Reg: The portal Drive

Dear All,
How canto use the portal drive in portal knowledge management?What are the advantages?How we have to configure the portal Drive in KM?Is any limitations for portal drive?
Regards,
Praveen

Dear Praveen,
The SAP Portal Drive only adds a KM repository as a WebDav-folder to your Windows-Explorer so you can access it like your normal filesystem.
So you can copy and edit documents like you know it from the Windows world.
But please keep in mind that you only backup the file as it is, not any KM statistics, settings or user permissions of the file.
So if you have to rebuild the repository you can upload the files from your backup again, but you have to reassign all settings too.
You can go through these links Notes and Sdn threads
Note 947066 - Functional restrictions of Portal Drive
Note 911449 - Portal Drive: Central note
Note 1113122 - Portal Drive: Bug fixes and new features with Patch 5
SDN threads for help:
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13401314&messageID=5179453
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=5575094
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=5640574
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=5264688
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=5534931
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=5328494
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=13403177&messageID=4773843
Go through the links you will get an idea on how to use portal drive.
Installation Software you can get in SMP.
Thanks,
Regards,
Rudradev Devulapalli
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