Enabling User Collaboration

In Collaboration, you are responsible mainly for performing tasks in virtual rooms as a power user. You ca also perform a few tasks outside of rooms, for example, creating surveys.

Prerequisites

SAP delivers predefined portal roles, which give you permission to access certain tasks within Collaboration.

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 you can find an overview of the tasks that you can perform as a power user in Collaboration:

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 initial creation of a room, you can change certain setting 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	The cross-room administration tasks include locking and hiding rooms.
Organize one-off meetings	You can create and edit one-off meetings.
Organize series of meetings	You can create and edit series of meetings.
Moderate discussions and discussion groups	Inside and outside of rooms, you can create and moderate discussions and discussion groups.
Manage polls	You can create polls that other portal users can participate in.
Creating XML Forms	You use XML forms to create and publish documents that have a common structure, such as news or FAQs.