40 Administering Agile Drive

Agile Drive is a system extension enabling users to perform file management operations of Agile objects without requiring the user to invoke the Agile PLM application. It connects Agile's Distributed File Manager as a Network Place on your system, thus enabling Explorer-like operations, such as copy or delete, on file attachments of Agile objects. Agile Drive displays Agile objects as folders, and its attachments as files in these folders.

40.1 File Management

With Agile Drive, you can work on files such as documents, drawings, and so forth, that are associated with Agile objects as file attachments in Agile. The actions a user can perform on files are the following:

• View / Read a file

• Save a file

• Update / Edit a file

• Delete a file

• View file properties

• Add a file

• Move a file

• Copy files

The action a user can perform on folders is the following:

• View Folder Properties

40.2 Enabling Agile Drive

To enable Agile Drive:

1. Go to System Settings > Preferences.

2. From the Agile Drive drop-down list, select Enabled.

3. Restart all Distributed File Managers.

Note: By default, Agile Drive is set to Disabled. Once you enable the Agile Drive, the access will be Read-only.

For more detailed information about how to configure the required settings, set up Agile Drive for users, and perform actions using Agile Drive, see Agile PLM Agile Drive User Guide.