Managing Your Oracle Social Network Account in the Add-In for Outlook

An Oracle Social Network account is your connection to a server that is hosting an instance of Oracle Social Network. Your organization might have multiple servers, each offering its own instance of Oracle Social Network. If you can log on to two or more of these, then you can say you have multiple accounts.

Note: In the add-in for Outlook, you can interact with only one Oracle Social Network account at a time.

Your system administrator will likely set up your system to automatically connect to the necessary accounts. However, you might be required to supply your name and password at the start of every session.

The first time you start the add-in for Outlook, the Manage Accounts dialog opens with options for configuring this and future sessions. There are options for:

• Hiding the Manage Accounts dialog at future start-ups

• Selecting the account you want to use in this session

• Saving your password for future sessions

• Working offline (for more information, see Working Offline)

If you have only one account, you might want to save your password and hide the Manage Accounts dialog. Or, you might want to save your password, but continue to open this dialog so that you always have the option to select the account to use in this session.

1. If necessary, click Show Panel in the Outlook ribbon to open the add-in panel.
2. At the bottom of the panel, open the Accounts menu, and select Manage Accounts.
   
3. In the Manage Accounts dialog, click to the right of the Account field.
4. In the Account field, enter a name for the account to appear on the Accounts menu.
5. In the Server URL field, enter the URL to the server that hosts the new Oracle Social Network account, then click Next.

   Enter server name, port number, and instance. For example:

   acme.social.us1.oraclecloud.com:443/client
   

   If you don't provide a port number, a default value for the connection type is used.

6. If your company uses federated authentication, your newly created account is selected in the Manage Accounts dialog. Click OK, then enter your login information as requested.

   If your company doesn't use federated authentication, skip to the next step.

7. If necessary, enter the Identity Domain.
8. In the User Name field, enter your Oracle Social Network user name.
9. In the Password field, enter your Oracle Social Network password.
10. To save your user name and password and log in automatically in future sessions, select Remember password.
11. Click OK.

1. From the Accounts menu, select Manage Accounts.
2. From the Account list, select the account to delete.
3. Click to the right of the Account list.
4. In the confirmation dialog, click Yes.

1. Click , select Support.
2. Click one of the buttons at the bottom of the dialog to view reports or logs:

   • Click Reports to generate a report about activities in your social network's code over a selected period.

   • Click Logging to set a logging level, configure log output, and to save your log to a file.