Adding documents to Communities

Add Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to Connections or Connections Cloud communities.

About this task

This topic provides one way to add Microsoft™ Office documents to a community. In Microsoft Office 2010, you can also add documents from the File tab in Office applications by clicking Save & Send and then Send to IBM Connections.

Procedure

  1. Open the document.
  2. Click the IBM Connections tab.
  3. Click Communities.
  4. If you connect to more than one site, select a site to upload the document to.
  5. Type the community name or select one using the dropdown.
  6. Choose whether to upload the document directly to the community, or upload it to My Files in the Files application and share it with the community from there.
    You can also add a file to a community library or to a folder in the library.
  7. (Connections Cloud only) Choose to encrypt the contents of the file.
  8. (Connections Cloud only) Choose whether people outside of your organization can see this file.
  9. Click OK.