Hi,
We are using the Connections app on devices managed by MobileIron using Android Enterprise (work-profile). Is there a way to enable the scheme HCLSCP on Android Enterprise? We would like to use this for links in Connections news-letters. If we configure the Open in Mobile links to always start with hclscp:// the link should open the requested URL in the Android Connections app (as it already does on iOS).
Regards,
Almar
Hi Almar,
the hclscp:// custom scheme should be already active after you have installed Connections mobile app.
You could test it in a browser by creating a simple HTML page which includes a hclscp:// link (e.g.
hclscp://com.hcl.connections/launch)
Regarding the "Open in mobile" link, its configuration is documented at https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/admin/admin/t_admin_notifications_include_mobile_links.html
However, this configuration is not using direct hclscp:// links, but a redirect via mobile browser. I am using a special customization to add direct
hclscp://com.hcl.connections/launchconnectionslink?url=<encoded_desktop_url>links. Anyway, recently I had to learn that custom links are not working in all applications. In concrete case, we use Outlook mobile app, and hclscp:// links in the notification mail are not recognized. In Apple Mail it is still working. Not sure how the situation is on Android and the specific mail app you are using.
Greetings
Maik
Thanks for the quick reply Maik! The encoding of the url was the part that was missing.
I have tested the hclscp:// in an email using the Verse client, this works OK. We will go ahead and try to configure the newsletters to include a hclscp:// url.
If now we only had a way to automatically add a hclscp:// url whenever a user sends a link from Connections to another user.
Regards,
Almar