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SAP Jam CollaborationDocument Version: August 2017 – 2017-09-06

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1 What's new in this release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 Accessibility support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2 Branding with colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.3 Branding with fonts and logos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81.4 Conversion for deprecated widgets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.5 Document caching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.6 Email notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.7 Knowledge base articles and templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.8 Groups and group dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261.9 Group templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271.10 Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.11 Mirroring and custom group templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361.12 Multiple language support for documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371.13 Online presence and browser notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .461.14 Page design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491.15 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531.16 SAP Jam mobile app. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541.17 Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

2 Feature availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

3 Feature deprecation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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1 What's new in this release

The following new features have been added. Instructions on how to use each feature are available in the SAP Jam Collaboration documentation located on the SAP Help Portal.

NoteAll features in this SAP Jam Collaboration release will be available to customers working with the preview release starting on Friday, August 4, 2017. The release will be available in production starting on Friday, September 8, 2017. This document is subject to minor daily updates until Friday, August 4, 2017. Further updates may occur after that date on an as-needed basis. The final and complete version will be published on or before Friday, September 8, 2017. Please check the SAP Help Portal for your latest version of this document.

The work patterns/use cases in the following table benefit especially from the enhancements listed alongside them:

Table 1: Work patterns and use cases

Work pattern / use case

Used by... This work pattern / use case enables...

Features to note as an example especially for this work pattern / use case

Service management Service agents service ticket resolution Knowledge base articles - Custom template: A service manager can create a specific knowl­edge base article template to align with a spe­cific processes followed by his team. She can specify which fields are required or internal use only for administrators and authors. When agents on her team use the custom template to create articles, they can then easily follow their established process.

Service management Service agents service ticket resolution Knowledge base articles - Feedback: When deciding whether a knowledge base article will provide the most relevant answers for a partic­ular service ticket, a service agent can view the feedback rating, as well as provide their own rating, from one to five stars.

Service management Service agents service ticket resolution Knowledge base articles - Categories: Service agents can quickly find the right content by fil­tering categories that have relevant informa­tion, and then further refining their searches within the category. With a formal categoriza­tion of articles, you can ensure predictability, which helps find relevant information faster. This results in a better service ticket resolution time and happier customers.

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Work pattern / use case

Used by... This work pattern / use case enables...

Features to note as an example especially for this work pattern / use case

Social learning Human Resources instructors and partici­pants share, collaborate, and learn in a dedicated space.

Online presence: Instructor members of a learning group can set their online presence to appear offline when they are away from the of­fice or appear online when they have time to participate in forums and messages with stu­dent members. Student members can also set their online presence to appear offline when they are away or appear online when they want to actively participate with their groups.

Opportunity deal room

Sales the sales team in gather­ing requirements, plan­ning, and strategizing around a sales opportu­nity.

Mobile view of group pages: Group administra­tors can design pages to display widgets with the highest importance first (e.g., sales oppor­tunities, featured requirements documents, pri­mary contacts) to assist sales team members with the information they need when on the go and viewing from their mobile devices.

Social onboarding Human Resources onboarding of new em­ployees into an organiza­tion via recommenda­tions, knowledge sharing, and networking.

Messages: New hires can contact their HR Partner using the one on one messaging feature when they have personal questions that they'd prefer not to ask in a group setting.

1.1 Accessibility support

As per Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the following enhancements have been made to SAP Jam to help satisfy critical requirements to achieve compliance with section 508. Government and public agencies that require adherence to the guidelines can now ensure that their employees with disabilities have a productive experience with SAP Jam.

Table 2: Accessibility support

Feature Description

Page redirects ● When clicking a link that causes a SAP Jam page to redirect, the screen reader now reads out the message "Loading page" and "You are now viewing".

Correct identification of elements

● Several improvements were made to ensure that screen readers correctly identify elements in focus within the web application.

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Feature Description

Buttons read by Jaws for Microsoft Windows

● To further support for screen reader and keyboard shortcut navigation, button actions that ap­pear throughout the screens (for example, at the bottom of post boxes, + icons for adding ele­ments such as page tabs, buttons with text labels) are now read by Jaws.

● The following pages, page sections, content, and buttons are now identified by the screen reader:○ Add Task: Priority, Assign, Add Attachments, OK, Cancel○ Create Link: Share, Cancel○ Create Poll: Create Poll○ Create Playlist: Add Media○ Create Video/Audio: Share, Cancel○ Create Wiki page/Blog post: Mention, Tag, Cancel○ Forums: Add Forum Topic○ Group Content: Upload File○ Group Overview: Invite to Group○ Group/Personal Calendar: Today, Next, Previous, Month, Week, Day, List, Settings○ Trash: Restore Items, Purge Items○ Wiki Page/Blog Post: Edit, Comment post, Cancel

● Please refer to the Accessibility support topic in the SAP Jam User Guide for information on supported features and functions in SAP Jam.

1.2 Branding with colors

There are many color options available for customizing SAP Jam to align with company and area branding. For existing companies and areas, all existing colors, whether customized, will remain as-is following this August 2017 release. For new companies created after the August release, colors default to a new color scheme. Hexadecimal values and their corresponding color always display. The SAP Jam Administrator Guide provides a complete list of default colors used before and as of the August 2017 release.

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Table 3: Branding with colors

Feature Description

Color defaults and values ● For existing companies and areas that have all or partial custom color branding applied in the SAP Jam Admin console > Branding and Support > Web page, the hexadecimal val­ues and corresponding colors from the color picker will remain is.

● For existing companies and areas that have no branding applied in the SAP Jam Admin console > Branding and Support > Web page, the original SAP Jam default colors will now display the hexadecimal value and corresponding color from the color picker.

● For new companies and their areas (created as of this release) that have no branding ap­plied in the SAP Jam Admin console > Branding and Support > Web page, new SAP Jam default colors will now display the hexadecimal value and corresponding color from the color picker.

NoteThe default colors for newly created companies are different from the default colors for companies and areas created prior to this release.

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Feature Description

Figure 1: Default colors and hexadecimal values for new companies● The former section "Widgets on Overview and Homepage" has been separated into two

sections: "Widgets on Overview" and "Widgets on Home Page".● For more information on default color values, please refer to the Default SAP Jam color

branding topic in the SAP Jam Administrator Guide.

Reset colors ● When you choose to reset colors on the Branding and Support > Web page, the colors will change to the new default colors listed in the second table of the Default SAP Jam color branding topic in the SAP Jam Administrator Guide. Those changes will only be ap­plied when you click Save changes.

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1.3 Branding with fonts and logos

The font applies to home page menu titles, group overview menu titles, and widget titles. The logo can appear in various places in the application.

Table 4: Branding with fonts and logos

Feature Description

Current font and deletion ● In the SAP Jam Admin console Branding Web section, as a company or area administrator you can now view the name of the current font applied to keyline and over­view tabs.

Figure 2: View font file name● You can remove the current font by clicking the X beside it to delete.

NoteYou must click Save changes at the bottom of the page to save any changes or dele­tions.

● For more information on branding for the web application, please refer to the Configure the Branding and Support options topic in the SAP Jam Administrator Guide.

Current logo and deletion ● In the SAP Jam Admin console, as a company or area administrator you can now view a thumbnail image of the current logo.

Figure 3: View logo thumbnail● You can remove the current logo by clicking the X beside it to delete.

NoteYou must click Save changes at the bottom of the page to save any changes or dele­tions.

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1.4 Conversion for deprecated widgets

Dynamic widgets for wiki pages and blogs posts are in the midst of deprecation. Group administrators will have the option to convert wiki pages and blog posts that use these widgets into group overview pages.

Please refer to the Feature deprecation [page 65] topic for the list of affected dynamic widgets.

Table 5: Conversion for deprecated widgets

Feature Description

Conversion to overview page

● As a group administrator, you can now click Convert to automatically convert a wiki page or blog post with one or more previously deprecated dynamic widgets to a new group overview page that is appended at the end (last tab on the right) of all other group overview pages. This allows for easier overview page maintenance and better rendering on mobile devices.

Figure 4: Convert a wiki page● After the conversion, you have the opportunity to edit the layout before publishing the new

overview page, which will also have a new URL. You can then manually delete the wiki page or blog post.

NoteMetadata for the wiki page or blog post such as description, tags, followers, thumbnails, and comments are not preserved after conversion.

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1.5 Document cachingWeb caching speeds up the delivery of web content to end users. In a content distribution network, multiple servers can retain copies of content and video, at various points throughout the network for later retrieval.

Table 6: Caching service

Feature Description

Caching service ● Caching of content download and video streaming performance has improved.

● In the SAP Jam Admin console under Product Setup Feature Management as a com­pany administrator you can enable or disable the "Enable document download via content deliv­ery network (CDN)" service. When enabled, a third-party content delivery network is used to cache content to improve document download and video streaming performance.

● Globally distributed customers with offices distantly located from their SAP Jam Collaboration tenant data center host will experience significant performance improvements.

● Content items are cached on CDN when your users first download it.

1.6 Email notificationsWhen you click the Settings icon above the global menu bar and choose Account Settings from the drop-down menu, you can select Email to display the Email Settings page. On this page you can control when and how often you receive update emails from SAP Jam.

Table 7: Email notifications

Feature Description

Formatting and content for web and mobile lay­outs

● In a group's weekly and daily digest email notification, the volume of entries has been refined to list the top three comments, content, and all upcoming events.

● The selected comments and content are based on what is most engaging and relevant to group members (e.g., most number of likes and views).

● Larger fonts, contrasting colors, and logo placement have also been modified to improve readability.

Forum topic subscription ● As a forum topic subscriber, you can now receive immediate email notifications for your sub­scribed topics. Under your Account settings > Email > High Priority settings, the Forum topic subscriptions checkbox is enabled by default so you can receive the email notifications when there is activity in topics you have subscribed to, in addition to bell notifications.

● Please refer to the Email settings topic in the SAP Jam User Guide for more information on email notifications.

1.7 Knowledge base articles and templatesService agents and managers can use knowledge base articles to find the right information required by a customer at the right time, reducing call handle time, improving operational efficiencies, increasing customer

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engagement, and reducing labor costs. Categories can be created for products and processes. New search capabilities allow service agents to track to right knowledge base article in the first search.

For step by step instructions on creating and managing custom knowledge base templates, refer to the Knowledge base templates topic in the SAP Jam Group Administration Guide.

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Table 8: Knowledge base articles

Feature Description

Create a custom knowledge base template

● As a group administrator, you can create custom templates so that articles have a struc­ture that meets the standards and requirements of your team. You can design your own template or copy an existing template and customize it as needed.

Figure 5: Add a new knowledge base template● You can add any of the following field styles to your template:

○ single line text box○ multiple line text box○ checkboxes○ radio buttons○ drop down lists○ date fields○ file attachments

Figure 6: Template fields● You can indicate whether a field:

○ requires a value entered by the user; these are marked with asterisks for the user. You can also edit the template and make the fields optional if necessary.

NoteIf you change a field from optional to required or required to optional when there are existing articles based on that knowledge base template, the existing articles

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Feature Description

are not affected by the change unless they are edited using the new template and then saved.

○ is visible only to the knowledge base author, editor, and group administrator.● The Actions menu below each field style allows you to duplicate the field or delete it.

Figure 7: Required, Visibility, and Actions menu

Copy a knowledge base tem­plate

● As a group administrator, you can copy a knowledge base template to another group that you administer.

Figure 8: Copy a template

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Feature Description

Edit a knowledge base tem­plate

● As a group administrator, you can edit a custom knowledge base template by adding, re­moving, and rearranging fields, or adding, modifying, and removing options for check­boxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns.

Figure 9: Delete options, rearrange fields● You can drag and drop fields to reorder them on the template.● Changes to the template will be applied to existing articles only when the article is edited

and saved. When a group member edits an article that is based on a template that has been revised, they will see a message shown at the top of the article that says "The tem­plate for this article has been modified and may cause the article to display differently".

● When a group administrator edits a template that has at least one article created from it, they will see a message shown at the top of the template that says "Any changes made to this template will be applied to published articles once they are edited."

Delete a knowledge base tem­plate

● As a group administrator, you can delete custom templates. However, if there are pub­lished articles based on this template, then the template cannot be deleted.

Figure 10: Delete a custom knowledge base template

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Feature Description

Enable or disable a knowledge base template

● As a group administrator, you can choose whether to enable or disable custom or stand­ard knowledge base templates for your group's Knowledge Base section.

Figure 11: Enabled knowledge base article templates example

Figure 12: Disabled knowledge base article templates example● When the template is enabled, it will appear in the drop-down list when you or a knowl­

edge base article author clicks + Knowledge Base Article.

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Figure 13: Custom template example

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Feature Description

Figure 14: Article based on custom template example● When disabling the template, as a group administrator you will see a message stating the

that template will no longer be available for new knowledge base article creation.● Existing articles that were created from the disabled template can still be edited.

Problem Resolution Template ● To support service delivery scenarios, a new out of the box "Problem Resolution Tem­plate" has been added. Article authors can describe symptoms, the environment, causes, resolution, and select an impact level.

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Feature Description

Categories ● As a company administrator, you can create and edit up to a maximum of 15 categories for the knowledge base so that groups have a way to organize and improve discoverabil­ity of their articles.

Figure 15: Create categories for knowledge base from the SAP Jam Admin console

Figure 16: Manage categories for knowledge base from the company Knowledge Base● As a group member, you can publish knowledge base articles with one or more selected

categories if available, making it easier for others to find.

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Feature Description

Figure 17: Choose a category under Article Settings● Knowledge base article viewers can observe the list of categories that the article belongs

to on the right side of the single item view.

Figure 18: Categories list● From the group level list view of the Knowledge Base section, you can filter the display of

knowledge base articles by category from the Showing drop-down list.

Figure 19: Show knowledge base articles by category

Formatting ● When writing knowledge base articles, knowledge base authors can now use a built-in rich text editor formatting toolbar to format text, improving readability and usefulness of articles.

Figure 20: Rich text editor

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Feature Description

Knowledge Base widget ● As a page designer working with group pages, you can now add a Knowledge Base widget to show knowledge base articles that are available to all group members. You can configure the widget's title, type, number of items to display, and tags.

Figure 21: Knowledge base widget for group overview pages● The Type filter includes filters for Featured, Article by Title, Last Updated, Most Replies,

Most Viewed, Most Liked, Most Rated, and Highest Rated.● You can filter knowledge base articles by one or more categories.● List view layout is supported.

Figure 22: Knowledge Base widget for custom company home page

Figure 23: List view layout● Company and area administrators can also add knowledge base widgets to custom and

area home pages.

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Feature Description

Feedback ● As an SAP Jam user, you can provide quantitative feedback on a knowledge base article by selecting a one to five star rating to answer the question "How helpful was this knowl­edge base article?"

NoteIf the company administrator disables the "Enable Content Rating" option in the SAP Jam Admin console, the ability to provide feedback will not be available.

● The number of people who found an article useful also displays.

Figure 24: Knowledge base article star rating

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Bookmark ● As an SAP Jam user, you can bookmark individual knowledge base articles and access them from the Bookmarks page.

Figure 25: Bookmark a knowledge base article

Copy a knowledge base article ● As an SAP Jam user, you can copy a knowledge base article within the same group to create new articles similar to the existing ones.

● For step by step instructions, see the Knowledge base articles topic in the SAP Jam User Guide.

Delete a knowledge base arti­cle

● If a group's collaboration level is set to Full and the knowledge base article permission is also set to Full, a non group administrator member of a group can delete an already pub­lished knowledge base article.

● Group administrators can delete existing knowledge base articles at any time.

Enable or disable knowledge base feature

● In the SAP Jam Admin console > Product Setup > Features > Feature Management, as a company administrator you can enable or disable the Knowledge Base feature, as well as the new Company-wide knowledge base option below it. The company-wide option al­lows SAP Jam users to see all knowledge base articles from all groups that they are members of by accessing the company Knowledge Base from the global menu bar. If dis­abled, the Knowledge Base cannot be accessed from the global menu bar.

● By default, the knowledge base feature is enabled for a group when the company setting for the knowledge base feature is enabled. As a group administrator, you can now enable or disable the availability of the knowledge base feature for your group when editing the group settings.

● As a group administrator, if you disable the knowledge base feature after knowledge base articles have been created and published for the group, the articles will no longer display in the group and company knowledge base. The company knowledge base con­tinues to display unless disabled by the company administrator.

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Feature Description

Feature a knowledge base arti­cle in content widget

● As a group administrator, you can feature a knowledge base article in a content widget on a group overview page.

● As a company administrator, you can feature a knowledge base article in a content widget on a company home page.

Filters for search ● When searching through the company Knowledge Base, you can now filter articles by Keyword, Author, Group, Tag, and Knowledge Base categories.

Figure 26: Refine by filters for knowledge base articles

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Images ● When writing knowledge base articles, knowledge base authors can include images inline with their text.

● When using the rich text editor to add text to an article, you can also paste, choose an existing image, or upload to embed images.

Figure 27: Example of pasted image

Figure 28: Example of uploading image

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Feature Description

Item level permissions ● When setting group member permissions for knowledge base article access, authors can choose Full, Limited, or Hidden access to control view and edit capabilities.

● If the item level permission is set to Full, all group members can view hidden fields.● If the item level permission is set to Limited, only the author and group administrators

can view hidden fields.

Mirror an article to share rele­vant content with other groups

● When managing mirror settings, as a group administrator you can grant group members and/or other group administrators with permissions to mirror knowledge base articles.

Figure 29: Mirror a knowledge base article● As a group administrator, you can mirror a knowledge base article to other groups.

Publish settings ● As a knowledge base article author, you can now choose the publishing and expiration dates for your article to help ensure timeliness and relevance of the knowledge base.

Figure 30: Publish and expiration settings

Tagging ● As an SAP Jam user, you can view and add tags to a knowledge base article to help other users discover it.

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1.8 Groups and group dashboard

Groups are created in SAP Jam by group administrators as a means of bringing together people, data, best practices and content to collaborate on work and resolve business problems. They include a membership of users who can upload, create, or reference material specific to a department, project, or team. Group administrators can click Dashboard on the group's left side menu to view a usage dashboard that displays details for various activities within a group, from the previous four weeks to the previous 12 months.

Table 9: Groups and group dashboard

Feature Description

Group dashboard collabo­ration score

● As of this release, collaboration scores on the group dashboard will begin to account for knowledge base article activities. Engagement includes views, likes, comments, and edits on knowledge base articles.

Group dashboard most engaging items

● The Most Engaging Items leaderboard now includes an option to filter by content types, in­cluding knowledge base articles.

Figure 31: Most engaging items content filters● The content types that appear in the filter are based on whether that type exists for the group

during the selected time frame. For example, if no wiki pages have been viewed, liked, or com­mented on within the selected last 4 weeks period, then the "Wikis" filter does not appear in the filter drop-down.

● Please refer to the Most engaged items leaderboard topic in the SAP Jam Group Administra­tion Guide for more information.

Tags ● When a group's participation level is set to read-only or limited, only group administrators can add tags to content items.

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1.9 Group templates

Group templates contain a professionally-designed overview page as well as placeholder content and group structure.

Table 10: Group templates

Feature Description

Event Coordination tem­plate

● To support a collaborative platform to engage attendees, improve key metrics, campaign suc­cess, and profitability after a large-scale business event, as a group administrator you can now use an Event Coordination template to create any type of event (e.g., product launch, technical conference, business auction, social gathering etc.)

● The first level tabs include Overview, Speakers' Area, Sessions, and Live from the Event pa­ges.

Figure 32: Event Coordination group template● Content placeholder folders include: Sessions, Important to Know, Speaker's Area, Live Con­

tent and Recordings, Admin Area.

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Feature Description

Partner Enablement tem­plate

● To support external partners in effective sales enablement and repeatable service activities such as product training, demos, social media promotion, and customer references, you can now use a Partner Enablement template to create your private external partner sales enable­ment group.

● The first level tabs include Overview, Partner Program Info, Products, Customer References, Competitive Analysis, and How to Demo and Sell pages.

Figure 33: Partner Enablement group template

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Feature Description

Sales Enablement tem­plate

● To support internal sales and repeatable business processes such as product training, de­mos, social media promotion, and customer references, you can now use a Sales Enablement template to create your sales enablement group.

● The first level tabs include Overview, Products, Customer References, Competitive Analysis, and Industry Review pages.

Figure 34: Sales Enablement group template● For more information on group templates, please see the About group templates topic in the

SAP Jam Group Administration Guide.

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1.10 Messages

Messages for SAP Jam Collaboration and SAP Jam mobile app provide a quick and convenient way to converse with others within your company or with colleagues who do not have company provisioned emails. New messages appear in real-time and can include your colleagues, up to a maximum of thirty individual participants.

Table 11: Messages

Feature Description

Enable messaging ● As an SAP Jam company administrator, you can enable or disable the Messages feature

in the SAP Jam Admin console under Product Setup Features Feature

Management .

NoteAs of this August 2017 release, the feature formerly referred to as "Private Messages" has been enhanced for multiple recipient participation (up to 30 people) including those who do not have company provisioned emails. If "Private Messages" was disa­bled prior to the August 2017 release, it will remain disabled for Messages. If it was enabled, any private messages that were not deleted will still be available for viewing within Messages.

● When enabled, a new messages icon displays above the global menu bar. This icon repla­ces the previous envelope icon.

Figure 35: Messages icons above global menu bar● When you use the Messages feature for the first time, you may see a screen like the one

shown in the following image:

Figure 36: Messages view

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Feature Description

Start a message thread with one or more participants

● As an SAP Jam user, from the left side panel of the Messages screen, you can start a message with one or more participants, up to a maximum of 30. As you type the first few letters of a participant's name, the a list of suggested matching recipients will appear, if available.

Figure 37: New multiple participant message● Providing a name for a message thread is optional. The maximum number of characters

for the subject line is 50. As you type, the number of remaining characters appears on the right side of the subject line.

● After you click Create Message at the bottom of the left panel, it opens a new message panel on the right side. You can click the drop-down on the far right to add a participant, view the list of participants, rename the subject line of the message thread, or leave the message thread.

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Figure 38: Create a multiple participant message● Each reply within a message thread cannot exceed 5000 characters.● In your message viewer, each reply in a thread will show a time stamp below the reply,

along with the name and avatar of all other participants.

Figure 39: Participant avatar, name, and time stamp in a message thread● For step by step instructions, see the Messages topic in the SAP Jam User Guide.

Delete your individual message within a thread

● On your individual message within a message thread, you can delete it by clicking the drop-down to the far right of your reply and selecting Delete.

Figure 40: Delete an individual message

Email notifications ● Under your Accounts Settings Email High Priority Emails , you can choose to re­ceive an email notification when you are invited to a message thread.

NoteEmails are not sent for each subsequent message within a message thread.

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Feature Description

Leave a multiple participant message thread

● You can leave a multiple participant message thread by clicking the drop-down at the top of the messages panel on the right and choosing Leave Message Thread. You'll be prompted to confirm whether you want to leave the message before you are officially re­moved.

● Once you've left a message, it no longer appears in your message viewer.● For participants that are still engaged in the message thread, they will see a notification

stating that you have left the message.

Images ● Within a thread, you can insert a png, gif, tiff, or jpeg image or photo from your local drive or browser. Images can be copied and pasted into a message thread, or uploaded. Only one image can be inserted at a time.

● You can delete your image from a message thread by clicking the drop-down to the right of your message and choosing Delete.

● When you click the image, a larger version of the image displays in a new desktop browser tab.

● Image size can be up to 5MB maximum.

Invite more participants after the start of a message thread

● To invite participants to a message thread after the messaging has started, go to the main panel on the top right side of the Message screen, click the drop-down and choose Add Participant. The Add line appears where you can type names of individual partici­pants.

Figure 41: Add one or more participants to a message thread

Latest message in message thread

● The first few words of the latest message of a message thread appears on the left side of the Messages window to help keep you up to date with the most recent activity in a mes­sage.

Figure 42: Latest message

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Feature Description

Message counts ● The number of unread messages that you have displays beside the messages icon above the global menu bar.

Figure 43: Messages icons above global menu bar● The left side panel of the Messages viewer shows which messages are unread, along with

the number of unread message threads.

Figure 44: Unread messages

Message threads marked as read

● When you participate in or view a message thread, the blue circle that displays the num­ber of unread messages within a thread no longer displays.

Message thread history ● As participation occurs within a message thread, individual and system messages are kept within the thread. Any current or future participant can view previous messages within the thread for reference or context.

Push notifications for web­hooks

● The following Message event types were added for this release:○ MessageReceived○ AddedToConversation

Rename subject ● You can rename the subject for your multiple participant message thread by clicking the drop-down above the message and choosing Rename Subject. The maximum allowed characters for your subject is 50.

Figure 45: Rename subject● After you rename the subject, a system message appears in the message thread to in­

form participants of the change.

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Feature Description

Send a message from hover card

● From an SAP Jam user's hover card, you can start a message thread with them by

choosing Actions Send a Message .

Figure 46: Start a message thread via a hover card● If you already have a one to one message thread in progress with the same user, the

message viewer will open an existing message with your thread history rather than start a new, blank message thread.

System messages for impor­tant events

● Whenever you start a new message thread, invite a participant to a message thread, leave a message thread, and rename a message thread, an entry displays in the thread to inform all participants of these changes.

Figure 47: System messages

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View participants ● You can view a list of participants for a message thread by clicking the drop-down above the message and choosing View Participants. Online presence for each participant is also indicated.

Figure 48: View a list of message participants

1.11 Mirroring and custom group templates

When posting the same document to two or more places within a single group or many groups, as a content creator, you can choose to "mirror", or make an identical copy of a single source content item (e.g., the original spreadsheet, presentation, image, video, wiki page, blog post, etc.). This saves you time especially when you need to make an update to the source content.

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Table 12: Mirrored content in custom group templates

Feature Description

Customize group tem­plate with mirrored con­tent

● As a company or area administrator, you can mark documents, wiki pages, and blog posts as "Mirror item" in a custom group template.

Figure 49: Mirror item enabled in group template● As a group administrator, when you create a group using a template with content marked as

"Mirror item", that content will be mirrored instead of copied to the new group.

Figure 50: Mirrored but not copied message● When the company or area administrator updates and publishes the changes to the original

source document, all mirrored items are automatically updated for all groups. The source document resides in the custom group template.

● For more information on group template customization, refer to the Group templates admin­istration topic in the SAP Jam Group Administration Guide.

1.12 Multiple language support for documents

SAP Jam now provides the ability to manage and publish documents that have translated copies to support other languages. This allows users to view documents in their preferred language when the published translation is available.

NoteIf you do not set the language of any existing documents, or bundle them, then there is no impact to your users. Depending on your team's needs, you can decide what documents require translations, if any.

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Table 13: Multiple language support

Feature Description

Manage translations for document content type

● As a content author, group administrator, or translator, you can now upload a new or select an existing translated document (e.g., Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, PDF, etc.) and add it to a "document bundle" using the Manage Translations feature. Users will then automatically see the translated document for their preferred language, if available.

Figure 51: Manage Translations available in single item view of a document● From the Manage Translations dialog box, you can

○ View, add, or remove a document from a bundle.

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Figure 52: Add a translated document

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Figure 53: Add existing content example○ As you upload a new or select an existing translated document for the document bundle,

you are prompted to set the language for the document if the language locale has not al­ready been specified.

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Figure 54: Set language

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Figure 55: Successfully added translations to a bundle○ set a translated document as the default document that displays when a preferred lan­

guage is unavailable or not selected.

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Figure 56: Set as default document

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Feature Description

Multiple language filter ● In the Content section list view, you can now filter content items by language. You can also choose to view a list of documents in all offered languages.

Figure 57: Filter content items by language

Figure 58: View translations list

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Figure 59: View translations list - click to view● In the content listing, a translation icon displays next to a document that has been translated

into one or more other languages. To view the other translations, select Translations from the drop-down on the right.

Figure 60: Translated document with icon indicator

Set language for a docu­ment content type

● As a content author, group administrator, or translator, you can set a language on a new or ex­isting translated document (e.g Powerpoint, Word, PDF etc.) By setting languages on docu­ments, your users will automatically see translations filtered to their preferred language in a group and on the home page. If a document language is not set, it always displays regardless of a user's language preference.

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Feature Description

Translation bundling ● By bundling translated documents together:○ an author or translator can ensure translations are up-to-date with respect to the original

document.○ a user can quickly find all available translations for a given document.○ a user can still see a default or "fallback" translation, even if their preferred translation is

unavailable. For example, if a bundle contains English, French, and Spanish translations, and English is set to the default, a user with any other language preference will see the Eng­lish version.

● You can put a translated document into a bundle but not multiple bundles.● Every document in a bundle must have a language set, and the languages must be unique in a

bundle.● A bundle can contain only documents from the same group but they can be from different fold­

ers.

1.13 Online presence and browser notifications

Knowing the online presence of a group member or colleague can help you decide when to engage with them. Online statuses display on profile pages, hover cards, and messages. When browser notifications are enabled, you can receive instant pop-up notifications whether you appear online or not.

Table 14: Online presence and browser notifications

Feature Description

Online or Appear Offline ● From your avatar above the global menu bar, you can now set your presence to one of the following:○ Online: Indicates to other colleagues that you are available.○ Appear Offline: Indicates to other colleagues that you are not currently online or

available

Figure 61: Set online presence

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Hover card ● When you view a hover card for another SAP Jam user, you will now see a visual indicator that identifies if they are online or not.

Figure 62: Hover card online presence - appear offline

Figure 63: Hover card online presence - online

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Pop-up browser notifications ● Pop-up browser notifications display alerts on your desktop whether you are working within an SAP Jam browser or not. You can easily turn these notifications on or off through your avatar above the global menu bar.

Figure 64: Enable or disable browser notifications● As an SAP Jam user you will see an initial prompt for browser notifications at the top of

your browser. You can choose to enable notifications now, choose a setting at a later time, or choose not to receive browser notifications from SAP Jam.

Figure 65: Browser notifications keep you up to date● If you choose to receive notifications, you will be prompted with another dialog to Allow

Notifications.● When your presence is set to Online and you have browser notifications enabled, if you

have a browser tab open other than the one displaying SAP Jam, you will see a pop-up notification to alert you to a new message in SAP Jam.

● If you initially clicked Get notified to receive notifications but later change your mind and no longer want to receive browser notifications, click your avatar and disable the toggle for browser notifications.

● When your presence is set to Online and you have notifications disabled, if you are view­ing a browser tab other than the one displaying SAP Jam, your presence appears as off­line.

● SAP Jam users can learn about Browser notifications in the SAP Jam Collaboration User Guide.

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1.14 Page design

With the page designer feature, you can add and organize the layouts in your group overview pages, are home pages, and custom home pages by using SAP Jam widgets in a page editor.

Table 15: Page design for group overview pages, area and custom home pages

Feature Description

Mobile Settings - Show in Mo­bile toggle

● As a group, area, or company administrator responsible for designing page layouts to display content and information, you can now enable or disable widgets as needed for viewing within a single column on a mobile device. For example, for custom home pages viewed on a laptop browser, rotating banner widgets that use a larger amount of the screen may display better than they would than on the more compact screens of the SAP Jam mobile app or mobile browser. You could then disable the "Show in Mobile" toggle for the rotating banner widget.

Figure 66: Show in Mobile toggle via Mobile Settings control

Mobile Settings - Pin to Top ● As a group, area, or company administrator responsible for designing page layouts to display content and information, you can choose which widgets have top priority and should display near the top of the page for immediate visibility.

Figure 67: Pin to Top toggle via Mobile Settings control● After you've pinned widgets, you can then re-order them to set which widgets display

from top to bottom.

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Preview in mobile mode ● As a group, area, or company administrator responsible for designing page layouts to display content and information, while in edit mode, you can now switch to a preview mode of the single column layout for mobile devices.

Figure 68: Preview in mobile● You can also choose the order in which to display pinned widgets in a single column lay­

out applicable for mobile devices or accept an optimized default order. Use the up and down arrows that appear when you hover your cursor near the top of any widget in pre­view mode to move them.

Figure 69: Move widgets up or down in preview mode for mobile

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● For steps on configuring mobile settings and using preview mode, please refer to the Mo­bile settings and preview topic in the SAP Jam Group Administration Guide.

Image and rotating banner widgets

● To improve the visual spacing on custom home pages, area pages, and group overview pages, the image widget now has a new minimum acceptable height of 45 pixels and the rotating banner widget in custom home and area pages has a new minimum acceptable height of 270 pixels.

● You can also select the caption background opacity of the image.

Figure 70: Caption Background Opacity

NoteImage captions in SAP Jam use a white font color. Using a dark colored image to con­trast the text works best. If your image is light colored, adjust the opacity of the cap­tion background to achieve the optimal effect.

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Feature Description

Second level sub menu tab navigation

● As a group administrator responsible for designing page layouts, you can now design pa­ges with second level menu tabs to support the organization of large groups and com­munities.

Figure 71: Add a new sub menu tab to a page

Figure 72: Examples of added sub menus● The user can view this tab in a vertical sub menu on the group overview pages.● You can view, edit, delete, restore, rearrange and rename sub menus.

Figure 73: Rearrange sub menus

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Top level menu navigation ● On the main top level menu for group overview pages, the pages that were previously listed under Show More are now displayed when you scroll horizontally.

Figure 74: Group administrator view of multiple pages with horizontal scroll button

1.15 Reports

SAP Jam reports display adoption metrics including user contribution and consumption activity. On the SAP Jam Admin console > Reports tab, on the list of requested reports, click the Microsoft Excel (which provides better support for double-byte languages) or csv icon to download the report. You can then upload the csv file to an analytics software and work with the data there. Most reports are available to Group Administrators for group-specific data.

Table 16: Reports

Feature Description

Group Administrators report ● To help distinguish between group administrators who may have the same first name and last names, the Group Administrators report now includes a list of their email ad­dresses.

Knowledge Base metrics ● As a company or group administrator, you can now see data displayed in relation to knowledge base articles for the following reports:○ Activity Summary○ Content Views○ Content Ranking (Group admin access only)○ Contribution Report by Object Week or Month○ Group Member Activity○ User Contribution Activity○ User Page Views by Week or Month○ Purged Content (Group admin access only)

Report URLs ● As a group administrator, you can now have access to a direct URL column in the follow­ing reports:○ Content Ranking○ Ideas○ Tasks

This saves you time in locating items contained in the report.

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1.16 SAP Jam mobile app

When you have an enterprise-wide deployment of the SAP Jam mobile app, as a mobile app user, you can collaborate with colleagues across your organization at any time. The SAP Jam mobile experience has been enhanced with the following features for the SAP Jam mobile experience.

Please refer to the SAP Jam mobile app User Guide for more information on working with the mobile app.

Table 17: SAP Jam mobile app for Android, iPhone and iPad devices

Feature Description

App menu bar (Android) ● To customize their experience, under Settings Menu , SAP Jam mobile app users can now tap and drag menu items to reorder them on the Android menu bar.

Figure 75: Tap and drag

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Branding ● In the SAP Jam Admin console, as a company administrator, you can now brand their compa­ny's SAP Jam mobile app experience with custom colors for the:○ main banner○ banner font○ accent color○ link color

● You can also choose a company banner image (1080 width x 324 height pixels maximum) and application launch widget icon for Android devices (512 x 512 pixels maximum). Images can be removed by clicking the x beside their thumbnails.

Figure 76: Mobile branding● The product instance name defined on the Web branding page displays below the launch

widget icon.● When you click Reset colors, the colors will default to the branding available with SAP Jam.

Figure 77: Reset colors

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● Please refer to the SAP Jam mobile app branding topic in the SAP Jam Administrator Guide for customization steps.

External users ● Company administrators can now exclude SAP Jam external users when MDM restrictions are enabled.

Group member role (iOS and Android)

● As a group administrator, you can tap on a member from a group members list and assign the group administrator role to them, remove their group administrator role, remove them from the group, or remove a long-standing group invitation to an SAP Jam user who never ac­cepted the request.

Figure 78: Assigning group administrator role

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Group email notification setting

● When joining a group, as an SAP Jam mobile app user you can now specify your preference for frequency of email notifications.

● Email notification preferences can also be set under My Group Settings.

Figure 79: Email notification settings

Group navigation ● From the Groups section, you can now tap Select a Group and choose a main or sub group from the drop-down list.

Figure 80: Group navigation

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Knowledge base articles ● As an SAP Jam mobile user, you can now view a group's knowledge base articles.

Figure 81: Knowledge base articles access● For each knowledge base article, you can view the number of likes and comments, make a

comment, like the article, view the detailed metadata, and share the article's URL via mobile sharing.

● You can use search filters to find a particular knowledge base article.

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Feature Description

Messages ● Messages provide a quick and convenient way to converse with others within your company or with colleagues who do not have company provisioned emails. New messages appear in real-time and can include other groups and colleagues, up to a maximum thirty groups and individual participants combined.

Figure 82: Messages on SAP Jam mobile app● Push notifications have been added for Messages.

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Feature Description

Navigation bread crumb in forum topics (iOS and Android)

● As an SAP Jam mobile user, when you view a question, idea, or discussion via a link from a notification email, a navigation breadcrumb displays to indicate which forum and group the topic belongs to. You can view and use breadcrumb links to see where you are within the ap­plication and quickly navigate back to specific pages, groups, or sub groups.

Figure 83: Navigation breadcrumb

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Feature Description

Pinned favorite groups ● As an SAP Jam mobile user, you can now drag and drop your pinned favorite group within the Favorites banner.

Figure 84: Pinned favorites● (Android only) From the group list view, you can also view your pinned groups on the Favor­

ites banner.

1.17 Search

At the top of every page, there is a filtered search tool available to you for browsing SAP Jam. A drop-down filter beside the text box helps you refine which areas of SAP Jam to search through.

Table 18: Search

Feature Description

Search results navigation and keyword filter

● When filtering the search results page, you can now specify keywords in the Keyword text box.

● The left side navigation for search categories, time frames, and filter fields that appears on the Search page has been reorganized to display the updated filter fields section first, fol­lowed by search categories, and time frames.

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Feature Description

Quick search ● When using the quick search feature above the global menu bar, the filter is automatically set to your current context when viewing a specific group's content or content folder, forums or forum topic, events, tasks, or knowledge base articles.

Figure 85: Quick search and filters● For example, when searching within Content folders, the filter will automatically set itself to

search the current selected folder.

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Figure 86: Search filter for current content folder● When searching within Content folders, the search results will include the name of the folder

that was searched at the top of the page, and also include the name of the folder below the Group category. You can click the X beside the folder to broaden the search to other group folders.

Figure 87: Search results with Content folders

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2 Feature availability

All features in this SAP Jam Collaboration release will be available to customers working with the preview release starting on Friday, August 4, 2017. The release will be available in production starting on Friday, September 8, 2017.

All SAP Jam Collaboration documentation will be subject to ongoing updates for this release, with production-ready versions posted in August 2017. Please check the SAP Help Portal for your latest version of the product documentation.

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3 Feature deprecation

The following section lists the features that have begun deprecation in this release, will be fully deprecated in the next release, or are retired as of this release. When a feature is deprecated, enhancements to it cease and customers are advised not to use the feature.

Table 19: Feature deprecation

Feature Description

Chats ● The chat feature has begun deprecation as of this release. If you continue to use this Chat serv­ice, you will be advised to use the new Messages feature instead.

● The deprecation notice "This chat service is being deprecated and will be removed in a future release. You can continue your chats by using the Messages feature instead." appears at the top of chat windows, in the chat pop-up, and on the Company Admin screen below the Enable Chat option.

Dynamic widgets em­bedded in wiki pages and blog posts

● Dynamic widgets including People, Feed, Content, Forum, Related Groups, Task, Event, and Business Record used within wiki pages and blog posts have been deprecated. Users can no longer add new instances of these widgets. Any widget that already exists in wikis and blogs to­day will continue to work, although users will be reminded to migrate the content to overview page or copy it elsewhere. All impacted widgets will be removed in a later release of SAP Jam.

● On wiki pages, as an administrator you will now see the following message with a Convert but­ton: "This wiki contains widget(s) which have been phased out. Please take steps to convert the widget content into hyperlinks, move them to the group overview page, or delete them if no lon­ger needed. The widgets will be automatically removed in an upcoming product release." When you click Convert, an overview page with the converted widgets appears in edit mode. This al­lows you to modify the page before you publish it, completing the wiki to overview page conver­sion.

● Group overview pages created and maintained using the wiki editor have been deprecated. All impacted pages will be removed in a later release of SAP Jam.

Error on 3rd party inte­grations email

● The Error Emails on 3rd party integrations (Google Docs, Twitter) high priority email has been deprecated as of this release.

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Feature Description

Medium priority emails and daily Active Tasks Reminder email

● Daily email notification for Active Task Reminders, Clicks on my content (in summary notifica­tions), and Medium Priority email notifications for the following will begin deprecation as of this release:○ Feed comments and likes○ First click on my wikis, links, or documents○ Edits to my wiki page○ Edits to a wiki page I last edited○ Edits to any wiki page I edited○ Edits to any poll I voted in

● For each deprecated email, the following deprecation notice appears: "Please note that you will no longer receive this email notification in an upcoming product release."

Figure 88: Deprecated emails● Please refer to the Email settings topic in the SAP Jam User Guide for more information on

email notifications.

RSS Feeds ● Effective with this 1708 release, we are announcing the deprecation of the ability to consume SAP Jam feeds as RSS feeds.

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