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Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
Using Connections with Microsoft Teams
Enabling support for Microsoft Teams integration with Connections is an optional task. Enable this support only if your organization is using Microsoft Teams.
Setting up the Connections app for the Microsoft Teams client
This task involves packaging and installing the Connections app inside Microsoft Teams.

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.
- 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 HCL 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
  Use the plug-ins to share files and information between Microsoft™ Windows™ applications and HCL Connections or HCL Connections Cloud.
- Using Connections with Microsoft Teams
  Enabling support for Microsoft Teams integration with Connections is an optional task. Enable this support only if your organization is using Microsoft Teams.
  - Enabling app registry extensions for Microsoft Teams integration
    Extensions that can be loaded into app registry are available to enable chat with Microsoft Teams function as well as the Share with Microsoft Teams button on most every Connections page.
  - Enabling Connections to use the app registry service
    Personal chats in Microsoft Teams (from the Connections business card, profile, and Important to Me bubble) require that Connections is enabled to make requests to the app registry service to discover the extensions that enable those integrations.
  - Updating WebSphere to support single sign-on with Connections for Microsoft Teams
    Authentication between the Connections for Microsoft Teams app and the Connections server is handled using single sign-on (SSO). This way, as long as the user's email address in Microsoft Teams matches the email address of the Connections user, the user won't be prompted to log in to Connections.
  - Configuring an Azure app to support the Microsoft Teams app
    This task accomplished by using the App Studio app within Microsoft Teams.
  - Setting up the Connections app for the Microsoft Teams client
    This task involves packaging and installing the Connections app inside Microsoft Teams.
- Using the HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook
  The power of Connections from your Outlook inbox. Use the Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook to work with Connections content from within your Outlook inbox.
- Using the HCL Connections community app for Microsoft Sharepoint
  As a Microsoft SharePoint administrator you can register the Sharepoint app with Microsoft Azure and edit its configuration file in HCL Connections to make it available for your organization.
- 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.

Setting up the Connections app for the Microsoft Teams client

This task involves packaging and installing the Connections app inside Microsoft Teams.

Before you begin

Make sure you've configured an Azure app to support the Microsoft Teams app.

Procedure

Clone or download the https://github.com/hclcnx/global-samples repository and locate the microsoft-teams/App Manifests/sample/manifest.json file.
Edit the manifest.json file as follows:
1. Replace %Connections_Hostname% with the hostname and domain of your Connections server.
2. Replace %Connections_AzureApplicationId% with the Azure Application ID (Bot ID) of your Connections Azure application.
Package the microsoft teams app
The files can be zipped up using your favorite archive utility. Just ensure that there are no folders contained within the zip files. All files should be at the root level of the archive.

If you are using a terminal on a Mac or Linux, use something similar to the following:
```
zip ConnectionsTeamsApp.zip *
```
Install in Teams:
1. Open Teams and visit the app store. Depending on the version of Teams, you may see an App Store button in Teams, or you can find the app store by visiting Apps > More Apps in the app rail.
2. Install the app by clicking the Upload a custom app link in the app store.
3. Upload the manifest zip file created in step 2.
Add the app to a teams channel or chat.
1. Open the Teams app store. Click on the Built for <your org name> section of the app store to view the installed apps.
2. Click on your Connections Azure application. Then click Select and select to add the app to either a team or chat.
3. Enter the team channel or chat that you want to add the app to and click Set up to enable both the Tab app and Messaging Extension app. You can also select either Set up a tab or Set up a bot from the Set up list to add each component individually.
  
  Note: The Set up a bot action is required for the messaging extension component to work in a team or chat.

What to do next

Install/update Component Pack services with Microsoft Teams integration