Collaborate People and Resources
Before you begin to create any topics or assignments, you might want to start with creating contacts and resources. If you complete these tasks first, you will have an easier time creating any new topics or assignments. While collaborators have view-only privileges, supervisors are the only user-type that can create new contacts and resources.
When you select either the People or the Resources panels, the Collaborate app displays the assets in a thumbnail view. These panels include similar search and Sort By options as the Planner panel, but they do not include the ability to display the contents in a list view. As a result, the Display Options menu is not displayed.
If the Collaborate app encounters an issue communicating with any back-end system dependency, the ability to create new people or resources might be temporarily disabled, and some menus might be replaced with an appropriate warning or error message.
See the following sections for more information: