User Guide

74 Corel Grafigo User Guide
Collaborating in real time using Microsoft peer-to-peer technology
You can collaborate using Microsoft peer-to-peer technology. To use peer-to-peer
collaboration, you must have the Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP
installed on your computer. For information about the Advanced Networking Pack,
please visit the Microsoft Windows Update site http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
You can change your user name, which others can use to identify you in a collaboration
session. By default, your user name is the same as your Windows login name.
You can change your collaboration status to indicate whether you are available to
collaborate or not. For example, if you are in a meeting and cannot participate in a
collaboration session, you must indicate that you are not available. Before you invite
others, you must always check their collaboration status.
Before you initiate a collaboration session with others, you must have their User
Identifier File. A User Identifier File (UIF) contains the following information:
• display name for the user
• internal peer-to-peer data used to create invitations for the user
• peer-to-peer ID for finding the user, checking the user collaboration status, and
sending invitations to the user
You can exchange User Identifier Files with others by e-mail using your default e-mail
program. When you receive a UIF, you can add it to your contact list.
The contact list provides convenient means for storing and accessing contact
information about people you often collaborate with. There are various ways to add new
people to your contact list. You can add contacts by adding User Identifier Files that
others send to you. You can also add contacts by accepting an invitation from someone
who has your UIF. For more information, see “To accept or reject a peer-to-peer
collaboration request” on page 79. If the person who invites you is in a collaboration
session with other people, you automatically receive all paticipants’ UIFs. You can
change the name of a contact if two contacts in your contact list have identical names.
You can also delete a contact.
You can send a collaboration request to, or accept a collaboration request from, another
Corel Grafigo user. The person who sends the collaboration request is called the host,
and the person who receives the collaboration request is called the guest. The document
in the workspace of the host is displayed in the workspace of the guest. When you are
in a collaboration session, any changes made on one computer appear on the others. You
can send requests to more than one Corel Grafigo user, and anyone who joins the session
can include others by inviting them. You can participate in one collaboration session at
a time. You can leave a session at any time.