Browsing a discussion

BSCW provides different ways to display the contents of notes and to browse a discussion forum:

•      Sort the notes by type, date, author, subject or thread by selecting the respective entry in  View    Sort    by ... .

•      Display or hide the contents of notes in a discussion by selecting or de-selecting  View    Note contents . Hiding the contents may be useful in navigating a discussion with many notes.

•      Click on a note to display its contents and its links to other notes, if any. Use these links to browse the discussion; this may eventually lead to other discussions when a note, e.g., is a reply to a note from another discussion. The single note view also offers a navigation bar on top where you can browse the notes of a discussion backwards and forwards using the arrow icons  and , the notes being sorted by the current sort cri­te­rion activated via  View    Sort  in the top menu of the discussion view.