Creating hierarchies in Novell Vibe is a powerful way to organize workspaces in a meaningful way. Hierarchies can make information easier to find and increase effectiveness across the Vibe site.
Vibe provides three types of workspaces that you can use to create hierarchies within existing workspaces. Each type of workspace has its advantages and disadvantages for creating workspace hierarchies. Depending on your objectives and your environment, you might want to use any of the following types of workspaces:
If you don’t anticipate your workspace having hundreds or thousands of sub-folders, Discussions workspaces are recommended over basic workspaces and team workspaces.
The following sections describe the advantages and disadvantages of using a Discussions workspace to create hierarchies within existing workspaces:
Retains the access control rights of higher-level (parent) workspaces by default
Lists sub-folders and sub-workspaces on the workspace home page (and displays how many items are in each folder)
Does not scale well (if you have hundreds or thousands of sub-folders, you should use a basic workspace to improve performance)
The following sections describe the advantages and disadvantages of using a basic workspace to create hierarchies within existing workspaces:
Retains the access control rights of higher-level (parent) workspaces by default
Scales well (because basic workspaces do not list sub-folders and sub-workspaces on the workspace home page)
Does not list sub-folders and sub-workspaces on the workspace home page
The following sections describe the advantages and disadvantages of using a Team workspace to create hierarchies within existing workspaces:
Lists sub-folders and sub-workspaces on the workspace home page (and displays how many items are in each folder)
Does not retain the access control rights of higher-level (parent) workspaces by default
Does not scale well (if you have hundreds or thousands of sub-folders, you should use a basic workspace to improve performance)