Figure 3.1-1: Header items

The header section of a folder page, a calendar page etc. consists of:

 
The top menu bar

containing the menus for manipulating new objects in the folder, calendar or discussion. The objects that are created by selecting the respective menu entries are described in section 3.3.

The action shortcuts

directly allow for creating objects like documents, folders, discussions, initiating a search or getting information on the current folder.

 
The instant access bar

gives access to personal objects like your homefolder, clipboard, wastebasket, address book and calendar as well as the public home folder of the user anonymous with all the objects on your BSCW server that can be accessed anonymously.

 
In the navigation bar

: <Your user name> / active workspaces
specifies the location of the current object in your folder hierarchy as the directory path from your home folder.
The names are links to the respective folder pages.

 
Banner

empty in most cases; a banner (text and graphics) can be inserted -- individually for each folder, if desired (see section 4.4.4).

 
The selection menu bar

offers buttons for

• de-selecting
   Edit    Select none  
  or selecting:
  alternatively in the top menu  Edit    Select all  
  all entries in the current page;
• managing selected (checkmarked) objects.

 

 
The context menu

offers all the actions that are applicable on the actual folder. In addition the context menu of the home folder offers overall actions like activating additional applications (JBrowser, JMonitor).