Storage

Storagemanager

External (online) storage providers can be integrated in XsDesktop. Do you have files somewhere else on the web or on your own server? Make them easily available in XsDesktop!

Only the owner of a shared account can manage the storages. Adding, deleting and setting the rights for the users that login to the shared account. The name is used to identify the storage server-side and login to the storage using the correct logindata. So username and password only leave the server for managing purposes by the owner of the account, not when a guestuser browses the storages. The applications only use paths for pointing to files (for example: "office://relations/customer/quote.doc").

The following external storages are currently supported:

Name	Secure	Protocol	Remarks
Generic protocols
Storage on your own server using this toolkit (v1.2)	Optional	HTTP(S)	Secure if linked to an url with SSL;
File Transfer Protocol	No	FTP
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)	Optional	HTTP(S)	Secure if linked to an url with SSL; Authentication through 'Basic'-authentication; Samples Box (use: https://www.box.net/dav/); HomePipe (use: https://webdav.homepipe.net/user@email/sharename); myDrive (use: https://webdav.mydrive.ch); And many others.
Specific providers
Adobe Share	Yes	HTTPS	Some filetypes are not allowed; You can organize your files in directories but not all services from Adobe support directories;
Box	Yes	HTTPS
DigitalBucket.net	Yes	HTTPS
.docstoc	No	HTTP	Beta (their API might have some changes in the near future); Login is secured by using encryption (SSL); Renaming files is not possible.
Dropbox	Yes	HTTPS	Connecting based on authorization keys (can be collected using the extra application: Start > Settings > Storage tools > Dropbox authorization).
FilesAnywhere	Yes	HTTPS
Google Docs	Yes	HTTPS	Limited filetype support (doc, txt, xls, csv, etc.); Tip: changing extension is conversion (doc->pdf, txt->doc, etc.);
Google Picasa	No	HTTP	Authentication using a secure connection (HTTPS); Limited filetype support (jpg, jpeg, gif, png en bmp); Renaming files and directories is not (yet) possible.
SugarSync	Yes	HTTPS	Beta (Quote: "We're not kidding when we call the current API a beta");
Windows Azure Blob Service	Yes	HTTPS	Use the 'Primary Access Key' as password; Storing files in the root and nested directories are not possible.
Wuala	No	HTTP	Beta (Quote: "The Wuala API is still in a very early development stage"); Read-only (API does not support any other form of management).
Zoho	Yes	HTTPS	No support for directories; Renaming presentations (show) is not possible; Tip: changing extension is conversion (doc->pdf, txt->doc, xls->csv, etc.);
XsDesktop Repository			Storage with documentation and examples on how to use XsDesktop and get the most out of it.

In the future more storage types will follow. If you want to integrate a not yet supported online storage in your XsDesktop environment do not hesitate to contact us to see if the online storage can be integrated.

Filemanager

After one or more storages are added, they can be browsed with the Filemanager. Depending on your rights you can create directories, upload and download files, delete and rename directories and files. Beside that, files can be moved or copied to places, even across storages. All basic tasks for managing your files!