US 2022/0101242 A1 · Ad Hoc Group Management Within A Collaboration Project Sharing Workflow

Abstract

A content collaboration system displays a UI allowing a project owner to create and edit a collaboration project, and share the collaboration project with other users. To share the collaboration project, the project owner starts a sharing workflow by providing a user input to the collaboration system UI. The sharing workflow allows the project owner to identify other users with which to share the collaboration project. As part of the sharing workflow, the project owner can input a request via the collaboration system UI to manage (e.g., create or edit) a group of users. In response to such a request, the collaboration system UI causes the group to be created or changed as requested. In response to a request to share the collaboration project with the group the collaboration system UI causes an invitation to access the collaboration project to be sent to the members of the group.

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Dependent claims

In a digital medium environment with which to share a collaboration project with a group, a method implemented by a processing device comprising:

receiving a user request to initiate a sharing workflow for the collaboration project;
displaying, as part of the sharing workflow and in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, a group management option to create a group;
receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a first user input from a user selecting the group management option to create the group;
receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a second user input that is an identifier of a user to include in the group;
causing the group to be created and the user included in the group to be stored by communicating an indication of the group and the identifier of the user to a contact information system for storage;
receiving a user request, as part of the sharing workflow, to share the collaboration project with the group;
and
causing, in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, an invitation to access the collaboration project to be sent to each member of the group.

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A project collaboration system comprising:

a group management system to present a sharing workflow for a collaboration project and to receive a user request to initiate a sharing workflow for the collaboration project, the group management system including a group creation module configured to allow a collaboration project owner to create a group while within the sharing workflow by displaying, as part of the sharing workflow and in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, a group management option to create a group, receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a first user input from a user selecting the group management option to create the group, receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a second user input that is an identifier of a user to include in the group, and causing the group to be created and the user included in the group to be stored by communicating an indication of the group and the identifier of the user to a contact information system for storage;
and
a project sharing module to cause the collaboration project to be shared with the group by receiving a user request, as part of the sharing workflow, to share the collaboration project with the group and causing, in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, an invitation to access the collaboration project to be sent to each member of the group.

In a digital medium environment with which to share a collaboration project with a group, a computing device comprising:

a processing device;
and
a memory component coupled to the processing device and having stored thereon multiple instructions that, responsive to execution by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving a user request to initiate a sharing workflow for the collaboration project;
displaying, as part of the sharing workflow and in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, a group management option to create a group;
receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a first user input from a user selecting the group management option to create the group;
receiving, as part of the sharing workflow, a second user input that is an identifier of a user to include in the group;
causing the group to be created and the user included in the group to be stored by communicating an indication of the group and the identifier of the user to a contact information system for storage;
receiving a user request, as part of the sharing workflow, to share the collaboration project with the group;
and
causing, in response to the user request to share the collaboration project, an invitation to access the collaboration project to be sent to each member of the group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Ad Hoc Group Management Within A Collaboration Project Sharing Workflow

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