Patent ID: 6996780

Claim:
A method for creating a place type from which new places are created in collaboration space, comprising the steps of: creating a first place including a configuration specifying members and their respective roles, a data structure including at least one room form and included page form, and at least one skin group for a team project; rendering said first place as an existing place; responsive to user command, saving said existing place as a place type from which other places are to be created with said configuration in said collaboration space; rendering a new place as a copy of said place type, said new place being a fully functioning collaborative space including members with specific roles, data structure including folders and rooms and created by said place type from said existing place; responsive to place manager selection: selectively preventing changes to look and feel of said new place by not presenting decorate options in said place type; selectively displaying a description of said place type; displaying source information for said place type, including name and address of collaboration space place on which said place type is based; selectively hiding and redisplaying names and descriptions of place types in a list of available place types created by place type authors and transportable among plurality of servers; selectively updating said new place created using said place type when said place type changes; and selectively copying said place type from a server on which said place type was created to another server.