eXo Platform 3.5

## Chapter 3. Work with Activities

All activities of a user are displayed in the user's and Space's Activity Stream.

To enter the Activity Stream page, hover your cursor over your display name (for example, John Smith) on the Administration bar and select Activity Stream.

The Activity Stream page consists of the following tabs:

- All Updates: lists all updates of yours, of your connections, and of your spaces.

- Network Updates: lists all updates of users who have established their connections with you.

- Space Updates: lists all updates of spaces where you are a member or a manager.

- My Status: lists all your own activities, such as your profile updates, link updates or another activities pushed by yourself.

You can see activities of any registered people by clicking their display name to go their profile page, then select Activity Stream on the left pane. However, for people to whom you have not connected, you only can view their activities but cannot post any activities, comments or like on their activity streams.

In addition, you can keep track of activities of a space application. For example, whenever there is a new post in the Forum application, it will be updated in the activity stream.

The actions described in this section are those which you can do on activity streams of yours, of your connections or of any spaces where you are a member or manager, depending on the accessed tab.

## 3.1. Update status

By entering your status message, you can tell people what are you doing on or ask for their helps or ideas. Thereafter, your colleagues who are connected with you can see your updates in their connections.

There are 2 ways to post your status.

The first way

1. Hover your cursor over your display name on the right corner of the page.

2. Input your status into the Status Update textbox from the drop-down menu, then hit the Enter key to accept updating your status.

The second way

1. Go into the Activity Stream page as here.

2. Enter your current status in the Status Update box.

3. Click Share to accept sharing your status.

Your new status will be updated in two tabs: All Updates and My Status.

### Note

You can use some HTML tags when updating your status. See more details in the Create rich activities with allowed HTML tags section.

## 3.2. Share a link

1. Click .

2. Enter the link and click .

If the link address is correct, it will be attached, then shown with the overall content of the link.

- If you do not want the thumbnail to be displayed, select the No thumbnail checkbox.

- If there is more than one thumbnail, you can click blue arrows to go through all available thumbnails.

- If you want to edit the link content, double-click the content and edit.

3. Click Share to share your entered link with your connections, or click again to remove your entered link.

## 3.3. Share a file

1. Click to open the Select File box.

2. Click Select File to open the Select Document form.

3. Select the relevant drive category from the Select Drive drop-down menu.

4. Select the folder and the server file, then click Select to finish uploading your selected file.

### Note

You can also click to select a file from your local device; Or click to create a new folder.

You will see your uploaded file in the Select File box as below.

5. Click Share to share your uploaded file with your connections.

- To remove your uploaded file, simply click next to your selected file, or click again.

## 3.4. Delete activities/comments

You are allowed to delete your activities/comments that you created, and those in your activity stream and in the space where your are the manager.

1. Select All Updates or My Status to view all your own activities.

2. Select the activity you want to delete, then click .

3. Click OK in the confirmation message to accept your deletion.

## 3.5. Comment on activities

This action allows you to get ideas, answers, and any additional information when your collaborators respond to your status updates. Besides, you yourself give your ideas about any contacts' status update as follows:

1. Select an activity on which you want to comment.

2. Click Comment in the bottom line of the profile to open the Comment form.

3. Enter your comment into the Comment form and press the Comment button. Your comment will be displayed right below the profile.

### Note

You can use some HTML tags when commenting on activities. See more details in the Create rich activities with allowed HTML tags section.

## 3.6. Like/Unlike activities

The function allows you to show your interest by selecting Like and/or Unlike activities.

Like activities

1. Select the profile containing the activity you want to like.

2. Click Like beside the activity.

Unlike activities

You only can Unlike an activity after you liked it.

1. Select an activity that you clicked Like.

2. Click Unlike beside the activity.

## 3.7. Create rich activities with allowed HTML tags

When updating the status or writing a comment, you can use the following HTML tags:

Tags | Description
--- | ---
<b> | Render as bold text. For example: <b>Bold text</b>
<i> | Render as italic text. For example: <i>Italic text</i>
<a> | Refer to an external link by using the href attribute. For example: <a href="http://cloud-workspaces.com">Cloud Workspace</a>
<span> | Group inline-elements in a document.
<em> | Render as emphasized text. For example: <em>Emphasized text</em>
<strong> | Render as strong (highlighted) text.
<p> | Define a paragraph.
<ol> | Define an ordered list. An ordered list can be numerical or alphabetical.
<ul> | Define an unordered or bulleted list.
<li> | Define a list item. The <li> tag is used in both ordered (<ol>) and unordered (<ul>) lists. For example: <ul> <li>Bullet 1</li> <li>Bullet 2</li> </ul>
<br> | Insert a single line break.
<img> | Define an image in an HTML page. The <img> tag has an required attribute named src which specifies the URL of the image. For example: <img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR59KE-ltJTWbaNBpB3K_uOJYMGE0HaQOx4htrm8DML6lUj90t4"/>.
<blockquote> | Define a long quotation.
<q> | Define a short quotation.

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