Placing VSDocman external files on Sharepoint

Question

I am wanting to generate all of our application documentation using VSDocman and put them on Sharepoint. The act of uploading the finished documentation to Sharepoint isn't an issue and can be done fairly easily. The issue I have however is that VSDocman will not let me embed images in to the documentation unless I have the External Files Folder property set in its settings.

I want to set this property to be a child-directory on the sharepoint server where I place the actual generated documentation. So if my path is http://sharepointsite/documents/project1/docs, I'd want to place the directory in http://sharepointsite/docuemnts/project1/docs/images/

I'm not sure how to do that with Sharepoint. I have not been able to find any documentation online on how to basically connect to that sharepoint directory using a network drive or something that i can point VSDocman to. Anyone have any experience with trying to map to a sharepoint drive, without using the sharepoint workspace syncing? I need to basically have a filepath to the directory for VSDocman to use explicitly.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this by mapping as a network drive using

\\sharepointsite\shared documents\project1\docs\images

In windows explorer. Once I figured out I could map to the drive, I just paste the same url in to VSDocman and attach the images that I needed. Worked like a charm.