Any file uploaded from your local system is represented in BSCW as a document. Documents may contain text, graphics, spreadsheets, print files, images or audio and video data and are a basic object type in BSCW. Uploading documents to BSCW is described in 4.3.2 Upload and modify documents in BSCW.
BSCW supports the management of documents and their contents:
•Text and HTML documents may be created and edited directly on the BSCW server. MS Office and other documents may also be edited directly on the BSCW server under certain conditions.
•Documents can be resubmitted as reminders; documents can be locked or frozen to protect them from accidental replacement or editing.
•Documents can be placed under version control to track changes when a document is edited by different authors in a shared workspace.
•Documents can serve as templates, which are kept in specific template folders and can be copied from there to other places. Typical examples of templates are letter or form templates with extensive formatting or complicated calculation formulas.
•Collections of interrelated documents (HTML documents, image, audio and video files, etc.) may be created and managed in BSCW using URLs for objects in workspaces. Such collections may be shared with other members of a workspace or made public for anonymous access via the Internet.
•HTML documents can be grouped in a wiki to be managed there as a kind of miniature website. Wiki have two special pages: the start page and the layout page; the latter serves as the default frame for all other HTML documents of the wiki.