Collaboration - Creating rooms and displaying to a specific group

Question

Hi,
I am new to enterprise portals. Can anybody guide me in this context?
I want to create some collaboration rooms which would be specific to groups. Eg. The Students should be able to see rooms specific to their subject. The professionals should be able to view the collaboration specific to subjects that they have selected in their profile. Administrator should be the only user who can create rooms and manage it.
I see about the roles in the book but i am a bit confused.
How do i do that?

Answer 1

Ramachandran Reddy,
Just goign through the forums found the question unanswered. i have done the process what you have asked for.
1)      If you want to create Collaboration Rooms and assigning member's to the room created you should have a role assigned to you i.e. eu_role.
2)      To assign those roles go to User Management and assign to your User or can ask the System Administrator to do it.
3)      After assigning the role you will see New WorkSet assigned to you in the Portal i.e. Home.
4)      In the top Navigational area go to Content Administration. Click it
5)      Go to Collaboration Content. Click it.
6)      On the left side Detailed Navigational area you will find Room Creation link. Click it.
7)      That will open a New view on right side panel where you provide the details to create a Collaboration Room like
             a) Name : Collaboration Room Name
             b) Description : Give some description about the room you are creating
             c) Owner: Generally as you are logged in, so the Owner will be you, but if you want to change the user you can also do it.
            d) Categories: Select any one of the categories.
            e) Template: There are Meeting templates, Project Template & Team template, depending upon the requirement you select the required template.
                You can also create your own template
Process to Create Room Template: On left side navigational area you will find a link "Room Template Administration". Click it.
              I. You will see a New Template tab, click it
              II.      A view is displayed where you need to give the details for the creation of Room template. In the Workset option box choose the option where you want to create the template. Click next.
             III.      Add the role and give the required page permissions. Click next.
             IV.      Incase you want to extent the then you can also extent the template. Here you can select the user's who can use the template you have created.
             f) Choose the Room Type, it can be a Public, Private and Restricted and also in the add the members.
             g)      When you click the Select button a new window is opened, just enter the user's name and add them to the room created. Click next.
8)      A New Collaboration room is created and members are added to them.
9)      Now if you want to send some messages or documents to the member's then go to the Top level Navigational and there you will find Home tab. Click it
10)  Goto the Work in the navigation panel select the room you have created.
11)  Choose the member from the memberlist , now depending upon the requirement send email or instant message to the user.
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regards
Anil Dichpally