3.4 Actions

In BSCW an action may be triggered by clicking the button that represents the action (in the HTML-based user interface and in JBrowser) or by choosing the action from the context menu of the object involved (in JBrowser only, see section 3.2.4).

Buttons may take four forms:

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The actions triggered by buttons like the two on the right are straightforward: open and display a specific page or download a Document. For the icons in this class of buttons see section 6.3.2.

The remainder of this section will focus on the actions triggered by buttons like the two on the left: they deserve more detailed explanations.

In the HTML-based user interface, the buttons discussed here are grouped together in four positions:

• the top button bar of a Folder page, Meeting page, Members page etc.;
• the button bars for selected objects in a Folder page, Meeting page, Members page etc.;
• the [Action] bars optionally displayed below each entry in a Folder page, Meeting page, Members page etc.;
• the top button bar in the Info page of an object;
• the top button bar in the 'Modify' form of an object.

Which buttons BSCW will offer you in these places -- thus: which actions you may perform -- depends on several factors:

• the level of proficiency that you set in your Preferences (see section 4.2.4);
• your personal configuration of the various button bars (see section 4.3);
• your access rights for a Folder and for the objects it contains (see section 4.7).

As a basis for personalizing the user interface, section 6.1 shows the maximum configuration of button bars and [Action] bars in the different types of pages.

Section 6.2 describes in detail which actions can be performed on the different types of objects in BSCW, and where the buttons that trigger each action may be placed.