1.2.3 Collaborative Authoring
Hyperwave Information Server supports collaborative authoring, not just in its
automatic management of links and superior security features, but also with
such functionality as Version Control, Configurations, Release Flow and
Document Classes.
The
Version control feature allows you to save and restore all versions of a
document ever created on the Hyperwave Information Server. These versions
receive minor and major version numbers (e.g. v 2.1) and are listed in a
Version History, which can be browsed. Older versions can be selected from the
version history and restored to the server in the place of the most recent
version. The Version History contains information about the authors of versions
and dates they were saved, allowing more effective collaborative work. The
Version Control functionality also allows you to delete specific versions from
a version history, create shortcuts to versions and remove versions from
Version Control.
New
features in Version Control also allow you to check out versions other than the
most recent version and to set previous versions as committed. Version Control
is described on
page
95.
The
Configurations feature works much in the same way as Version Control, except
that you can save versions of whole collection hierarchies. These collection
hierarchies are saved as Configuration Objects (outside the server) and can
later be browsed. Again, it is possible to see what user saved the
configuration, and when it was saved. Previous configurations can be loaded
onto the server, to incorporate recent changes, or restored to override these
changes. The Configurations feature is described on
page
108.
Release
Flow is an excellent addition to Hyperwave Information Server's collaborative
authoring capabilities. With Release Flow, a chain of users can be defined and
this "Flow" used for the systematic review, editing and publication of
documents. Release Flow is described on
page
84.
Document
Classes is a feature of the Hyperwave Information Server developed to allow
users to determine exactly how documents appear and behave on the HWIS. Under
Document Classes, programmers can specify in detail how particular document
types should look like in the user interface, and what special functions should
be available for these document types. Declared document classes appear on the
Publish menu, allowing users to insert documents to the server that have
particular characteristics and behavior, without themselves having extensive
knowledge of how to configure the HWIS interface. Document Classes are
described on
page
116.
Users
can annotate documents and collections with their own comments. These comments
(notes) are stored as documents, and therefore they can, in turn, be annotated
again. This means that any document or collection can be the starting point of
an asynchronous electronic discussion.
Annotations can be made public (readable by all users), private (readable only
by the author), or group annotations (readable by a defined discussion group).
Annotations may be addressed to individual locations in the document, or the
whole document. For information on how to attach notes to documents, see
page
63. For information on how to view notes, see
page
115.
NOTIFICATIONS
In addition, careful setting of stored queries with notifications can inform
members of the discussion group of new annotations, thus integrating Hyperwave
Information Server's annotation functions with e-mail.
Further features of Hyperwave Information Server helpful to collaborative
authoring are described in more detail in Chapter 2 of this guide.
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