Collaboration features for all users

All users can follow the instructions in this topic to work with IEHSc.

In the external collaboration center, all the users can rate pages, watch information center and pages, subscribe to RSS, and configure the user profile.
Rating pages
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.
Figure 1. Be the first person to rate this page
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Otherwise, you can see the average rating. See the following example.
Figure 2. Average rating
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Watching the information center
Add or remove the locales you selected as your watches.
After you save your watches, you will receive e-mail notifications, when the information center in the languages defined by these locales is updated.
Note: Locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language and region. An information center can have different language versions defined by variant locales.
Watching pages
  • You can watch the pages with interest by clicking the link of Watch this page on the upper right corner of the content view.
    Figure 3. Watching pages
    screen capture of watching pages
  • To stop watching pages, you have two options:
    • Open the topic page and click the link of Stop Watching.
      Figure 4. Stop Watching
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    • Configure Pages being watched in My Watches of Preferences
      Figure 5. My Watches
      screen capture of stopping watching pages in My Watches
Subscribing to RSS
Click the link of RSS subscribe on the upper right corner of the content view, to subscribe to timely updates from your favored pages or to aggregate feeds, which are RSS documents from many sites into one page.
You can read RSS feeds by software called an RSS reader. Choose an RSS reader from the drop-down list. See the following figure.
Figure 6. RSS reader list
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An feed includes full text of comments, plus metadata such as publishing dates. See the following example.
Figure 7. RSS feed
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Configuring the user profile
You can change your display name and role for your ID by configuring your profile.
Click Preferences from the Tools menu. You can change your default user name and user role on the page of My Profile.
Note: You can change your role only when you have more than one role. And the change takes effect the next time you sign in IEHSc.
See the following figure.
Figure 8. My profile
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Viewing all my comments
Open the Collaboration tab, click the Show all my comments button (Show all my comments button). You can see the comments you made liste in the frame. See the following figure.
Figure 9. Viewing all my comments
screen capture of collaboration tab