Before working with IEHSc, understand
the terminologies used in the IEHSc.
You can find the following terminologies:
- Display name
- The display name in IEHSc is the user's identity. It shows in
the welcome massage at the upper right corner of the window, after
you sign in IEHSc. It is identical with the your name in your IBM
profile https://www.ibm.com/account/profile. See the following example.
To change your display name after you sign in IEHSc, you
can find the details in Collaboration features for all users.
- User role
- There are four user roles in the external collaboration
center: administrator, reviewer, author, and moderator. A user can
have more than one role if needed.
To change your user role after
you sign in IEHSc, see Collaboration features for all users.
- User profile
- You can change the default role for your user ID by managing
your profile. After you sign in IEHSc, click Tools on
the comment frame. Select Preference from the Tools menu.
You can change your default role on the displayed page of My
Profile. See the following figure.
- Comments
- Comments are the opinions or suggestions that authors or reviewers
can add to an element, a topic, or an area of selection.
- Free selection
- You can select information units of any length and make comments
on them. The following highlighted unit is an example of free selection:
- Element
- An element is an information unit selected freely. See
the highlighted part in the following example.
- Page
- A page is a unit on which the content of a topic is displayed.
You can open the page of a topic by clicking the topic title in the
contents tab of the navigation view.
Figure 5. The
page of a topic
- Comment frame
- The comment frame is at the bottom of the content view.
It comprises a tool bar and a table of comment list. Besides adding
and replying to the comments, you can change your user role and shift
between various views with the tool bar of this frame. See the following
figure.
- Page ratings
- You can rate a page or the information center on their satisfaction
extent.
If nobody has ever rated the page or the information center,
you can see the following figure.
Otherwise, you can see the average rating. See the following
example.
- Watch this page / Stop watching
- You can watch the pages with interest by clicking the link of Watch
this page on the upper right corner of each page.
After you watch the pages, you can see:
- the link of Stop Watching displayed on
the upper right corner of the pages you watched
- a list of Pages being watched in My
Watches of Preferences.
- To stop watching pages, you can either click the link of Stop
Watching on each page that you watched, or configure Pages
being watchedin My Watches of Preferences
- My watches
- You can keep track of the comment changes to the pages in which
you are interested.
- RSS subscribe
- You can subscribe to timely updates from favored pages or to aggregate
feeds from many sites into one place.
- Statistics
- Authors can view two statistics tables of comment numbers, Plug-in
Statistic table and Reviewer Statistic table.
- Versions
- Each version of a topic or page has a version number. To compare
two versions of a topic or page, you need to select the version numbers.
- The version number has two formats: x.x.x.y or x.x.x.
The letter x stands for any number,
and the letter y stands for any number
or character. For example, 2.2.10, or 3.0.1.v23 are both right as
a version number.