Managing Collaboration Accounts

Once you have created a collaboration account, you can use the Account Management window to create an additional collaboration account, modify an existing collaboration account, set a given collaboration account as the default collaboration account, or remove a collaboration account.

To open the Account Management window:

1. Open the Collaboration window.

   You can open the Collaboration window by choosing Window | Collaboration or by pressing Control-Shift-L.

2. Click the Manage Accounts link in the Collaboration window as shown in Figure 18-7.

   Figure 18-7. Manage Collaboration Accounts

   

Once you have clicked on the Manage Accounts link, you have the capability to add additional collaboration accounts, modify an existing collaboration account, set an existing account as the default collaboration account, or remove an existing collaboration account. Each of these tasks is described in further detail in the following sub-sections.

Adding Additional Collaboration Accounts

The NetBeans Developer Collaboration modules allow you to have multiple collaboration accounts. Multiple collaboration accounts can be useful if you have multiple projects with constraints that do not allow all the developers you interact with to share the same collaboration server. For example, you may contribute to an open source project such as NetBeans in addition to working with a team of developers at your company on an internally-used application. In this scenario, it makes sense to have two different collaboration accounts.

To add an additional collaboration account:

1. In the Collaboration Login window, click Manage Accounts.

   The Account Management dialog box appears like the one shown in Figure 18-8.

   Figure 18-8. Collaboration Account Management

   

2. In the Account Management window, click the Add button.

   This will launch the Add Collaboration Account wizard you saw when you created your first collaboration account.

3. Follow the instructions provided in the wizard to add an additional collaboration account.

   Once you have provided that information, you will be returned to the Account Management dialog. The Account Management dialog will now be updated with your additional collaboration account.

Setting a Default Collaboration Account

If there is a collaboration account you tend to use more frequently than others, you may find it useful to set that collaboration account as the default collaboration account. To set a default collaboration account:

1. In the left-hand side of the Collaboration Account Management window, select a collaboration account.

2. Click the Select as Default button.

The default collaboration account is identified in the Collaboration Account Management window with a little green colored check next to the collaboration account name. The default collaboration account is also the one shown as the default collaboration login account in the drop-down list on the Collaboration Login window.

Modifying a Collaboration Account

There are times when you need to make modifications to the configuration information for your collaboration accounts. For instance, the system administrator responsible for maintaining a collaboration server you use may decide to change the host name of the collaboration server. Or, you may be a user who travels with a laptop and as a result may need to update how you access a collaboration server.

To update a collaboration account:

• In the Collaboration Login window, click Manage Accounts to launch the Collaboration Account Management dialog box.

  From the Account Management dialog you can modify properties and expert settings for a selected collaboration account. For example, to update your user name you can click in the box to the right of the User Name Property or click on the ellipsis and update your username.

  To update an expert setting such as the proxy to use to connect to the collaboration server, click on the drop-down box for the proxy expert setting and select the appropriate option for connecting to your collaboration server.

Removing a Collaboration Account

As you complete development on projects or leave a development project, you may have the need to remove a collaboration account.

To remove a collaboration account:

1. In the Collaboration Login window, click Manage Accounts.

2. In the Collaboration Account Management dialog, select the collaboration account that you want to remove and click Remove.