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Versions Preview: Open file revisions read only #382
Description
Initial Checklist
- I understand this is a user story and questions should be posted in the Community Discussions
- I searched issues and couldn’t find anything (or linked relevant results below)
User Story
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As a teacher, I want to view an older revision of a text document without downloading it, so that I know what the document looked like before my colleague changed it in our project space.
User Value
Quick look into older revisions without detours in the ui
Alternative approach: copy a revision into a new document in the same folder (as a shortcut for downloading and uploading the version)
Acceptance Criteria
- open a revision of a file in a new window (= new button in the versions panel, per version)
- revision is always read only, we only ever allow editing the current version
- implementation idea / technical note: build the version resource object without write permissions
- happy path e2e test (open an older version of a writable .md file, check that it's opened read only, verify content.)
Reacted by Tobias Baader
Activity
kulmann commentedon Mar 20, 2025
cc @tbsbdr
tbsbdr commentedon Mar 20, 2025
uh yes, good one!
kulmann commentedon Mar 20, 2025
the more I think about it, the more I think that our quite prominent "Restore" action should only be the kind of last resort in case things went awry. I think a quick look into the file is probably the most common use case actually. 😅
JammingBen commentedon Apr 14, 2025
I opened opencloud-eu/opencloud#662 which is a prerequisite for this. I'm not sure if this is even possible without restructuring the way how our editors retrieve files or implementing a dedicated preview action just for versions.
tbsbdr commentedon Aug 28, 2025
Standard prio is P3 eg. for planned work - I would asses it as P3, do you agree @db-ot and @kulmann
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