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.