State of user management

[Kernald]

Hi,

I just found out this project, which looks like an interesting alternative to paperless-ngx. However, after reading the documentation, I have a question that doesn't have an answer yet: does Readur support multiple users? If yes, how does document ownership etc work? Can you share documents between users, are they all shared by default...? How about the watch folder?

Thanks!

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @Kernald! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the readur team.

Readur does support multiple users, with two roles: "Admin" and "User" (source). Each document is strictly owned by a single user (tracked by a user_id), and regular users can only access their own documents. Admins can access all documents (source). There is no document sharing feature—documents are not shared between users by default or via any sharing mechanism.

The watch folder is a global setting, not per-user. All documents ingested from the watch folder are owned by the admin user, so only admins can see those documents (source). Regular users cannot access documents added via the watch folder unless they are made admins.

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[perfectra1n]

I started this bad boy a month ago, so there’s definitely a few gaps 😂

We’ll flesh it out more in the near future, like we’re talking about in #106 :)

[Kernald]

Easy - how do you feel about me opening tracking issues/feature requests even if I'm very well aware you're busy on more urgent stuff, to keep track of ideas? (I don't want to seem rude by opening feature requests :-D)

[perfectra1n]

Sure, go for it! Dosu should help categorize them as well.

I'm not trying to recreate the madness that is paperless-ngx, I just wanted to create an easy to use system to pull in a bunch of documents, support multiple sources for those documents, allow users to organize those documents (somewhat), and support multiple users. That's kinda the short and sweet vision I had for Readur.

[Kernald]

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm after as well and why I would 100% consider switching to a solution with a simpler UX - I'll open a few issues over the next few days!

[perfectra1n]

I’m working on un-uglying the Document details and then I plan on knocking out a much better implementation of user management :)