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You use workspaces primarily to collect and to contain other items:

• A workspace forms a two-dimensional region upon which you place items interactively or programmatically. An item has an absolute location within the coordinate system of its parent workspace. The items upon the same workspace also have a spatial relationship to each other.

• Many operations on a workspace also affect the items upon it, for example:
  • Cloning a workspace creates copies of the items upon that workspace.

  • Changing the scale of a workspace changes the scale at which G2 displays all the items upon that workspace.

  • Deleting a workspace deletes all items on that workspace.

• G2 displays all KB knowledge on workspaces. (The display of attribute tables are an exception.)

• You can print workspaces. (You cannot print individual items.)

• You can associate a hierarchy of workspaces, and the items they contain, with a module.

• You can configure in similar ways items that are located within the same part of the workspace hierarchy.

• You can declare a workspace as proprietary by using special configuration statements to affect the behavior of the items in the hierarchy.

• A G2 process's local G2 window and the Telewindows connected to that process can each display independent sets of workspaces, and each can display any workspace at a different scale and at a different position within its own window.

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