--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_WebDAV.tex 2015/05/28 02:29:00 1.2
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Authoring_WebDAV.tex 2015/05/28 20:24:24 1.3
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
\label{Authoring_WebDAV}
-If your domain has Apache with SSL running on your library server,
-(i.e., URLs begin https://) and your Domain Coordinator has enabled webDAV access
-for users with author or co-author roles, then you will be able to connect to an
-Authoring Space using webDAV.
+
+If your domain has Apache with SSL running on the LON-CAPA server where you
+access your Authoring Space (i.e., URLs begin https://) and your Domain
+Coordinator has enabled webDAV access for users with author or co-author
+roles, then you will be able to connect to an Authoring Space using webDAV.
A webDAV connection allows you to mount the Authoring Space directory tree as an
external volume. You can then use your own laptop/desktop computer's file management
-tools and applications to copy, move, edit and delete files.
+tools and applications to copy, move, edit and delete files (including dragging and
+dropping folders, etc.).
The requirement to obsolete published files before moving or deleting them, which applies to
the regular web browser-based management of Authoring Space, also applies in the webDAV
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ webDAV environment with this type of con
When you display the contents of a directory in Authoring Space using webDAV you may see
additional files, with extensions .log, .save, .bak etc. for each LON-CAPA .problem
-file. You can view the contents of these files but you will not be able to edit or
+file. You can view the contents of these files but you will not be able to modify or
delete them. These files are created by LON-CAPA when using the web GUI.
For example, a .log file, which records publication history, is updated whenever you
use ``Publish'' to copy a file from Authoring Space to Resource Space, and .bak files