BBB-NextCloud file upload

[Amish Bhavsar]

Hi

With the BBB 2.6 version, the ability to allow file upload from NextCloud is a great addition.

(https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.6/new.html#upload-a-presentation-straight-from-nextcloud) 

However, it seems like this functionality is only adding the link to let users go from BBB instance to NextCloud to pick a file, but not really let the user upload that file straight to the active session from where the request came. I still have to download the file from NextCloud to my PC and then upload it to the active BBB session - just like how I would upload a local file from my PC.

Pls correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks

Amish

[Hiroshi Suga]

Hello, Amish.

This is perhaps not what you exactly want, but may help a bit:

https://github.com/sualko/cloud_bbb/pull/201

Hiroshi Suga

[Amish Bhavsar]

Hi Hiroshi,

Yes, this is helpful... but a few questions...

1. Does this require me to install the NextCloud BBB application on NextCloud? (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bbb)

2. All my rooms are started using the BBB Wordpress plugin. Will this work for classes launched through WordPress plugin? Does this plugin need to be updated? - The BBB Wordpress plugin is more than 3 years old and seems outdated. Is this on the roadmap to be updated?

Thanks

Amish

[Hiroshi Suga]

Well, this is a function of Bigbluebutton Integration, a Nextcloud app. So obviously it requires installation and injecting a presentation is only possible through this app.

I am sure that the new feature of BBB2.6 is what you need, but you cannot use it from a client as it is. I've never used Wordpress, but I guess you need to pass two parameters uploadExternalDescription and uploadExternalUrl when you launch a BBB meeting to enable this function.

However there are at least two problems:

1, BBB2.6 is still in the process of beta testing (although quite stable already)

2, the Wordpress BBB plugin is not really actively developed. So you need to add some code by yourself to make the plugin to pass the two parameters.

As far as I look the code, the injection functionality of Bigbluebutton Integration app is not using the new two parameters. So you can use it with the current BBB2.5 just right now.

I hope somebody else who knows more answers...

Hiroshi