BSCW can convert path names as they are shown in the navigation bar of the folder listing (the ‘Your Location:’ field) to the corresponding internal addresses. This allows you to use this familiar address format to define links to objects in a BSCW workspace, in particular from other objects in that workspace.
Take as an example a document article.html
that contains a picture pic.gif and refers to a second document
doc2.html. The text of article.html might then contain
the tags
<IMG SRC="pic.gif">
...
<A HREF="doc2.html">document 2</A>
If the three files article.html,
pic.gif and doc2.html are contained in the same
folder, BSCW will convert the links correctly and will display the requested
files.
Files in subfolders, in folders higher up the directory
tree or in a different branch of the tree of workspaces may be addressed in the
same way, following standard UNIX notation. If, e.g., the image file
pic.gif is contained in the subfolder pictures, and the
second document is contained in the subfolder documents of the subfolder
more, BSCW will correctly convert the following links.
<IMG
SRC="pictures/pic.gif">
...
<A
HREF="more/documents/doc2.html">document 2</A>
Similarly, if the document doc2.html contains
a link
<A HREF="../../article.html">previous document</A>
this link is again converted correctly, if
article.html is contained in a folder two levels above
doc2.html.