External app/link - anydesk

[tobefrank1]

Dear all,

I am looking for a feature to get access to external apps from Nextcloud. The general idea would be just click on the link and It would start the app (ssh, VNC, etc.) (not connected to nextcloud). I know this is not easy to implement into nextcloud,

A powerful solution would be to provide a link to your PC working with e.g. anydesk and anydesk would pop up with the right connection.

Fortunately anydesk has this feature by just typing URL: "anydesk:AnyDeskID" into the browser!
If anydesk is installed locally, it will launch anydesk (available for any OS) and start the remote connection to the AnydeskID destination.
See:
https://support.anydesk.com/URL_Handler

So if an admin provides an external link to the users, one would have an easy access to specific other computers and software, without any risk for the nextcloud server and the user has a very convenient connection.

I tried this with the external link app, which is great, but did not work in this case. As I understand the app needs a http: or https; or it will not accept the link.

As I am not a programer, does anybody see a way to get this working. I could imagine this would be a very good feature.

Thank you.

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[provokateurin]

Hi, thank you for your feature request.

Unfortunately I believe this is out of scope for this app. As you said it only works with http and https URLs for security reasons.

I think this feature should be solved on a different level than Nextcloud operates. For example adding a shortcut for a website to your desktop seems more sensible imo.