Section 6.5: Working with Dropbox and WebDAV

Uploading to Accounts

iAnnotate offers easy access to documents stored in online file sharing accounts such as Dropbox and WebDAV. To begin, tap the Download button in the top toolbar and choose the Create Account option. You may also create new account by tapping the + button in the upper-right of the Download menu. Select the desired account type, either Dropbox or WebDAV, and enter the account information, including a name to be used within iAnnotate. You can optionally specify a password or leave it blank to be prompted each time you access the account.

Once your account is created, it will appear on the download menu. Tap the account to log in and browse your files. You can navigate and download individual PDFs; or tap the orange Download arrow on a folder to download an entire folder.

After you’ve created an account, you may edit or the account information or delete it entirely by tapping the Edit button on the upper-left of the download menu.

Uploading to Accounts

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There are two ways to transfer PDFs to your Dropbox or WebDAV accounts.

The first way to upload an individual PDF to an account is with the Document Context Menu. Tap-and-hold the tab of the PDF you’d like to transfer to open the Document Context Menu. Then, select Share... followed by Upload... At this point, if you have more than one account configured, select the specific account to which you would like to upload the PDF.

If you choose the account from where you got the PDF originally, it will be uploaded into the folder from which it was originally downloaded into iAnnotate. However, if you choose a new account for the PDF, it will be uploaded into the default uploads folder for that account, which for WebDAV and Dropbox accounts is called “iAnnotate PDF”.

The second way to upload PDFs to an account is via the Upload icon on the top toolbar. In the Upload popup menu, tap Upload To Account. When you choose this option, you can select among your configured accounts (including APS). This will upload all modified PDFs that you originally downloaded from the selected account back into that account -- and only PDFs originally from that account.

NOTE: The PDFs that you currently have open for reading are irrelevant when using this button; this button is for “syncing” all new annotations back into an account whether the annotated PDFs are open or not.