Collaborative editing of Forms

[Pilzinsel64]

Hello!

It would be really nice if we have collaborative editing of Forms.

Usage Examples

• The whole marketing team has access to some Forms and responses.
• My situation: I have a team of some people. They review user requests (bug reports and feature request) for my public programs. They talk with the user and create cards on the correct board in the Deck app. But only I have access to the form response and that makes it a bit harder. I have to export all response as excel/csv and send it to them every time new responses are here.

What do I think about how It could be used

Share a Form to other users/groups and define if they have access to view the responses and if they have access to edit the Form. It should also be possible then to allow/deny re-sharing the Form.
As a good example, take the Deck app.

This feature has been discussed already here: #316

[jancborchardt]

I split the part of Ability to share responses #455 out because that one is reasonable and simpler to do.

Collaborative editing of Forms comes with all the pitfalls of conflict handling etc and it’s not something we should get into yet at this stage. :)

[oleua]

I split the part of Ability to share responses #455 out because that one is reasonable and simpler to do.

Collaborative editing of Forms comes with all the pitfalls of conflict handling etc and it’s not something we should get into yet at this stage. :)

Is it possible to re-use some how some parts of the Text app, which allows to organise collaboration in creation of very simple forms, eg checkboxes?..

[jancborchardt]

@ostasevych I don’t think so, as in Nextcloud Text we use ProseMirror as base which is focused on text editing. But ref @juliushaertl for info.

[juliusknorr]

Yes, I don't think that using prosemirror and its document format here will make a lot of sense. For some collaborative editing, you could of course use a somehow similar change tracking based sync format as the text app does, but this will most likely require a larger amount of work in restructuring the database for that.

[skjnldsv]

Yeah, for me it's far too complicated.
We could have a way to allow working on different questions, adding/removing.
But we cannot implement a conflict resolution (the hardes part) easily.

I'd either close as wontfix or just partial one

[jancborchardt]

It’s set for 4.0 so not urgent, but also definitely not wontfix. It already came up in our own little usecase that we needed the marketing team and me to have access to the Forms.