BSCW lets you create and manage sets of interlinked documents (HTML files, GIF or JPEG files, audio or video files etc.). You can share them with the other members of the workspace and even publish them for anonymous access on the Web (cf. section 4.7).

Links may also be included in notes (cf. section 4.9), in the 'description' attached to an object and in various other text fields.

• If you want to create a link to an object in another workspace on the same server, make sure that the members of your workspace are allowed to open the object.
• If you want to create a link to an object in a workspace on another BSCW server, make sure that the user anonymous is allowed to open the object (cf. section 4.7.6).

To create a link, you need to specify the URL of the object on the BSCW server. This URL may be written in two different forms:

• BSCW's internal address format or
• the path in a folder (directory) tree,

each with its specific advantages. BSCW's internal addresses are short, they do not change when the object is moved to another folder, when a folder is renamed etc., and they can be used as entry points into a hyperlinked structure from outside the BSCW server.

On the other hand, by using the familiar 'relative' directory path URLs, you keep a hyperlinked structure portable, i.e. you could archive it, take it to a different server, move it to an arbitrary place in the folder hierarchy and have the links intact and working. (Given that you don't rename or remove documents from the hyperlinked structure.)