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Using Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ documentation site, where you can find information about Connections. 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.
Owners - manage your community effectively
Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
Managing your community to keep it relevant
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.
Changing your community's access level
Change your community access level to protect any sensitive information contained in it.

Using Connections 7.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections™ documentation site, where you can find information about Connections. 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?
  HCL Connections 7.0 gives collaboration a boost with these new features and enhancements.
- 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.
  - Owners - manage your community effectively
    Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
    - Adding members to grow your 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.
    - Managing your community to keep it relevant
      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.
      - Moderating community content
        Review and manage blog, file, and forum content. By monitoring updates regularly, you can control what content is added by members and remove anything inappropriate.
      - Changing your community's access level
        Change your community access level to protect any sensitive information contained in it.
      - Enabling your community's PDF export access
        As a community owner, if you want to your members to be able to download and print community app content generated as .pdf files, you must enable export access for all members. Owners can generate and access PDFs regardless of whether the access is enabled.
      - Deleting unwanted communities
        If a community no longer has a purpose or is inactive, you might want to delete it.
      - Creating subcommunities to reflect organizational change
        Create a subcommunity to bring together a subset of members within an existing community for a specific purpose.
      - Moving communities
        Moving communities to become subcommunities of a top-level, parent community is a good way to integrate what were diverse communities. Similarly, making a subcommunity into a top-level community is a good way to promote important communities.
      - Copying a community structure
        When you want to create a new community, it might be easier to copy an existing community rather than creating one from scratch.
      - Exporting community membership
        Exporting community membership to a comma-separated value (CSV) file (called membership.csv) is useful when you want to create a community with the same owners or members as an existing community. Instead of adding the members manually to the new community, you can import them in a single transaction.
    - Keeping your apps contemporary
      Take advantage of all the ways you can use apps to engage your community.
- 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.

Changing your community's access level

Change your community access level to protect any sensitive information contained in it.

About this task

You can restrict or extend the community's privacy level so that people can or cannot join.

Procedure

To change access level, complete the following steps.

From the I’m an Owner view, open the community that you want to change.
Select Community Actions > Edit Community

Change the community’s access level.

Table 1. Changing access level options
Current Access type	Can be changed to
Public	Restricted Restricted ((Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners) Moderated
Moderated	Restricted Restricted ((Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners) Public
Restricted	Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners) Moderated Public
Restricted (Let anyone in my organization see this community's title, description, tags, and owners)	Restricted Moderated Public

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