Access IBM Connections from a mobile device
You can use the mobile version of IBM Connections to perform common tasks from a mobile device.The following applications are available in the mobile version of IBM Connections. The mobile version optimizes the applications for use from a mobile device. It makes it easier for you to perform the tasks that you want to complete with a minimal number of clicks:
Find out what people are working on quickly by checking the Status Updates feed. Customize which messages are displayed in this feed; by default, it shows you the status of people in your network and that you have chosen to follow. You can change your own status message from here instead of opening the Profiles application to do so.
View activities and to-do items. Prioritize and add content to existing activities. Add new activities or edit, complete, and delete activities that you own.
Blogs
Search for and view blogs. Start a blog, and add entries and comments.
Bookmarks
Save, organize, and share website addresses as bookmarks. Discover bookmarks that others in your organization, including subject matter experts, have saved. Add useful bookmarks created by others to your own bookmark collection or to an activity, blog, or community. Flag bookmarks with broken links.
Communities
View communities, manage the membership of communities you own, and perform the following tasks in communities you belong to:
- Find out what’s happening in the community by reviewing the recent updates that members have made.
- Add a community activity or work with existing community activities.
- Add new entries, and recommend or comment on existing entries in the community blog.
- Add ideas and vote on other people’s ideas in the ideation blog.
- Add and use community bookmarks.
- Download, comment on, recommend, or follow community files or share images and videos stored on your device with the community.
- Read and post entries to the community forum or reply to other people’s posts.
- Access community feeds.
- View, download, recommend, or follow images and videos in the community media gallery or add your own image and video files to the gallery.
Note: Due to a current limitation, you cannot play videos in the gallery using a BlackBerry device.
- View and comment on the community wiki.
Files
Access files and share them with others. Recommend, comment on, or follow other people’s files. View who has downloaded a file or commented on it, see file ratings, and see highly recommended files. Upload photos or videos stored on your device.
Forums
Access forums. Add topics and replies to forums you belong to. Edit and delete topics and replies that you created.
Profiles
Update your status message. Edit your profile; add a picture to it by uploading an image file stored on your device. Search for people using the search icon in the menu. You can view a person's contact information, and then contact the person using the native dialer and email application of the device. You can also view the person’s network and report-to chain, and see what they are working on from the Board and Recent Updates views. Invite the person to join your network by clicking the Invite to My Network link in the profile header.
Tip: Wherever a person’s name is displayed in blue on the page, you can click it to view the person’s business card. The business card is based on the person’s profile and provides you with quick links to her phone number and email address, as well as links to content that the person has contributed to IBM Connections.
Wikis
Consult your wikis while on-the-go and add comments to them.
Supported devices
You can access the mobile version of IBM Connections from the browser on the following devices:
- Android devices
- Apple iPad
- Apple iPhone
- Apple iPod Touch
- BlackBerry devices
- Nokia S60 devices
See the detailed system requirements for IBM Connections for details about supported device versions and for the latest list of supported devices.
Starting with the IBM Connections 3.0.1 July 2011 Mobile release, you can install native applications on the following devices:
- Android devices
- Apple iPhone
- Apple iPod Touch
- BlackBerry OS6 devices
Search for the IBM Connections application from the Apple App Store, Android Market, or BlackBerry App World.
How do I enable the mobile version?
Configure support for the mobile version of IBM Connections to help employees perform key tasks using mobile devices.Mobile reference card for IBM Connections 3.0.1
A quick reference guide to the functions that you can use when you access IBM Connections from a mobile device.
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