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\label{Domain_Configuration_Quotas}
By default, each user in your domain can create blogs, a personal 
information page, and store files in an individual portfolio space. 
Students can submit items from their portfolio to meet the requirements 
of assignments in their courses.

You can choose to disable personal information pages, blogs and/or portfolios 
for different groups of users defined for your domain (e.g., Faculty, Adjunct, 
Staff, Student).  If the ``Modify User'' utility in User Management is 
used to explicitly set availability of these tools for a particular user,
that will override the corresponding settings determined by the user's 
affiliation.

If you choose to enable portfolios, default quotas (in MB) 
can similarly be set to vary by institutional affiliation.
If a user is affiliated with more than one group, whichever default
quota is largest for the different groups is the one which applies.
Institutional types are defined in the ``Institutional user types''
section on the ``Default authentication/language/timezone/portal/types'' 
screen. If no types have been defined, then a single default quota
will apply for all users from the domain.

Default portfolio quotas which can be set for users in your domain
will be overridden by any quota you set for an individual user via:
the ``Modify User'' utility.

Additional options for authoring spaces can be set for the various user 
types: (a) whether webDAV is active, and (b) the default quota for Authoring Space.
These only come into effect for a particular user, when an author and/or one or
more co-author roles have been assigned to a user to provide access to one or more 
Authoring Spaces.

WebDAV allows a user to connect to an Authoring Space in the same way as removable
media, and to use their own laptop/desktop computer's file management tools and
applications to move, edit and delete files.  In the case of MacOS, the user selects 
the ``Go'' item in the Finder toolbar and selects ``Connect to Server''.
The user will then enter a URL for a library server where the authoring space is located:
e.g., https://s10.lite.msu.edu/webdav/msu/sparty/  where msu is the domain and sparty
is the username of the Authoring Space.  Note: webDAV usage requires Apache/SSL to be 
running on the  library server.  The user will be prompted to enter a username
(this will be the LON-CAPA username, if the user is also the author, or username:domain 
of the user, if the access is for a co-author), and the user's LON-CAPA password.

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 
environment. Moving and deleting directories in the webDAV environment is prohibited if
the directory, or any (nested) subdirectory contains a non-obsolete published resource.

Given the ability to easily delete unpublished content in webDAV (without the ability to 
reverse the deletion), it is important that authors assigned webDAV access are especially
careful when working in the webDAV environment.