Logging into a Collaboration Server

Once you have created a collaboration account, you may log into a collaboration server. To log into a collaboration server, you select the collaboration account you wish to use in the Collaboration Login window and click the Login button in the Collaboration Login window.

You can configure the IDE to automatically log you into a collaboration server any time you launch the IDE by checking the Login Automatically checkbox in the Collaboration Login window.

When you press the Login button, the IDE will attempt to log into the selected collaboration server. If the login is not successful, you will receive an error dialog indicating the type of error encountered and a suggested corrective action. If the login attempt is successful, the Collaboration Login window will be updated with information retrieved from the collaboration server such as that shown in Figure 18-11 for John Smith.

Figure 18-9. Collaboration Sessions

You can also log into multiple collaboration accounts at the same time.