This portal offers three major facilities for collaboration: <b>Collaboration Environments</b>, <b>Social Networking</b> services, and <b>Shared Workspace</b>.
The <ahref="/group/data-e-infrastructure-gateway/workspace"target="_blank"><b>Shared Workspace</b></a>, is a service for managing files in the cloud. Through the workspace you can manage, upload and delete files as you wish.
You can check the <b>Collaboration Environments</b> and the communities available on the System
by clicking on Join New in the top menu of this page.
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For each <b>Collaboration Environment</b> you can ask to join.
Your request will be reviewed by a delegated person in the related community and approved (depending on the scope of the community).
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You will be notified whether your request will be approved or not via email. While the request is in the approval phase the related icon will be listed as pending.
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In some cases you could be added to a community automatically, should this happen you will be notified via email.
<li><b>Home Social</b> is the page behind this tour and contains your personalized news feed;</li>
<li><b>Workspace</b> is the application for sharing your data and for your private cloud storage;</li>
<li><b>Messages</b> allows you to exchange private messages with the other users of the System;</li>
<li><b>Notifications</b> keeps you up-to-date to what is happening and it is related to you. To know how to <b>tune/change how you get notified</b> see the next step.</b></li>
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<b>Please note:</b> whenever you receive a new notification or message the related icon gets red.
<b>Notification Settings</b> are very <b>fine grained</b>. For each Notification type generated by the System you can choose <b>whether to and how to</b> get notified.
For each type of notification you can choose to be notified through this <b>portal</b>, via <b>email</b> or <b>none</b> (by clicking OFF). By default almost all the notification types are set to ON.
When <b>posting a news</b> you can use some useful features:
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If you <b>paste a link</b> the System will try to create a preview of it.
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If you want to <b>post a file</b> instead use the attachment icon and pick the file from your disk.
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You can also use the “@” to <b>mention</b> someone. In this case the mentioned user will receive a notification.
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Finally, if you want <b>everyone in a group to be notified</b> about your update, select the +notification to members in the "Share with" dropdown menu.
They will receive a notification about your post, unless they decided not to in their settings.
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