BSCW provides different ways to display the contents of notes and to browse a discussion forum. In the discussion overview, all notes are displayed in a box along with subject and author. You may customize the display of the discussion overview by selecting your viewing options.
•Enable or disable the display of note contents in the discussion overview
by selecting or de-selecting
. When the display of note contents is
enabled, all notes have an individual foldout button (
or 
) that allows to show or hide the
contents of a note. In addition, these two foldout buttons also appear in the
multi-selection toolbar to show or hide the contents of selected notes. If no
notes are selected, these buttons will take effect on all notes.
•Select the note attributes you want to have displayed in the discussion overview via .
•Sort the notes by type, date, author, subject or thread by selecting the respective entry in . The default sorting criterion is by thread: in this case, all notes belonging to a thread are grouped into one note box.
•By activating the option
you get an additional button (
or 
) in the upper right-hand corner of a
note that lets you switch from full to minimal display of a note and back again.
Click on a note to switch to the single note view
where the note contents and links to other notes, if any, are displayed. Use
these links to browse the discussion forum, which may eventually lead to other
discussion forums, e.g. when a note is a reply to a note from another discussion
forum. The single note view also offers a navigation bar on top where you can
browse the notes of a discussion forum backwards and forwards using the arrow
icons 
and , the notes being sorted by the
current sort criterion activated via
in the top menu of the discussion forum view. Click on the name of the
discussion forum in the header line of the single note view to return to the
discussion overview.