1.6 What’s new in version 4.4?

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Document events: Document events are concerned with reading, modifying and creating documents in a workspace and are evaluated by BSCW to indicate, e.g., who has read the documents that a certain member has created or who has created the documents that a certain member has read. The document events of a workspace can also be represented graphically as an event map (see 3.4.5).
Tags: Tags are informally chosen keywords for the classification of documents, folders and blog entries. Tags may be used in searches for such objects (see 3.7, 4.8.3).
Blogs: A blog (short for Web log) consists of a sequence of entries, which are displayed in reverse chronological order. The blog entries themselves are usually rather short HTML documents. Blogs differ in who may read the entries and who may add new entries. Blogs are displayed in a specific layout (see 4.7).
Templates: Template folders are special folders containing templates which may be copied to other folders. Templates can be arbitrary BSCW objects, e.g. documents of any kind, polls, flow folders, tasks and even folders including their entire contents. Typical examples of templates are letter or spreadsheet templates with elaborate layout and formats plus complex formulas in the case of spreadsheets (see 5.4).
Website folders: Website folders provide a convenient way to create and manage a miniature website inside BSCW. Apart from the HTML documents (“pages”) making up the contents of the website, a website folder has two special documents: the home page and the layout page, the latter serving as the standard framework for all other HTML documents of the website folder. Additionally, website folders have a built-in element system, allowing you to include BSCW system features into the pages of a website folder (see 5.5).
Online status display: The online status display indicates the “BSCW presence” of members of a shared workspace, i.e. their online status with regard to their activity in BSCW. The online status display may be switched on and off and consists of clickable entries that may be used for initiating contacts (see 6.2).
BSCW Desktop Client: The BSCW Desktop client is a local application that supports the upload of large numbers of documents very efficiently. BSCW Desktop additionally provides data protection and digital signatures for documents in shared workspaces using the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption method (see 9.4).
Outlook synchronization: Outlook synchronization supports the synchronization of contacts and appointments in BSCW with corresponding data in Microsoft Outlook, i.e. BSCW users working on a Windows platform may synchronize their BSCW contact lists and personal or group calendars with an Outlook client on their local computers (see 9.7).
Various other improvements: Searching in BSCW has been accelerated using PyLucene for indexing document contents as well as metadata of other object types (see 4.8.2, 4.8.3). Communities have been completely reimplemented to also support large communities without loss of performance (see 7.3).

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1.6 What’s new in version 4.4? Document events Document events are concerned with reading, modifying and creating documents in a workspace and are evaluated by BSCW to indicate, e.g., who has read the documents that a certain member has created or who has created the documents that a certain member has read. The document events of a workspace can also be represented graphically as an event map (see 3.4.5). Tags Tags are informally chosen keywords for the classification of documents, folders and blog entries. Tags may be used in searches for such objects (see 3.7, 4.8.3). Blogs A blog (short for Web log) consists of a sequence of entries, which are displayed in reverse chronological order. The blog entries themselves are usually rather short HTML documents. Blogs differ in who may read the entries and who may add new entries. Blogs are displayed in a specific layout (see 4.7). Templates Template folders are special folders containing templates which may be copied to other folders. Templates can be arbitrary BSCW objects, e.g. documents of any kind, polls, flow folders, tasks and even folders including their entire contents. Typical examples of templates are letter or spreadsheet templates with elaborate layout and formats plus complex formulas in the case of spreadsheets (see 5.4). Website folders Website folders provide a convenient way to create and manage a miniature website inside BSCW. Apart from the HTML documents (“pages”) making up the contents of the website, a website folder has two special documents: the home page and the layout page, the latter serving as the standard framework for all other HTML documents of the website folder. Additionally, website folders have a built-in element system, allowing you to include BSCW system features into the pages of a website folder (see 5.5). Online status display The online status display indicates the “BSCW presence” of members of a shared workspace, i.e. their online status with regard to their activity in BSCW. The online status display may be switched on and off and consists of clickable entries that may be used for initiating contacts (see 6.2). BSCW Desktop Client The BSCW Desktop client is a local application that supports the upload of large numbers of documents very efficiently. BSCW Desktop additionally provides data protection and digital signatures for documents in shared workspaces using the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption method (see 9.4). Outlook synchronization Outlook synchronization supports the synchronization of contacts and appointments in BSCW with corresponding data in Microsoft Outlook, i.e. BSCW users working on a Windows platform may synchronize their BSCW contact lists and personal or group calendars with an Outlook client on their local computers (see 9.7). Various other improvements Searching in BSCW has been accelerated using PyLucene for indexing document contents as well as metadata of other object types (see 4.8.2, 4.8.3). Communities have been completely reimplemented to also support large communities without loss of performance (see 7.3).

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