Using HCL Verse Mobile

You can bring many of the capabilities of HCL Verse – See Important People, manage tasks that Need Action, and act quickly on top items – to your Android or iOS device.

HCL Verse Mobile delivers intelligent, custom applications for both iOS and Android devices, specifically tailored for optimal usage.

For Apple iOS, the HCL Verse app is available from the Apple iTunes AppStore (one app for both device types: iPhone and iPad). HCL Notes Traveler continues to be available to sync to the built-in mail, calendar, and contact applications, and HCL Notes Traveler and the Verse app may co-exist on your iOS device.

For Android users, the HCL Verse app is available on Google Play (one app for both phone and tablet). An important note for our Android users: The HCL Verse app for Android replaces the previous HCL Notes Traveler app for Android. The previous Traveler app is no longer available in Google Play. The new Verse app connects to on-premise HCL Traveler servers with no changes required. Your administrator is encouraged to always have your organization's HCL Traveler server at the latest maintenance level. For new Verse features not yet available with on-premise HCL Traveler, these are silently and seamlessly removed from the app experience.
Note: HCL Verse app for both Android and iOS is also available on the HCL Software License and Download Portal.

To use HCL Verse mobile, you must have access to an HCL Traveler server that has access to your mail file.

Users can access Verse features as decribed in the following tables:

Table 1. HCL Verse features for Android devices
Feature Support specifics

Device support

Android tablets and phones

Security

  • HCL Traveler security settings
    • Traveler security settings
    • Require device password
    • Require application password
    • Disable local password storage
    • Prohibit copy to clipboard
    • Prohibit export of attachments to file system
    • Prohibit download of attachments
    • Allow only approved applications to access attachments
    • Prohibit camera (OS 4+ only)
    • Require external mail domain validation
    • Prohibit export of calendar to OS
    • Prohibit export of contacts to OS
    • Prohibit devices incapable of security enablement
    • Prohibit use of untrusted certificates
  • Note: When using authentication systems that do not require a password to be entered into HCL Verse, such as Certificate Based Authentication, SAML2 or TOTP, the Require application password and Disable local password storage features cannot be enforced and are not supported by the HCL Verse Android application.

Push

  • Push sync
    • Always connected
    • Google Cloud Messaging
    • Scheduled sync
  • Push notifications of new mail and calendar notices when the app is not running.

People pictures

People pictures are displayed based on the following hierarchy: Local device, Notes, Connections Profile, automatically generated initials for Latin characters from the contacts display name or email address and finally if none of the others are available, then a default Avatar picture will be displayed.

Mail

  • Mark mail messages as Needs Action and Waiting For
  • Swipe actions on individual messages (trash, Needs Action, and more...)
  • Swipe actions on calendar events (Accept, Decline)
  • Compose messages
    • Type ahead search for local contacts and directory
    • Add attachments to messages
    • Mark messages as high importance
    • Digitally sign message
    • Domino encryption for messages
    • Prevent copying of message replies
  • Mail view
    • Inline images
    • Attachments
    • Actions
      • Move to Trash
      • Move to folder
      • Reply
      • Reply all
      • Forward
  • Mail settings
    • Days to sync (1 day, 3 days, 5 days, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, All)
    • Preview for Inbox, on and off
    • Truncate mail (1kb, 2kb, 5kb, 10kb, 50kb, 100kb, Off)
    • Inline attachment limits (5kb, 25kb, 100kb, 500kb)
    • Attachment limits (25kb, 100kb, 500kb, 2mb, 10mb)
    • Signature
    • Always Bcc myself
    • Show remote images
    • Show conversations
  • Folders
    • Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash
    • Personal folders
    • Move messages to folders
    • Create folders and subfolders
    • Rename folders
    • Delete folders
    • Subscribe/unsubscribe folders

Calendar

  • Day, Week, Month and Agenda views
  • Quick jump to Today
  • Calendar Inbox for unprocessed events
  • Event details
    • Accept meeting, tentatively accept meeting, decline meeting
    • Attendee status
    • Dial a call-in number
    • Join a Connections meeting
  • Create a new event
    • Single event
    • Repeating event
  • Reschedule and modify events
  • Show device calendar events
  • Export calendar events to OS
  • Out of Office

To Do

  • View by...
    • All
    • Due Today
    • Overdue
    • Lists
    • Due Date
    • Priority
    • Completed

    Mark complete in list

Widgets

  • Today widget
  • Mail widget for any folder
  • Calendar widget
  • To Do widget for any type
Note: As of November 2020, Google has removed several Device Admin APIs required to support the Device Security features listed above on Android 10 and higher devices. Please see this KB article for more details on the limitations.
Table 2. HCL Verse features for iOS devices
Feature Support specifics

Device support

iPhone and iPad

Security

  • MaaS360
    • Application passcode
    • Custom configuration
    • Data sharing controls
      • Restrict clipboard export
      • Restrict file export
    • Application data wipe and access blocking
  • MobileIron
    • Application passcode
    • Custom configuration
    • Data sharing controls
      • Restrict clipboard export
      • Restrict file export
    • Application data wipe and access blocking
  • AppConfig support

    For more information, refer to the following article.

Push

  • Push sync whenever the app is opened, and whenever the server pushes new data to the app.
  • Push notifications of new mail and calendar notices when the app is not running.

People pictures

People pictures are displayed based on the following hierarchy: Local device, Notes, Connections Profile, and Avatar pictures.

Mail

  • Mark mail messages as Needs Action and Waiting For
  • Swipe actions on individual messages (trash, Needs Action, and more...)
  • Swipe actions on calendar events (Accept, Decline)
  • Compose messages
    • Type ahead search for local contacts and directory
    • Add attachments to messages
    • Mark messages as high importance
    • Digitally sign message
    • Domino encryption for messages
    • Prevent copying of message replies
  • Mail view
    • Inline images
    • Attachments
    • Actions
      • Move to Trash
      • Move to folder
      • Reply
      • Reply all
      • Forward
      • Quick reply
  • Mail settings
    • Days to sync (1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, Unlimited)
    • Preview lines for inbox (0, 1, 2, 3)
    • Attachment download (25kb, 100kb, 500kb, 2mb, 10mb)
    • Load remote images
    • Organize by thread
    • Signature
    • Always Bcc myself
  • Threaded conversations
  • Folders
    • Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash
    • Personal folders
    • Collapsed and nested views
    • Move messages to folders
    • Create folders and subfolders
    • Rename folders
    • Delete folders
    • Subscribe/unsubscribe folders

Calendar

  • Day, Agenda views navigated by month, week, day
  • Week view on iPad
  • Month view on iPad
  • View expands up and down
  • Red line directs view to current time
  • Quick jump to Today
  • Calendar Inbox for unprocessed events
  • Event details
    • Accept meeting, tentatively accept meeting, decline meeting
    • Attendee status
    • Dial a call-in number
  • Create a new event
    • Single event
    • Repeating event
  • Reschedule and modify events
  • Out of Office