3.6.1 Your Bag

You can move objects -- or their copies -- from a Folder or Workspace to almost any other location in your hierarchy of Folders or Workspaces.

To do this, you use your Bag. This personal object is represented by the    icon in the footer of every Folder page.

In the simplest way to use your Bag, it is like using a clipboard:

• Click their checkboxes

to select the objects you want to move or copy.

• Click    on the button bar for selected objects

to transfer the objects to your Bag, or

• click    instead

to transfer copies of the objects to your Bag.

There is a visual feedback from the Bag:  . It is "full" now.

• Open the Folder to which the objects are to be moved.
• Click    on the top button bar

to transfer into this Folder the objects that you have just cut or copied.

Note:

To    a Folder means to recursively copy all objects contained in it, including all Folders, sub-Folders etc. and their contents. In many cases a    action could serve the same purpose and would need much less storage space.

If you need to have the Folder accessible from the "old" and from the "new" location, you might consider creating in the "new" location a URL object with the address of the Folder in the original location.
On the one hand, this would avoid any future inconsistencies between the copy and the original Folder and its contents, which might be updated after all.
On the other hand, if the "new" location is not in the same Workspace, membership of the two Workspaces -- and thus access rights to the original Folder -- might diverge, possibly leaving some members without access to the Folder and the objects contained in it.

 
Full functionality

To enjoy the full functionality of your Bag, organize and use it like a special Folder -- open it by clicking the  .

The Bag holds all objects that have been cut or copied to it and have not yet been cut or dropped in a new location or deleted to the Wastebasket. Your Bag "remembers" the (group of) objects that were added by the latest    or    as the current selection. In the list of objects in the Bag, the marked checkboxes indicate the current selection. By clicking the checkboxes, you may change the current selection manually.

As long as you haven't modified the current selection, all objects in it will be transferred to the Folder where you next click    or [Drop] on the [Action] bar.

To transfer a current selection that you have changed manually, you have to click  , while you are in the Bag. All selected objects will then be transferred to the Folder where you next click    or [Drop] on the [Action] bar.

You may even transfer the current selection to another Folder within your Bag. This is useful for collecting objects from different locations in a Folder inside your Bag to    them (more on this in section 4.13).

Back to the Workspace

• Click the Folder name in the footer of your Bag page

to close your Bag and return to the Folder page.