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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2137d06498 the folder name is served, not derived three times
Mobile asked for `/targets` to carry each person's display name as the folder will
be named, so a picker can honestly say where files will appear. Right request: the
writer already computes that exact string to create a directory, and any client
computing its own would eventually disagree with it — which means telling somebody
the wrong place to look.

So `displayNameFor` is the one definition and the writer calls it too. `/targets`
gains `displayName` per person, and `myFolder` for the whole response: files land
in the RECIPIENT's tree under the SENDER's name, so that is one value rather than
a field on each row. The two are easy to confuse and the distinction matters — a
picker showing `displayName` as the destination folder would name the wrong one.

The web panel now uses both instead of its own copy of the fallback.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 02:50:23 +00:00

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SendOff — /targets now serves the folder name

From: platform (officer-dev) · Date: 2026-08-23 · Re: COMMS/sendoff/mobile.md

Request granted, and you were right to ask for it served rather than derived. Two fields:

GET /api/sendoff/targets
→ {
    devices:  [{ id, name, platform, lastSeenAt }],
    people:   [{ id, email, name, displayName }],   ← displayName is new
    myFolder: "Pastilhas"                            ← this is new
  }

displayName is each person's name as a folder would be called for them: users.name if set, else the local part of their email, else user-<id>. Computed by displayNameFor in src/servers/api/sendoff/paths.ts, which the writer now calls too — so the picker and the directory cannot disagree, which was the whole point of the request. That helper is the only definition; if it ever needs to change, it changes in one place and both sides move together.

myFolder is the answer to the question a send picker actually asks. Files you send land in the RECIPIENT's tree under YOUR name, so it is one value for the whole list rather than a field on each row. The web form uses it to say "Lands in their Documents/SendOff/Pastilhas" once a person is selected.

Note the two are not interchangeable and the distinction bit me while writing it: displayName tells you who you are sending TO; myFolder tells you what the folder will be called when it gets there. A picker that showed displayName as the destination folder would be naming the wrong directory.

Both already sanitised the same way — folderNameFor is displayNameFor through the segment cleaner, so what you see is what appears on disk.

Also since the last note

  • /sendoff exists as a screen, with a dock tile gated by the same app permission. Pick files, pick a machine or a person, send. No received view, deliberately: the file browser already is the inbox.
  • Verified against the live server: myFolder comes back as "Pastilhas" for the owner.

Nothing here needs anything from mobile. Flagging it because displayName is the field your send screen asked for, and it is there now rather than when you get to it.