Creating a place

You can create places on the IBM^® Lotus^® Quickr server as long as you have access to the server. When you create a place, you specify an address for the place and register yourself as its first member by entering a name for the place, your username, password, and an optional email address. If you enter your email address, people who create and edit content in your place can notify you by email that they have made changes in the place. Also, if the Lotus Quickr server is connected to a user directory and includes email address information for each user, your email address is automatically entered in the place's Members folder as part of the registration process.

1. After logging in, click Create a Place on the Home page.
2. Decide on the type of place you want to create: standard, blog, or wiki.
   • The Standard template provides typical capabilities such as Index, table of contents, discussion, tasks, collaboration, and members folders as well as the ability to customize the place.
   • The Blog template enables you to build the less formal environment of the blog where you can share ideas and updates with place members. It provides for inline commenting, a calendar, Blogroll, Search, History, and the ability to configure the blog as an RSS feed. You can also customize the blog and manage its members.
   • The Wiki template enables you to build a collaborative environment with a mix of formal and informal interactions. You can enter RTF (rich text formatted) content that can include links and images, see a document's revision history and comments on the changes, and configure the wiki as an RSS feed source. You can also customize the wiki and manage its members.
   Note: Other place types might be available if your organization has created them.
3. Enter a name for your place.
4. Optional: Enter a meaningful place description that can help potential members decide whether they want to join your place.
5. Enter the Permanent URL for Your Place, which appears as part of the Internet address for the place. For example, if you give your place the name AcmeRealty and the place is on a server called www.realtycompanies.com, the full Internet address of your place would be www.realtycompanies.com/AcmeRealty.
6. In the User name field, enter or create a username, or enter your last name followed by your first.
7. In the Password box, enter or create a password.
8. Optional: If you want to make the user name local to this place, click Make this user a local id for this place only. Clicking this option pops up a password reentry and email address field. If you do not select this option, the name/password entered in the previous two steps are assumed to be from an external directory.
9. Optional: Decide whether to accept the default template for this PlaceType or to choose another. The template determines the structure and content of your new place.
   • To accept the default, click Create to complete the creation the place.
   • To choose another place template, click Choose a different template, pick the appropriate place type, and then click Next.
   For example, you might have started off creating a wiki but then decide that the more structured Standard place would suit your needs better so you can switch to the latter by applying the appropriate standard template.
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