WebDAV and OracleUCM

What is WebDAV?

Wikipedia defines WebDAV as "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers. The group of developers responsible for these extensions was also known by the same name and was a working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)."

Why is this intresting?

Jason stortz has an interesting story for WebDAV. This feature is provided by most content management system worth its salt. WebDAV allows users to look at there content repository using there windows explorer. Pleople can edit content items without going through the actual steps of:

1. log in
2. checkout
3. edit
4. check in.

We can build basic content management rules like who can see what? can be applied. To use WebDAV feature with Oracle UCM we need to install two components Folders and WebDAV(I donot know why this is optional, I believe this should be part of core feature). Installing and configuring is fairly simple. One thing to take care is to give a strong password for the cokie. Below are the steps which shows how to add it to your network folder.

1. Go to Start --> Click on My Network Places
2. Click Add a network place. (This will launch Add Network Place Wizard)
3. Click Next
4. Click Next
5. Click Next
6. In the internet or Network Address text box enter http:/yourServerName/yourServerInstanceName/idcplg/webdav
7. Click Next
8. Give a suitable name to this network location.
9. Click Next
10. This will prompt you for the username and Password
11. Now you will see the folders created in the Content Server

Make sure that content server is up and running while configuring WebDAV.

You should have at least read access on the server else you will not see any folders.

You should have installed Folders and WebDav components in your content server.