What is a Drive in eXo ECM

In eXo ECM it is possible to let the ECM administrator dynamically create drives on top of JCR Workspaces.

Actually, a drive is a customized workspace with:

• a configured path from where the user will start when browsing the drive
• a set of allowed views that for example will allow to limit the available actions (such as the edition or creation of contents while being in the drive)
• a set of permissions to limit the access (and view) of the drive to a limited number of people
• a set of options to describe the behavior of the drive when a user will browse it (will we show the file explorer on the left, what type of folder should we add to the drive...)

Hence a workspace can have several drives configured on top of it. The ECM administrator can create and edit new drives from the ECM admin portlet which contains a "Manage Drive" action. Drives, like Workspaces are bound to a JCR Repository.

It is the possible to add a new drive including one display on the taxonomy tree. Once added, we can see that new drive directly inside the File Explorer portlet inside the correct Repository.