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 6.2.2.

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.