.
The menu is generated by app/files/js/filelist.js
However I assume that app/files is primarily for handling all file actions, would I be doing this improperly if I simply worked within the app/files directory to add this functionality?
I can hack it together to get it working but I want to be a good contributor :)

[grasponcrypto]

any progress made here? This would be a huge help to catalogue my pictures. I'd be willing to help beta test and submit issues and fix bugs if necessary.

[HFranz]

waiting for this feature too

[derKroisi]

any news for this feature? would love to see it, or get some informations on the plans

[rizerzero]

Would love to see this feature too !

[rolandinus]

I would be happy to spend some developing time on it. May be we could join efforts here.
I am not sure if it is possible to hook into the menu and add an extra menu option via an custom app? Then we could add this functionality without changing the core.

[rullzer]

As always. If somebody wants to pick this up and propose a PR this is most welcome.

[rolandinus]

Is there someone who could help me with the failed automatic tests?
The failed tests do not seem to be related to code changes I made
I am new to contributiong to nextcloud, so would be thankful if someone could guide me here a bit

[wiswedel]

Is there someone who could help me with the failed automatic tests?
The failed tests do not seem to be related to code changes I made
I am new to contributiong to nextcloud, so would be thankful if someone could guide me here a bit

CC @nextcloud/server-triage

[caseyhoward]

This would be very helpful especially since even tagging one file is extremely painful. Unless I'm missing something it requires 5 clicks:

1. Context menu button for file
2. "Details" in the menu
3. Menu button for details section
4. "Tags" in the menu
5. The tag input field since it doesn't auto-focus.

[digititus]

Would love to see this implemented! Tagging a new system now and it is extremely slow with large data set of files

[bjoern-tantau]

For what it's worth, I've been working on a plugin to assign tags to multiple files at once. It hooks into some JS functions in a pretty hacky way and there are some visual glitches and it does not work well on mobile. But I don't have enough time to polish it so I wanted to at least publish the code in the hopes that it's useful for someone or maybe someone could even polish it: https://github.com/bjoern-tantau/massassigntags

Code is licensed under the AGPL. I should actually add a license file to it, but it's reflected in the composer.json.