no the women doing those files through the project are using the "upload and over write" feature in the office space so that I know that it's the latest version with latest totals on it.  and I'm having them sign with a comment for the first week here that I knew they had added  and the other woman did to.  We infact had lot's of fun this weekend with working with the shared screen part where once she was done all I had to do is refresh my screen and I could see what she had done in some of the list parts.  If it hadn't been changed yet I would easily have known that she was still working on something. 

For those of us who started out 40 years ago with paper and pencil we are just happy to see this in it's simply form.  We have all worked for companies and have learned business from reception all the way up and there isn't anything about the inside from book keeping to accounting that we haven't done from paper and pencils to our programs used now. 

This space alone just the way it is mine you, can allow our group of women to not only run our business and books yet be able to work on setting up others and doing theirs with out having to have a "real" office place to be at every day from 9-5 (believe me no way to make a living) .  It's actually so simple I keep telling them it is scaring me.  This is going to make my life to simple.  I no longer have to zip anything any where to be worked up, no longer have to keep extra stuff that is someone elses work ( they can hold on to their own stuff) and if any one screws a part up, gee, the back up original is up in that work space file online.  So unless microsoft loses the whole server and back up I don't have to worry so much any more. 

If I could have 100 different people who were working on a project I think I'd have a bigger company and surely my own everything and we'd not be having a conversation with micro soft other then programming.  I've got a couple more things to try and be creative with in the work space and will let others know if it works or doesn't.  I guess after forty years of learning all the tough stuff We are taking the easier road in retirement.  Yes, money isn't as good but the peace is.  I wish you all such good luck out here I could never express it all.  Lady J

I agree that it would be a great help to be able to have folders within workspaces and maybe folders within folders etc.

I have pondered over this for many days and glad someone brought up the subject.

Actually what would be the right choice in this matter, hence you could accomplish the same thing with creating new work spaces for each individual department / sub department as we all know but what would be the benefits of sub folders in each workspace?

1.       The same look and feel as a network drive thereby giving users a since of no change feeling.

2.       Ease of file management for end users.

I can’t think of anything else that would be relevant to the topic other than group policies management of files and collaboration of separate departments. If anyone can come up with a better list please add on to this discussion.

I plan to use the workspace in order to manage different volunteer organizations that I'm a part of.  For example, I am a Cub Scout Leader and would like to put information in a workspace for others to get to.  But some of that information is for leaders, some is for the parents, some is for the scouts, etc.  If I make 1 workspace called Cub Scout Pack and put all the documents in there, then parents may be able to get roster information on other families which I don't want.  So I'd like to create sub-folders (assuming you can put separate permissions on them) for Leader, Parents, Scouts, etc.  Not to mention putting pictures out there.  Mix a couple hundred pictures in with all the other files and ... well, it just doesn't make sense to do that.

Optionally, I could create 3 different workspaces to do the same thing (assuming I don't want nested folders, but I do).  Multiply that by every organization I might do this for (scouts, hockey, soccer, American Legion, etc) and the number of workspaces could become too unweildy. 

Folders are used everywhere for normal organizing skills and should be here too.

I totally agree with you and I know it is possible , am director for a local Easter Seals but also in the army reserve and in the army they have portal systems which is very similar and the workplace made by Microsoft and it you can have difret folders.

i wonder if knowledge centers will be available, similar in setup to those on ako? 

My two cents - As on-line storage and the number of files increases, foreseeing the requirement for some type of organization structuring structure is a no-brainer - whether it follows a traditional tree structure or some other organizing structures like "tagging".  It would be very useful to know where MS plans to go with this or even if they actually have a plan.

The argument as to whether a nested file structure should be included is very simple.  For those people who wish to keep all of their files in one workspace, they would simply never add any additional folders to that workspace.  For anyone who would like to organize documents within folders (the majority of the people on this post), this option should be available as well.

Folders and subfolders are simply an absolute must for our team to be able to effectively use this tool.  That being said, it is a great start, and there is a lot of great implementation of technology here!  It is great to see AJAX at work!

How I can organize all  100  documents without folders in the one project? It is an extremely important feature

I agree that folders are needed in workspaces as well.  For instance, I may want a task list, and event list and then a bunch of documents, say revolving around a project I'm working on or my various classes.  I don't want all my different classes files to be mixed together or to have to sort through my list of documents to find my event list or task list that relates to all my classes (like an events list for test and homework that is due).

That said, I think the ability to create folders within a workspace is huge!

Just adding my vote --- yes, folders are an absolute necessity to make this service practical for real-world work!

Yeah, this would be an excellent addition!

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Add my name to the list - it will be essential to have folders - otherwise it will be chaos!