Welcome to the HCL Connections™ 6.5 documentation, where you can find information about Connections 6.5.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.
Get together with people who share your interests.
Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
Keep your apps up-to-date so they're relevant to the community:
Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
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.
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.
Use profiles to connect with others, showcase your skills, and find the people you need.
Use activities to keep a team informed, collect and share project resources, or to assign and track tasks.
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.
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.
Use community apps, such as Wikis and Blogs to share information, collaborate with others, and bring your expertise to the community.
Add members to make your community flourish. You can also invite people to join the community. If the community is moderated, you can decide whether to accept or reject incoming membership requests. To add multiple members, use the import tool on the Members page.
Edit your community to update basic information about the community or the apps associated with it. If the community is no longer needed or was created in error, you can delete it.
Add apps to your Community so that members can benefit from them.
You can add more forums to your community to organize discussions around different focus areas. You cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.
Mange your community's files using the Files app.
The Gallery app highlights the contents of a Files or Community folder on the Community Overview page. The app displays thumbnails or file type icons for the files in the folder. You can also use the Gallery app to display and work with thumbnails in a Library folder in the Community Overview page.
After you add the Activities app to your community, you can edit activity details.
Use the blog app to share information with community members in an efficient, dynamic way.
Metrics provide quantitative and qualitative metrics in the form of reports to help you measure the business value of HCL Connections™ in your organization.
The library management tasks that you can perform depend on whether you are working with a community library or a linked library.
Use a Highlights app to create a page where you can aggregate content from a variety of sources.
Use blogs to share your announcements, updates, and opinions with others.
Share information, brainstorm ideas, ask and answer questions, and discuss topics of mutual interest in a forum.
Tap the wisdom of the crowd by building a body of knowledge in a wiki. Everyone on your team can make a contribution.
Use Bookmarks to collect and organize shortcuts to websites.