Website folders
Website folders provide a convenient way to create and
manage a miniature website inside BSCW. Apart from the HTML documents (“pages”)
making up the contents of the website, a website folder has two special pages:
the home page that is shown when you click on a website folder’s icon 
or name in a folder listing, and the layout page that
serves as the standard framework for all other HTML documents of the
website folder, thus ensuring a consistent layout of all pages in a
website folder. When creating a website folder, predefined home and layout pages
are offered for a start.
Website folders may still be opened like ordinary folders
bypassing the display of the home page (use 
in the action menu) and exhibit the functionality of ordinary folders, i.e. may
contain other material than HTML documents and also subfolders, which may be
website folders themselves or not.
Website folders have a built-in element system with a
Wiki-like [element …] syntax, allowing you to
include BSCW system features into your pages, e.g. a page’s last modification
date, links for editing the page, a display of the page history or even whole
action menus. Additionally, you may also define your own text elements to
be used in other places of the website folder. This way, you can define,
e.g., the page title in every content page which is then used in the layout page
to display the title. The following figure shows a sample page of a website
folder exhibiting some of these features.
Figure 20: A sample page of a website folder
BSCW elements as well as links to other pages of the website folder may be inserted into the pages of the website folder very easily using BSCW’s built-in HTML editor. The editor offers four respective menus for this purpose when HTML documents are edited within a website folder.
Website folders may also be exported and published in form of a static copy. A static copy is the result of an evaluation of the website folder, i.e. all text and BSCW elements are replaced by their respective values and the pages are embedded in the layout page. BSCW elements that cannot be used in an external environment, e.g. action links or action menus, are omitted during this process. Subfolders are included in a static copy.
Website folders are only available on your BSCW server if the respective functionality has been activated by your server administrator.
Creating, editing and setting the
home and layout pages