Actions on a single object are triggered by selecting its menu entry in the object's action menu: .

Many of the entries are specific to a particular type of objects, e. g., the actions offered for a folder or for a document are different .

Depending on how you have configured your user interface, you may see fewer than the complete set of possible action menu entries for this type of objects (see 4.2.4). Furthermore BSCW does not show action menu entries that you cannot use because you do not have the necessary role (access rights) for a specific object or a complete folder or workspace (see 4.7).

Actions offered in the action menus include:

 Open   opens an object (folder, document, calendar etc.)

 Catch up   removes the events icons that showed you the latest read and change events for the object (see 3.5).

 History   shows all events that took place since the creation of this object.

 Info   shows the info page of this object (see 4.6).

 Contents   gives a recursive list of all objects in a folder.

 Change    Banner   to create or change a banner for a folder or workspace (see 4.4.4).

 Send   forwards an object via email or fax.

 Change    Type   changes a document's MIME type, e. g., if the uploading process did not detect it correctly.

 Edit   Under certain conditions MS Office files can be edited directly on the BSCW Server (see 4.2.6).

 Replace   uploads a file from your local computer system and puts it in the place of this document. The 'replaced' document is overwritten and is no longer accessible.
Use this action to upload edited documents.

 Version   lets you impose version control on a document and enter a description of the base version, initial version number and state (see 4.8).

 Set Lock   locks the document. You should enter a brief text warning the other members of the workspace. The text is displayed when a user clicks the   icon. This lock prevents from editing the document by mistake: it may be unlocked by other members of your workspace.

 Convert   lets you produce a new document by converting this document into another format (MIME type). Select the target format from a menu of the converter programs installed on your BSCW server (see 7.2).

 Archive   generates a zip or tar archive and offers several encoding types (see 7.1).

 Extract   extracts documents with MIME type .zip archive or .tar archive. The extracted files are placed in your clipboard (see 3.5.1).

 Export   transfers this object to an FTP host (see 7.3).

 Rate   allows you to rate the quality of document and objects referenced by an URL. Your rating will replace your previous rating, if any. The median of ratings is displayed in the object's entry.

 Attach    Note   in the action menu of a document or URL object: to create an annotation to a document or URL object. The annotation is represented by the icon behind the object name; click this icon to display the annotation (see 4.9.6).

 New    Note   creates a new note within a discussion. This note does not reply to any earlier note, but it may start a new thread (see 4.9).

 Change    Description   changes the description of the object (see 4.6).

 Change    Name   allows you to give another name to your object.

 Change    Events   lets you configure the events you want to be informed of by icons and/or the daily activity report (see 3.4).

 Access    Add Role   lets you define a new role based on standard templates or action classes (see 4.7).

 Access    Edit Role   changes the attributes of an existing role - if you have the permission - (see 4.7).

 Access    Assign Role   allows you to give a (new) role to a member, if you have the suitable permission - (see 4.7).

 Access    Public Access   lets you define permitted actions (i.e. add document/folder/discussion/URL) for anyone (see 4.7). For security reason read-only access is assigned by default.

 Cut   lets you transfer the object into your clipboard (see 3.5.1).

 Copy   lets you transfer a copy of the object onto your clipboard (see 3.5.1).
Note: To copy a folder means to recursively copy all objects contained in it, including all folders, sub-folders etc. and their contents.

 Paste   lets you transfer the selected object rom the clipboard to a folder (see 3.5.1).

 Delete   transfers the object into your trash (see 3.5.2).

 Link to Clipboard   creates a link to this object in your clipboard. You may then paste the link into another folder. Modifications (e.g. like adding a note) applies on all links referring to an object. Deleting concerns the current object, only.