The basic concept of BSCW is the workspace, adopting Macintosh or Windows terminology: a folder

• for a specific group of registered users -- represented by the icon -- who can
• read and edit, add, move and delete objects in this shared folder.

As a registered user of a BSCW server you may be a member in an arbitrary number of workspaces. And you may create folders or other objects and share them as demanded by the tasks at hand.

In the Web-based user interface, BSCW presents the contents of a folder or workspace as the central part of a page – preceded by a header containing popup menus, buttons and action shortcuts.

Figure 1.4-1 shows a folder page with examples of the objects that you can create and share in BSCW. Please note that different icons are used to represent the different types of objects. In section 3.1 the structure of the folder page is explained in detail.

For additional comfort in browsing and managing your workspaces use JBrowser, a Java applet installed with your Web browser. JBrowser presents the information and the actions of a folder page in the familiar Windows explorer style. For details see section 3.2.

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	catch up   send   copy   cut   delete   archive    rate   fetch   verify
Demo Folder       Name Shared Note Rating Owner Date Events Action Folder     Rendell 2001-03-20 15:21   Document under version control [0.1]   Soyers 2001-11-04 16:16   HTML document   Rendell 2001-05-13 15:24   URL (link)   Kloeckner 2001-01-27 19:13   Search result     Soyers 2001-11-04 15:30       102 objects match the query. 10 are stored. Discussion     Rendell 2001-03-04 08:33   +Group calendar     Kloeckner 2001-11-04 18:04   Document set     Kloeckner 2001-11-04 18:04

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Figure 1.4-1: Example folder page