Learn which applications are part of the groupware. Get an initial insight into the tasks that can be accomplished using the applications.
Your information center for scheduled appointments, new E-Mails or messages from messaging platforms.
Get an overview of current appointments and new E-Mails.
Read current messages from your favorite messaging source.
Follow news from your social networks.
Learn more: Portal
Send, receive and organize your E-Mails.
Besides your internal E-Mail account use external E-Mail accounts that you have set up with other providers.
Find E-Mails with the help of several search criteria. Follow E-Mail threads.
Use E-Mail folders to organize your E-Mails. Co-operate with your team by sharing selected E-Mail folders.
Use the other applications by creating a new contact from an E-Mail address or creating a new appointment from an iCal attachment.
Learn more: E-Mail
Organize and maintain your private and business contacts.
Use the global address book to communicate with internal participants. Create personal address books to keep an overview of your contacts.
Use address books to organize your contacts. Co-operate with your team by sharing selected address books.
Use the contacts from your social networks. This enables you to use the groupware as a central collection point for your contacts.
Work with external partners by sending contact data in vCard format or sharing address books.
Learn more: Address Book
Keep an overview of your private and business appointments.
Use individual or recurring appointments to schedule meetings and activities.
Use calendars to organize appointments. Specify the team members who can access selected calendars.
Use the team view functions to find windows of free time and to check whether resources like rooms or devices are available.
When scheduling appointments with external participants the iCal functions ensure automated invitation management.
Learn more: Calendar
Schedule and organize your activities.
Use the due date to organize your tasks. Use the reminder for tasks that are due.
Manage your team by delegating selected tasks to others.
Use the tasks folders to organize your tasks. Specify team members who can access selected tasks.
Use the recurring tasks functions to keep track of recurring activities.
Learn more: Tasks
Use the file store to centrally manage information or to share information with others.
Save any files, notes or Internet links. Give your team read or write access to selected document folders.
Create and edit simple text files.
Send individual files as E-Mail attachments or links.
Provide information to external partners by sharing document folders.
Learn more: Drive
Communicate with other users in real time.
Use the chat function to send text messages to single users or to a group.
You can also use voice and video telephony with a single user or within a group.
Use your presence status to notify other users about your availability for a chat.
Schedule and launch meetings in the Calendar app.
Learn more: Chat
Folders and their permissions play an important role in exchanging information with other users. Each groupware object is saved in a specific folder. The folder view helps to manage folders and permissions.
Use personal folders for sorting your E-Mails, contacts, appointments, tasks, and Infostore items.
Support your team by sharing certain folders with read or write access.
Benefit from the information of others by using objects in public or shared folders for your work.
Learn more: Data Organization and Shares
Parent topic: First Steps