What’s new with HCL
Leap and Domino Leap

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Introduction& Agenda

What’s New with Leap?
• Leap introduction• What’s new• What’s next
• SummaryMarty Lechleider
Product Management
Director, HCL Software.

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Leap is for Citizen Developers• Let's business user innovate
and improve efficiency –without IT assistance• Build web forms, workflows,
report and analyze data
• Easy and safe to deploy - ITstays in control withgovernance and transparency.

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Business users can create apps in minutes
Customize Your App Design from Blank Canvas
Design your app with an intuitive drag-and-drop
interface anyone can use

Create an app from:• A blank canvas• Spreadsheets• An existing Leap app - i.e., template.

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Easy to set field validation
Validation pattern for text fields

Setting ranges for date fields

Setting ranges for numeric fields

Set bounds for select many fields‘Required’ setting on all fields.

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Add rules to make forms dynamic§

Make the user
experience dynamic§Specify rules to:§

Show/hide§

Enable/disable§

Require/not
require parts ofyour form.

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Design apps that automatically work on any device or site

Dynamic Width
Form page
width adjuststo the widthof window,
portalcolumn,
iframe ordevice

Dynamic Layout
Form layout
collapses to
one column
based onbreakpoints
selected

Dynamic Rules
Rules set todeterminewhen toshow andhide
elements.

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Add workflows• Move from emailing spreadsheets toan automated process• Add workflow stages, assignments
and notifications to automate
approvals or steps in the process• Lookup reporting relationships andadd dynamic assignments• Determine workflow decisions andbranching• Send reminder notifications and past
due notices• Govern access and permissions basedon what workflow stage thedocument is in.

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Empowering Citizen Developers
While Maintaining IT GovernanceControls

Visibility

Added Value

How data is managed
How users authenticate
Whether to allow anonymous and external use
Safeguards against malicious code, file types, sizes, etc.
Limits on activities that might degrade performance
Who can build and use apps

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Number of apps built
Who is building apps
What apps are being used
How often are they used
When was an app last updated
Who has admin rights to the app
How many records
How many file attachments••••

Custom themes
Custom templates
Custom widgets
Controlled access to external data.

Provide a safe, governed
environment for all users

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Leap Success Stories• Wanted to digitize manual processes to remove
business inefficiencies• Goal to cut IT backlog by empowering employees• 2,000+ apps created and growing to improve business
workflow processes• Results: Reducing IT backlog requests andstrengthening employee sense of ownership.

“Within months, the system had taken
off with dozens of applications
springing up across the enterprise.”—Ralf Schliepat
Senior Consultant at Lufthansa

https://www.hcltechsw.com/resources/stories/lufthansa.

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Leap runs on...

DominoWebSpherepedtearecKubernetes

Domino does it all.

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Leap and Domino Leap
• Same code running on different platforms• 98% + the same UI and functionality• Same APIs for Data Access, JavaScript, App Management, etc..
• Some differences between them• Domino Services in Domino Leap
• Tagging on the Manage Page in Leap
• Reminder notifications in Domino Leap

• Efforts to pull the release cycles for Leap and Domino Leap together.

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Leap is included with Volt MX and MX Go
No longer sold standalone• One offering for citizen andprofessional developers• Volt MX Go customer canuse either Leap or DominoLeap• Leap will become more
integrated into MX over timeLeap

citizen dev IDE

Iris

pro code IDE

Foundry

middleware
services.

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Domino Leap continues to be sold as an add-on to Domino• Domino 14 will include alimited entitlement to Domino
Leap – 2 apps

Domino.

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What’s new?

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Leap in (Open Liberty) Container with Helm Chart
Leap 9.3.2 - April

Deploy Leap via Kubernetes• Modern cloud native
deployment• Deploy to Azure, AWS orGCP• Or deploy to Kubernetes
on premImage
helm install....

ContainerChart• Get out of the businessof managing WebSphere.

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PostgreSQL Support

Leap 9.3.3 - August 2023

• Open-source database
option• PostgreSQL options withall major cloud vendors

Container

Support for:• Can also run on prem• Works with Leap
container or traditional
WebSphere deployment.

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Domino Rich Text Integration Improvement
Domino Leap 1.1.1 – May 2023

Attachments stay in context in Domino Rich Text round tripping
Domino Rich Text in Leap

Domino Rich Text in Notes Client.

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Admin Dashboard

Leap 9.3.3 – August 2023, and Domino Leap 1.1.2 – August 2023
Visibility into number of apps, users, etc.
Can export statistics to xls or REST•

Number of apps built•Who is building apps•

What apps are being used•

How often are they used•

When was an app lastupdated•

Who has admin rights
to the app•

How many records•

How many fileattachments.

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Leap Custom Widget APILeap 9.3.3 and Domino Leap 1.1.2 – August 2023
• Add your custom Web Components to Leap and Domino Leap
• Gain consistency with the rest of your digital properties• Add new functionality• Components can include any HTML, CSS & JS
• Your Web Components become Widgets in Leap
• Display Widgets and Data Widgets• Data Widget create fields, show in View Data
• Use with Rules• Set properties• Have events• Use with services.

• etc.

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Add new behaviors, looks, functionality to Leap
Custom Widgets work like native Leap Widgets
WYSIWYG

CustomWidgets
on thePaletteSet
Properties& Events.

Data Widgets create
data fields

ApplyRules.

Custom Widget API – How It Works
Registering the Widget with Leap

Your Custom
Web Components
Component 1
JavaScript files
CSS files
Component 2
JavaScript files
CSS files

Entries in VoltConfig.nsf orLeap_config.properties file to definethem as runtime resources
runtimeResources.1 =<link><link><link><script><script><script>.

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Custom Widget API Doc.

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In-Line CSS on the Style Tab

Leap 9.3.3 – August 2023, and Domino Leap 1.1.2 – August 2023.

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Application Notes

Leap 9.3.3 – August 2023, and Domino Leap 1.1.2 – August 2023.

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What’s next?

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Leap Web UI for Admin Config• Web UI vs config
file• Set controls /limits• Access to log
information.

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Leap integration with Foundry
Leap and Foundry working together
IT defines integration
services

AuthBusiness user creates or uses
app with Foundry service

Foundry Token

Integration Servicein Foundry
consumed in Leap

• Customer Data
• Product Data
• Organization Data

Securecommunication
via internet• Leap App 1• Leap App 2• etc• etc...

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Leap Admin defines services via URL for the catalog• Admin can create service
definitions via URL and have themappear in the Leap service catalog• Create once – use by many
• Admin sets service authorization• Who can see and use different
services in the catalog.

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Leap on Cloud• Targeted at Volt MX customers who want HCL to hosttheir Leap entitlement• Fully managed single tenant Leap instance• Open ID Connect for SSO• 99.95% SLA• Based on Leap 9.3.5• Kubernetes and PostgreSQL automated provisioning• Foundry identity integration option.

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Leap Cadence – Release Approx.
Every 12 Weeks

Leap

DLeap

November 2, 2023

December 7, 2023

February 8, 2024

February 29, 2024

May 2, 2024

May 23, 2024

July 25, 2024

August 15, 2024

October 17, 2024

November 7, 2024

January 23, 2025

February 13, 2025

9.4 and 1.1.3• Improve to how we handle secrets with K8 deployment• Bug fixes• Workflow UI improvements.

In the queue• Admin web-based configuration• Admin – from URL• Foundry integration• Send email service• Leap on cloud• App from spreadsheet improvements• Reminders – Leap
• Multiple attachments• Updated manage page
• Updated themes• Full text search - including attachments• Accessibility fixes• Team authoring• CMS integration• Versioning.

Summary• Leap is for Citizen Developers• Leap and Volt MX• Domino Rich Text Integration• New Leap Deployment Options• New Admin Dashboard• New Custom Widgets• Other Nice New Things.

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Resources.

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