Use the business card to view people's contact details
and get in touch with them.
About this task
The business card provides a useful snapshot of a user's
profile information and links to the user's work in IBM® Connections applications. If the administrator
configured email addresses in IBM Connections,
you can send an email by clicking the email address in the card. If IBM Sametime® awareness is enabled, the card
displays the user's status information.
Procedure
- Access a person's business card by hovering the cursor
over their name in any application and clicking the business card
link.
- Use the business card to complete any of the following
tasks:
- Access the applications that are associated with a person
by clicking the links on the business card. For example, by clicking Files,
you can access the person's public file library and any files that
are shared with you.
- Add the person as a colleague by selecting , typing an invitation message, and then clicking Send
invitation.
- Download and save the person's vCard by selecting , selecting a character encoding option, and then clicking Download.
- Send the person an email by clicking Send E-mail.
Note: This
option is not available if your administrator configured IBM Connections to prevent email addresses from
being displayed.
- Start a chat session with the person by clicking Chat.
Note: To
use this option, you must install the IBM Connections
plug-in for Sametime.
- Start a telephone conference call with the person by clicking Call.
Note: To
use this option, you must install IBM Sametime Advanced Telephony.