Editing items

If authorized, you can edit Schemas, Multimedia Schemas, Metadata Schemas, Embeddable Schemas, Components, Multimedia Components, Page Templates, Component Templates and Template Building Blocks from an external application that uses WebDAV.

Before you begin

Depending on the type of item you want to open, WebDAV imposes the following additional restrictions:

Components

After you have edited it, the Component must remain valid against its SDL Tridion Sites Schema.

  • If your Component contains Component links fields or Multimedia Component link fields, these fields must contain the WebDAV URL of the target item.
  • Any mandatory (data or metadata) fields must have a default value set in the Schema.
  • Any Component you create must be based on an SDL Tridion Sites Schema that is located in the Publication in which you intend to save the Component.
Multimedia Components
The Publication in which you intend to create Multimedia Components must contain a Multimedia Schema that supports the binary type of the item you are creating. You cannot edit the metadata of a Multimedia Component; any mandatory metadata fields must have a default value set in the Schema.

About this task

Procedure

  1. Use your external application's Open functionality, typically located in the File menu of your application, to directly open it from the WebDAV folder location.
  2. Alternatively, drag-and-drop the item from the appropriate WebDAV folder to a local folder using Windows Explorer. Edit the item locally, then either save it locally and drag-and-drop it into the WebDAV folder, or save it directly to the WebDAV folder using the Save As functionality of your application.