Work Environment for Documents and Messages

Use

This part of the Business Workplace work 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.

Procedure

The Business Workplace has several work environments for processing documents and messages. The work environments are flagged with icons.

Work Environment	Description	Icon
Inbox	The Documents area contains all the documents sent to you and their resubmissions. The Unread Documents area contains only the documents that you have not read yet (that is, displayed in the preview pane).
Outbox	The Documents area contains overview of and information about the documents you have sent.
Resubmissions	The Documents area contains the documents that are to be resubmitted to your inbox on 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	Deleted folders, documents, distribution lists, and work processes are stored here temporarily; you have the option of undoing the deletion.

To display the contents of a work environment, click the required work environment in the folder tree. The corresponding folder content list is displayed.