The Worksoft
Community Server displays your user home page when you are logged in. A less custom page displays when you are not logged in. The home page provides you with an overview
of your activity within the Worksoft community.
You can launch all of your community
activity from your home page. You can also access the community blogs, media, forums,
and groups from the Control Panel at the top of the page.
Control Panel
The
Control Panel is located at the top of home page workspace.
You can navigate to any of the main pages of your community
by clicking on the Control Panel item. The Control Panel displays on every page
of your community. It is worth noting that the only item on the Control Panel
that is specific to your data is Home. When you click on Blogs, however, your
community's main blog page displays. The same holds true for Media, Forums, and
Groups. If you want to access your blogs, you can do that from your public
profile.
Public Profile
Your public profile provides other users in your
community with the personal information about yourself that you want to make
public. Your public profile is editable, so you can update or delete
information as you need to. By default
you have a placeholder where the personal avatar would normally display. When
you download a personal avatar, which you can do from your profile, it will
display instead of the placeholder. You can also select one of the standard
avatars. You can click on View public profile to view your profile data.
Your biographical information displays in the
upper middle of the page. One of the major distinctions between your public
profile page and your home page is the detailed information about your activity
and any activity by other users that is related to you. For example, you can
see more information about your friends in the community as well as functionality
for adding friends, sending messages and emails, and adding announcements.
When you click on your friends' username, their
public profile opens.
The announcements section contains
special information you want to headline or want to stand out. You can add an
announcement by clicking Add an Announcement below your avatar or avatar
placeholder.
The My Groups section shows the groups to which you belong.
The My Files section allows you to upload and
link files to your profile that you want to share with your friends and
visitors.
Finally, the My Activity
section provides you with a summary of your community activity. It will present
the date and time on which you published a post or comment and when you joined
a group or added a friend.
You can update your profile by clicking
Edit profile.
Conversations
One of
the features of the Web community is the ability of community members to converse
with each other. The conversations section of the home page lists your conversations
with other members of your community. You can begin a conversation by clicking
Send a Message from your public profile.
When you receive a message from
another community member, it displays in the Conversations section.
You can
click on the conversation title to open a dialog window from which you can reply
to the message.
Forums, Blogs and Media
The
Forums, Blogs, and Media sections provide you with links to your most recent discussions,
postings, and media downloads. You can also access the main page for each of
these sections. When you go to the main page, you will find a list of all the activity
in the community.
Favorites
The Favorites section
displays the list of forums, posts, and media that you have specifically
identified as a favorite.
When you find a discussion, post, or media file that
you really like, Worksoft Community Server allows you to identify it as a
favorite simply by clicking the Favorites link.
When you click Favorites, you can specify
whether to add the forum or the post to the favorites list. The item then
displays in the Favorites list on your home page.
Your Groups
The Your Groups section
lists the groups to which you belong as well as provides a link so you can view
all groups in the community. A group is a mini-community with its own
membership consisting of up to one blog, media gallery, and forum . All of a
group's content is accessible by members of the group.
Your
Files
The Your Files section lists the files you have
uploaded to the community and provides a link that will take you to a file
download page if you have permissions to download files.
If you click View all and
upload files, and if you have upload permission, Worksoft Community Server
takes you to a download page from which you can download a file. The file will
then display in the Your Files list.
User Action Links
The
user action links always appear in the upper -right corner of every page in the
community.
- The username link always takes you to
your public profile.
- Edit opens the Edit Your Profile page.
- Sign out signs you
out of the community.
- Help opens the Support launch page.