Workspaces are a very powerful and flexibel concept of OpenGoo. On the other hand, workspaces are not easy to understand for everybody, so make sure you know how to make use of this feature.

Basically all information in OpenGoo is organized in workspaces. Other collaboration software have projects or folders to organize information; workspaces are similar, but not the same. Here are some facts about workspaces:

• A workspace can represent a client, a project or any other object in a classification system you use. Workspaces are a generic concept, they get their meaning just by their name.
• Workspaces can contain other workspaces. In other words you can build hierarchical structures of workspaces with several levels. (But be careful: Many workspaces or a complex structure bear the potential of putting information into the wrong workspace, which makes it invisible for the intended audience or even accessibly for unauthorized users.)
• Workspaces are different from folders in that respect that you can not only see what's inside a workspace but also what's inside all sub-workspaces of that workspace. That's the reason why workspaces are much more filters than folders.
• Workspaces are used to control permissions in OpenGoo. You can grant a user the right to work with a certain workspace and hide another workspace completely from him. There are even more detailed permission parameters (which are discussed in more detail on the understanding user rights page.

In the overview section you not only see the name of the current workspace (“Client A” in this example) but usually a description of the workspace as well.

In list views there is no workspace title. But for every item in the list you can read the workspace it belongs to (right at the beginning of each line, in the color of the respective workspace).

There are three properties in the main section:

• Name
• Parent workspace: This allows you to build hierarchies of workspaces
• Workspace color: This is used for the icon in the left sidebar and for the workspace indicator in the list view as shown above