When connecting to ONLYOFFICE WebDAV server, you can work with the following sections of the Documents module: My documents, Shared with me, Favorites, Recent, Private Room (if activated), Common, In projects, Trash. Depending on the section, you can perform various operations with files.
Supported operations for each section
- My documents: Editing (creating, viewing, modifying, removing), downloading, uploading, copying, moving.
- Shared with me: Editing (viewing, modifying), downloading, copying.
Access to the files corresponds to the access rights provided by the file owner:
- Full access: Editing (viewing, modifying), downloading, copying.
- Read only: Editing (viewing), downloading, copying.
- Deny access: no operations can be performed.
You cannot share a file from a file manager.
- Favorites: Editing (viewing, modifying, removing), downloading, copying.
You cannot mark a file as favorite from a file manager.
- Recent: Editing (viewing, modifying, deleting), downloading, copying.
- Private Room: Moving/renaming own files/folders only.
You cannot perform other operation from a file manager.
- Common: Editing (creating, viewing, modifying, removing), downloading, uploading, copying, moving.
- In projects: Editing (viewing, modifying, deleting), downloading, copying.
- Trash: Editing (viewing, modifying, removing), downloading, copying.
You cannot restore a file from a file manager.
Details and known issues
In the Trash, it’s possible to perform any operations with files/folders, because access to files corresponds to the access property received from the server. Each item in the Trash has the access = 0 property that means full access. At the same time, it’s not possible to create new items in the Trash, because privileges allow only to view the contents.
When performing each operation, a request is sent to the server. If the response from the server was negative, the operation should not be performed in a file manager. Depending on the file manager, the operation may be displayed as completed. After updating the folder, everything will be displayed correctly.
If you have several files (or folders) with the same name in a certain folder on your portal, these files in a file manager will acquire a number: file_name, file_name(1), file_name(2). This will not affect operations with files, as the file ID is used instead of the file name. The actual file name is necessary for renaming. It is stored in the additional realTitle field.
If several users simultaneously edit the same file, the changes of the user who last saved the file will be displayed after saving.
In many file managers which use the WebDAV connection via the Microsoft implementation, it’s not possible to download files larger than 50000000 bytes. To solve this issue, you can change the corresponding value in Windows Registry as described here.
When uploading a file to the server, a session is created and the file is sent to the server in chunks. Therefore, a file of any size which the storage capacity allows can be uploaded to the server.
In the file managers which use the WebDAV connection via the Microsoft implementation, there is the possibility to copy some root folders (e.g., Shared with me), which have permissions for reading. The folders are copied with the same access level, and there might be some issues when working with the copied folders (for example, if you copy the Shared with me folder, you’ll not be able to upload, create, or remove files in the copied folder, as well as to remove the copied folder itself).