Flow

Flow provides rule-based automation in Nextcloud. Administrators can define system-wide flows, while users can define personal flows (unless disabled by the administrator).

Apps can provide additional Flow operations. This chapter covers operations provided by the File Access Control, Files Automated Tagging, Files Retention, Flow Notifications, and Files Versions apps.

Additional Flow apps can be found in the Nextcloud app store.

General configuration

The following settings apply to Flow itself rather than to an individual Flow app / operation.

• Flow configuration

Operations

Each app provides its own functionality and configuration. The following Flow operations are covered here:

• Files access control
  • Denied access
  • Examples
  • Denying access to folders
  • Prevent uploading of specific files
  • Common misconfigurations
  • Available rules
• Automated tagging of files
  • Assigning restricted and invisible tags
  • Example
  • Available rules
  • Executing actions
• Retention of files
  • Example
  • File age
  • Common misconfigurations
• Block file versioning
  • Configuration
  • Effects
• Send a notification
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuration
  • Considerations