in the action menu of the document. When you use the built-in HTML editor, this
action automatically locks the document, until you are finished with
editing. You can create and edit HTML documents (MIME type
text/html) directly on the BSCW server. With most recent Web
browsers, e.g. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, an
HTML editor is being used that has been integrated into BSCW. Should you use a
browser that does not work with the integrated editor, HTML documents are edited
like ordinary text documents.
To create an HTML document
•select in the top menu of the current folder.
•Enter name, optional tags and description of the new document. Enter the contents of the document into the window of the HTML editor.
•Hitting [OK] or invoking the editor ‘Save’ operation creates the new HTML document. If you forgot to enter a name for the new document, it is stored under “Document of <your user name>”.
•If you click on [Cancel and edit source] you lose your input so far and can enter the HTML document in source text, i.e. with HTML tags.
To edit an HTML document directly on the server
•select
in the action menu of the document. When you use the built-in HTML editor, this
action automatically locks the document, until you are finished with
editing.
Note: The automatic locking generates no events of its own and doesn’t appear in the history of the document.
•The contents of the HTML document are displayed in the window of the HTML editor where you may edit the document freely.
•By hitting [OK], the edited document replaces the existing one or creates a new version if the document is under version control.
•If you click on [Cancel and edit source] you lose your input so far and can edit the HTML document as source text.
The editor features a backup-restore facility. The backup copies of all documents edited are available until the end of the BSCW session, i.e. until logout. There is also one backup copy for cancelled editor sessions.
•Click [Create backup now] in the editor’s upper toolbar to create a backup. Additionally, a backup is automatically created every minute. The date of the last backup is shown at the left-hand end of the toolbar.
•Click [Restore from backup] to restore the editor content from the last backup. You are shown the last backup before actual restoration takes place.
During creation of the HTML document (either via upload or
directly on the server), the character set of the document has been
inferred from the creator’s browser information. You can also explicitly set the
character set via
.
Uncheck the check box ‘Try to select the character set for contents of a text
file automatically’ and confirm with [OK]. You can then enter the character set
for the HTML document in the action form.