Personal objects
In BSCW, every user has direct access to a number of personal objects, the icons of which are shown in the instant access bar in the upper right-hand corner of the Web-based user interface. The instant access bar is present in each of your folder pages.
The personal objects cannot be shared with other users of your BSCW server.
Home folder
Communities
Clipboard
Trash
Address book
Calendar
Bookmarks
Task list
Briefcase
Your home folder is
your personal workspace, which may only be accessed by yourself and which
contains all folders that you have created and all workspaces where you have
been invited as a member. When you click your home folder icon from within other
personal objects, you return to the workspace that you viewed last;
clicking again on the home folder icon brings you indeed to your home folder.
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 address book is mainly used to invite new members to
your workspaces.
The calendar helps you manage your appointments. In
addition to this personal calendar, BSCW offers group calendars to
support cooperation in arbitrary workspaces. These group calendars are stored in
the respective workspaces.
Bookmarks offer quick access to important objects. This
personal data area contains those bookmarks that you have collected.
This personal data area
contains the tasks that you are to carry out
(includes proper tasks, flow folders and project processes). The icon changes
its appearance if there are tasks for you to carry out.
The briefcase contains documents you want to have
synchronized with their counterparts on your local computer.
Clipboard and trash are described in more detail in the following two subsections.
Clipboard