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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.
Owners - manage your community effectively
Give your community and its members the tools they need to collaborate.
Keeping your apps up-to-date
Keep your apps up-to-date so they're relevant to the community:
Adding forums to get the discussion going
You can add more forums to your community to organize discussions around different focus areas. You cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.

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.
  - 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.
    - Keeping your apps up-to-date
      Keep your apps up-to-date so they're relevant to the community:
      - Adding apps to increase capabilities
        Add apps to your Community so that members can benefit from them.
      - Communities apps
      - Adding forums to get the discussion going
        You can add more forums to your community to organize discussions around different focus areas. You cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.
      - Organizing content in community files
        Mange your community's files using the Files app.
      - Highlighting content in 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. You can also use the Gallery app to display and work with thumbnails in a Library folder in the Community Overview page.
      - Keeping your community activities up-to-date
        After you add the Activities app to your community, you can edit activity details.
      - Sharing information in a community blog
        Use the blog app to share information with community members in an efficient, dynamic way.
      - Getting ideas flowing with an ideation blog
      - Measuring business value with metrics
        Metrics provide quantitative and qualitative metrics in the form of reports to help you measure the business value of HCL Connections™ in your organization.
      - Managing documents in libraries
        The library management tasks that you can perform depend on whether you are working with a community library or a linked library.
      - Creating a custom page with a Highlights app
        Use a Highlights app to create a page where you can aggregate content from a variety of sources.
- 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.

Adding forums to get the discussion going

You can add more forums to your community to organize discussions around different focus areas. You cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.

Before you begin

Forums added to public communities are available from the Public Forums page in the Forums app.

About this task

Adding multiple forums to a community provides your members with dedicated discussion areas where they can ask questions and discuss relevant topics.

Procedure

To add a forum to your community, complete the following steps.

Select Forums on the community's Overview page, and then click the Forums tab.
Click Start a Forum.
Enter a name for the forum, add some tags and a description and click Save.

Results

Community members can start to post topics and questions in the forum.

What to do next

You can perform the following actions directly from the community:

Start a forum topic by clicking Start a Topic and completing the form that is displayed.
Click a topic title in the Forums app to open it. This app lists the five most recent topic updates.
Access a full list of forum topics for the community by clicking View All.

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