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Before you deploy the Collaboration Center in your enterprise, you should become familiar with this roadmap of tasks. A basic understanding of these tasks will help you establish roles and responsibilities for maintaining and using the Collaboration Center.

 

Tasks for administrators and designers

System administrators (particularly directory administrators with LDAP expertise), portal administrators, and portal designers typically share the following tasks for managing the installation and set up of Collaboration Center capabilities in WebSphere Portal:

 

Tasks for application developers

Application or portlet developers typically perform the following tasks:

  • Integrating People Finder menu actions using Click-to-Action (C2A) capabilities

  • Customize People Finder views using JSP tags

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Tasks for general users

General users use the Collaboration Center portlets to find, connect, and work with people in workplaces and e-meetings. Click the Help icon on a portlet's title bar to display the procedure for using the portlet's mode or view.

Here is a summary of tasks performed using Collaboration Center portlets:

  • Use the People Finder

    • Find a person (Quick Search or Advanced Search)

    • View search results

    • View person records

    • View a person's management chain and employees managed, if applicable

    • Use people links to

      Chat

      Send E-mail

      Show Profile (if Lotus Discovery Server is enabled with WebSphere Portal)

      Find Documents Authored By (if Lotus Discovery Server is enabled with WebSphere Portal)

      Add to Contact List

      Show Person Record

      Show in Organization View

      Find Pages Authored By

  • Use My Team Workplaces

    • Find workplaces

    • View workplaces

    • View workplace details

    • Request a new workplace

    • Edit workplace display properties

    • Use people links

  • Use Web Conferencing

    • Find meetings

    • View meetings

    • Manage meeting details

    • Schedule a meeting

    • Attend a meeting

    • Edit meeting display properties

    • Use people links

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