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Integration between the Rational Team Concert Web interface and Lotus Connections social software is delivered via a Mainsoft technology preview. The production release will also support Microsoft Office SharePoint Server's social networking features. You can download the technology preview from Mainsoft.com.
Tap into your social network
Integrating Lotus Connections social software into the Rational Team Concert Web interface provides many new collaboration capabilities that allow you to identify, connect with, and exchange ideas with a wide community of IT and business stakeholders, partners, and end users. You can:
- Learn more about your colleagues, by accessing their complete social profile
- Find out what's happening in your community, blogs, wikis, and activities
- Search for technical and business contacts based on their experience, skills, or key relationships
- Publish work items as Lotus Connections activities or microblog status updates
- Microblog ideas and status updates from the dashboard
- And more ...
Installation in minutes
Installing the technology preview is easy. Simply register and download the software from the Mainsoft website.
The server installation requires a simple file copy, followed by a single command line. No client installation is required for the techology preview.
Link projects to communities
Associating a Lotus Connections community with a project gives you direct access to community features such as wikis, blogs, and forums, from within Team Concert. All project members are automatically added as members of the Lotus Connections community.
Access users' social network profiles
When you hover over a username, Rational Team Concert presents a business card tooltip with information about the user. By integrating with Lotus Connections, you get the user's complete social network profile and activities, including photo, contact details, his local time, and information about his expertise, areas of interest, and what he's working on at the moment. The connector automatically synchronizes Lotus Connections profiles with Rational Team Concert profiles (available in the production release only).
The social network viewlet on the project dashboard
A social network viewlet is added to your project dashboard and provides a window into the social network site.
Use the viewlet's area selector to quickly switch between different areas on the social network, including:
- Activities
- Blogs
- Bookmarks
- Communities
- Files (supported in production release only)
- User profiles
- Wikis (supported in production release only)
You can filter the entries in each view, search inside the area views, and drill down into visible entries using the tag cloud. Click the status update icon in the top right of the viewlet to post microblog status updates to your social network directly from Rational Team Concert.
Next to the status update icon, click the project community link to open the social network community associated with the current Rational Team Concert project. From the icon menu, you can also access the community feed, to stay up to date on community activities within the Rational Team Concert environment.
People search
Discover and grow your enterprise social network from Team Concert. Find technical and business contacts across the enterprise based on their experience, skills, or key relationships.
Posting status updates and activities from work items
The technology preview integrates Lotus Connections activities into your Work Item view, enabling you to create new activity entries on Lotus Connections, directly from the Team Concert Work Item view. You can also microblog status updates directly from the Work Item. Sharing progress with your social network will become a natural part of your daily tasks.
For example, you can use forums to gather feedback from early adopters; author specifications collaboratively on a wiki, and, as product manager, you can blog about the product roadmap. The social network will engage developers, testers, and builders as you share work updates while progressing towards the shared goal of a software delivery.
Download the technology preview today!
