This section provides, for users and administrators, an overview of capabilities supplied by the option Inbox. This section provides, also, an overview of scenarios for use of the capabilities supplied by the option Inbox.

 
Capabilities

The capabilities supplied by the option Inbox enable you to view, and interact with, inboxes. Inboxes are interactive screens that display information about content items. You can use inboxes to view, and interact with, information about individual content items.

Use inboxes to work with the content items assigned to you according to the access privileges you have to the categories where they are classified. If the item is assigned to you, you can work with it from your inbox. If the item is assigned to an access group that you belong to, you can work with it from the inbox that you share with the members of the group. If the content item is not assigned, you can use the Find feature to query for it, assign the item to yourself, and then work with it.

Assignment of access privileges is the responsibility of an administrator. Items can be assigned to you when they are created and when they are modified. A content item is assigned to you in the Workflow section of the Add Content Item and Modify Content Item full Forms.

 
Scenarios of use

Three scenarios determine how you can use, and interact with a content item in an inbox:

1. If you have been assigned access to a content item, you can interact with the item in a personal inbox.

2. If a content item was assigned to a group to which you belong, you can interact with the item in a shared inbox.

3. If a content item has not been assigned to you, but appears in your shared inbox, you can use the shared inbox to claim the item, and then interact with it.