NovellTeaming users fall into three basic groups:
Content consumers use Novell Teaming to work with important information that pertains to them. Content consumers:
Maintain their personal workspaces, including setting up a personal blog, calendar, file folder, guestbook, photo album, and task folder
Participate in team workspaces set up for content providers, in order to better collaborate with colleagues and facilitate their work assignments
Search the Teaming site for people, places, and other information that pertains to their personal work assignments
Identify subject-matter experts to assist them in their personal work assignments
The typical tasks performed by content consumers are covered in the Novell Teaming 2.0 User Guide.
In many cases, content consumers quickly become content providers as well.
Content providers use Novell Teaming to create and manage teams, customize the Teaming environment, and import data into the Teaming site for use by other Teaming users. Content providers:
Create and manage team workspaces and folders
Control user access to their team workspaces
Establish unique branding for workspaces and folders to clearly differentiate them from other places on the Teaming site
Create landing pages for workspaces that consolidate the most information workspace information into a single page
Customize data entry forms for gathering information from users
Create workflows to automate otherwise time-consuming manual processes
The typical tasks performed by content providers are covered in the Novell Teaming 2.0 Advanced User Guide.
A Novell Teaming administrator is responsible for installing the Teaming software and setting up the Teaming site. This Novell 2.0 Installation Guide provides instructions for Teaming software installation. After installation, the Teaming site administrator can:
Set up user access to the Teaming site
Create initial workspaces and populate them with information that is of interest to Teaming users
Control user access to workspaces and folders
Configure e-mail integration, so that Teaming users can receive notifications of updated information on the Teaming site and post to the Teaming site using e-mail messages
Set up mirrored folders to make large sets of data that are already available on disk more easily available through the Teaming site
Set up software extensions (add-ons) that enhance the power and usefulness of the Teaming site
Set up remote applications that deliver data from a remote location, such as a remote database, for easy access on your Teaming site
Manage users, workspaces, and folders as the Teaming site grows and evolves
Perform regular backups to safeguard the data stored in the Teaming site
The typical tasks performed by Teaming site administrators are covered in the Novell Teaming 2.0 Administration Guide.