[General] Not sure if bug or feature: Places are not shared between users

[ahorn42]

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Hi,

I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature.

If user A creates a place, user B can't see the place in the "overview map", only if I invite user B to a trip, user B can the the places I have added to that trip, and only within the trip, not in user B's overview map.

For me this feels more like a bug, but I also can imagine use cases where this could be useful.

Feels like a bug for planing trips with friends, where every one might want to add places and share them with each other.
Feels like no bug, if the users don't know each other, then this is definitely a required privacy feature.

Maybe a way in between, would be to either share places individually with selected (or all) users or to add users as friends and automatically share them all places you have and vice versa.

So what is the idea behind it? A bug, a feature or just not appeared as problem yet ;) ?

best regards and thanks for the software so far!

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[itskovacs]

Hi @ahorn42,

Will paste my answer from #77 but thanks again for the feedback 🙌

Nice catch, this is indeed a bug!
The expected flow is to conditionally display the edit button, because a Place does not belong to a Trip but to its owner.
I'll fix this to ensure consistency, thanks for the report 👍

[ahorn42]

oh - is this really the same? - because in the issue I was pointing out the missing/not displaying category of a place and the question here is about places in general.

Or do you refer to the ".. a Place does not belong to a Trip but to its owner .." part of your answer? So it is a feature regarding the non visible places (which are not assigned to a trip)?

[itskovacs]

I think you're misunderstanding the scope here. You are using TRIP for planning, and that is one way of using it.

Places and Trips have separate scopes. A Place is always a Place: it doesn't exist just because of a Trip. Trips can indeed reference some Places, making it available inside the Trip to invited members.
Places are meant to track your points of interest on the map: things like parks, museums, a secret bar or a cycling path. They're points of interest.

If user A creates a place, user B can't see the place in the "overview map"

That's intentional: User B shouldn't have access to User A's data (Trips or Places) unless invited by. This is basic data separation.

TRIP was originally built to help users track points of interest on a map (that fullscreen map you see when you log in), not just to plan trips.

[Richdark]

That's intentional: User B shouldn't have access to User A's data (Trips or Places) unless invited by.

Hi @itskovacs, just a follow-up question, so I don't need to start a new thread. I do understand the data separation thing, but the quoted portion of your comment would make me think there is an option to invite to/share both trips and places. Does it really apply for places as well though? I'm just starting to explore TRIP (I like it a lot so far, especially the clean user interface!), but I have not found such an option.

If there is not one yet, I'd suggest an ability to copy places from trips a user has been invited to. This would create a separate place entry for the user in the database, but the user would still be able to easily add a place he/she is interest into. Just a thought. Anyway, thank you for this nice little app and have a great holiday!

[itskovacs]

Hi 👋,

To clarify, places can only be shared through a trip for now.
A import places feature inside a multi-user trip could be a great addition, will think about it after the holidays 👍!