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Team-owned resources across Nextcloud #2644
Description
The problem
In Nextcloud, "Shared with the team" almost always means "owned by a person, lent to the team." With the exception of Team-folders, Collectives, and Talk, resources are bound to a single user; a team is only granted access on top. That makes the team a guest in its own workspace, with important consequences:
- Off-boarding silently destroys team assets. A team is meant to outlive any member, but delete the account of the person who created a resource and it can vanish.
- Team roles don't govern resources. A team owner has no authority over a deck board owned by a member, and removing someone from the team doesn't touch what they own.
Possible solutions
- Allow all main Nextcloud resources to be owned by a team, instead of a single user.
- From each app, allow users to add team members to the team, instead of adding share recipients to resource
App specific issues
- Tables
- Announcements
- Forms
- Tasks
- Polls
- Notes (Collectives would cover this?)
- Collectives
- Files
Activity
[-]Team-owned resources[/-][+]Team-owned resources accross Nextcloud[/+]alimmroth commentedon Jul 17, 2026
We should also look at the fact that teams (and therefore collectives) are actually owned by a single user, even if they can be managed by several users.
[-]Team-owned resources accross Nextcloud[/-][+]Team-owned resources across Nextcloud[/+]