Project Explorer

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 Explorer enables you to view different projects under one window. It lists projects available to you and lets you select projects to include in your My Projects portlet. You can perform the following actions in Project Explorer:

• To search for a project, in the Search box, type the text you want to search for and click Search.
  
• To display all projects that start with a particular letter, in the drop-down list, select the letter you want to view.
  
• To view the projects in a folder, click the folder name.
  
• To view a project, click its name. This displays the Project Overview page, from which you can add the project to your My Projects portlet. The projects listed in the My Projects portlet determine what is displayed in the collaboration portlets.
  
• To return to a parent folder, click its name in the folder path at the top of Project Explorer.