The dialog
Open using
FTP/SFTP is displayed from the menu or from the toolbar button Open URL ....
Open URL dialog
The displayed dialog is composed of several parts:
You can type in here an URL like ftp://anonymous@some.site/home/test.xml if the file is accessible through anonymous FTP.
Your password is well protected. In the case the options file is used on other machine by a user with a different username the password will become unreadable, since the encryption is username dependent. This is also true if you add URLs having user and password to your project.
Server URLs
When accessing a FTP server, you need to specify only the protocol and the host, like: ftp://server.com, or if using a nonstandard port: ftp://server.com:7800/.
By pressing the Browse button the directory listing will be shown in the component below. When Autoconnect is selected then at every time the dialog is shown, the browse action will be performed.
The tree view of the documents stored on the server. You can browse the directories, and make multiple selections. Additionally, you may use the Rename, Delete, and New Folder to manage the file repository.
The file names are sorted in a case-insensitive way.