| Manage your status |
Do any of the following:
- Enter a status message and click Post to
publish it.
- Click Reset to clear your current update.
- Right-click an update you posted and choose Delete to
remove it.
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| Share a photo or a file with others |
To share a photo or file, enter the text for
an update, then click Attach a File. Browse
for a local file. The file is appended to your post so that others
can view or download it. |
| Interact with other people in your network |
Do any of the following:
- To comment on an update, click Add comment,
enter your comment and click Post Comment.
- To view all of the status updates for one person, click the name
of the person to view their board. You can also change the search
scope to People and begin to type the name
or email of a colleague. The type-ahead feature returns matches. Choose
the matching name to view all updates from that person.
- Click a file attachment that a colleague has posted to open the
file in an appropriate application.
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| Recommend posts and comments |
To recommend a post, open the entry or comment
and click Like to recommend it. Click Undo if
you no longer want to recommend it. |
| Interact with communities you can access |
Do any of the following:
- To post an update to a community you can access, use the search
bar to find the community. You can change the scope to search all
communities, public communities, or communities for which you are
a member. Status updates you post to a community display in the Recent
Updates view of the community.
- Choose the view from the application
menu to view all recent updates to these communities.
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| Change the view in the application window |
To change views, click the menu icon for the
application and choose from one of these views:
- I’m Following displays all updates for
people and content you are following. You can also choose to filter
what displays so you can view a more targeted list of updates.
- Status Updates displays status updates
but no other notifications from colleagues.
- Discover displays updates and other activities
from your colleagues, whether they are in your network or not.
- Recent Communities lets you pick a community
you accessed recently to view recent updates posted to that community.
- Connections Preferences opens the preference
page where you set the server URL and log-in credentials for connecting
to an IBM® Connections server.
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| View a colleague’s profile in IBM Connections |
To view a profile in IBM Connections, right-click an update and select Open
in Browser. Connections opens in the default Web browser
so you can view and interact with the profile for the person you selected. |
| Forward a status update |
To forward a status message using Lotus Notes®, right-click an entry and
choose Forward this Entry. The comment is inserted
into an email form. |
| Work with updates from the system tray |
Do any of the following:
- To update your status when you are not working in Notes®, right-click the Status Updates icon
in your system icon tray and select Update Status.
Enter your status and click Update.
- To view status updates when you are not working in Notes, right-click the Status Updates icon
in your system icon tray and select View Status Updates.
This opens your Notes client
with the Status Updates application open.
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