Using Sametime Discussions and TeamRooms
Discussions and TeamRooms allow you to keep track of your business discussions online. In both Discussions and TeamRooms, you can create documents so that others can read and respond to them. You can also update your own documents and view comments from others. While working in a Discussion or TeamRoom, you can use Sametime to chat with others who are working in the same Discussion or TeamRoom.
Although Discussions and TeamRooms both provide a public forum for you to discuss projects with your coworkers, they have distinctly different purposes. Use a Discussion when your primary purpose is to provide a public forum for business discussions, but you do not need to manage a specific project. For example, a Marketing department might use a Discussion to keep track of ideas about an upcoming conference, a new product, and the latest advertising campaign. For more information about Discussions, see "Using a Discussion."
Use a TeamRoom to keep track of the details for a specific project. For example, a Marketing department might use a TeamRoom to enter the names of team members who are working on a project, deadlines for the project, and due dates for assignments related to the project. For more information about TeamRooms, see "Using a TeamRoom."
Note Your version of Sametime might not include Discussions and TeamRooms. See your system administrator for more information.
Common Procedures
Discussions and TeamRooms have some things in common. For example, you can use the same procedure to enter text in a Discussion or TeamRoom document. The procedures below apply to both Discussions and TeamRooms: