Actions on a particular object

At the right-hand end of each object entry in the folder page you find an action button  for operations to be applied to that particular object, as shown in the following figure.

Figure 6: The action menu for a document

The configuration of the action menu depends on the object type: different actions are avail­able, e.g., for a URL, a folder or a document.

BSCW will not display action menu entries for actions that you may not perform on a specific object. This may be due to the fact that the object type doesn’t allow this action in general or that your role with respect to the object doesn’t let you perform the action. Roles are the basis for access right management in BSCW. You may invite new workspace members assigning roles to them, e.g. ‘teacher’ or ‘student’, if these roles have been defined beforehand. Roles define access profiles and can be attached to any object in BSCW. A set of pre-defined roles serves as a starting point: Manager, Member, Associate member and Restricted member (read-only access) are default roles – define your own roles at will. Role assignments are inherited via the folder hierarchy and can be modified any time (see 4.5 Access rights and roles).