Working Environment for Documents and Messages (SAP Library

Working Environment for Documents and Messages

Use

This part of the Business Workplace working environment is used for organizing and managing folders, documents, messages, distribution lists and objects.

For information on processing work items, see Business Workplace: Workflow Functions.

Features

The Business Workplace has six working environments for processing documents and messages. The working environments are flagged with symbols.

Working Environment

Description

Symbol

Inbox

Under Documents, you find all the documents sent to you and their resubmissions. Under Unread documents, you find only those documents which you have not yet read (that is, they are displayed in the preview).

Outbox

Under Documents, you find an overview and information about the documents sent by you.

Resubmissions

Under Documents, you find the documents that are to be resubmitted to your inbox at a future date.

Private folders

A folder structure that you create yourself for managing your documents, messages, distribution lists and work processes.

Shared Folders

A folder structure for publishing and managing information, on either an enterprise-wide or a group-specific basis, and for accessing this information dependent on authorizations.

Subscribed Folders

The folders that you subscribe to are displayed here.

Trash folder

Deleted folders, documents, distribution lists and work processes are stored here temporarily and you have the option of undoing the deletion.

Activities

In order to display the contents of a working environment, click on the required working environment in the folder tree. The corresponding folder content list is displayed.

Working Environment	Description	Symbol
Inbox	Under Documents, you find all the documents sent to you and their resubmissions. Under Unread documents, you find only those documents which you have not yet read (that is, they are displayed in the preview).
Outbox	Under Documents, you find an overview and information about the documents sent by you.
Resubmissions	Under Documents, you find the documents that are to be resubmitted to your inbox at a future date.
Private folders	A folder structure that you create yourself for managing your documents, messages, distribution lists and work processes.
Shared Folders	A folder structure for publishing and managing information, on either an enterprise-wide or a group-specific basis, and for accessing this information dependent on authorizations.
Subscribed Folders	The folders that you subscribe to are displayed here.
Trash folder	Deleted folders, documents, distribution lists and work processes are stored here temporarily and you have the option of undoing the deletion.