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WebDAV Connector

WebDAV Connector enables you to access an instance of the Content Manager from a client machine and to navigate and use Publications and folders in the Content Manager as folders in a file system.

With WebDAV Connector, you can use external applications that support WebDAV to access Publications, Folders and the items contained in Folders, such as Components, Schemas, Multimedia Components and Templates. For example, using WebDAV Connector you can use Windows Explorer to access Content Manager Publications and their Folder:

In summary, with WebDAV Connector, you can perform the following tasks from an external WebDAV application:

  • Add, edit, delete, and move content items as if they were part of a normal Windows file system.
  • Open them in external applications, edit content, and save the edited items back to the Content Manager.
  • Create new Multimedia Components by dragging and dropping content to a Folder on the Content Manager WebDAV server.

In addition, from Content Manager Explorer, you can use WebDAV to view binary files contained inside Multimedia Components. Note, however, that the External Content Library (ECL) feature does not support use of WebDAV, and the so the WebDAV option is not available for multimedia items located under an ECL mountpoint.