HCL Domino Ideas Portal

Welcome to the #dominoforever Product Ideas Forum! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Use UTF-8 to encode the notes.ini file.

    The encode of notes.ini file is "ANSI", which can cause garbling of $NotesStartTime, then Traditional Chinese Notes client failing to start when the OS Region format is set to Traditional Chinese (Taiwan). For example: $NotesStartTime=2026/03/11 上...
    26 days ago in Notes 0 Needs Review

    Support for DNS-PERSIST-01 ACME challenges

    A new DNS-based ACME challenge for SSL certificates is currently in draft: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html This allows the renewal of SSL certificates for servers that are not exposed to the public internet, without having t...
    about 2 months ago in Domino / Administration 1 Needs Review

    HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes - Save Embedded Image(s) to Connections Files

    Dear Team, Currently, in the HCL Notes Client (with the HCL Connections Plug-in installed), users can save standard email attachments directly to the Connections Files application using the following workflow: Select the attachment Right-click...
    about 1 month ago in Notes 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to Detect and Enforce Message Encryption in Verse API "Modify On Send" Extension

    Provide the ability for the Verse API "Modify On Send" extension to: Detect whether message encryption is enabled before sending. Allow the extension to enforce encryption before the message is sent. Example : If the user selects an option i...
    about 1 month ago in Verse / Verse on Premises 0 In Development

    Show the field name, in the field properties dialog

    When editing any document in the Notes client, press alt-enter to open the field properties of the field that has focus. The field properties show the field type, but not the name. The name is useful for end-users, when making field specific full-...
    7 months ago in Notes 0 Future Consideration

    Allow DirSync against other LDAP sources

    By now it´s only possible to run the DirSync task against an Active Directory. Some customers use e.g. an OpenLDAP server for authentication and storing the information. So it would be great to be able to configure Domino DirSync for syncing infor...
    6 months ago in Domino / Administration 0 Needs Review

    VOP - Double click to open mail in new tab/window

    If you want to open mails in a new tab/window, you need to click on the arrow button at the upper right of the previewed mail. Please allow a double click on the mail inside the view to open in new tab/window. There was already an idea which has b...
    3 months ago in Verse / Verse on Premises 0 Future Consideration

    Add SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN support to Domino Windows Service

    When shutting down the Domino service Windows gives Domino sufficient time to shutdown. But on a reboot or shutdown the default shutdown implementation of services only give a couple of seconds notice to shutdown. To ensure Domino is always stoppe...
    over 1 year ago in Domino / General 6 Assessment

    wider support for passthru html and css

    only basic formatting is supported for html via attributes e.g. tables border=1, but css is largely not supported, a simple <td style="width:100px"> is not supported. also I can not find ANY proper overview which passthru is supported, can y...
    4 months ago in Domino Designer 1 Needs Review

    Tika image support + Make Tika available from Lotus Script

    Add image OCR support to Tika and make Tika functionality available from Lotus Script to get text data from all type of attachments (existing and images). https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract is part of the full Tika package and Tika automat...
    10 months ago in Domino / General 0 Needs Review
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