Many current products, like Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft® Web Folders and Microsoft Office 2000 now support the use of WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) to access and save content directly to servers that support the WebDAV protocol. If your license includes the WebDAV add-on module, WebSite Director (WSD) Express  provides you with the ability to to manage your web content using applications that support this protocol/interface.

When you use Microsoft Web Folders with WSD installed and WebDAV enabled, you can drag new or modified content between your local machine and the web server. To enable Web Folder Access to your server, you must:

1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
2. From the MSIE Menu, select "File" => "Open"
3. Type the fully-qualified URL of your web server where WSD is installed
   Example: http://www.mycompany.com
4. Select the "Open as Web Folder" checkbox
5. Select the "OK" button.

Your server will now be visible in Microsoft Windows Explorer as a location under "My Network Places" that may be used as a source or destination when dragging content to and from your workstation.

To enable Office 2000 Access to your server, you must:

1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
2. From the MSIE Menu, select "File" => "Open"
3. Type the fully-qualified URL of your web server where WSD is installed
   Example: http://www.mycompany.com
4. Select the "Open as Web Folder" checkbox
5. Select the "OK" button

Your server will now be visible in Office 2000 "Open" and "Save As" dialog boxes as a valid location for retrieving and saving files using Office 2000.

When you use Windows XP, complete the following steps to set up your Web Folder:

• Click Start on your XP desktop and select My Network Places.
• On the My Network Place window, select Add Network Place to display the Add Network Place Wizard.
• In the Internet or network address data entry area, type http://<domain>/WSDSource/WSDWorkflow and click Next to display the Enter Network Password window.
  Note: If Apache is not your default server you must include the port number on which your Apache server is listening!
• Type your WSD Username and Password into the data entry areas and click OK to create the Network Place and display the "Completing the Add Network Place window.
• To open Windows Explorer immediately, select Open this network place when I click Finish checkbox and click “Finish.”
• Select the Folders icon on the toolbar; then in the left column, select “WSDWorkflow on localhost” to display your workflow stages.
• Select the workflow stage that contains the requests that you wish to approve. The list of requests awaiting approval displays on the right.
• Hold down the Ctrl key and click on each request that you want to approve (two are selected in the example below).
• The final step is to drag the selected requests to the stage into which you are Approving/Disapproving your requests (for example, Publishing).

Some Windows XP machines may not allow you successfully create a Web Folder. If you are unable to install Web Folders using the instructions above, complete the following steps to fix the problem:

1. Click on the "Start" menu in the lower left corner, and select "Run..."
2. Type in "webfldrs.msi" and click the "OK" button.
3. Click on the "Select reinstall mode" button.
4. Select *ALL* of the checkboxes *except* for the second one ("Reinstall only if file is missing").
5. Click on the "OK" button.
6. Click on the "Reinstall" button.
7. After the reinstallation is complete, reboot your computer.

When you use Adobe GoLive 5.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and other WebDAV enabled applications, you must first configure them to directly access content on your server before using the WebDAV protocol to manage your content from your workstation. Follow the instructions for your product carefully to ensure a proper connection to the server. 

Warning: Most of these products are not semantically aware of any specific WebDAV properties -- like the document-related information WSD stores as WebDAV Properties. That means certain functions will still require web browser-based access.

For the majority of you, the content management process should be as simple as:

1. dragging content from your web server to, or opening a file located on your server from your workstation,
2. using any third-party content manipulation product to modify that content,
3. dragging the new or modified content, or saving the modified file from your workstation back to the server.

As these products become semantically aware of properties they have not created themselves, the need for a browser interface (other than for system administration) will be reduced.