Terminologies in IEHSc

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.
Figure 1. User name
user name

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.
Figure 2. My Profile
screen capture of managing profile
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:
Figure 3. Free selection
screen capture of a free selection
Element
An element is an information unit selected freely. See the highlighted part in the following example.
Figure 4. Element
screen capture of an element
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
screen capture of a page
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.
Figure 6. Comment frame
screen capture of a comment frame
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.
Figure 7. Page rating
screen capture of page rating
Otherwise, you can see the average rating. See the following example.
Figure 8. Page rating
screen capture of page rating
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.
    Figure 9. Watching pages
    screen capture of watching pages
    After you watch the pages, you can see:
    • the link of Stop Watching displayed on the upper right corner of the pages you watched
      Figure 10. Stop Watching
      screen capture of stopping watching pages
    • a list of Pages being watched in My Watches of Preferences.
      Figure 11. My Watches
      screen capture of stopping watching pages in My Watches
  • 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.