The cobrowse function allows a user to initiate a cobrowsing session. From that session the initiator can drive the browser of the partner, show particular pages, and highlight aspects of those pages. The cobrowse function is available from the cobrowse link in the banner or if you have the sample running locally you can access it directly via http://localhost:9080/PlantsByWebSphereAjax/cobrowse.html. To initiate cobrowsing click the 'Create' button. An 'Invitation Link' will be generated. Select and copy the URI in the 'Invitation Link' field. Via email, chat or other means transmit this URI to your cobrowse partner. The cobrowse partner then must browse to this URI, via copying the URI into the location field of their browser.
After clicking 'Create' the invitation link is generated
Once the cobrowse session is established modal windows will pop up in both browsers. The initiator will have controls including 'send page', 'follow me' and 'highlight'. Both modal windows have icons indicating the state of the connection and the state of the peer window.
The initiator can send a page to the partner and can use the follow me function to lead the partner through a series of pages. This initiator can use the highlight function to highlight particular aspects of a page.
Either the initiator or the partner can terminate the collaboration session by closing the modal window and clicking 'End Collaboration'.
Note that if you are testing and cobrowsing with yourself, you must use two different browsers or browsers on different computers, otherwise results will be unpredictable. For example, do not cobrowse between two tabs on the same instance of Firefox or even between separate instances of Firefox on the same computer. If cobrowsing on one computer, use two different browsers such as Firefox and IE, or Google Chrome and Safari.