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Open DocuDesk for the first time

A first look at DocuDesk — where the app lives in Nextcloud, what the navigation gives you, and how to tell it is wired up to OpenRegister.

Goal​

By the end you will have opened the DocuDesk app, recognised the dashboard and the left-hand navigation, and confirmed that the OpenRegister-backed lists (Documents, Templates, Consents, …) load.

Prerequisites​

  • A Nextcloud account on an instance where the DocuDesk app is installed and enabled.
  • The OpenRegister app installed and enabled — DocuDesk stores documents, templates, consents and signing requests in OpenRegister, so it is a hard dependency.
  • For the anonymisation and signing flows, the configured external services (Presidio for anonymisation, the signing provider for digital signing) need to be reachable from the Nextcloud instance.

Steps​

  1. Open the Nextcloud app menu in the top bar and pick DocuDesk. You land on the dashboard.

    DocuDesk dashboard

  2. Read the dashboard tiles — Documents anonymised this month, Open consent requests, Pending signatures. On a fresh install they read 0; they fill in as work moves through the app.

    Dashboard stat tiles

  3. Open the left-hand navigation. The entries map onto DocuDesk's concept model: Documents, Templates, Anonymisation, Consents, Signing, Settings.

    DocuDesk navigation

  4. Click Documents. The list view opens with a Cards / Table toggle, an Upload button, and a search sidebar. An empty install shows No documents found — expected until someone uploads or generates the first document.

    Documents list, empty state

Verification​

You are set up correctly when: the DocuDesk dashboard renders without an error banner, the left navigation lists the entries above, and clicking through to Documents (or any other list) shows either rows or a clean No items found state — not a load error.

Common issues​

SymptomFix
"OpenRegister is not installed or enabled" bannerInstall and enable the OpenRegister app, then reload DocuDesk.
Lists load but Upload opens a dialog with no form fieldsThe DocuDesk register import is incomplete — an admin re-runs Settings → Registers → Re-import configuration.
DocuDesk is missing from the app menuThe app is not enabled for your account — ask an administrator to enable it (and check it is not restricted to a group you are not in).

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