Claims
- 1. Method for managing collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
receiving a request from a user of collaboration space at a browser for a report of changes made to a place within said collaboration space; responsive to said request, selectively upon demand or upon schedule, displaying to said user a report of changes made to those objects within said place which said user is authorized to access.
- 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of organizing said collaboration space according to an object model selectively including place, room, folder, page, member, form, field, placetype, roomtype, skin, and placebot objects.
- 3. The method of claim 1, said report displaying changes in membership, events, tasks and rooms.
- 4. The method of claim 1, said report extending to changes to all collaboration space objects, including pages, tasks, events, folders, rooms, members, groups, today's events & tasks due, and email received.
- 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
maintaining said collaboration space as a collection of rooms, each room being implemented as a database; associating a view with each said database; associating a folder with each said view; periodically or upon demand, copying said view to said folder; and generating said report by opening and displaying the contents of said folder.
- 6. The method of claim 5, said generating step further comprising the steps of:
applying access control list security to filter said contents for said user; and generating from the filtered contents of said folder a display for reporting what's new to said user.
- 7. The method of claim 6, said generating step including creating hypertext markup language reorganized for display at said browser to include a what's new panel and a quick browse panel.
- 8. The method of claim 5, said copying step further being executed whenever said database is updated.
- 9. A method for managing a collaboration space, comprising the steps of:
providing users of said collaboration space a report of events and happenings throughout a place that are of current interest, including scheduled events or tasks that are current, and what has been recently changed; and providing said report selectively upon user request or in accordance with a schedule.
- 10. The method of claim 9, comprising the further steps of:
receiving a request from a user entered to said collaboration space by selecting a place.
- 11. The method of claim 9, comprising the further step of:
receiving a request from a user entered to said collaboration space by selecting an e-mail component at a browser user interface.
- 12. The method of claim 11, comprising the further step of personalizing said report to said user.
- 13. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of organizing said collaboration space according to an object mode selectively including place, room, folder, page, member, form, field, placetype, roomtype, skin, and placebot objects.
- 14. The method of claim 13, said personalizing step including displaying changes only to those collaboration space objects to which said user is authorized access.
- 15. The method of claim 14, said personalizing step including displaying changes in a what's new page at said browser, with the temporal scope of said page being user specified.
- 16. The method of claim 14, said report extends to all elements of said collaboration space to which said user is authorized access, including pages, tasks, events, folders, rooms, members, groups, today's events & tasks due, and email received.
- 17. The method of claim 15, said temporal scope selectively comprising a time line including a past period, a present period and a future period.
- 18. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of:
responsive to room manager selection, configuring a newsletter selectively to include e-mail, each part of its contents, its frequency and members of said room to receive said newsletter; and enabling each said member to accept or disabled said e-mail.
- 19. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of collecting a team version of said newsletter in said collaboration space for browsing by said users.
- 20. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of providing to said browser one or more quick-search links for user selection to answer queries relating to changes made to said collaboration space.
- 21. The method of claim 20, said links being implemented as folder icons.
- 22. The method of claim 20, each item in said newsletter being implemented as a page with access control protection.
- 23. The method of claim 20, further comprising the step of providing a generic site map in the form of a table of contents tree which is access controlled for said user.
- 24. System for managing collaboration space, comprising:
a browser for generating a user request for changes made to a place within collaboration space; a display responsive to said user request, selectively upon demand or upon schedule, for displaying to said user a report of changes made to those objects within said place which said user is authorized to access.
- 25. The system of claim 24, further comprising:
said collaboration space being a collection of rooms, each room implemented as a database; a view associated with each said database; a folder associated with each said view for receiving a copy of said view periodically or upon demand; and said report being generated by opening and displaying the contents of said folder.
- 26. The system of claim 24, said collaboration space being structured according to an object model selectively including place, room, folder, page, member, form, field, placetype, roomtype, skin, and placebot objects.
- 27. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for managing collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
receiving a request from a user of collaboration space at a browser for a report of changes made to a place within said collaboration space; responsive to said request, selectively upon demand or upon schedule, displaying to said user a report of changes made to those objects within said place which said user is authorized to access.
- 28. The program storage device of claim 27, said method steps further comprising:
maintaining said collaboration space as a collection of rooms, each room being implemented as a database; associating a view with each said database; associating a folder with each said view; periodically or upon demand, copying said view to said folder; and generating said report by opening and displaying the contents of said folder.
- 29. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for managing collaboration space, said method steps comprising:
providing users of said collaboration space a report of events and happenings throughout a place that are of current interest, including scheduled events or tasks that are current, and what has been recently changed; and providing said report selectively upon user request or in accordance with a schedule.
- 30. A computer program product or computer program element for managing collaboration space by providing users of said collaboration space a report of events and happenings throughout a place that are of current interest, including scheduled events or tasks that are current, and what has been recently changed; and providing said report selectively upon user request or in accordance with a schedule.
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The following U.S. patent applications, filed concurrently herewith, are assigned to the same assignee hereof and contain subject matter related to the subject matter of the present application.
[0002] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0021 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Creating a Theme of a Place to be Used as a Template for Other Places”;
[0003] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0022 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Automatically Accessing, Processing, and Managing the Data In a Place”;
[0004] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0023 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Importing HTML Forms”;
[0005] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0024 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Importing MS Office Forms”;
[0006] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0025 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Creating a Place Type to Be Used as a Template for Other Places”;
[0007] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0027 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Providing Task Information in a Place”;
[0008] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0028 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Providing Synchronous Communication and Person Awareness In a Place”;
[0009] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0029 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Providing a Separate Browser Window With Information From the Main Window In a Simpler Format”;
[0010] Assignee docket LOT9 2000 0030 US1, U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Allowing In Place Editing of Office Documents In a Place”.
[0011] The present application is also an improvement upon the following copending, previously filed applications, assigned to the same assignee:
[0012] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Interconnecting Secure Rooms”, assignee docket LO999044;
[0013] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamic Management of Web Site”, assignee docket LO999045;
[0014] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Presentation of Room Navigation”, assignee docket LO999046;
[0015] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Independent Room Security Management”, assignee docket LO99047;
[0016] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamically Generating Viewable Graphics”, assignee docket LO999048;
[0017] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Dynamic Browser Management of Web Site”, assignee docket LO999049;
[0018] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Room Decoration and Inheritance”, assignee docket LO999051;
[0019] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Online/Offline Uninterrupted Updating of Rooms in Collaboration Space”, assignee docket LO999052;
[0020] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Client Replication of Collaboration Space”, assignee docket LO999053;
[0021] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Browser Creation and Maintenance of Forms”, assignee docket LO999054;
[0022] Ser. No. ______, entitled “System and Method for Browser Definition of Workflow Documents”, assignee docket LO999055.
[0023] The above-identified patent applications are incorporated herein by reference.