Exploring New Horizons with HCL Nomad

Nomad [noh-mad]

Noun

1. a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
2. any wanderer; itinerant¹.

HCL Nomad for web browsers as a product is the embodiment of exactly those ideas; no permanent abode, often following a traditional route.

Let’s explore those two attributes.

1. You might consider that since Nomad has nothing to install on your desktop it has no permanent abode, but instead resides in your web browser.
2. Often, but not always, following traditional routes. Even nomadic tribes sometimes must strike out on a new path to discover fresh grazing land or food sources. Similarly, with HCL Nomad, we often follow a path that HCL Notes has charted before, but not always.

Explore New Nomad Functionality

In the latest versions of HCL Nomad for web browsers, you'll find that we've been heading in a new direction along a previously uncharted trail. You could say we are looking for fresh grazing land in the form of creating linkage to other applications using the Component Object Model (COM). We've developed a browser extension that links your LotusScript agents to any desktop-installed application that accepts COM communication, such as LibreOffice and Microsoft Office.

Following that, in the update to Nomad 1.0.13, there is new beta functionality that enables you to connect to the native file system. This allows you to create files in the operating system file system, open them in any COM-capable application, make changes to them, and then read them back into your Nomad application. Did I hear someone ask for ‘round-tripping’? Yes, we were listening.

That’s Not All We’ve Done

Along with that, we’ve also been working hard on addressing numerous accessibility issues in preparation for the activation of European Union legislation for software accessibility in mid-2025.

Discover an array of exciting new features in Nomad Web v1.0.12

• Nomad Designer Preview.
• Log in using Domino HTTP as an OIDC Provider.
• New Workspace.​
• Drag and Drop​.
• Additional Fonts.
• Log in as a different user.
• Domino Restyle updates:
  • Subforms are now a separate option.
  • The restyle dialog now displays the name and date/time of the most recent restyle (if any).
  • Keeping applications restyled:
    • When editing an application that has been restyled, adding new forms, table style views, or framesets create them with restyled properties.
    • When adding buttons, sections, or tables to a form (or page or subform) to a restyled application, they are added as if they are already restyled.
  • General Modernization updates:
    • The default icon is now the current Notes icon, when creating a new, blank database.
    • A new option Create Custom is now available when creating a new application. It creates a new database with a standard frameset and outline as well as a default view. The user can set the theme for the application and design their own icon. As this new application is considered restyled, new elements added to the application apply restyle styling in most instances. Find additional information here:
      https://help.hcl-software.com/nomad/1.0_web/restyle_custom_application_builder.html.

And in Nomad Web v1.0.13

• Single executable for Nomad server on Domino to make it easier to download.
• SAML configuration for Nomad server on Domino now needs to be in idpcat.nsf.
• Retrieve the Notes ID using Domino HTTP as an OIDC provider.
• Drag and Drop functionality, not just for Chrome & Edge.
• Modernization updates
  • Restyle: Import restyle settings feature.
  • Custom Application Builder – more features.
• Nomad Design support for a new Formula Function (@ScanBarcode).

Nomad continues to be an important HCL Domino component to liberate your workforce from the Notes desktop client and run your Notes applications in a standard web browser on virtually any device. Give your work teams greater flexibility and enable them to access their apps wherever they like.

For more details on these and other releases, you can always catch up with the latest news at our support website.

Source

¹https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nomad#american-nomad-noun