Some of the key features / benefits of this module are:

• Share project issues, problems, learning, and knowledge in the pertinent discussion forums.
• Set an objective for the forum you create to ensure that the discussions stay focused.
• Track the level of participation of various members.
• Manage each discussion topic as a separate conversation thread.
• Directly respond to an issue posted from the bulletin board itself.
• Encourage technical experts to watch the active forum so that they may respond only to those issues that are of interest to them and are not cluttered by every response.
• Export the contents of a discussion thread to HTML, RTF, or PDF formats.
• Link information in your thread to other related threads in your forum.
• Search a particular forum or all forums for information of interest by title, keywords, or notes.
• Start a project forum to facilitate discussions from any activity or issue of that project.

iPlan HyperPad 
The iPlan HyperPad module is designed based on the mind-mapping technique. Just as you would associate a phrase or set of words to an idea, in the HyperPad too, you can link some text to another note. This informal method of linking ideas to one another helps capture project knowledge that would otherwise be buried in the notebooks they were written in.

Some of the key features / benefits of this module are:

• Use the simple hypertext capability provided in all modules to attach notes to projects, tasks, issues, resumes, meetings, etc.
• Create a link from a selected word or phrase in one note to another note with related information, thereby creating a network of ideas, learning, instructions, etc.
• Build and maintain a glossary (dictionary) of commonly used terms in your projects and organization.
• Highlight important information by changing the font, color and size of the text in a note.
• Copy and paste RTF based formatted text to your note.
• Add pictures and icons to the note to make it attractive and easy to recognize.
• Attach a link to any Windows^TM documents, drawings, and screen-shots to the defect.
• Create links to HTML documents in your organization or to URLs on the Internet.
• Retrieve notes based on one or more keywords.
• Based on your access rights, link your notes to any other note across projects, analyses, and profiles in your department or organization.