Overview provides a summary of your project The common workspace for members working together on a project.. By using it, you can see the most recent announcements A mechanism for communicating important information to you and other project users. Posted and managed by Project Leaders., uploaded documents Project documents or files are uploaded to Collaboration and held in a repository. Collaboration provides the facilities to check out files, check in revised files, and submit project files to the portal. Collaboration tracks all activities about a file in its file revision history. or files, and discussion messages Any posting. A message can be the original posting in a topic, or it can be a reply to the original posting or to another reply..
Announcements convey information from Project Leaders A role in Collaboration. A user in the project leader role has read/write access to all Collaboration objects and can perform all actions related to the objects. This role can set access levels and permissions for user roles in the project. to users. Project users cannot respond to an announcement; it is simply a way to convey important news to all users.
You can preview documents, respond to discussion messages, send instant messages (if your system administrator enabled the instant messaging feature). If you want to preview a document or respond to a discussion message, just click it. If you want to talk to the author of the message, just click his or her name (again, instant messaging must be enabled).