Collaborative companion products
class="help">If you have installed, set up, and enabled any one of the Lotus Software companion products for advanced collaboration, portal users will be able to work with the following additional features in the portal:
- Lotus Sametime adds the online status indicator to people links and adds actions to people link menus.
- Lotus QuickPlace provides access to the QuickPlace server and the team workspaces it hosts from a collaborative portlet.
- Lotus Discovery Server adds actions to people link menus and provides access to Knowledge Map components from collaborative portlets. The expertise location feature of Discovery Server is available from within the Discovery Server portlets and from the added people link actions.
class="help">If you have not enabled one or more of these companion products, the collaborative capabilities available to portal users are limited.
Lotus Sametime features
class="help">If Sametime is enabled in your portal configuration, portal users can work with the complete set of people awareness functionality, which includes instant messaging and application sharing through e-meetings. With Sametime enabled, people appear with a dynamic online status indicator, and their names appear as hyperlinks. People link menus will include the following options:
- Chat
- Add to Sametime List
class="help">You might choose not to enable Sametime in your portal configuration. If Sametime is not enabled, then people awareness functionality will be restricted to the following features:
- People always appear with offline status: that is, the online status indicator displays as a small gray circle, and the name of the person appears as plain text and is not a hyperlink.
- People menus are still available from the online status indicator, but menu options are limited to the following actions, which are native to the portal (or to Lotus Discovery Server) and are not Sametime actions:
- Send E-mail
- Show Profile (if Lotus Discovery Server is installed)
- Find Documents Authored By (if Lotus Discovery Server is installed)
Lotus QuickPlace features
class="help">The availability of QuickPlace portlets is not affected by the portal configuration option to enable/disable QuickPlace because portlets launch applications and services that are independent of portal configuration. As long as a QuickPlace server is available for selection and you have installed and configured the QuickPlace portlet application, portal users can add instances of QuickPlace portlets to the pages of portal places, or simply use QuickPlace portlets in the portal places where they participate.
Lotus Discovery Server features
class="help">If Discovery Server is enabled in your portal configuration, portal users have access to the Knowledge Map of your enterprise's content repositories and expertise profiles for the people in your enterprise. Discovery Server extends the basic content and people awareness of the portal to include the following features:
- People link menus include actions for getting additional information about people and documents:
- Show Profile (Discovery Server expertise locator and affinity generation component)
class="help">This action displays the person's profile of business card information, contact information, affinities, current job, and background.
- Find Documents Authored By (Discovery Server Knowledge Map features)
class="help">This action launches Knowledge Map Search of all documents that the person has authored.
- Portal navigation bar includes the Expertise Profile icon, which opens the people profiles generated and maintained by the Discovery Server.
- Discovery Server portlets are available for installation, configuration, and deployment:
- Knowledge Map portlet
- Search Results portlet
- Mini-Search portlet
class="help">If you have installed and configured the Discovery Server portlet application, portal users can add instances of these portlets to the pages of the places they manage or design, or simply use the Discovery Server portlets in the places where they participate.
See also
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