In the layout of the folder page, the menu entries that create objects of different types are located on the top menu bar.

The action shortcuts also allow creating objects like documents, folders, discussions, initiating a search or getting information on the current folder.

To create an object of a particular type, select the respective entry from the file menu or click the respective action shortcut. This will bring up a form in which to enter the information that BSCW needs to create the new object.

 File    New    Document  

creates a new document in the current folder.

 File    New    Folder  

creates a new folder in the current folder.

 File    New    URL  

creates a URL object whose entry in the current folder page provides a link to a resource that can be accessed via http:// or ftp://or gopher:// etc.
Section 4.11 discusses address formats of BSCW objects referenced by a URL object.

 File    New    Discussion  

creates a specialized folder that contains only notes, offers you to write the first note in this discussion (see section 4.9).

 File    New    Search  

creates a persistent, named search result object and lets you specify the search area, search engine and query. The list of "hits" returned by the search engine will be the content of the search result object (see 4.10).

 File    New    Doc Set  

in order to create a document set that may be continually revised and periodically published. Based on hierarchically structured templates, documents within such document sets can be automatically created by an evaluation process using the templates. The Document Generator is particularly useful for - but not restricted to - Web site management. (see 4.16).

 File    New    Project  

Project-Folders serve workflow-managemant (see 4.18). This option is only available with commercial licences!