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Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
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.
Getting started with sync
Use file sync to keep local files in your My Drive folder in sync with copies of those files on the server.
Adding a file or folder to My Drive
Add a file or folder from your desktop to your My Drive folder so updates made to the content are applied automatically.

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.
  - Managing HCL Connections files from Windows Explorer
    Manage your Connections files from Windows™ Explorer.
  - Uploading and sharing files
    Add files to the Files application so that you can store them or share them with others.
  - Editing properties for a file or folder
    You can pin, follow, or recommend a file or folder from the properties panel.
  - Publishing local drafts
    Publish updates to your files from Explorer or from the Drafts monitor.
  - Getting started with sync
    Use file sync to keep local files in your My Drive folder in sync with copies of those files on the server.
    - Scenario: Collaborating on a document using automatic sync
      Nancy Smith is a project manager for Greenwell, a fast-growing corporate event planning service. She creates a customer proposal that multiple people, including people outside of Greenwell, must access and edit. Some people are working from a laptop, others are working on the same file locally from their desktop system. Sync is used by the people who work offline. The automated file sync eliminates the stress of having to download the latest version of the file.
    - Adding a file or folder to My Drive
      Add a file or folder from your desktop to your My Drive folder so updates made to the content are applied automatically.
    - Suspending or stopping sync
      You can suspend sync temporarily, turn off syncing for My Drive, or disconnect from a site altogether.
    - Viewing and resolving sync issues
      When sync issues arise between files in your local folder and files on the server, you can resolve the issues from the Sync issues dialog.
    - Managing versions for synced files
      Understand how versions are created. View and retrieve earlier versions of a file.
    - Managing synced files from the Files application
      When file sync is enabled for your Connections deployment, you can view and manage files that you added locally to your My Drive folder from the My Drive folder in the Files application. Or, you can add files from the Files application to My Drive and be able to access them from your local My Drive folder.
  - Working with libraries
    Libraries support the FileNet Document Management capabilities to provide community members document management capabilities to upload, manage, organize, and collaborate on community files. A community can contain multiple libraries.
- 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.
- 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.

Adding a file or folder to My Drive

Add a file or folder from your desktop to your My Drive folder so updates made to the content are applied automatically.

About this task

When you add a file from your desktop to your local My Drive folder, a copy is made on the corresponding server. The files are synced so that changes made to one copy of the file are also made to the other. If you add a folder, all content in the folder is automatically synced.

Note: Syncing is designed for content that you own, or for personal or community files that are shared with you, so the Add to My Drive option is not available for community-owned files (that is, files that are uploaded directly to a community rather than shared with a community) or library files in a community.

Procedure

Drag and drop a file or folder into your local My Drive folder.
Save a file to your My Drive folder from a desktop application.
To begin syncing a file after it has already been added to HCL Connections:
1. Navigate to a file you uploaded to HCL Connections. You can find these files in Windows Explorer under the navigation section for HCL Connections.
2. Right-click a file and choose Add to My Drive or drag a file into your My Drive folder.
  
  Important: Although the Add to My Drive menu option is not available for community-owned files, you are able to drag a community or community library file into your My Drive folder. Note that this creates a copy of the file. Changes made to the community file are not synched to the personal copy in your My Drive folder. Changes you make locally are synched.

Results

All files in the My Drive folder stay in sync when changes are made elsewhere.

What to do next

To stop syncing a file, for example, when you do not want changes that you make to a local file copied to the server copy, right-click a file and choose Remove from My Drive. The file is removed from the local sync folder but the local file and the server files are preserved. Note that if a file exists in more than one place in My Drive, for example if you added the file then added a folder containing the file, you must remove all instances of the file to stop syncing.

To suspend file sync and delete the server copy, right-click a file in your sync folder and choose HCL Connections > Delete from Server.