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Getting Started with IntraVox

IntraVox is a Nextcloud app that provides a SharePoint-like intranet platform on top of Nextcloud Files: drag-and-drop pages, widgets, multi-language content, and reader engagement (reactions, comments) — all stored as folders and files inside Nextcloud, inheriting its sharing, ACL, versioning, and audit.

This guide helps you get started quickly based on your role.

What is IntraVox?

IntraVox publishes organizational communication content — company news, HR policies, team portals, official documentation — to a broad internal audience. Pages are built from widgets (text, news, calendar, people, feeds, photo stories) using a drag-and-drop editor. Readers engage with reactions and comments.

Unlike Nextcloud Collectives (which is for horizontal team collaboration on wiki-style content), IntraVox is a top-down communication platform — communications teams publish, the organization reads. See Collectives Comparison for the full distinction.

Quick Start by Role

Users

  1. Open IntraVox from the Nextcloud app menu
  2. Browse pages via the sidebar navigation
  3. To edit a page (if you have write access), click the edit button and use the drag-and-drop editor
  4. Add reactions or comments to pages via the engagement panel

See the User Overview and Editor Guide for detailed instructions.

Administrators

  1. Install IntraVox from the Nextcloud App Store (or via occ app:install intravox)
  2. Configure the GroupFolder that will hold IntraVox content (one per language is recommended)
  3. Open Settings → Administration → IntraVox to configure permissions and engagement defaults
  4. Set up authorization using GroupFolder ACL
  5. Optionally import existing content from Confluence

See the Admin Guide and Scenarios for common deployment patterns.

Architects

Before evaluating IntraVox at scale, read:

Key Concepts

Concept Description
Page A folder in a Nextcloud GroupFolder containing a JSON content file and an optional _media/ subfolder. Sub-pages are sub-folders.
Widget The building block of a page — text, image, video, news, people, calendar, feed, photo story, etc.
Layout Pages are composed of rows; each row contains 1–5 column-aligned widgets.
GroupFolder The Nextcloud storage and ACL container that holds IntraVox content. Permissions inherit from GroupFolder ACL.
Language Folder Top-level folders (nl/, en/, de/, fr/) that separate content per language.
Engagement Reactions and comments attached to pages via Nextcloud's native Comments API.
Template A page that serves as a starting point for new pages, instantiated via the Template API.

Architectural Highlights

  • Pages are folders in the Nextcloud filesystem — they inherit ACL, sharing, versioning, audit, WebDAV access, encryption, external storage, trash, and quota from Nextcloud. See Nextcloud-Native Architecture.
  • Native NC integration — uses NC's Comments, Activity, Search, Versions, Notifications, GroupFolder ACL, and event system rather than reimplementing them.
  • Optional MetaVox integration for structured, typed metadata on pages that flows across all content types in Nextcloud (documents, photos, forms). See Export & Import.

Next Steps

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