The Activities portlet

With the Activities portlet, you can view and create activities, and work with to do items.

Using the Activities portlet

Use the Activities portlet to interact with the IBM® Connections Activities features. Use activities to organize your collaborative work without leaving your IBM® WebSphere® Portal environment.

The Activities Detail portlet has two views, My Activities and To Dos List.

The My Activities view displays activities that you created or that you belong to. From the My Activities view you can:

  • Click Start an Activity to create an activity. Assign it a title and optionally enter a description, goal, or tags. Add members for your activity and save it to add it to your list.
  • Click Completed to view completed activities.
  • Click High priority to view activities that are flagged as needing your immediate attention.
  • Click Medium priority to view activities that are not as pressing.
  • Sort the view by clicking the column header for Last Updated or by Due Date.
Click an activity name to open it. From the activity, you can:
  • Click Add to do item to create a to-do item. You can assign it to yourself or to another user. You can also optionally assign a priority, due date, tags, and a description.
  • Click Add Entry to add an entry to the activity.
  • Click Add Section to create a section to keep your activity organized.
  • Respond to a to-do item by marking it complete, or click More to add a comment, edit, or delete the to-do item.
  • If you are the activity owner, click Members to add members to the activity. You can assign a member owner, author, or reader access.
  • View emails and chat transcripts that are saved to the activity. Comment on this content or create associated to do items.

Editing the shared settings for the Activities portlet

You must have at least editor access for the page and for the portlet to be able to edit shared settings for Connections features. For more information about access levels, see the WebSphere® Portal wiki. Settings you enter on this page can be overridden by settings on the Personalize page for a portlet. Choose Edit Shared Settings from the portlet menu and choose which view to display in the portlet:

Configuring the Activities portlet

You must have administrative access to the portlet to be able to configure it. Choose Configure from the portlet menu and configure these options:

Option Description
Display icon to open IBM Connections in a browser window Display an icon that opens IBM® Connections in a browser so users can fully access the application.
Display link to open IBM Connections in a browser window Activity title links to open the recent updates page for that activity in a browser window.
Display page controls only in bottom bar Hides the page controls in the header of the window. Clear the check box to display paging controls in the header as well as the footer of the page.