ConceptShare

I received a support email the other day with a user, who loves ConceptShare, but was having a hard time finding out what was 'new' in the workspace. They would go through each concept and check for new uploads, comments, replies, etc. As you would suspect this was getting rather tedious as they had a tendency to use multi-page PDFs.

Being a ConceptShare "Power User" I was well aware of the Event cell, but most people may not be aware of it as it is not part of the default layout in ConceptShare. The reason it isn't is that when we rolled users from version 1 to version 2 we didn't want to 'shock' them too much so we had that window turned off.

You can enable the Events cell by going to the "Workspace" menu and clicking "Events". This window basically summarizes all the events for the workspace, including new/update concepts, new comments, new replies, and people being added/removed from a workspace. It consists of 3 tabs to separate the data (concepts, comments, people) and will even put numbers beside the tab as new events happen so you can still stay on top of things even when collaborating in real-time.

When looking at a particular tab (say Concepts), it will even bold the ones that are new, and when you click on a particular event it will take you right to that spot. So clicking on a concept event will bring you to the concept (unless it is deleted), clicking on a comment will bring you to that comment, etc.

I think once you turn on the events cell you have a hard time turning it off, it makes the collaboration and finding new information just that much easier!

Hope that helps!