HOPEX Administration > Administrator Guide > Managing workspaces > Private Workspace Principle > Private workspace
Private workspace
When a user connects to a HOPEX desktop (Windows Front-End) and to certain Web Front-End desktops, he/she opens a private workspace. This private workspace is a temporary view of the repository (repository snapshot) at the moment of user connection.
The user then sees:
• initial repository snapshot objects of his/her visibility scope
• updates he/she has executed on these objects.
The user decides when he/she wants to integrate his/her repository updates and make them visible to other users. To do this, he/she dispatches modifications.
The user controls opening duration of his/her private workspace.
*The private workspace is open for each user on both his/her repository and on the system repository. A private workspace always exists on system repository even if the user is not using any of the system repository objects.
Several users can have private workspaces open in parallel. In his/her private workspace, the user is independent of updates carried out simultaneously by other users in their respective private workspaces.
*Locks inform the user of objects modified by others. See Managing locks.
The user can also update his/her private workspace with the updates of other users. To do this, the user refreshes his/her private workspace.
HOPEX allows several users to work at the same time.