Enabling User Collaboration (SAP Library

Enabling User Collaboration

In the Enabling User Collaboration scenario, you are responsible mainly for performing tasks in virtual rooms as a power user. You can also perform a few tasks outside of rooms, for example, creating polls.

Prerequisites

The Collaboration in Virtual Rooms and Ad-Hoc Collaboration scenario variants have been performed.

SAP delivers predefined portal roles that give you permission to access certain tasks within the scenario variants named above.

Your system administrator has assigned you the following portal roles for performing the power user tasks:

Portal Role	Permissions Contained
Collaboration Room Creation (Technical ID: com.sap.netweaver.coll.CollaborationRoomCreation)	Gives you permission to create and manage rooms.
Collaboration (Technical ID: com.sap.netweaver.coll.Collaboration)	Gives you permission to enter rooms through the room directory and to launch the My Tasks and My Sessions iViews.

You can find these roles and their content in your top-level navigation above the Collaboration entry.

Tasks

Below is an overview of the tasks that you can perform as a power user in the Enabling User Collaboration scenario:

Task	Description
Create rooms	You create rooms to make them available for other portal users. Two scenarios are possible here, depending on the organization in your company: · You create rooms on request. You do not work on the content in the rooms you have created. · You create the rooms that you require for your project work and work on their content.
Change and modify rooms	After the initial creation of a room, you can change certain settings that were configured during creation and change the room to suit your current working situation.
Define relationships to related rooms	You can define relationships from a room to rooms that are related to the same topic.
Administrate across rooms	Cross-room administration tasks include locking and hiding rooms.
Organize one-off meetings	You can create and edit one-off meetings.
Organize a series of meetings	You can create and edit series of meetings.
Moderate forums	You can check and approve new forum content before putting it in a forum and making it visible for participants in the forum.
Moderate discussions and discussion groups	You can create and moderate discussions and discussion groups inside and outside rooms.
Manage polls	You can create polls that other portal users can participate in.
Create XML forms	You use XML forms to create and publish documents that have a common structure, such as news or FAQs.