Managing Virtual Folders

Default Virtual Folders

webMethods.io MFT offers a default virtual folder backed by cloud storage. The location information for this folder is inaccessible, but you can create subfolders within it and configure new virtual folders pointing to these subfolders. You can grant users access to these virtual folders.

Adding subfolders under the default virtual folder location

To add virtual folders under the default virtual folder location

1. In webMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. Choose the virtual folder named default on the Virtual folders page.

3. On the right panel, select Create folder and click .

4. In the Add folder dialog box, type a unique name for the subfolder and click Add.

Note: Subfolders cannot be deleted from webMethods.io MFT user interface. Users with Delete folder permission can delete the subfolders only if they are connected through listeners.

Configuring folders with a default virtual folder location

1. In webMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. On the Virtual folders page, click .

3. In the Add virtual folder dialog box, type a unique name for the virtual folder and click Add.

4. On the right panel, expand Location and select Configure with default virtual folder location.

5. Click Browse. Select the path to a subfolder under the default virtual folder created previously and click Save.

Note: Folders configured with a default virtual folder location cannot be reconfigured with a remote location.

Adding a Virtual Folder

Create a Virtual File System (VFS) by creating one or more virtual folders, in a manner in which you typically arrange in a file system hierarchy. Although the information might be stored across remote file systems, a virual folder makes it appear as a cohesive data collection in the VFS.

To create a virtual folder

1. In weMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. On the Virtual folders page, click .

3. In the Add virtual folder dialog box, type a unique name for the virtual folder and click Add. The new virtual folder appears in the folders list.

Searching for Virtual Folders

To search for a virtual folder

1. In webMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. On the Virtual folders page, specify all or one of the following search criteria:

   Field	Description
   Partner	Select one of the following: All partners. Search for virtual folders associated with all the partners in webMethods.io MFT. Specific partner. Search for virtual folders associated with a specific partner in webMethods.io MFT. Select this option, type the name of the partner, and click Ok.
   User	Select one of the following: All users. Search for virtual folders associated with all the users in webMethods.io MFT. Specific user. Search for virtual folders associated with a specific user in webMethods.io MFT. Select this option, type the name of the user, and click Ok.
   Folder name	Type the name of the specific virtual folder you want to view.

3. Click Reset to reset values or click Apply for the changes to take effect. The virtual folders list is populated with the virtual folders matching your search criteria.

Modifying a Virtual Folder

To modify a virtual folder

1. In webMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. On the Virtual folders page, click on a virtual folder that you want to edit and modify the required configuration settings for the virtual folder.

3. Click Save.

Configuring Additional Settings for a Virtual Folder

To configure additional settings

1. In webMethods.io MFT, go to Virtual folders.

2. On the Folders tile, click on a virtual folder for which you want to configure additional settings.

3. Type a different virtual folder name.

4. Select one of the partner options:

   Option	Description
   No Partner	Select this option if you do not want to associate the virtual folder with a partner or your enterprise.
   Enterprise	Select this option if you want to associate the virtual folder with your enterprise. Type a new enterprise name and click Create.
   Partner	Select this option if you want to associate the virtual folder with a partner. You can either select a partner from the list or type a new partner name. Click Create to associate your virtual folder with a partner.

5. Configure the location in one of the following ways:

   Option	Description
   Configure a remote location	To specify a file path in a remote server, select this option, a protocol (transport mechanism) from the list, and type the file path location. For example, FTP://host:port/DestinationFolder/. Type a username and password for the remote server. See Supported protocols and Supported storage types for more information.
   Configure a default virtual folder location	Select this and click Browse to configure the path of the folder that you created under the default virtual folder. See Adding subfolders under the default virtual folder location for more information.

6. Add a user to the virtual folder and configure the permissions with the username. The user can now view, download, upload, delete, create a folder, delete folder, or rename the folder.

   • If you grant user permissions to a parent folder, the user inherits the same permissions for all subfolders.
   • If you grant user permissions to a subfolder, the user inherits the permission to traverse through the parent folders.
   • You can override the inherited permissions and specify a different set of permissions to a folder for a user. These new permissions are then inherited by the subfolders within the parent folder.

7. Define specific file-based encryption and decryption PGP keys for a virtual folder.
   When encryption and decryption keys are configured at multiple levels such as user, listener, and virtual folder, webMethods.io MFT enforces the following order of preference: Users, Virtual folders, and Listeners.
   

   For example, if user A accesses port 10 and uploads a file in VFS TestFolder123, then webMethods.io MFT checks if the encryption or decryption key is available for user A. If no key is available at the user level, then webMethods.io MFT checks for the virtual folder settings for a key. If no key is present at the virtual folder level, then webMethods.io MFT checks the server level settings for the key.

   Note: webMethods.io MFT does not use these keys when a virtual folder is configured in a post-processing or scheduled action. If you want to configure the encryption and decryption keys in an action, create an encryption or decryption task.

8. Click Save.

Supported Protocols

Protocol Configurations

FTP, FTPES, and FTPS

HTTP and HTTPS

SFTP

SMB

WEBDAV and WEBDAVS

Supported Storage Types

Configuring a virtual folder with Amazon-S3 bucket

Note: For more information about Amazon-S3 service, refer Amazon documentation.

Configuring a virtual folder with Hosted-S3 bucket

Azure storage

If you want to configure the VFS with Azure storage type, then select the AZURE-FILE or AZURE-BLOB from the list.
Note: webMethods.io MFT currently supports only AZURE-FILE shares and AZURE-BLOB containers.

Configuring a virtual folder with AZURE-FILE

To configure the VFS with AZURE-FILE

1.Authentication type. Specify the authentication information that must be sent to Azure storage type for authorizing access to specific resources. File share supports Shared Key and Shared Access Signature (SAS) authentication types.

Choose one of the following ways to provide the authentication information:

2.Location.Specify the location where the folder for the file shares resides.

Configuring a virtual folder with AZURE-BLOB

To configure the VFS with AZURE-BLOB, edit the following fields:

1.Authentication type.Specify the authentication information that must be sent to the Azure storage for authorizing the access to resources. The AZURE-BLOB supports Shared Key, Shared Access Signature (SAS), and Anonymous public access authentication types.

Choose one of the following ways to provide the authentication information:

2.Storage sub-type. Select a storage sub-type. The below mentioned are the two types of storage sub-types:

• Block Blob. It stores the unstructured data such as files, media, images, and documents in blocks.
• Append Blob. It appends the unstructured data such as files, media, images, documents and so on.

3.Location. Specify the location where the folder for blob container resides.

4.Specify the advance configuration options as follows:

• Storage size. Specifies the size of each part of the file which gets uploaded to the blob container.
• Azure headers - Add additional header parameters to set the extra metadata for the blob container. Click to add the Header key and Header value information, respectively.
  The following are the list if supported headers:
  • cacheControl
  • contentType
  • contentEncoding
  • contentLanguage
  • contentDisposition

Configuring a virtual folder with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) bucket

Note: Hosted-S3 and Google Cloud Platform configurations are available only on the Virtual folders tab. This cannot be configured while creating actions.