origName is the original name that should be renamed.
parentPage is the full WebDAV path to where origName should be moved/renamed
newName is the new name for the file/folder
davFiles is an ADODB.RecordSet
davFile is an ADODB.Record

Do While Not davFiles.EOF
davFile.Open davFiles, , adModeReadWrite
If origName = davFile.Fields(“RESOURCE_PARSENAME”).Value Then
davFile.MoveRecord , parentPage & newName
davFile.Close
davFiles.MoveLast
Else
davFile.Close ‘ Always remember to Close the file!
davFiles.MoveNext ‘ Move the index to the next Record.
End If
Loop

Would you recommend updating RESOURCE_PARSENAME and davFiles to perform an ADODB.Recordset update, or davFile and perform an ADODB.Record MoveRecord?

And for deleting a file/directory, would you simply find the davFile and use the ADODB.Record DeleteRecord function or would you use the davFiles ADODB.RecordSet Delete function?

I assume that taking the RecordSet approach in either of the above would require closing the davFile first. Using davFile will require closing davFile after the move, but what about after a delete? Does anything need to be done after calling davFile.DeleteRecord other than setting davFile = Nothing (although I notice you never set dirFile = Nothing like you do davFiles and davDir) — is there still something to close after deleting the Record?

But if my Web Dav server requires basic authentication, how can I directly open a document without opening the windows authentication dialog?

Is there some Open Command with username and pass parameters?

1. Open the parent directory as done in Listing 1.
2. Grab the RecordSet for the children, as in Listing 1, line 30.

Then create a new Record:

If (davFiles.Supports(adAddNew)) Then
    Dim newDirFields(1) As Variant
    Dim newDirValues(1) As Variant
    newDirFields(0) = "RESOURCE_PARSENAME"
    newDirValues(0) = "newdirname"
    newDirFields(1) = "RESOURCE_ISCOLLECTION"
    newDirValues(1) = True

    davFiles.AddNew newDirFields, newDirValues
End If

Note that using AddNew moves the RecordSet to the end, thus EOF will be ‘True’.

1. How would one create a new directory on the WebDAV server using this interface?
2. How would one copy a file without using Documents.Open and ActiveDocument.SaveAs?

What I’m trying to do is create code that will copy a WebDAV folder and all of its files to another WebDAV folder. Using your code above, I can locate the folder and its contents, but I’m lost as to how to create a new folder and copy the contents of the newly created folder.