Challenge Accepted!
That's the response I got from my HCL Nomad development team when I asked them to break away from the normal mode of operation and think outside the box. Quite literally outside of the browser sandbox.
HCL Nomad runs in a browser and these days, for good reason, browsers are secure sandboxes that don't allow you to interact with your desktop too much. They are quite restrictive in what access you get to the underlying operating system and file system. But when your business application that has been happily running in HCL Notes for the past X years and working with Office tools like Microsoft Word or Excel, it's a bit of a bind that moving to a browser based client does not allow you that same level of interaction.
Jump to today and we are very proud to announce the availability of a Chrome/Edge browser extension that now enables HCL Nomad apps to use COM to interact with any application that will accept a COM request.
It's available from our download portal now, so please try it out.
Download from here
Note: This is BETA, so please send your feedback to the email address on the documentation page.
Being able to break out of the browser sandbox is a true achievement and will allow more customers than ever to appreciate the freedom that HCL Nomad can bring to your users.
Go Team! 📣
Tim, you say it' sin BETA, but your download link points to 1.0.12 IF1. According to Nomad Web, I'm running "HCL Nomad version: 1.0.12.43-35". I think that's IF1, but it should tell me that right because "43-35" is not very helpful.
Sample code snippets would be really helpful in order to try this out.
Can NotesStream be used to export a CSV file? I'm getting "Path not found" trying to create one on a local C:\ drive.
Can Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application") be used to create and either read from or export to an Excel worksheet? I'm getting "Cannot create automation object".