The EPiServer Research team have now made the project WebDAVX available as a technical preview for develpers to download and play around with.
See
http://r.ep.se/Projects/WebDAVX for more information.
WebDAVX is an effort to expose EPiServer content (pages and/or files) as folders/files over the a WebDAV protocol.
The WebDAVX module is a framework where custom providers are intended to be plugged in.
Some potential uses for WebDAV could be:
- Easy file management, files and/or whole sructures can be uploaded/downloaded with standard drag and drop operation the user is used to in the standard Windows Explorer requiring no extra components.
- Exposing Web Content as files
Providers may be developed that convert EPiServer content into traditional files and then back again. This could be used to let users edit web content using locally installed applications, like MS Word.
- Provide reports
Providers could be developed that provide reportdata as Excelfiles, consider for example an AllUsers.xls that when requested gets generated with userdata for all accounts on the system. The user "see" this report as a simple Excel file and can choose to open it, or make a local copy of it.
This release of WebDAVX is considered a EPIServer Research Team Technical Preview, and as such is not supported through EPiServer Support.
Regards,
Johan Olofsson
EPiServer Research