Establishing a collaboration environment
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsMartin Moser, Stefan Mueller, Martin Kreyscher, Christian Nester
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Abstract
Establishing an electronic collaboration area includes receiving from an application a collaboration area request that identifies a collaboration area template structure, receiving one or more collaboration area parameters relating to the collaboration area template structure, and establishing a collaboration area having content that is a function of the collaboration area template structure and the received one or more collaboration area parameters, the collaboration area being accessible to a plurality of collaboration area participants.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method of establishing a collaboration area, the method comprising:
- receiving from an application a collaboration area request that identifies a collaboration area template structure;
- receiving one or more collaboration area parameters relating to the collaboration area template structure;
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- establishing a collaboration area having content that is a function of the collaboration area template structure and the received one or more collaboration area parameters.
A method for generating a collaboration area in a portal, comprising:
- accessing a plurality of stored collaboration area template structures;
- receiving through the portal a selection of one structure from the plurality of stored collaboration area template structures;
- providing through the portal a parameter list having a plurality of entries associated with the one structure;
- receiving values for the plurality of entries;
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- mapping the values to the collaboration area template structure to form an instance of a collaboration area in the portal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.