3.2.5 Extended functionality

In the View menu and the Go menu, JBrowser offers a number of features that the HTML-based user interface does not provide.

The View menu lets you determine the language in JBrowser's menus, the categories of information displayed in the Table window and the way the columns in the Table window react to resizing.

• Choose Preferences ... from the View menu and
• click the View tab

to bring up the card that lets you select the categories of information about the BSCW objects that are to be displayed as columns in the Table window. Several of the categories are not available in the entries of objects in a Folder page.

By choosing an Autoresize mode you specify that columns in the Table windos have

• a fixed width, so that it may take some horizontal scrolling to inspect columns that are initially outside the Table window:
  Autoresize Off;
  In this mode you may resize any column individually by dragging the separators in the header row.
• a variable width, with all columns queezed into the Table window:
  All other Autoresize modes;
  Your specific choice here determines how resizing a column will be compensated for by the other columns.
• choose Language from the View menu and
• choose English or German

to have the names in the menu bar and the individual menu options displayed in English or in German. Some text items in the Info window will also use the language you select.
The language of the JBrowser context menus cannot be changed in this menu. It is determined by your choice of user interface language in the 'Edit preferences' form (see section 2.3).

Note:

Modified preferences are in effect only for the current session. They revert to the default preferences when JBrowser is closed and started again.

In the Go menu and in the icon bar you may browse your navigating history, opening again the Folders, Meetings and Discussions that you have already inspected in your current session:

• Click the    icon

or

• select Back from the Go menu

to show the contents of the Folder, Meeting or Discussion that is one step back in your navigating history.

• Click the    icon

or

• select Forward from the Go menu

to show the contents of the Folder, Meeting or Discussion that is one step forward again in your navigating history.

• Click the    icon

or

• select Up from the Go menu

to show the contents of the Folder, Meeting or Discussion that is one level up in the Folder path of the current object.
Please note: your navigating steps among folders on the same level will be lost when you go back and up to the next higher level. Also, there is no quick way to go forward and down again to the Folder etc. where you clicked  .