BSCW lets you create and manage sets of interlinked Documents (HTML files, GIF or JPEG files, audio or video files etc.). You can share them with the other members of the Workspace and even publish them for anonymous access on the Web (in section 4.7 there is more on setting access rights for anonymous access and on adjusting URLs accordingly).
Links may also be included in Notes (see section 4.9), in the 'Description' attached to an object and in various other text fields.
To create a link, you need to specify the URL of the object on the BSCW server. This URL may be written in two different forms:
each with its specific advantages. BSCW's internal addresses are short, they do not change when the object is moved to another Folder, when a Folder is renamed etc., and they can be used as entry points into a hyperlinked structure from outside the BSCW server.
On the other hand, by using the familiar 'relative' directory path URLs, you keep a hyperlinked structure portable, i.e. you could archive it, take it to a different server, move it to an arbitrary place in the Folder hierarchy and have the links intact and working. Restrict access rights (see section 4.7) to prevent your co-workers from inadvertently renaming objects or moving them around.