How to use WebDAV and Desktop Integration

In case you haven't heard of WebDAV, it's an industry standard protocol for editing and managing files remotely. Content Server supports WebDAV and so do Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer, and countless other products. You can integrate Content Server into your users' desktop and make document management easy and seamless.

The only problem is that when contributing content from third-party applications via WebDAV, the check-in screen will not come up, and the check-in process may fail because the required field values are missing. It may also become a bigger issue, when the content is checked in without other important metadata values and that makes it hard to locate and classify.

But the good news is that you can actually do something about it.

Just set up your default metadata values like I've shown you in the previous section. And there's also a way to set up your own default metadata values.

So let's pause here for just a moment to see the controls...