diff --git a/phpgwapi/js/dragDropFunctions.js b/phpgwapi/js/dragDropFunctions.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5be181b2ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpgwapi/js/dragDropFunctions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+function dragSidebar()
+{
+	if(!dd.obj.sideresizeStart) { dd.obj.sideresizeStart = dd.obj.x; }
+	var mainbox = dd.elements.thesideboxcolumn;
+	mainbox.resizeTo(dd.obj.x-dd.obj.sideresizeStart+parseInt(dd.obj.my_sideboxwidth), mainbox.h);
+}
+
+function dropSidebar()
+{
+	var mainbox = dd.elements.thesideboxcolumn;
+	xajax_doXMLHTTP("preferences.ajaxpreferences.storeEGWPref","common","idotssideboxwidth",mainbox.w);
+}
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diff --git a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/sidebox_dhtml.tpl.php b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/sidebox_dhtml.tpl.php
index 36bce9d05f..3498f3c58a 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/templates/idots/sidebox_dhtml.tpl.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/templates/idots/sidebox_dhtml.tpl.php
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
-<!-- Savant template - sidebox dhtml -->
 <?php
-// workaround to get rid of the "too much recursion" timeout if other app uses wz_dragdrop too
-// if we moved the DHTML here to the dragdrop class we can remove this workaround
-$GLOBALS['egw_info']['flags']['wz_dragdrop_runonce_SET_DHTML'] = true;
-?>
-<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">SET_DHTML("thesideboxcolumn"+NO_DRAG)</script>
-<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">ADD_DHTML("sideresize"+CURSOR_W_RESIZE+MAXOFFBOTTOM+0+MAXOFFTOP+0+MAXOFFLEFT+1000+MAXOFFRIGHT+1000)</script>
-<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
-   var mainbox = dd.elements.thesideboxcolumn;
-   var rt = dd.elements.sideresize;
-   var rtxstart= rt.x;
+require_once(EGW_INCLUDE_ROOT . '/phpgwapi/inc/class.dragdrop.inc.php');
 
-   function my_DragFunc()
-   {
-		 if (dd.obj == rt)
-		 {
-			   mainbox.resizeTo(rt.x-rtxstart+<?php print $this->sideboxwidth?>, mainbox.h);
-		 }
-   } 
+if($GLOBALS['egw_info']['user']['preferences']['common']['enable_dragdrop'])
+{
+	$dragdrop = new dragdrop();
 
-   function my_DropFunc()
-   {
-		 xajax_doXMLHTTP("preferences.ajaxpreferences.storeEGWPref","common","idotssideboxwidth",mainbox.w);
-   }
-</script>
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+	$dragdrop->addCustom(
+		'thesideboxcolumn',
+		array('NO_DRAG'),
+		false,
+		false,
+		false
+	);
+
+	$dragdrop->addCustom(
+		'sideresize',
+		array('CURSOR_W_RESIZE','MAXOFFBOTTOM+0','MAXOFFTOP+0','MAXOFFLEFT+1000','MAXOFFRIGHT+1000'),
+		array('sideboxwidth'=>$this->sideboxwidth),
+		'phpgwapi.dragDropFunctions.dragSidebar',
+		'phpgwapi.dragDropFunctions.dropSidebar'
+	);
+
+	$dragdrop->setJSCode();
+}
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