The info page

BSCW generates and maintains a lot of descriptive information on its objects (folders, discus­sions, documents, users, groups etc.). Some of the items may be edited by a user who has the necessary access rights, others are automatically generated and updated by BSCW. While a few items, e.g. type and name of an object or the user name of its owner, are displayed in various contexts in the Web-based user interface, it is the info page of an object that brings together all the information that BSCW maintains about the object.

•      Select action menu  Info  or click the info icon to the left of an object’s type icon to display the info page of the object (see Figure 9 for an example).

The info page supplies some technical information about an object and shows the current ac­cess rights, i.e. which users in what role may carry out which actions on the object. The other contents of the info page may vary depending on the object type.

•      Document: The info page shows all document metadata attributes that have a value as­signed.

•      Document under version control: The info page additionally shows the version history as a table. By clicking the version number you may download a specific ver­sion to your local system.

•      Contact: The info page shows all the information describing the contact.

•      User: Besides user name and email address, the info page contains all the information that was entered into the personal profile of the user like a telephone number or a photograph. It also contains contact details on how to reach a user via syn­chronous conferencing tools or messaging services when such details were entered into the personal profile.