WebDAV provides network access to remote file-systems using standard clients in large variety of operating systems. WebDAV servers are classified as Class 1 and Class 2 according to provided features. Class 1 level includes foundational file management capabilities, such as file and folder operations, custom properties, and basic methods. Class 2 level includes file and folder locking, enabling support for Microsoft and MacOS clients. Docboards currently support both Class 1 and Class 2 WebDAV features.

WebDAV enables users working with large amount of documents to organize and opaquely back-up data using standard operating system tools, like MacOS Finder, Windows Explorer, or Ubuntu Dolphin.

WebDAV clients allow accessing remote, e.g. Word, documents in same way as documents stored on local disk, and saving such document also transfers changes to remote server, preventing data loss in event of local disk failure.

Project managers, researchers and students can keep using their usual software to create, modify and organize documents and have them backed-up to remote server without additional effort. Back-up events occur each time documents are modified and requires no additional software to be installed.

Most popular operating systems have native support for WebDAV protocol. Windows has its WebDAV extension allowing users to access files of up to 50MB without additional configuration. MacOS has a bit slow WebDAV protocol support in Finder, which can be improved using additional configuration. Linux has DAV support in Gnome Nautilus, KDE Dolphin and file-system mounting driver DavFS2.