https://connect.hyland.com/t5/nuxeo-forum/what-apos-s-the-difference-between-section-and-workspace/m-p/323491#M10492 <P>A <STRONG>Workspace</STRONG> is the area where you can create, modify, and generally <STRONG>work</STRONG> on documents. Access to a given workspace can be shared between a few (or more) users and groups of users to provide a collaborative work area.</P> <P>A <STRONG>Section</STRONG> is the area where you <STRONG>publish</STRONG> finished documents in order to make them accessible to a large user base, maybe even make them public to unauthenticated users.</P> <P>So you can see there are two main philosophical differences between them:</P> <UL> <LI>workspaces have much stricter access restrictions than sections,</LI> <LI>you move a document from a workspace to a section by a publishing process.</LI> </UL> <P>Of course all this can be customized by developers in any Nuxeo instance depending on use cases.</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:59:39 GMT Florent_Guillau 2011-07-29T11:59:39Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/nuxeo-forum/what-apos-s-the-difference-between-section-and-workspace/m-p/323490#M10491 <P>I've seen those two concepts in Nuxeo Document Management. What is the main difference between sections and workspaces?</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:00:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/nuxeo-forum/what-apos-s-the-difference-between-section-and-workspace/m-p/323490#M10491 Jeremy_Viault 2011-07-29T11:00:57Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/nuxeo-forum/what-apos-s-the-difference-between-section-and-workspace/m-p/323491#M10492 <P>A <STRONG>Workspace</STRONG> is the area where you can create, modify, and generally <STRONG>work</STRONG> on documents. Access to a given workspace can be shared between a few (or more) users and groups of users to provide a collaborative work area.</P> <P>A <STRONG>Section</STRONG> is the area where you <STRONG>publish</STRONG> finished documents in order to make them accessible to a large user base, maybe even make them public to unauthenticated users.</P> <P>So you can see there are two main philosophical differences between them:</P> <UL> <LI>workspaces have much stricter access restrictions than sections,</LI> <LI>you move a document from a workspace to a section by a publishing process.</LI> </UL> <P>Of course all this can be customized by developers in any Nuxeo instance depending on use cases.</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:59:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/nuxeo-forum/what-apos-s-the-difference-between-section-and-workspace/m-p/323491#M10492 Florent_Guillau 2011-07-29T11:59:39Z