This is your home base. Here you will store all the documents and templates (collectively known as assets) you create before checking them in to a desk. You'll also be able to check assets out from other desks to edit them from your workspace.

Click My Workspace in the upper left hand corner to return to this screen at any time.

### Documents and Templates

You can manage three different types of assets in your workspace: media documents, story documents, and formatting templates. Newly created assets will reside in your workspace until you move them—or check them in—to a desk.

By checking an asset into a desk, you allow other users to access it. Desks are like stations in an assembly line—an asset needs to be approved by each one before it is ready to ship out to consumers.

For example, let's say you have created a new article for your Web site. You check it in to the Edit Desk, where an editor examines its structure and accuracy. The editor then checks the article in to the Legal Desk, where a lawyer makes sure it will not get you sued. Next it goes to the Copy Desk to be scrutinized for grammar and spelling. And finally, it is checked in to the Publish Desk, where you can push it to the site.

At each of these points, the person who needs to edit the article will check it out, or move it to his or her workspace. When an document or template on a desk is checked out to a user, it remains listed on that Desk and other users can still view it, but only the person who has checked it out can edit it.

Note that desks can be added and removed from a workflow by an administrator, so the desks you see in the left navigation column for a workflow may not correspond to the desk names we've used in this example.

### Asset Properties (on Workspace)

Title
  Click to edit the asset in another window. A white P (for documents) or D (for templates) at the far end of the title field indicates that the asset has been published or, in the case of templates, deployed. If the P or Dis on a red background, it means that the asset has been changed since the last time it was published or deployed.
Primary URI
  The location where a document will be published. If it's a link, click it to preview the document in its primary output channel. Does not apply to templates.
Cover Date/Deployed Date
  The document cover date or, for templates, their deploy date. For templates that have not been deployed, the deployed date will be empty.
Story Type/Media Type
  The story type or media type element that defines the structure of the document. Does not apply to templates.
Site
  The site with which the asset is associated. Will not display if Bricolage manages a single site.
Output Channel
  The output channel with which the template is associated. Output channels generally define a collection of templates that output content to a particular format, such as XHTML or RSS. Does not apply to documents
Priority
  Tells users how urgently the asset should move through workflow.
Check In to
  Check the asset into the named desk.
Check in
  Select the desired desk (or and shelf, to remove the asset from workflow) from this select list, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Check In Assets. You can check in more than one asset at a time.
Notes
  View any editorial notes users have attached to the asset.
Trail
  Lists what Desks the asset has been checked in to. Not present for stories.
Clone
  Create a duplicate of the story. Applies only to stories
Log
  Displays the asset's event history.
Delete
  Check the Delete box, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Delete Checked. You can delete more than one asset at a time by checking multiple Delete checkboxes before clicking Delete Checked.