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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.
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.
Using Orient Me, the card-based home page
See your updates in a prioritized view, with content from a single source grouped for your convenience. Act on content without leaving the home page.
Viewing the Orient Me update stream
View prioritized updates, with content from the people and communities you interact with the most at the top and grouped by source, or view a single stream based on time that shows updates from all people and communities you follow.

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.
  - Creating an app-based home page to stay up to date
    Looking to customize your home page? You can switch your view, change your layout, and learn more about each application.
  - Using Orient Me, the card-based home page
    See your updates in a prioritized view, with content from a single source grouped for your convenience. Act on content without leaving the home page.
    - Viewing the Orient Me update stream
      View prioritized updates, with content from the people and communities you interact with the most at the top and grouped by source, or view a single stream based on time that shows updates from all people and communities you follow.
    - Pin favorite people and communities for quick access
      Pin the people and communities you work with most often to your Important to Me bar for fast access to contact information and shared content.
    - Sharing and responding to content
      Share and respond to content without leaving your Orient Me home page to efficiently deal with the information you are monitoring.
    - Keeping up with notifications
      No matter where you are in HCL Connections™, you can slide open the Action Center and scan for important commitments and updates to keep you plugged in and on task. The Action Center is designed to keep your most important content and contacts just a click away.
- 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.
- 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.

Viewing the Orient Me update stream

View prioritized updates, with content from the people and communities you interact with the most at the top and grouped by source, or view a single stream based on time that shows updates from all people and communities you follow.

By default, Orient Me, the card-based home page, lets you focus on the content you care most about by stacking content from a single source so you can flip through it instead of hunting for it around the page. Content from the people and communities on your Important to Me bar is given higher priority.

To switch from the default, app-based home page to Orient Me, click Use New Home View from your Profile menu.

Note: You can switch back to the default home page at any time by clicking Use Classic Home View from your Profile menu.

Manage your updates in the following ways:

React to content by liking or commenting on updates.
Read through comments or see which colleagues liked the content.
Click a file or entry to open it so that you can view, edit, or respond to the content.
Click the avatar for a person or community on your bar to focus on the content you share with that source. Click the All Updates icon to return to the main view.
Enter a keyword in the Filter field to see updates relating to that keyword.
Toggle the view from the prioritized, stacked view to a single stream based on time.