Liferay/WebDAV

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WebDAV in General
WebDAV is an open standard for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is based on HTTP and therefore a key functionality to work with digital resources online. See Wikipedia for more in depth information.

WebDAV usage in liferay/AWOB
To set up a syncronized folder structure of liferay resources users move to do the document library (AWOB Resources) and point to file details. There a WebDAV URL is offered like:

http://address:port/api/secure/webdav/site/document_library/

The address can be provided to the OS (MAC, LINUX, Win). It creates and maintains a corresponding file system branch, syncronized with liferay. Users can thus work on liferay resources seamlessly with their preferred clients.

WebDAV issues and solutions
On Win7(64) WebDAV is blocked due to security settings. Relaxing these settings may or may not work on 64bit.

Solution 1 (not recommended)
The registry settings of windows can be manipulated as shown above. But additional steps may be taken to get WebDAV working.

Solution 2
There's an free source WebDAV client available called BitKinex.

Solution 3
The liferay community started to develop an own sync client called liferay sync it gets nested into the panel just like the well known dropbox-client.

As of the time of writing it is available as R3 but limited to liferay 6.11. liferay sync comes with it's own security features and is therefore recommended.

Resumee
For now it's most applicable to go with the bitKinex client. As soon as liferay-sync is mature and in pace with the portal releases it should be given a try.