Just before Lotusphere, someone commented on one of my previous blog entries that talked about some of the capabilities of Lotus Connections in the BlackBerry. Unfortunately, with all the excitement around the new features in Lotus Connections v2.5 and getting that blog post ready, I just didn't have time to read that comment until late last week.
After the Birds of a Feather session that I helped deliver last Monday, a business partner stopped me and showed me some of the stuff that they had developed. Basically, it was an enhanced version of the BlackBery Client for Lotus Connections.
The application is available today for FREE. I'm actually pretty excited to see how more and more business partners keep building solutions for Lotus Connections (especially when they are free!!). It has already been tested and known to work with some of the extranet Connections sites such as BleedYellow, Greenhouse, BlueExtend, and LS09.info. One of the cool things about this application is that you can actually configure multiple Lotus Connections environments and are not tied to just 1 environment.
Here are some screenshots for your viewing pleasure:
Are you ready to start blogging from your BlackBerry ? 
For those of you IBMers reading this, I couldn't get this working internally, but if you do, let me know!
Enjoy!
Same Here Luis, tried with LC TAP.. would need to have the option all "sub-sites" to main LC App..
ReplyDeleteCool stuff right? This is made by some of my collegues. I hope you like it!
ReplyDeleteFor all those people trying to connect to LC TAP. Unfortunately this server is not available from the 'outside' without VPN.
ReplyDeleteThe application on the BlackBerry connects to our hosted ContentMobilizer Server which is located outside the IBM network.
The solution would be to run the ContentMobilizer Server in the IBM network, or make LC TAP available without VPN.
@Ronald, ah that makes sense..! I didn't know the requests were going through the ContentMobilizer Server. Thanks for letting me know!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Luis, thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteIs that integration unique to Blackberry or is there a mobile version for other devices, such as Nokia Symbian?
Hi Dvir,
ReplyDeleteThere's work right now on building a mobile interface for mobile browsers (e.g. iPhone). For example like this one: mobile theme.
FWIW, I got this working with an external Connections server (mine) in a matter of 3 minutes! e-office guys are good...
ReplyDeleteWhile this did not work with the TAP servers, it does work on the IBM external if you use https://www.ibm.com as the server name along with LTPA authentication.
ReplyDeleteOne to keep a check on.