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Using Connections V5.5
Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation, where you can find information about IBM Connections 5.5. IBM 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.
Working with community files
Upload, share, and work with community files using the Files app.
Using Connections V5.5
Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation, where you can find information about IBM Connections 5.5. IBM 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.
Overview
Connect with others and start exchanging information and ideas.
Home page
Get the latest news and updates from your network and the wider organization.
Profiles
Access the directory to find people and learn about their projects, skills, and interests. When you find a person with the expertise that you need, add them to your network. Update your own profile to keep your personal information like contact details and photo current.
Activities
An activity is a place where the people involved in a project can share information, assign tasks, and share resources like files, tools, and websites. Use an activity to organize content and prioritize tasks that are related to a project goal.
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.
What is a community?
A community lets people who share a common interest interact with one another.
What's new in Communities?
This release contains features that are designed to make communities easier for you to use to share information.
Frequently asked questions in Communities
Find answers to the questions that Communities users ask most often.
Searching or browsing for communities
You can search or browse for communities that are of interest to you.
Searching within a community
Search a community for a keyword to return all of the community content that contains that keyword. Your search results include content from any apps that are included in the community, for example, activities, blogs, events, and wikis.
Using the Communities business card
Use the Communities business card to navigate to key pages in the community from other apps in
Connections
or other apps that are integrated with Communities.
How do I join a community?
You can join a community in a number of different ways.
Creating communities
Set up a teamspace to encourage people in your organization who have similar interests or goals to collaborate with one another.
Working with communities
You can view the members of any public community or follow any public community when you want to receive the latest updates from that community.
If you are a community member, you can send emails to your fellow members.
Adding members to your community
As a community owner, you can add members to your community at any time. You can invite people to join the community, and, if the community is moderated, you can decide whether to accept or reject incoming membership requests. To add multiple members at the same time, use the import tool on the
Members
page.
Community membership roles
The actions that you can perform in Communities depend on the role that you are assigned. Find out what you can do as a community owner or member.
Adding apps to your Community
Add apps to your Community to make extra functions available to Community members. You must be a Community owner to add or remove apps from a Community.
Managing your communities
As a community owner, you can edit your community to update basic information about the community or the apps associated with the community. If the community is no longer needed or was created in error, you can delete it.
Bookmarking important places
Add bookmarks to make useful web resources available directly from your community.
Working with community forums
Use your community's forum to post topics for discussion and share ideas.
Working with community files
Upload, share, and work with community files using the Files app.
Sharing files with your community
Share files from the Files app with members of your community. You can also upload files to a community from your local file system.
Sharing folders with your community
Share folders from the Files app with members of your community.
Downloading files shared with a community
Download files that you have uploaded to a community so that you can continue working on them locally.
Viewing files shared with a community
Browse through and view files that you have uploaded to a community so that you can comment on the contents.
Managing community files
Use the Files app to work with the files that members have uploaded and shared with your community.
Managing community folders
Create community folders and use them to organize files.
Managing deleted files
When trash functionality is enabled for Communities, community owners can manage deleted community files by restoring them to the community or by permanently deleting them from the system.
Managing access to community files
Manage access to the files that you and other members add to your community.
Working with galleries
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.
In
IBM Connections™
, you can also use the Gallery app to display and work with thumbnails in a Library folder in the
Community Overview
page.
Working with rich content
Use a rich content page to share rich content; including text, links, and images with your community.
Working with community activities
Use activities to organize information and tasks relating to the community.
Working with a community blog
Use a community blog to share information with community members in an efficient, dynamic way. A community blog is for the exclusive use of community members.
Using feeds
Keep your community informed with up-to-the-minute information by adding feeds to websites of interest to the community.
Working with a community wiki
Use a wiki to share resources with your community and collaborate with fellow members.
Working with an ideation blog
An ideation blog is a central blog space where community members can go to contribute and vote on ideas related to the community's area of focus. ideation blog membership is limited to the community.
Using libraries
Libraries provide community members document management capabilities to upload, manage, organize, and collaborate on community files. A community can contain multiple libraries.
Scheduling community events
Use the Events app to share information about important events and dates relating to your community.
Conducting community surveys
Create a survey that allows community members to give useful feedback on any subject. When the survey completes, you can analyze the responses to get an idea of what users think.
Accessing SharePoint documents
After you have added the Microsoft SharePoint app to your community, you can access SharePoint documents for a full description of SharePoint features.
Blogs
Forums
Share information, brainstorm ideas, and discuss topics of mutual interest.
Wikis
Create and collaborate on content in wikis.
Bookmarks
Collect and organize bookmarks to Web sites.
Working with community files
Upload, share, and work with community files using the Files app.
Sharing files with your community
Share files from the Files app with members of your community. You can also upload files to a community from your local file system.
Sharing folders with your community
Share folders from the Files app with members of your community.
Downloading files shared with a community
Download files that you have uploaded to a community so that you can continue working on them locally.
Viewing files shared with a community
Browse through and view files that you have uploaded to a community so that you can comment on the contents.
Managing community files
Use the Files app to work with the files that members have uploaded and shared with your community.
Managing community folders
Create community folders and use them to organize files.
Managing deleted files
When trash functionality is enabled for Communities, community owners can manage deleted community files by restoring them to the community or by permanently deleting them from the system.
Managing access to community files
Manage access to the files that you and other members add to your community.
Related tasks
Working with community apps
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