Project Overview

Collaboration projects allow portal users to work together on joint efforts—sharing documents, setting schedules, and exchanging messages. The features of a project are designed to facilitate teamwork and include such items as a calendar, task lists, documents, discussions, announcements, and search. Projects and project features can be accessed from any community page or My Page where some or all collaboration portlets reside.

Project Overview provides a summary of the project. It displays the most recent announcements, uploaded documents or files, and discussion messages. The following information and functionality is available in the overview:

Project Information
Announcements
Updated Documents
Recent Messages

Project Information

This section displays the project description and status (percentage complete), both controlled by the Project Leader.

Depending on your permissions, you can perform the following actions in this section:

To add this project to or remove it from your My Projects portlet, click Add to My Page or Remove from My Page.
To receive e-mail notification when any activity occurs in the project, click Subscribe. If you are already subscribed to the project and you want to stop receiving notification, click Unsubscribe. If the Subscribe link does not display, you need to set your e-mail address in your user profile.
To send an e-mail inviting other users to view or subscribe to this project, click Notify. This displays the Send Notification page.

Announcements

Announcements convey information from Project Leaders to users. Project Members cannot respond to an announcement; it is simply a way to convey important news to all users.

If you are a Project Leader, you can perform the following actions:

To create an announcement, click New Announcement. This displays the Edit Announcement page.
To edit an existing announcement, click .
To delete an announcement, click .

Updated Documents

This section displays the most recently uploaded or edited documents.

You can perform the following actions in this section:

To view a document, click its name.
To view the details for a document, click .
To view all project documents, click Go to Documents.

Recent Messages

This section displays the most recently uploaded or edited messages.

You can perform the following actions in this section:

To view a discussion, click its name (the text before the colon).
To view a message, click its name (the text after the colon).
To view all project discussions, click Go to Discussions.