Your personal portal for BSCW can show the contents of
important workspaces, an overview of recent BSCW events, current appointments
from your BSCW calendar or your BSCW microblog messages. Your portal is
configured by yourself. In the upper right-hand corner of the user interface, you find a row of icons that give direct access to your personal objects. These icons of the instant access bar are available in each of your folders or workspaces.
Your personal portal for BSCW can show the contents of
important workspaces, an overview of recent BSCW events, current appointments
from your BSCW calendar or your BSCW microblog messages. Your portal is
configured by yourself.
Your personal
workspace or home folder is the folder that may only be accessed by yourself and
contains all your folders and all workspaces where you are a member. If you
click on the home folder icon in one of your other private objects, you return
to the private folder or shared workspace that you visited last. Another click
on the home folder icon brings you to the home folder itself.
The listing of your community workspaces contains
all such workspaces with communities where you are a member. Communities allow
workspace access for large groups of users equipped with equal access rights,
keeping performance independent of community size; they also offer
self-organized platforms for users with similar interests. The community
workspaces are also contained in your home folder.
The clipboard serves as an intermediate store when
cutting and copying.
The trash helps to prevent unauthorized or
unintentional deletion of objects. In BSCW, an object can be irrevocably
destroyed only from its owner’s trash.
The address book is used to invite new members to your
workspaces and to manage contacts.
The calendar helps you manage your appointments.
The task list contains tasks you are to carry out
(includes proper tasks, flow folders and documents to be released; also see
12 Workflow Management).
The bookmarks contain your collected bookmarks and offer
quick access to the objects referred to by the bookmarks.
The personal templates and contain templates for often-used
objects and metadata
profiles that you have defined in addition to the standards supplied by the
system.