Collaborative Space 8.0.13

Animate and gather people around a theme or a project and create a real group dynamic with the Jalios Collaborative Spaces!

When to use this plugin ?

Do your team members work in their own corner? You would like to promote more visibility and exchanges, but not at the expense of everyone's productivity ? You have identified a theme that generates many useful exchanges but these exchanges seem disordered and repetitive to you?

New features

Upgrade to version 8.0 to benefit from the following new features (from JPlatform 10 SP7):

• Use of a JPortal on the home page allowing for more flexible layout management
• A simplified management of the applications and the home page
• The ability to synchronize your spaces with their template
• Free organization of the tabs (Applications) of your space
• The administration of the JMobile view of your space
• The possibility to modify the services of the model in your space (Overload of parameters)
• More customization of services (Icons, buttons, links ...)

Migrate to the 7.5 version of the plugin to benefit from its latest enhancements :

• Allow guests to access a predefined list of spaces
• Manage the list of moderators in the Front Office
• Setting up the header of a collaborative space
• Choice of a home page for guest accounts
• List of requests to open a collaborative space from the space directory
• Guest account: direct transformation of a proposed contact if it corresponds to the member you want to create
• Registration request: allow the validator to choose the group(s) in which the member will be added
• Rejecting a request to open a collaborative space now warns the requester, with an optional message from the validator
• Sending personalized alerts to validators of registration requests to a collaborative space

Migrate to the 7.3 version of the plugin to benefit from its latest enhancements :

• Improvements in the space directory (hub):
  • Access all spaces, whether there are collaborative or editorial
  • Easily search for public, private or secret spaces using the access policy filter
  • Find the description of spaces on the back of the cards
  • Add spaces to your favorites directly from the hub
• At the creation request of a  collaborative space, you can now :
  • Customize the business rules for creating a collaborative
  • Specify the animators of the space
• For the management of members
  • Improvement in handling registration requests by several animators
  • Possibility to add members directly from the dashboard of the space
  • Possibility to specify the language and country for guest users

What does this module offer?

The Collaborative Spaces module allows you to open, manage and work in collaborative spaces. A collaborative space is a portal of services dedicated to a group of members. The home page of the collaborative space is a customizabledashboard.

Below are the key features :

Collaborative space creation

• 3 levels of access policy : public, private or secret
• Spaces within spaces (subspace)
• Collaborative space templates for identified use cases (space typology)
• Fast creation based on template models
• Optional validation workflow upon space creation request

Members and rights management

• Collaborative spaces can have many animators
• 3 levels of members policy : free registration, by validation or fully managed by animators
• Optional custom roles and groups
• Dedicated branch of categories for each space

Collaborative space usages

• Usage reporting with statistics, 
• The space hub to access all spaces 
• Users can mark spaces as favorites for faster access

Settings and customization

• Look & Feel customization (banner, colors, etc.)
• Custom image and thumbnail to display in the space hub
• Personnalized number of columns on the space dashboard
• Animators can choose services and applications that ar made available in each collaborative space

Broad choice of services and applications

Services and applications that animators can enable for a given collaborative space may require optional plugin to be installed. 

Services are displayed on the dashboard:

• Activiy wall
• Collaborative space description
• List of subspaces
• Members directory
• Space's shared agenda
• Last content and publications
• Last conversations

Applications are displayed with a tab :

• Document explorer
• Wiki pages
• Calendar
• Conversation spaces
• Collaborative social bookmarks (JMag)
• Takss and project management (JTask)
• Blended learning (JLearn)

What our customers like about it

The ease of creation

A collaborative space can be created in a few clicks from a template model. Collaborative space templates are defined by the administrator and are made available to users. The templates reflect the collaborative practices within the organization.