in the top menu of the current folder. You may create and edit HTML documents (MIME type
text/html) directly on the BSCW server. For the current versions of
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari, an HTML editor
integrated in BSCW is used for this purpose. If you use a browser for which the
integration with the HTML editor does not work, HTML documents are edited like
ordinary text documents.
To create an HTML document,
•select in the top menu of the current folder.
•Enter the name and optionally tags and description of the new document. Enter the contents of the document in the HTML editor window.
•When you click [OK] or invoke the 'Save' editor operation, you create the new HTML document. If you forgot to specify a name for the new document it will be saved as "Document from <your-username>".
•If you click on [Cancel and edit source], you lose all your previous entries and can enter the HTML document in source code, i.e. with HTML tags.
To edit an HTML document directly on the BSCW server
•Select 
the context menu of the document.
If you are using the built-in HTML editor, this action automatically locks
the document until you finish editing.
Note: Automatic locking during editing does not generate its own events and is not included in the document's history.
•The content of the HTML document is displayed in the HTML editor window, where you can edit the document.
•Clicking [OK] replaces the existing document with the revised one, or creates a new version if the document is under version control.
•If you click on [Cancel and edit source code], you lose all your previous entries. You can then edit the HTML document in the source code.
The editor used has the facility to save backup copies of documents and to restore them when needed. The backup copies for all edited documents are kept during a BSCW session, i.e. until logout. There is also a backup copy for aborted editor sessions.
•Click on [Create backup now] in the upper toolbar of the editor to create a backup copy. A backup is also made automatically every minute. The date of the last backup is indicated on the left of the toolbar.
•Click on [Restore backup] to restore the last backup. Before the restore, the backup copy is displayed.
During the generation of the HTML document (either by
upload or direct generation on the BSCW server) the character set of the
document is usually inferred from the browser information of the creator.
However, you may also set the character set explicitly via 
. To do so, deselect the checkbox 'Automatically
select character set for text file contents if possible' and confirm with [OK].
You can then enter the character set for the HTML document in the action form.