Using note boards to microblog from the Role Centers
A part of your My Site is a personal note board. If you don’t want to create a full-fledged blog, then you can use this to take quick notes for yourself or others within the organization, such as reminders that you will be on vacation, alerts about upcoming events, and much more that you can publish to the entire organization.
In this recipe, we will show you how to make this even more useful by adding the note board directly into the Dynamics AX Role Center. This will allow your users to view your posts quickly and get back to work, without having to open another window.
How to do it...
To add a note board panel to the Role Center, follow these steps:
From within the Role Center, click on the Personalize this page link in the top-right hand corner to enter into the edit mode.
Click on the Add a Web Part link where you would like to add the note board.
This will open up the web part explorer. From the categories, select the Social Collaboration group and this will filter the available web parts to the My Site controls.
Select the Note Board control and click on the Add button:
Now click on the Stop Editing button to return to the view mode for the Role Center.
How it works...
Since the Note Board is a direct link to the user’s personal My Site Notes, they are able to post directly from Dynamics AX without opening up another browser window:
The notes that are posted on the Note Board on the Role Center will show up on the Tags and Notes panel within the user’s My Site page. Additionally, if the user makes notes from their My Site, then these will show up on the wall of the Role Center.
