Creating and editing text documents

You can create and edit text documents (MIME type text/plain) directly on the BSCW ser­ver with­out restrictions. The text editor used is a simple text box where the contents of the do­cu­ment are displayed and may be entered and edited.

To create a text document

•      . menu of the current folder.

•      Enter name, optional tags and description of the new document. Enter the text of the document into the text box offered.

•      Hit [OK] to create the document.

To edit a text document directly on the BSCW server,

•      select   Change    Edit  in the action menu of the document.

•      The contents of the text document are displayed in a text box 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.

•      During document creation (either via upload or directly on the server), the character set of the document has been either explicitly set or has been inferred from the cre­a­tor’s browser information. In the latter case, a check box ‘Try to select the char­ac­ter set for contents of a text file automatically’ appears. If you uncheck this box after edit­ing and hit [OK], you will be asked to explicitly set the character set for the docu­ment. Next time you edit the document, this check box will no longer appear. You can also ex­plicit­ly set the character set via   Change    Properties .

In addition to plain text documents, direct editing is also possible for other types of text do­cu­ments, e.g. for XML documents (MIME type text/xml). Because of the primitive nature of the editing method, direct editing of text documents is only recommended for rather short do­cu­ments.