Creating Discussion Objects

Discussion Objects allow you to maintain an ongoing discussion/chat with your team members.
Since the correspondence is asynchronously, members can view previous submissions to the discussion and add new comments anytime.

In addition, teams can create unlimited Discussions each representing a different topic.

  1. To start a Discussion, highlight the folder where you want to add it and then click on the "Discussion" icon in the tool bar.

    The "Create Discussion" dialog opens.

  2. Enter the name of the Discussion and click on the "OK" button.

    The object is created and listed with the other objects in the highlighted folder.
    In addition, a new Discussion tab is created in the Discussions pane.

  3. To submit a new entry into the Discussion, place the cursor in the white text box, enter the text you want to submit and then click on the "Submit" button.

    The new entry is added to the highlighted Discussion along with a date & time stamp and the name of the person who submitted the entry.
    The new content marker is displayed to the other team members, drawing their attention to the new text added to the ongoing Discussion.

    In the screen shot above you can see how each tab represents a different ongoing Discussion. In this case there are two: "Presentation Slides" and "Customer comments".

  4. You can even add links to specific objects in the workspace by copying an object and then using the "Paste as Link" feature to paste the link to the object in the text area of the Discussion.
    An example of this can be seen in the screen above. The blue font text "Presentation Slides 1.0.ppt" is a link to that file in the workspace.

    To learn more about the "Paste as Link" feature see: Copying Links to Objects

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