WebDAV

I was introduced to WebDAV the other day, and I thought it would be great to use my first blog post to tell other people about it also.

What is WebDAV?

Think of it as a way to upload, download, and edit files located in your document library and image gallery from the convenience of your desktop.

How to get started.

For this tutorial, I'll be using Liferay 5.0.1 on Windows XP. There are some known problems with Windows implementation of WebDAV, but but hopefully these instructions will work for you.

1. Add the Document Library portlet to your page.

2. Make a note of the of the WebDAV URL.

3. Open up My Network Places on your computer.

4. Under Network Tasks, click Add a network place. The Add Network Place Wizard should pop up.

5. Click Next until you see the screen below. Select Choose another network location and click Next

6. For the Internet or network address, enter the WebDAV URL (from step 2) and click Next.

7. When the login prompt pops up, enter your email address and password. (Note: If you're using Liferay 4.4.x, you should use your user ID number as the user name.)

8. Continue clicking Next/finish until the wizard is done. You should now have a new folder in your My Network Places to your document library. The folder will behave just like a local folder. You can get files, drag files into document library, delete files, create directories, etc.

Note: You can't add files to the root directory of your document library. So, create at least one sub-directory.
 

[Thiago Moreira]

hey Samuel! Nice blog, I planning to write a blog entry about webdav too but talking about it with Linux (Fedora). If you have some suggestion, please let me know!

cheers!

[Marco Weiland]

hi samuel,

i am little bit confused about webdav on doc-lib, it all works fine if i use only the "user based" doc-lib with webdav. but if i want to connect network place with an organisation or a community, an exception is thrown and connecting is not possible.

exception says, that there is no user with some id ( its the id of the organisation or community)

another message in windows explorer says something like "folder not valid"

are there any issues about using webdav with doc-lib in communities or organistations?

regards
marco

[Marco Weiland]

using liferay 5.0.1 with tomcat 6

[Bryan Cheung]

Hi Sam, you should update this blog (or write a new one) about our improved WebDAV support.

[Ashish Gupta]

Hi Sam,
As Bryan asked is there any updated version for this or any knows issues on linux ?
I also posted (http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/6056936/maximized) a problem I'm having on linux, a while ago but see no responses ? any suggestions ?
Thanks
Ashish