Sharing ideas from a Jazz Dashboard or Work Item

While working on a task or reviewing your project statistics on the Dashboard, you can directly update your status message (micro-blog), post a new entry on a blog, or submit a new forum topic.

Posting status updates, blogs, and forum entries

To send an update:

  1. Click the Post icon in the Social Network viewlet, or from the toolbar in the current Work Item.

  2. Select Status Update, Blog, or Discussion Forum.
  3. Enter the information you want to post.
  4. Optional step, available when posting from a Work Item: Select Insert link / Insert summary to add the Work Item URL or summary to your message.
  5. Click Post Entry.

Notes:
  • The first time you post to a blog, the Select Blog dialog opens, prompting you to select a blog to post to. The blog is saved for next time. To change it, click the Change link at the top.
  • The first to time you post to a discussion forum, the Select Community for Discussion Forum dialog opens, prompting you to select the community to post a new topic on. The community is saved for next time. To change it, click the Change link at the top.

Sharing Work Items as activities

From the context of a Jazz Work Item you can create a new activity entry to collaborate on shared goals across your organization. Creating a new activity entry adds a link from the Work Item to the activity and another from the activity entry back to the Work Item.

To add a new Lotus Connections activity entry from a Work Item:

  1. Open the Work Item.
  2. Click the Add Work Item to activity icon in the upper icon bar. The Select Activity dialog opens.
  3. To add an existing activity, enter a search filter to load the list of matching activities. Use the * character to match partial words in the activity title. Alternatively, select Show All to view all activities.

    4. - or -
    To add a new activity, click the Start Activity button and create a new activity.
  4. Select the activity and click OK.
  5. Save the Work Item.

This creates a new entry in the activity with a link to the Work Item. A link from the Work Item to the activity is also created in the Work Item’s Links tab.

Notes:
  • The Select Activity dialog lists public and private activities where you have permission to add activity entries.
  • The Work Item and the activity entry are separate entities. Completing a Work Item does not complete the entry, and vice versa.