Almost unnoticed: Connections plugins for HCL Notes on Mac are back!

Almost unnoticed: Connections plugins for HCL Notes on Mac are back!

As promised, HCL released new versions for the entire Collaboration Suite acquired from IBM at the end of December 2019. Domino/Notes V11, Sametime V11 and Connections 6.5 have been available since the end of last year and Notes 11 has so far proven to be very stable. Everyone we gave a look at Notes 11 was positively surprised.

Almost overlooked in all the new releases is that finally the Connections plugins for HCL Notes have been updated, also for macOS. Since 2018 the plugins have not worked reliably on Mac. Why these important, integrative functionalities were not paid attention to anymore, remained unclear to me. Depending on the operation which was executed using files functions, Notes froze and had to be killed and restarted. Finally, the plugins could not be installed anymore on macOS Mojave.

File Sharing with Connections Plugin from Notes

Since last December this is fixed! The plugins are working fine again. See HCL Master Andreas Pontes Blog for download instructions . Files can be split directly from emails back into connections and links to files can be created and sent directly in emails with drag&drop as before.

Access rights can again be set and viewed directly from Notes. Activities and status updates also work with the new plugins with Notes 11 and Notes 10. Status updates can also be posted directly from the macOS Finder status bar. The integration is back also for this.

Posting status updates from macOS

If access to Activities from HCL Notes was still an obstacle for switching to Notes 11, this obstacle falls away. The latest versions have made the integration of all collaboration components standard again. Nice work by HCL.