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Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
Connections Engagement Center
Connections Engagement Center provides the corporate office, management, and workforce with a single user experience for all communications, as well as a state of the art enterprise social collaboration features and the possibility of adding custom applications. All this runs at the office and on all mobile devices, so the entire workforce – from CEO to intern – can access this most valuable tool regardless of where they are, what their role is, or what devices they prefer.
Overview
Connections Engagement Center is a single, accessible hub for organizational news and content within HCL Connections, enabling users to create and manage web content efficiently. People get engaged with finding, creating, owning, and promoting content to improve intranet communication. All content can be found in one place. Communication and collaboration are on the same page or one click away. Connections Engagement Center makes it simple and easy for users to create content; there's no need for multiple systems to create and publish content. This documentation explains and describes role concepts, site structure, functions of the various Connections Engagement Center features and their usage and configuration.
Functions - fields - buttons
There are different fields and buttons available in the configuration options.

Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
- Connections Engagement Center
  Connections Engagement Center provides the corporate office, management, and workforce with a single user experience for all communications, as well as a state of the art enterprise social collaboration features and the possibility of adding custom applications. All this runs at the office and on all mobile devices, so the entire workforce – from CEO to intern – can access this most valuable tool regardless of where they are, what their role is, or what devices they prefer.
  - Overview
    Connections Engagement Center is a single, accessible hub for organizational news and content within HCL Connections, enabling users to create and manage web content efficiently. People get engaged with finding, creating, owning, and promoting content to improve intranet communication. All content can be found in one place. Communication and collaboration are on the same page or one click away. Connections Engagement Center makes it simple and easy for users to create content; there's no need for multiple systems to create and publish content. This documentation explains and describes role concepts, site structure, functions of the various Connections Engagement Center features and their usage and configuration.
    - Get started
      Connections Engagement Center makes it easy way to build a social intranet by creating a portal-like experience using various out-of-the-box and custom widgets. Engagement Center does not have its own content store, but aggregates content from different backend systems. Mostly, HCL Connections is the back-end system, since it is the underlying foundation for a set of key Engagement Center services, such as user authentication and authorization, personalization, top-level navigation, and news.
    - Roles
      Connections Engagement Center has multiple user roles that provide increasing levels of access.
    - Adding the Engagement Center widget to a Community
      Community owners can add the Connections Engagement Center widget to a Community in the same way they would add any other widget or app by using the Community Actions menu.
    - Admin dashboard
      The Admin Dashboard is reachable through the URL: [your_domain]/xcc/admin apps.[yourLocale].collabserv.com/xcc/admin. You will find system configurations there, so be careful with that.
    - Admin panel
      This section describes creating custom grids and layouts and CSS for all pages. If you are Admin, you can reach the Admin panel on every Connections Engagement Center page by clicking the Customize button.
    - Widgets
      Engagement Center widgets can be embedded in placeholders on every Connections Engagement Center page. The height of each widget can be defined pixel perfect or set to auto for a height responsive to the content.
    - Embedded experience
      The following widgets have an embedded experience:
    - Anonymous access
      Please make sure, that you configured the Connections Engagement Center for anonymous access.
    - FlyOut page
      The Connections Engagement Center FlyOut Page is managed by the admin or Page Editor. The FlyOut Page may contain any of the over 30 Connections Engagement Center widgets and is available anywhere in Connections. You only need to move your mouse over this icon.
    - Personalization
      Within the individual widgets, personalization can be activated. Upon activation there is the option to configure different channels for different values of a profile. Additionally it is possible to choose a default channel.
    - Personalize homepage
      In the Connections Engagement Center-Settings tab in the admin panel you can personalize the homepage. The source must be an existing Connections Engagement Center page.
    - Creating a custom widget with the custom widget API
      You can copy an existing widget or modify an existing widget to create a new widget using the custom widget API. You can upload a JavaScript file to have access to the Connections Engagement Center. This is necessary for the Custom widget API. The widget API is the only API and where JavaDoc-level documentation is stored.
    - Functions - fields - buttons
      There are different fields and buttons available in the configuration options.
    - Best practices
      Most of the content displayed by Connections Engagement Center pages will be created and maintained within HCL Connections. Therefore we provide some useful best practices in this area to guide your editorial teams to an effective content creation process.
  - Installing and configuring Connections Engagement Center
    This section provides instructions for upgrading an existing XCC Web Content Management Extension to the Connections Engagement Center. For fresh installations, instructions are provided for planning, creating a database, installing, and then configuring the Engagement Center. Also included are browser links to access the various modes of Connections Engagement Center, and instructions for uninstalling Connections Engagement Center.
- Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
  Access and update your Connections content from other applications.
- Using the HCL Connections desktop plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™
  Use this plug-in to upload and work with files in IBM® Connections from Microsoft™ Windows™ Explorer and Microsoft Office.
- Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
  Use HCL Connections for Mac to keep local files in sync with copies of those files on the server.
- Using the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office and Outlook
  Use the plug-ins to share files and information between Microsoft™ Windows™ applications and HCL Connections or HCL Connections Cloud.
- Using plug-ins from HCL Connections with other products
  Get help using the plug-ins that integrate the capabilities of HCL Connections with other products.
- Sharing HCL Connections Files in Slack
  Allow users in Slack to open an HCL Connections file picker, select a file, and share a link to that file in a Slack channel or a direct message.

Functions - fields - buttons

There are different fields and buttons available in the configuration options.

The following chart describes the editing functions:

Reading mode	Action
	Opens options for editing. By holding the Shift key and clicking, you can remove this widget. Hold Ctrl+Shift and click to remove all widgets.
	Locks the widget for editing by Page Editors. Only Admins of the Page will be able to drag and drop and edit this widget. The lock icon will indicate if the widget is locked or open.
widget Title	If the widget contains a title in the header, it can be changed here. If you enter %sourceName%, the Community-Title will be displayed if possible. If you enter no title, the widget header will be hidden.
Height	Height of the widget: if the height of a widget is chosen too low, content might be cut off or hidden.
Add Content Stream	Adding of a channel
Personalize	Activation of personalization
	Will show the widget editor in Fullscreen
Style	Choose List or Slider
Attribute	Technical name of the profile field, which is used in order to differentiate (e.g. work_location)
Value	Value, which is expected in the profile field (e.g. Munich)
Source	Channel, for which the predefined value is supposed to be shown (e.g. Munich cafeteria blog)
Show Likes and Comments	Enable display of likes and comment next to the entries
Layout	Select default view for the events widget: Month, Week, Day, Day (List)
Type	Content source
Channel Name	Title of the channel
	Move Channel up, down or remove this Channel
Source	Selection of the source with a small icon to link to the selected community or Standalone Blog
Show posts	Latest: Entries of the channel are shown in chronological order. Selected: Individual entries of the channel can be selected and sorted.
Search Latest Additions	The default Connections Engagement Center search for posts or wikis uses the Connections Search API. Too found new posts or wikis, this API needs up to 15 minutes. If you want to find Additions, that are created only a few minutes ago, please click on Search latest Additions and try to find them again.
# Items	Items to be shown in the widget
# per Page	Items to be shown per Page in the widget
Remove widget	Hold Ctrl+Shift and click Remove widget to remove all widgets from the page.
Save widget	Save the widget-Configuration. You can also press Ctrl+S.
Customize	Open Connections Engagement Center administration

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