Your personal portal for BSCW
can show the contents of important workspaces, an overview of recent BSCW
events, current appointments from your BSCW calendar or your BSCW microblog
messages. Your portal is configured by yourself. In the upper right-hand corner of the user interface, you find a row of icons that give direct access to your personal objects. These icons of the instant access bar are available in each of your folders or workspaces.
Your personal portal for BSCW
can show the contents of important workspaces, an overview of recent BSCW
events, current appointments from your BSCW calendar or your BSCW microblog
messages. Your portal is configured by yourself.
Your personal
workspace or home folder is the folder that may only be accessed by yourself and
contains all your folders and all workspaces where you are a member. If you
click on the home folder icon in one of your other private objects, you return
to the private folder or shared workspace that you visited last. Another click
on the home folder icon brings you to the home folder itself.
The listing of your community
workspaces contains all such workspaces with communities where you
are a member. Communities allow workspace access for large groups of users
equipped with equal access rights, keeping performance independent of community
size; they also offer self-organized platforms for users with similar interests.
The community workspaces are also contained in your home folder.
The clipboard serves as an
intermediate store when cutting and copying.
The trash helps
to prevent unauthorized or unintentional deletion of objects. In BSCW, an object
can be irrevocably destroyed only from its owner’s trash.
The address book is used to
invite new members to your workspaces and to manage contacts.
The calendar helps you manage your
appointments.
The task list contains tasks
you are to carry out (includes proper tasks, flow folders and documents to be
released; also see 12 Workflow Management).
The bookmarks contain your
collected bookmarks and offer quick access to the objects referred to by the
bookmarks.
The personal templates and
contain templates for often-used objects and
metadata profiles that you have defined
in addition to the standards supplied by the system.
The briefcase is used to
synchronize BSCW documents with their counterparts on a local computer.