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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTerry June Linsey, Charles Robert Hill
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Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing data in a place. HTML may be dragged and dropped into a place, where it is parsed and corresponding place fields created. MS Excel or Word documents may be dragged and dropped into a place, which creates a corresponding form, and users may create new documents using that form. A place type comprising a template of an entire place, or collaboration space, may be used to create new places. Changes made to a place may be reported, subject to security controls, by selecting what's new. Task fields are provided allowing web browser creation of forms for work flow. Place enabled objects are provided for synchronous communications. A quick browse feature provides a simplified format for browser windows based on selection of HTML links. MS Office documents may launched within a place for in place editing and importing the resulting document into the place.
A method for browsing in collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
A system for browsing within collaboration space, comprising:
A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for browsing in collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
A computer program product or computer program element for browsing in collaboration space by
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