When a discussion is finished, Forum contains a snapshot of your work. When a new member joins the team, that new member can review discussion entries to understand how documents were developed, the logic behind decisions, and other important historical data about the project work.

A workspace is a collection of summary pages and forums that one group uses to work toward a common goal. For example, consider workspaces to be online office spaces. Just as, say, the Engineering Department and the Marketing Department may be located on separate floors of an office building, your zone manager can create an "engineering workspace" primarily for engineers and a "marketing workspace" primarily for marketing professionals.

Using Forum, a person can access and use more than one workspace. To access another workspace, click on the title of the workspace.

For example, this page contains a count of new or modified entries for only the discussion forums you want to track (this is useful if your zone includes a large number discussion forums). Also, the "My summary" page can keep track of discussion forums located in any workspace in your zone.

In addition to tracking discussion forums, you can specify that you want your summary page to display entries from one or more calendars, all scheduled chat sessions for the day, and more.

The "My summary" page is highly customizable and needs to be set up before you can use it. (You need to indicate which forums you want to track.) To set up or to customize the "My summary" page, click on the "My summary" tab, then click on the Preferences item in the blue toolbar.