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Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Communities
Get together with people who share your interests.
Members - use your community effectively
Use community apps, such as Wikis and Blogs to share information, collaborate with others, and bring your expertise to the community.
Organizing your documents in libraries
Use the Libraries app to upload, manage, organize, and collaborate on community files.
Adding files to a library
Add files to your library or create new files to share them with community members.

Using Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Connections 6. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- Accessibility features for HCL Connections™
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- Overview
  HCL Connections™ is a collaborative tool that makes it easy to connect with others and exchange ideas. Start sharing important information, building a network of useful contacts, and following people that interest you.
- Home page
  Use the home page as a command center to scan and manage items that need your attention. You can view your most recent project updates, check in on the people you follow, and review your action items all from one place.
- Profiles
  Use profiles to connect with others, showcase your skills, and find the people you need.
- Activities
  Use activities to keep a team informed, collect and share project resources, or to assign and track tasks.
- Files
  Using the Files app, you can upload, organize, share and collaborate on files easily. Files can be shared, tagged, organized in folders, and accessed from other applications, such as Activities and Communities.
- Communities
  Get together with people who share your interests.
  - Getting started
    Find out about communities. Then, search for the communities you're interested in and join them. If you've a mind to, start your own community.
  - Members - use your community effectively
    Use community apps, such as Wikis and Blogs to share information, collaborate with others, and bring your expertise to the community.
    - Finding out what’s going on
      Find out what's going on in the communities you're a member of.
    - Unsubscribing from community emails
    - Bookmarking important places
      Have you seen something on the web you'd like to share? Bookmark the site to make it available to community members.
    - Getting the discussion going in a forum
      Share ideas with others and discuss topics of common interest.
    - Sharing information in community files
      Upload, share, and work with community files using the Files app.
    - Assigning tasks in a community activity
      Add activities to your community to give members somewhere to assign tasks and to share information and resources. You can grant access to the activity to all community members, or you can restrict access to a subset of members.
    - Blogging your point of view
      Share your thoughts on any subject with others and get their feedback.
    - Creating information in a community wiki
      Use a wiki to share resources with your community and collaborate with others.
    - Sharing ideas in an ideation blog
      An ideation blog is a space where you can contribute and vote on ideas related to the community's area of focus.
    - Organizing your documents in libraries
      Use the Libraries app to upload, manage, organize, and collaborate on community files.
      - Adding files to a library
        Add files to your library or create new files to share them with community members.
      - Editing files and file properties
        Download files from a library to edit them. You can also edit file properties for a file.
      - Managing attachments
        Add, replace, delete and download attachments from the file summary.
      - Managing file versions
        From the file summary, you can restore and download versions of a file and view the change summary of a version (with some Enterprise Content Manager repositories). You can also upload a new version of a file.
      - Working with draft files
        Community owners can edit library settings to require that all new and updated files must be reviewed and approved by specific users or groups. When new or updated files are approved, they can be published to the library.
      - Library views
        The library views provide a quick way to access files.
    - What's going on - scheduling events
      Use the Events app to share information about important events and dates relating to your community.
    - Conducting surveys to find out what people think
      Create a survey that allows people to give useful feedback on any subject. When the survey completes, you can analyze the responses to get an idea of what users think.
  - Owners - manage your community effectively
    Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
- Blogs
  Use blogs to share your announcements, updates, and opinions with others.
- Forums
  Share information, brainstorm ideas, ask and answer questions, and discuss topics of mutual interest in a forum.
- Wikis
  Tap the wisdom of the crowd by building a body of knowledge in a wiki. Everyone on your team can make a contribution.
- Bookmarks
  Use Bookmarks to collect and organize shortcuts to websites.

Adding files to a library

Add files to your library or create new files to share them with community members.

About this task

If the community owner specifies that files must be reviewed before they are uploaded to the library, you must save the files as drafts. You can then submit them for review before you upload to the library.

Procedure

To upload files to a library, complete the following steps:

Open the library and the folder where you want to upload the file.
Upload flies by using either the Manual files upload or the Drag-and-drop method:
1. To manually upload files, click Upload Files and then click Browse to select the files to upload.
2. Import files from your operating system by directly dragging files into your browser.
Select one of the following options:
1. Click Check In to upload the file and make it available to library users.
2. Click Save as Draft to upload the file as a draft. Only you can see and work with your drafts. To check in a draft, open the file page and click Check In.

If IBM® Docs is deployed, you can create new files directly within a library. To use IBM® Docs to add new files to a library, complete the following steps:

Open the library and the folder where you want to upload the file.
Click New and then select either Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation depending on the type of file you want to add.
Enter a file name for the file.
Optional: Set the tags, description, and document type for the file.
Click Create. The file is now created and opened for editing in IBM® Docs.

Note: The format of the file that is created depends on your IBM® Docs file format preferences. For more information, see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFHJY_1.0.7/using/text/document/d_changing_the_default_file_format.dita.

What to do next

If you saved your file as a draft, you must submit the file for review before it can be published to the library. Open the file summary page and click Submit for Review.

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