People awareness
Overview
WebSphere Portal includes people awareness features, so that people's names can appear in portlets as hyperlinks that allow users to contact people with whom they might want to work. Wherever people links appear, portal users can click the link to display a menu of actions for collaborating (contacting and working) with the person named by the link. If you, as portal administrator, have also configured a Lotus Sametime server to work with the portal, people links indicate whether a person is active, away, offline, or in a Do Not Disturb state.
Person menu
When portal users click the name of (or the icon for) a person, a menu appears that provides actions linking them to other portal users. The actions that are visible on the person menu depend on the following factors:
- Whether Lotus Companion Products, the Collaboration Center, or both, are set up to work with the portal.
- The online status (Active, Away, Do Not Disturb, Offline) of the person.
Actions might include:
- a person's online status, for example I am Active
Appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. The Sametime status icon indicates whether a person is active, away, offline, or does not want to be disturbed.
- Start Chat...
Appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. Action is not available if the person is offline.
- Send Email...
- Show Profile
Appears only if Lotus Discovery Server is enabled. Action displays the person's profile of business card information, contact information, affinities, current job, and background.
- Find Documents Authored By
Appears only if Lotus Discovery Server is enabled. Action launches Knowledge Map Search of all documents that the person has authored.
- Add to Contact List...
Appears only if Lotus Sametime is enabled. Action displays a window where you can add the person to your Sametime List, as a member of a new or existing personal group.
- Show Person Record
Appears only if Collaboration Center features are installed and the People Finder portlet is on the current page. Action displays the person's record, including (by default) business card information, contact information, current job, and background.
- Show in Organization View
Appears in the People Finder portlet if Collaboration Center features are installed, and portal administrators have chosen to enable this feature. Action opens the person's organizational context. The Organization View shows how the person fits into the organizational hierarchy.
For more information about Lotus Sametime product features, see Sametime Help.
For more information about Lotus Discovery Server product features, see Discovery Server Help.
Both Help files are available from the Downloads link on the IBM Lotus Software Web site.
Online presence
If you have set up a Lotus Sametime server to work with the portal, portal users can see each other's online presence in their people links according to the status options they have set in their Sametime client:
- I am active.
- I am away or not using the computer now.
- Do not disturb me.
Note When someone is offline, his or her status indicator in the person link indicates the Offline state.
Remind portal users who have the Lotus Sametime Connect client that they can select Options - Preferences - Status in their Sametime Connect clients to customize the messages that appear for each online state, and to control the period of time in which keyboard or mouse inactivity automatically switches their status from Active to Away.
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