WebDAV in WCM

WebDAV in WCM

WCM supports two ways to use WebDAV in sites management:

The 1st way:

This way is used when you are on a Window System and your computer has to be connected to the Internet or Intranet.

1. Go into the My Network Places folder on your local computer. You will see all shared files and folders:

2. To show the site list, do the following steps to use WebDAV:

• Click the Add a network place link at the left to open the Add Network Place Wizard form:

• Click the Next button to open a form to choose the location that you want to create the network place:

• Select Choose another network location to create a shortcut. Then you will be asked to enter an internet or a network address to refer.

• Enter or copy a link to view a site by WebDAV in a browser into the Internet or network address field. For an example, the link to view 'acme' site by WebDAV is: http://localhost:8080/portal/rest/private/jcr/repository/collaboration/sitescontent/live/acme
• Click the Next button and wait for few minutes to take affect. A folder named 'acme on localhost' is corresponding to the inputted link will appear in the My Network Places folder:

• Go into the folder that corresponds to the site which you want to take actions on it.

1. Using IE browser to access http://localhost:8080/portal

2. Go to Sites Content Management --> Sites Explorer page.

3. Go into managed sites drive by selecting this drive. You will see all sites on the left pane.

4. Right - click on a site that you want to view by WebDAV and select the WebDAV View function in menu:

5. The selected site will be viewed by WebDAV. In which, each web content is a folder with the default folders in it.

In here, users can do with WebDAV as do with Window:

• Users can copy a HTML file and then paste in the Web Content Folder to create a new web content.
• Users can copy a CSS file on the CSS folder to change stylesheet for site.
• Users can copy a JS file in JS folder.
• Users can copy some documents and then paste on the Documents folder.