Use this app to navigate through different features provided by the Collaboration SaaS application for SAP Integrated Product Development.

Key Features

This app lets you do the following:

Create collaborations to work closely with the internal and external participants in your organization.
Store, share, and review documents.
Invite participants to collaborations.
Add workflows to collaborate using process-driven approach.

Create a collaboration to work with internal and external participants, and to store, share, and review documents.

Use

See Creating a Collaboration.

Delete a collaboration permanently.

Use

See Deleting a Collaboration.

Select a collaboraiton to copy by entering all the required values in the Copy Collaboration wizard

Note

The Copy button is only enabled for users with administrator roles and authorizations.

Use

See Copying a Collaboration.

Displays a list of collaboration types. You can copy collaborations using these types for both custom and default storage types.

Use

See Copying a Collaboration.

A work item is a task that a participant can process within a collaboration. The task can be an on demand, ad-hoc task created anytime, or it can be a single task in a workflow.

Use

See Work Items.

You can create files and folders to organize and share your work with other participants in a collaboration. This applies to both default and custom file storage.

Use

See Shared Documents.

Advanced Search function is used to search for files or folders in a collaboration for custom file storage.

Use

See Actions on Collaborations.

You can retrieve product data from a source system and add it to a collaboration.This applies to default file storage.

Use

See Collaborating on Product Data.

A reference object is an item linked in a collaboration that is used by the participants.

Use

See Reference Objects.

Example

Reference objects can be industry standard such as specifications, or custom reference objects such as purchase orders or requests for quotation.

When users upload design files to shared documents in a collaboration, they can view the details of these uploaded files on the Design Models tab.

Use

See Working on a Design Model.

Participants with assigned roles or permissions can post or view general comments in the collaboration.

Use

See Comments.

You can invite individual participants as well as user groups to a collaboration. When inviting a participant or a user group, you must select a role. The role determines the actions that the participant or user group can perform within a collaboration.

The following are the available roles:

Administrator
Contributor
Reader

Use

See Participants.

You can view history of changes made to the collaboration, if your administrator has provides access.

Use

See History.