Chapter 1. What is the Purpose of the Drive Apps?

An Drive app is installed locally on your workstation or mobile device. This Drive app enables you to access files and folders that are located on the server. The Drive app synchronises data between your local machine or mobile device and the server. You define the data to be synchronised:

  • In order to synchronise on a workstation, you have to define the following folders:

    • A local folder on your workstation.

    • One or multiple folders on the Groupware server.

  • On an Android mobile device, you can further define that photos or videos are uploaded to the server. This function is called Camera Upload.

Each change applied on the server is transferred to the workstation and the mobile devices. Each change applied on the workstation or a mobile device is transferred to the server and other devices.

Depending on the server configuration, you can select the following folders on a workstation for synchronisation:

  • Personal folders

  • Public folders, shared folders

On a mobile device, only the content of your private folder is being synchronised.

You can use the Drive apps to cooperate with other users or external partners by sharing files or folders with read or edit permissions.

The following systems are supported:

  • MS Windows

  • Mac OS

  • iOS

  • Android