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Using Connections 6.5
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.
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.
Editing files and file properties
Download files from a library to edit them. You can also edit file properties for a file.

Using Connections 6.5
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.
- Accessibility features for Connections
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- What's new in Connections?
- 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.

Editing files and file properties

Download files from a library to edit them. You can also edit file properties for a file.

About this task

You can choose whether to check out a file before you edit it. Checking out a file locks it so that no other user can replace the file while you are working on it.

Procedure

To edit library files, complete the following steps.

Open the library that contains the file and click the name of the file.
Optional: Click Check Out to lock the file.
Work with your file, select one of the following options
- Click Download to download the file and save it to your computer.
- If HCL Connections™ Docs is deployed and the file type is supported by the HCL Docs editor, click Edit in Docs.
- If connectors are enabled, click Edit on Desktop and edit the file on your desktop.
If you downloaded the file, edit the file on your computer and save your changes.

Note: This step does not apply to HCL Docs files.
Replace the file in the library with your updated version.

Note: This step does not apply to HCL Docs files.
1. On the summary page, click Upload New Version.
2. Click Browse and navigate to the file on your computer.
3. Select one of the following options:
  - Check In. Replaces the current public file with the version on your computer, and then unlocks the file.
  - Update Draft. Replaces the current draft file with the version on your computer, and keeps the file locked. When you are ready to make the draft the public version, click Check In.

To edit file properties, complete the following steps:

Click the file title in any view to open its summary page.
Select More Actions > Edit Properties.
Edit the available properties as needed. Required fields are marked with an asterisk. For example, *Sales Date.
Select one of the following options:
- Check In. Uploads the file and makes it available to library users.
- Save as Draft. Uploads the file as a draft. Only you can see and work with drafts until you check them in. To check in a draft, open the file summary page for the draft and click Check In.
- Update Draft. Updates the draft version of the file. This option only displays when you have checked out the file.

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