Creating an Interest Profile

Interest Profiles allow you to monitor information that is relevant to your work while filtering out documents that do not interest you. You create an Interest Profile by defining the kinds of documents that you want to see. When a Discussion document matches the criteria defined in your Interest Profile, you receive an e-mail message that contains a link to the relevant topic.

To create your Interest Profile:

1. Click Interest Profile in the list on the left side of the main Discussion page.



2. (Optional) Specify one or more authors whose documents you want to see.



3. (Optional) Specify one or more categories that you want to track. Select one or more categories from the list or add new categories using the box provided. Separate new categories with a semicolon.



4. (Optional) Select one or more words or phrases from the list or enter new words or phrases.



5. Click "Save & Close."

You can also track any discussion thread by viewing the main topic in the thread and clicking "Add Selected Topic to Interest Profile" at the top of the screen. If this feature has been enabled, you will receive e-mail messages as new documents are added to the discussion thread.

Note By default, Sametime does not send you e-mails about Discussion documents. The administrator must use Notes to enable the Interest Profile feature.

See also:
Editing or Deleting an Interest Profile
Searching for Information
Working with Profiles