Objects are created by performing actions on the current folder. The popup menus (and action shortcuts for the most frequent actions) that trigger these actions are located in the top section of the folder page.

Figure 1.4-3: Top menu bar and action shortcuts

New objects are added by selecting one of the file menu entries from the top menu (or the respective action shortcut):

Figure 1.4-4: How to create a document

• Select  File    New   and an object type from (Folder|URL|Discussion|Search|Document Set) in order to create an object of the specified type directly on the BSCW server.
• Select  File    New    Document   to upload a file from your local computer system to the current BSCW folder or workspace.

The most popular Web browsers (Netscape Navigator, MS Internet Explorer) provide the required functionality for file upload. If you use any other browser, you may have to install a BSCW helper program for uploading files (more in section 4.14).

Existing objects are transferred from your clipboard:

• Select  Edit    Paste   to add objects that were brought onto your clipboard from somewhere in your folders or workspaces by the most recent  Copy   or  Cut   action to the current folder. The objects might also just have been "created" by BSCW through a 'Convert' or 'Archive' or 'Extract' action.