ActiveTransfer enables you to create a folder structure to provide an abstract view of resources in your physical file system or on a remote system such as, another FTP server. This capability enables users and client applications to access a variety of folder structures in a uniform way. Although the information in a folder might be physically stored across one or more local or remote file systems in your enterprise, it appears as a cohesive data collection.

You can create a folder structure by creating one or more folders, which you typically arrange in a hierarchy. For example, you can create a group of folders to categorize your organization’s sales for various years. At the top level of folders, you can create a group of separate folders, each representing one year of sales. Inside each yearly folder, you can create 12 folders to represent the monthly sales data for that year.

After you create a folder, you can assign users to the folder and specify each user’s access privileges for that folder. When the users log on to ActiveTransfer, they can view the folders they have access to and the resources within those folders. This way, you can store different types of data (for example, sales data and customer profile information) on the same physical file system, yet control user access to that data accordingly.

A folder structure also bridges the differences on various operating systems so that users and applications can access folders without having to know the type of folder structure they access.

You can perform the following management tasks related to folders: