Configuring Discussion Groups

Discussion Group iViews for Rooms

For discussions in rooms, SAP delivers two iViews that are contained in the SAP Discussion Groups and SAP Public Discussion Groups standard room parts:

Room members who have access to these iViews in the room can create discussions with or without an assignment to a discussion group and participate in discussions.

Templates for Discussion Group iViews

If you want to integrate discussion groups in portal pages outside of rooms, you can create the iViews required on the basis of the following templates:

Configuration Objects Delivered By SAP

• Discussion service (discussion simple for discussion groups in rooms)
• Repositories (for discussion groups outside of rooms: discussiongroupsfor discussion groups within rooms: Content Administration → KM Content → room_extensions → cm_stores → documents → workplaces → SAP Discussion Groups)
• Layout sets

  Path in the portal: System Administration → System Configuration → Knowledge Management → Content Management → User Interface → Settings → Layout Set

• Commands and command groups

  Path in the portal: System Administration → System Configuration → Knowledge Management → Content Management → User Interface → Commands → UI Commands or UI Command Groups

The System Administration and Content Administration portal roles are assigned to your user.

Configure iView parameters.

1. In the portal, choose Content Administration → Portal Content.
2. In the portal catalog, search for the required discussion groups iView and open it for editing.
3. Use the following parameters to configure the iView:

   Parameter	Description
   Path	Determines which repository the layout set is used for.
   Path to initially displayed folder	- For data for discussion groups inside rooms, the system determines the path to the storage folder automatically. - For data for discussion groups outside of rooms, the default entry is /discussiongroups Note If you want to use a different repository for discussion groups, enter the path to the folder here.
   Layout set	Default entry for iViews for managing discussion groups: DiscussionGroups Default entry for iViews for participating in discussion groups: DiscussionGroupsContributor
   Query	Default entry (for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768): ConfigFileName=Navigation.xml&StartPage= NavigationPage&Validate=false&scHeight= 300&scWidth=220&scPostListWidth=500 - scHeight = Height of the discussion structure and the work area (reply text) - scWidth = Width of the Discussion structure - scPostListWidth = Width of the work area (reply text)

Configure post entry.

Configure the behavior of the discussion editor by assigning the associated commands to command groups.  SAP delivers the following predefined command groups:

Switch off default values for the subject.

To switch off the default value for commands that contain the subject, you set the parameter of the command showPostSubjectProposal=false. 

Discussion Service

Participating in Discussions in Discussion Groups