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Collaboration Dialog

The Collaboration Dialog allows two users to share information over linked browser sessions. Use this topic to understand how the Collaboration Dialog works.

The Collaboration Dialog widget is used by the ClickToCall, CallNotification, and Cobrowse widgets to provide peer-to-peer page sharing and allow one user to control a collaboration session. With the Collaboration Dialog, page sharing is not screen sharing because each browser makes its own connection to the server for the content.

The Collaboration Dialog interface has three parts. The widget toolbar shows the browser and collaboration controls for driving the peer-to-peer session. The content pane is the area that loads the pages that can be shared with the peer. The status bar displays information for the collaboration session.

Figure 1. Collaboration Dialog toolbar

Figure 2. Collaboration Dialog status bar

When two users are involved in a collaboration session, the initiator of the session has control and is the active peer. The passive peer can see the actions taken by the active peer. If the Grant Control option (see Collaboration controls) is used, then the active and passive roles can switch. Only one user can have control at a time.


Browser controls

The Collaboration Dialog give users the following controls to enable page navigation:


Collaboration controls

The Collaboration Dialog toolbar contains the following collaboration controls: Send Page, Follow Me, Grant Control, and Highlight.


Collaboration Dialog status

The Collaboration Dialog has the following status indicators in the status bar:

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