4.12 Bookmarks
Bookmarks in BSCW are links to Web pages or BSCW objects that are of personal interest to you. With your bookmark folder you have a personal object where you may collect bookmarks similar to the bookmarking feature of Web browsers.
- Click
in the instant access bar or select
in the top menu
to open your bookmark folder. You may now add new bookmarks
using
. - In other folders, you may use
to add
links to BSCW objects to your bookmark folder.
Within the bookmark folder, you may create subfolders via to further structure your bookmark collection.
BSCW bookmarks may be exported into the bookmark format of Netscape and then imported into browsers that support the Netscape format (e.g., MS Internet Explorer and Opera).
- Select in the top menu of your bookmark folder to archive all your bookmarks in Netscape format. Download this archive to your local computer, unpack the HTML file with your bookmarks and import the bookmarks to your browser.
- You may carry out this operation also for a subset of your bookmarks (single bookmarks, subfolders) by selecting the respective bookmarks and clicking in the selection menu bar.
This export feature is helpful for users who have to use different computers frequently: whenever they access a new computer they may first download and install their BSCW bookmarks on this computer, thus always having access to their personal bookmarks.