Sharepoint through WebDav

I’ve previously stated what I think about Sharepoint, but that has no bearing on the fact that I have to use it almost daily. A particular pain for Mac users is that the file browser – Open in Explorer – is not available at all so large folders of files must be downloaded on a single file basis. This is particularly painful when you have a project with a complex tiered folder structure… I think you get the point. This morning I decided to try something and am amazed it works so I’m sharing here to perhaps enable others to take advantage of this likely little known method.

Once you’ve browsed to a project and are about you open a folder link, instead copy the path to your clipboard. In my case the project has a number of folders and I wanted to use the top most available level to potentially freely browse the entire project site area. The folder link I initially copied looked like this – https://mysharepointaddress.com/files1/PWIKC06016181/Folder_Name

I switched to the Finder and chose Command+K (Go Menu – Connect to Server) and pasted in the path from my clipboard. I actually deleted the Folder_Name portion of the path and hit return. After a few seconds of thinking, the system prompted me to accept my security certificate which I accepted followed by a login prompt. I entered my domain, username and password and was happily surprised to see a Finder window open full of the folders I had just been reviewing in my browser.

This is amazingly helpful for me and hopefully for others as well. One caveat seems to be that this only seems to work on file browsing from within a project – you can’t browse the whole Sharepoint directory openly. I guess that would be asking for access to areas potentially beyond your level of security, though I even tried it from the “My Work” level and was rejected. For now it’s a project only view – but still an excellent help for Macs. I’ve dragged a link to the folder down to my dock for quick access as well…

While I still don’t really like Sharepoint, this certainly makes daily work a fair bit easier.

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26 Replies to “Sharepoint through WebDav”

  1. Do you know what verson of SharePoint is being used here? I’m trying to duplicate this with servers running SharePoint 2007 beta, and document libraries do not show up in the mounted WebDAV share point.

  2. I’m having the same issue using Sharepoint 2003 (no document libraries).

  3. I solved my problem by using Transmit, it can do webdav since v3 or so. Works like a charm. I also use that to interact with my idisk, way better than using the desktop drive.

  4. Yes, do you know what version of SharePoint you are accessing? I have tried your Finder-based trick and I cannot view the contents of the shared documents on SharePoint, and when I try adding a file I get an error (“file in use” oddly enough).

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  9. WebDav is a good way to connect to SharePoint List and Libraries. You can also add a network place to the web application root for your SharePoint farm. Using WebDav you can see the forms folder that contain the template for document libraries. I must mention that in WSS 3.0 there is an Explorer view that looks and feels like windows explorer including drag and drop capabilities. I am sure you are familiar but in case not in the upper right portion of the document library change the drop down from all files to explorer view.

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  12. Wow this actually worked and saved me a lot of pain. Thanks for the tip! I always get a dialog saying that my file names contain invalid characters, but I just click skip and everything seems to work fine.

  13. This doesnt appear to work with an office 365 sharepoint 2010 envrioment. I get an error saying: “There was a problem connecting to the server “name.sharepoint.com”. Contact your system administrator for more information.” Anyboady know an asnwer to this???

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