Overview (Application View)

Overview gives you a summary of your project The common workspace for members working together on a project.. It displays 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 Members A role in Collaboration. A user in the Project Member role can view project objects and can perform many key actions related to objects used manage projects. cannot respond to an announcement; it is simply a way to convey important news to all users.

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Overview Banner
Overview Action Bar
Announcements
Updated Documents
Recent Messages

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Manage Project

Project Leaders Only. Select one of the following:

  • Project Settings: Edit the project's general settings. For more information, see General Settings.

  • Project Recycle Bin: Manage the project's recycle bin. For more information, see Project Recycle Bin.

Project Search

Select either a project or Project Explorer. The project you selected is loaded into the application view or you are taken to Project Explorer.

Choose Project

Select either a project or Project Explorer. The item that you select appears.

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Overview Action Bar  

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Remove from My Page

Remove this project from your My Projects portlet and other Collaboration portlets.

Subscribe

Subscribe to the project. You will receive a notification e-mail when an activity occurs in this project. For step-by-step instructions on how to subscribe to a project, see Subscribing to Projects.

Subscribe Others

Available to Project Leaders only. Subscribe others to new folders and files in the project using the Subscribe Others Editor. Users will be notified of any folders created or files uploaded to the project.

Unsubscribe

Unsubscribe from the project, and stop receiving notification e-mails whenever the contents of the project change. For step-by-step instructions on how to unsubscribe from a project, see Unsubscribing from Projects.

Notify

Send an e-mail inviting others to view or subscribe to the project. For more information about notification, see About Notification.

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Announcements

Only Project Leaders can create, edit, or delete announcements.   

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New Announcement

Create a new announcement. Type and format text in the Announcement Editor.

Subscribe

 Subscribe to receive notification e-mails when announcements are created or deleted. You cannot subscribe to individual announcements.

Unsubscribe

Unsubscribe to stop receiving notification e-mails when announcements are created or deleted. You cannot unsubscribe from individual announcements.

Edit an existing announcement.

Delete the announcement.

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Updated Documents

You can view a document or file by clicking it. To launch the Documents explorer, click either Go to Documents or .

Recent Messages

You can view recent messages and reply to it by clicking it. If your system administrator has enabled the instant messaging feature, you can click the name of the author and chat with him or her online.

To view the Discussions explorer, click Go to Discussions.

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    1. Select a project in the My Projects or Community Projects portlet.
    2. Click the Overview tab in the application view.