Browsing a discussion forum
BSCW provides different ways to display the contents of notes and to browse a discussion forum. In the discussion overview, all notes are displayed in a box along with subject and author. You may customize the display of the discussion overview by selecting your viewing options.
•
Enable or disable the display of note contents in the discussion overview
by selecting or de-selecting
. When the display of note contents is
enabled, all notes have an individual foldout button (
or 
) that allows to show or hide the
contents of a note. In addition, these two foldout buttons also appear in
the multi-selection toolbar to show or hide the contents of selected
notes. If no notes are selected, these buttons will take effect on all
notes.
• Select the note attributes you want to have displayed in the discussion overview via .
• Sort the notes by type, date, author, subject or thread by selecting the respective entry in . The default sorting criterion is by thread: in this case, all notes belonging to a thread are grouped into one note box.
• By
activating the option
you get an additional button (
or 
)
in the upper right-hand corner of a note that lets you switch from full to
minimal display of a note and back again.
Click on a note to switch to the single note view
where the note contents and links to other notes, if any, are displayed. Use
these links to browse the discussion forum, which may eventually lead
to other discussion forums, e.g. when a note is a reply to a note from another
discussion forum. The single note view also offers a navigation bar on
top where you can browse the notes of a discussion forum backwards and forwards
using the arrow icons 
and 
, the
notes being sorted by the current sort criterion activated via
in the top menu of the discussion forum view. Click on the name of the
discussion forum in the header line of the single note view to return to the
discussion overview.