VNCchannels

VNCchannels is the place where an organization writes down what it knows. It combines two things that are usually split across tools: the team room, where a group discusses in real time, and the knowledge hub, where the outcome is kept as a structured, findable record.

The unit of content is the topic: an article, a decision, an announcement or a status update, published into a channel and discussed in place. Topics carry comments, files, tags and links to related items, so a decision does not get lost in a chat log.

What it delivers

Discussion and record in one place. A team talks in the channel and the result becomes a topic that stays findable — no separate wiki to maintain.
Structure that survives growth. Channels, subchannels, topics and tags give a large organization a navigable shape instead of an endless feed.
Knowledge that can be searched and questioned. Full-text search and a knowledge graph show what links to what; the assistant answers from a channel’s own content and cites its sources.
Sovereign operation. Content, search index and AI grounding run in your perimeter.

Main capabilities

Capability	What it gives you
Channels	Public, private or subscribed collections of topics — with subchannels for a large subject area.
Topics	An article, decision, announcement or status update, with a stable address and history.
Comments and reactions	Discuss and acknowledge in place, without losing the record.
Polls	Collect a decision from a channel quickly.
Templates	Start a recurring kind of topic from a saved structure.
Related items and tags	Connect topics to each other and group them by subject.
Attachments and video	Add documents to a topic; add videos with transcripts.
Expiry	Schedule a topic to expire when it is only relevant for a period.
Search and knowledge graph	Find a topic and see what links to it.
Trending	See what the organization is currently reading.
Channel assistant	Answers from that channel’s topics and comments, with sources; proposes actions you confirm.
Mentions and notification center	Pull a colleague in, and catch up on what you missed.
Web and mobile, online and offline	Write and read on the device at hand, with a queued replay on reconnect.

Typical use

Decisions. A team discusses an option in a channel and publishes the outcome as a decision topic with the rationale, so it is citable later.
Announcements. An announcement channel carries read-only messages that reach a whole department.
Project knowledge. A project channel holds specifications, meeting notes and links; the assistant answers “what did we decide about X” from that channel.
Onboarding. A newcomer reads a channel’s topics in order instead of asking a colleague to repeat the history.

How it fits the suite

VNCchat is for the conversation; VNCchannels is for the record. When a chat produces something worth keeping, it becomes a topic.
VNCcontacts and VNCdirectory supply people, teams and access.
VNCai provides the assistant and the grounding behind it.
VNCfiles holds attachments as managed files.
VNCfluid shows a channel’s topics as a portlet.

Roles

Role	What they do
Reader	Browse channels and topics, comment, search.
Author	Publish topics, attach files, start polls, use templates.
Channel owner	Create and structure channels, manage members and expiry.
Administrator	Provision the product, set retention and AI policy.