WebDAV Client Compatibility

Version 1.2.0

Note, these tests were carried out onConfluence Version 2.5.8

Client	OS	Type	Comment	Remote-Edit	Drag'n'Drop	Issues
NetDrive	Windows	Abandonware	Mounts Confluence as a network drive. Known bug: deletes all version history for an attachment on file upload
WebDrive	Windows	20day trialware, $75	Mounts Confluence as a network drive			Can't move folders.
MS Web Folders	Windows	Free	Constantly need to re-authenticate		Partial
DataFreeway	Windows	Free	Not quite Windows Explorer, but pretty close, and very reliable	Crashes DataFreeway		Can't move folders.
OS X WebDAV Client	Mac OS X	Free	Mac OS now works for dragging files/folders in and out of the Finder webdav client.
Goliath	Mac OS X	Free

Unless you first disable in the admin consol the "URL, @EXPORTS, @VERSIONS" configuration items, most of the hierarchy drag'n'drop/copy/remove will fail for most clients.

Use Cases

Browsing	MS Web Folders	DataFreeway	OS X WebDAV Client	WebDrive
Spaces Browse spaces under a default folder called 'Global'. Add a new space via Confluence and change the description, the new space and description should appear within the root folder - 'Spaces'			Does not refresh to show new spaces.
Pages Browse the pages underneath a space. Each page in confluence should be reflected with a folder in webdav. Add some pages via Confluence, both child and orphan and confirm the visibility. Browse Text version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.txt'.
News Browse Blog posts under each space in '@news'.
Attachments Browse images, office docs and text files attached to the space Export PDF version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.pdf' Export Word version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.doc'	1. 2. 3.	1. 2. 3.	1. 2. 3.	1. 2. 3.

Editing Content (Word/Excel)	MS Web Folders	OS X WebDAV Client	WebDrive
Word Open document in Office Modifying and saving doc Save As... Create new files	- Except	- Can only do 1.	- Except 4
OpenOffice Open document in Office Modifying and saving doc Save As... Create new files	- Except 3 and 4		- Except 3 and 4
Excel Open document in Office Modifying and saving doc Save As... Create new files	- Except 4		- Except 4

Structure Manipulation	MS Web Folders	DataFreeway	OS X WebDAV Client	Goliath	WebDrive
Pages Create new page (folder in webdav) Renaming Move to a different parent Removing a page Removing a parent page, with child pages, and child pages with attachments	- Except 3 seems to work, but the WEBDav view still shows a copy of the moved page in it's original location.	- Except 3	- Except 3 and 4		This appears to work, but the WebDrive view is not refreshed correctly.
Attachments Create new attachment Dragging in single attachment Dragging in many attachments in the same folder Dragging in a folder of attachments Dragging in many folders of attachments Removing a file attachment	- Except 1. Can not right click to create a new attachment.	-Except 1 -Except 6 Removing attachments caused unexpected results			- Except 5. Only the first folder copied correctly.

Version 1.1

Client	OS	Type	Comment	Write	Drag'n'Drop
NetDrive	Windows	Abandonware	Mounts Confluence as a network drive. Known bug: deletes all version history for an attachment on file upload
WebDrive	Windows	20day trialware, $75	Mounts Confluence as a network drive
MS Web Folders	Windows	Free	Constantly need to re-authenticate		Partial
DataFreeway	Windows	Free	Not quite Windows Explorer, but pretty close, and very reliable
OS X WebDAV Client	Mac OS X	Free	Mac OS now works for dragging files/folders in and out of the Finder webdav client.
Goliath	Mac OS X	Free		Partial

Unless you first disable in the admin consol the "URL, @EXPORTS, @VERSIONS" configuration items, most of the heirarchy drag'n'drop/copy/remove will fail for most clients.

Browsing	MS Web Folders	DataFreeway	OS X WebDAV Client	Goliath	WebDrive
Spaces Browse spaces under a default folder called 'Spaces'. Add a new space via Confluence and change the description, the new space and description should appear within the root folder - 'Spaces'
Pages Browse the pages underneath a space. Each page in confluence should be reflected with a folder in webdav. Add some pages via Confluence, both child and orphan and confirm the visibility. Browse Text version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.txt'.
News Browse Blog posts under each space in '@news'.
Attachments Browse images, office docs and text files attached to the space Export PDF version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.pdf' Export Word version of pages 'PAGE_NAME.doc'

Editing Content (Word/Excel)	MS Web Folders	DataFreeway	OS X WebDAV Client	Goliath	WebDrive
Word Open document in Office Modifying and saving doc Save As... Create new files	- except 4		- except 4
Excel Open document in Office Modifying and saving doc Save As... Create new files	- except 4		- except 4

Strucuture Manipulation	MS Web Folders	DataFreeway	OS X WebDAV Client	Goliath	WebDrive
Pages Create new page (folder in webdav) Renaming Move to a different parent Removing a page Removing a parent page, with child pages, and child pages with attachments		- except 2
Attachments Create new attachment Dragging in single attachment Dragging in many attachments in the same folder Dragging in a folder of attachments Dragging in many folders of attachments Removing a file attachment	- except 1	- except 1	- except 1	- except 1