Providing Portal Drive to Client PCs 

Use

The portal drive allows users to work with documents on the portal in the same way they would work on any Windows drive. Communication with the server is done using the WebDAV protocol.

 

Prerequisites

The WebDAV server is enabled (System Administration ® System Configuration ® Knowledge Management ® Content Management ® Protocols ® WebDAV).

The Enable WebDAV Server option determines whether or not access through WebDAV clients, such as MS Web Folders or portal drive works. If this parameter is disabled, such WebDAV clients cannot connect to your KM. Changes take effect immediately. Disabling the WebDAV server does not affect other standard KM functions. For more information, see WebDAV Protocol.

 

Procedure

Installing Portal Drive on Client PCs

For information about installing portal drive on client PCs and central configuration, see service.sap.com/installnw70 ® Installation – Clients ® Installation – SAP NetWeaver Portal Drive.

 

Optional: Adding the “Map Portal Drive” Command to the KM User Interface

This command can be displayed in the context menu of folders. It allows users to temporarily map a folder to a drive letter in Windows Explorer.

By default, the Map Portal Drive command is not visible in any iView. To allow users to use this command, you must add the mount_PortalDrive user interface command to the corresponding command group in the KM UI configuration (see Commands and Command Groups).

 

Optional: Running Portal Drive with a Virus Scanner

If you are running a real-time virus scanner, you can configure the virus scanner to exclude scanning of the portal drive cache. Doing this provides a noticeable performance improvement when working with the cache, such as during opening and editing of files.

 

See also:

For more information about the features in portal drive, see Working with Folders in Windows (Portal Drive).