After realising that a lot of people are ill-informed about Lotus Notes / Domino and its capabilities, I have established this blog (built on Lotus Notes!). With your help, I aim to set the record straight. Please help me redress the balance by sharing your experiences of Lotus Notes and posting all things good about the product - how you use it, how it helps you and how it helps your organisation. Blog away!

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Ashutosh Sarangi wrote

on Tuesday 08 May, 2012 at 16:39:32 UTC

Hi all lotus geeks,
In this age of facebook we have now a group in facebook for pure lotus notes developers where they sharing their knowledge and get queries resolved. The query asked is eplied within 6 hours on average, as it reaches to all the developers across boundries via FB alert and mails, so everyone in the group is contributing. It will be good to see you soon out there. Join in the group called TEAM LOTUS.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/163546090364888/

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2012 Detroit Notes Professionals meeting: May 23 wrote

on Tuesday 08 May, 2012 at 16:19:37 UTC

Join Aktion Associates and IBM for the 2012 Spring Detroit Notes Professional (DNP) meeting:

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
8:30 am ?

detdominopros.org

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Dennis Brown wrote

on Tuesday 08 May, 2012 at 15:24:50 UTC

Dear Lotus lovers
Can you help me.
I am having to re-build my index on a daily basis.
The most recent example: yesterday I re-indexed my mail and to-dos because the view stated the databases were not indexed.
I used the index during the day.
This morning - once more the view stated the databases were not indexed. I deleted the index and pressed "create index". I have had to do this with increasing frequency over the past weeks.
Any suggestions?
I have about 7,700 documents and I am using about 25% of my quota.
I am running 8.5.1 Revision 20090929.1223

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Narender Mohan wrote

on Monday 07 May, 2012 at 10:09:09 UTC

Guys Join our Lotus Domino Admin Group @ Facebook , I m Sharing the link.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/137647949673680/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/137647949673680/

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Dave wrote

on Thursday 03 May, 2012 at 15:15:11 UTC

Lotus Notes & Domino is a platform worth our careers. Just noticed this new Android Domino Server sizing app. Thought to share with you guys.

There is one for Lotus Traveler, which I think even IBM cannot size at the moment :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lignitech.sizerdomino.mobile

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Ram wrote

on Tuesday 01 May, 2012 at 12:30:05 UTC

Hi there,

I have installed ubuntu 11.10 32bit on my office pc. my office used lotus client and domino server. can you pls guide me on how to install lotus client (where i can get the installation debs) and configure to connect to our domino server?

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Duncan wrote

on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 17:29:56 UTC

Agree - LN very powerful but misunderstood - even more so now the Web has taken over the world.

However it has strange quirks. Like I've just lost my customised toolbars after a machine crash because they are buried somewhere in bookmarks and I don't have developer rights to get at them to back them up. My IT team just recreated a fresh bookmarks db. Why can't Lotus/IBM make this *user-managed* feature accessible to the user! (Like smarticons were)

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Arturo J Garcia Jmz wrote

on Tuesday 24 April, 2012 at 00:43:36 UTC

Yes Lotus Domino / Lotus Notes, is a great software. I had been using since release 3.

Now I have a problem with 8.5.3 server, the databases are not been indexed, I just changed to support ODS:51.

But I can not make the database be indexed, Specially the mail databases.

Any sugestion?

this site is 100% notes

www.pipeway.com.mx

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Schnell Abnehemen wrote

on Saturday 21 April, 2012 at 22:22:17 UTC

In my opinion, Lotus Notes easy administration is still a key point for not migrating to anything else

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Debbie wrote

on Monday 02 April, 2012 at 18:50:21 UTC

What is best practice for the domino names.nsf file? Is it a good or bad idea to have a replica of the domino directory names.nsf on the server for users to pull down a replica? (Instead of using the main names.nsf) I am in a discussion with a colleague regarding if this is a risk to the domino domain by having 2 replicas of the names.nsf on the server. Would appreciate any comments or insight you would provide. We run Domino 8.5.2 Thanks!!

Thomas wrote

on Thursday 19 April, 2012 at 21:03:13 UTC

Hi Debbie,
a replica ID should always exist only one time per server, otherwise you may run into trouble because content wont be what you expect (in some situations). Better: Create a new "Directory Catalog" File>Application>New , choose the server as your template server, and select "Directory Catalog 8.5" (dircat5.ntf) from the extended templates. Its a small database intended to be replicated down to the users machine. Its much smaller than your Domino directory. You have to configure which source address books will be consolidated into this one, see the attached link for more information

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21093442

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Jason wrote

on Monday 02 April, 2012 at 13:42:27 UTC

I am looking for a way to uninstall any previous version of Lotus Notes (pre-8.5.3) so that I can install 8.5.3.
I know the uninstall string for 8.5.2, but is there a general way to uninstall via script for any previous version? Thank you.

Jason Hook wrote

on Wednesday 18 April, 2012 at 16:36:11 UTC

If you have access to Passport Advantage there is a utility called nice (Lotus Notes Install Cleanup Executable). According to the accompanying doc it works for 6.5, 7.0. 8.0, 8.5.

Hope that helps.

Ralph Boccalini wrote

on Tuesday 01 May, 2012 at 19:35:14 UTC

Used that too... nice tool!

http://twitter.com/ralphboccalini

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Pooja Gupta wrote

on Sunday 01 April, 2012 at 07:18:33 UTC

We need some XPages Freelancers. Please contact at pooja.gupta@attlogics.com

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Maria wrote

on Friday 30 March, 2012 at 21:24:30 UTC

Hi there,
I just happened on your blog -- we have similar challenges at our company -- users don't really understand Lotus Notes' power or potential.
Who can recommend any websites or videos that show the possibilities? Of interest would be web sites powered by Notes, and or marketing videos to show any cool features and benefits.
Thanks a lot.

Rob Kirkland wrote

on Monday 23 April, 2012 at 20:16:01 UTC

Check out the apps at openNTF.org. Lots of great apps there, free for the downloading.

http://openNTF.org

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Stephen DiBenedetto wrote

on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 16:24:28 UTC

I have a user who left the company months ago, and is returning. I have a backup ID file and her original e-mail but she was deleted from the Directory. Anyway to "reestablish" their identity?
Any help would be great!
Notes 8.5.2-Jr Notes Admin - overwhelemed but optimistic!

Polymorph wrote

on Friday 23 March, 2012 at 17:27:50 UTC

Unless you also have a backup of the NAB from which to restore her person doc, then your easiest approach is to:

* Create a new user account & ID file - making sure you select "none" for mail-system so as not to overwrite the existing mailfile.

* Modify the new person document back to "Notes" as the mailsystem and ensure the path matches the actual path of their mailfile.

This is assuming you've already restored the mailfile back to it's original location!

Cheers.

Eduardo wrote

on Wednesday 28 March, 2012 at 19:51:40 UTC

Don?

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Admin1 wrote

on Monday 19 March, 2012 at 19:22:18 UTC

Running Lotus Domino on iSeries. Only TWO budgeted full time Lotus Domino Adminstrators to support 16K users with various security requirements and regulations to meet ie HIPAA, PCI and others. A growing mobile device comminity using iOS , Android and Blackberries. No budget for clustering and still getting 99.999 uptime.

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Gregor Ibic wrote

on Thursday 08 March, 2012 at 12:19:00 UTC

Looking for integrated solution with Document Management, CRM, Project Management, Imaging, Invoicing, Process Automation and more ...
Check www.intelidoc.biz !

http://www.intelidoc.biz/index.html

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Markus Fieldman wrote

on Wednesday 07 March, 2012 at 15:44:54 UTC

Our business is "powered" by Lotus Notes - everything from appointments to e-mails (...and sametime!). Without it, we wouldn't have such an integrated system - long live LN!

http://www.lotusnotesforums.com

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Claire Saunders wrote

on Tuesday 06 March, 2012 at 09:08:21 UTC

Lotus Notes is amazing, we are a Notes specialist company!

We are running a course for Notes Developers on XPages on 26th March in Pretoria, South Africa. If anyone is interested please let me know. XPages is just increasing the abilities of Notes Databases. I have more info if you want. Thanks

www.mysolutions.co.za

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Alan Forbes wrote

on Tuesday 28 February, 2012 at 15:20:05 UTC

Just wanted to say how cool Lotus Traveler is on an iPad. I just got my first iPad, and I went to the Traveler URL for my company "hostname\servlets\traveler" and literally within 30 seconds the whole thing was configured and running perfectly.

How awesome is that?

http://www.rprwyatt.com/vitalsigns.html

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Parker Pearson, Donoma Software wrote

on Monday 27 February, 2012 at 20:25:58 UTC

Cool community!

Hi folks, we just recently found your group and it looks like a great forum to connect to folks developing for the Lotus Notes platform. Our team has just brought a new product to market that provides multi-directional voicemail/email message integration & synchronization for Lotus Notes users using Cisco's latest voice platform.

Once upon a time IBM developed this functionality for the old Cisco voice platform - then they transferred it to Cisco - who would rather we as a third party developer write the new one!

We occasionally run into odd development challenges, or want to get feedback. Would it be OK with this community to ask concessional development related "have you seen this??" type questions out here?

Glad to see a vibrant Notes community world-wide!

Parker Pearson
Donoma Software

http://donomasoftware.com/donoma-unify-for-lotus-notes/

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hello users.. wrote

on Tuesday 21 February, 2012 at 07:22:40 UTC

we are Premier IBM Business Partner working in Lotus Notes/Domino.

iVision Software offers the following services in Lotus Notes platform.

?

www.ivissoft.com

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Roe wrote

on Sunday 19 February, 2012 at 10:26:39 UTC

*Need help please*
My farther purchased a business 20 years ago. With that purchase he inherited a win xp box running lotus notes 4.6. This computers hard drive is on the way out. I have a backup of the notes folder and would like to run it on a more recent version of windows or convert it to a newer version of notes for windows 7. Basically Notes was used for invoicing, asset tracking, client tracking etc etc

Is there a way to convert it to a more recent version of notes to run on windows 7? or alternatively is there a way to convert this to a filemaker database?

Thanks,
Roe
roe@puru.com.au

Roe wrote

on Monday 20 February, 2012 at 22:42:53 UTC

All good I found a version 7 lotus notes that runs under win7. My database launches fine via this version and only have the one issue that i need to research. Sorry i'm a n00b when it comes to notes.

Cheers,
Roe.

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Michael Holleman wrote

on Friday 17 February, 2012 at 19:20:40 UTC

Hello,

I own a small firm that has had Lotus Notes for 10+ years. We currently do backups for Notes 8.5 by replicating to a second server and then shutting it down to make backups. (Our IT guy set this up.) I keep thinking that there has to be an easier way to backup and get all the files, since it is running 24 hours. Any advice?

Peter wrote

on Friday 24 February, 2012 at 02:57:38 UTC

What are you using to backup Notes? you can use a batch file to shutdown domino before the backup and to start it again when finished.
Acronis true image server and Shadow protect will make backups of running systems, I have not tested it but Previous versions on a windows server should also do backups for a few days or weeks depending on your setup.

Fletcher Evans wrote

on Monday 27 February, 2012 at 20:50:15 UTC

When a Lotus Notes (Domino) server has Archive Style transaction logging enabled you can use Symantec's Netbackup, EMC's Avamar, or Commvault's Simpana solutions to backup your databases while the Domino server is running and do point in time restores. Most people will do a weekly full backup and do the transaction log backups on a more frequent basis - usually every 4 to 8 hours depending on how large the volume is where the transaction logs are being written to.

You may subsequently restore the databases from either the full backup or to any "point in time" in between the times when the fulls were run via the transaction logs.

Additionally, Domino Admins will usually run a weekly compact and fixup on all databases on the server to get their DBIIDs to change - when a DBIID of a database changes, the backup software will back that database up when a daily incremental job runs.

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Brent Wilkinson wrote

on Friday 10 February, 2012 at 11:36:57 UTC

Lotus Notes Player - Allows Notes applications to run unmodified in the browser. The plug-in is a one-time download, much like the Adobe Acrobat model, where once installed, the browser can access Notes applications directly. This is new in Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition ! It's a feature version, but it is built atop the simultaneously-forthcoming planned Notes/Domino 8.5.4 release

http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotusphere-2012-lotus-notesdomino-social-edition

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B Wilkinson wrote

on Thursday 09 February, 2012 at 11:31:22 UTC

Hi..... I love notes. Been a designer/developer for 14 years now, got my cert`s in 8.5 too.... Notes is a great piece of software....

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Sunil Rajan and Goutham Kowlagi wrote

on Wednesday 01 February, 2012 at 16:13:19 UTC

we also love lotus notes

and we are Lotus Experts

NG wrote

on Saturday 04 February, 2012 at 02:58:02 UTC

So if you guys are experts, how about creating me a web site that I can host on a domaino server :)

Are you interested ???

Brent Wilkinson wrote

on Thursday 09 February, 2012 at 13:37:06 UTC

Hi NG, I can help no problem at all... Get in touch if you want. What type of webpage do you need ? Or do you just want to setup hosting on a domino server and create your own page ?

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Anand wrote

on Tuesday 31 January, 2012 at 13:39:16 UTC

I have a buttom created which will conver the local names.nsf tempalte to 8.5.2.
Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim result As Variant
result = Shell("nconvert -d names.nsf * pernames.ntf")
Msgbox "Names Template Upgraded"
End Sub

Once it is done, im getting a email from my name that the upgrade is done. How to block that email beiing genarated? Please advice. Thanks a lot.

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jennifer bland wrote

on Friday 27 January, 2012 at 23:50:52 UTC

Will Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server run on windows 7 running in windows virtual window using vmware fusion on a mac mini server?

Craig Peoples wrote

on Friday 03 February, 2012 at 19:45:35 UTC

Hi Jennifer, The Domino Server can run on the Windows 7 server for testing but not as a production environment. This is not a supported configuration. The Domino should run on Windows 2003, 2008, Solaris, Unix, Linux, AIX, etc..

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Amit Kumar wrote

on Friday 27 January, 2012 at 05:20:34 UTC

Hi all,
I am very new to the emailing application I know little bit about lotus notes.
I need to develop a web application through which client can send the emails. And that mail will be auto-generated using ASP.Net C#. Please anyone help me out from this problem. Because I don't have much time. Can I have a simple application of that(only demo)?
If Yes then please send it to
amit.kumar@kalsinfo.com
or
amit.comesoon@gmail.com

Thanks in advance...

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Mohammed Husamuldeen wrote

on Thursday 26 January, 2012 at 08:02:34 UTC

Dear Sir,
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 32bit on my laptop, and after installing Lotus Notes 8.5.2 on it the installation process ran smoothly without any error, but whenever I click on the Lotus Notes icon nothing happened, I also installed the packages on the website http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/lotus-notes-8-5-2-fp2-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-64bit-beta-1/
but it wouldn't help, please advice.

sri_barence wrote

on Monday 30 January, 2012 at 20:31:41 UTC

The "narwhal-64bit-beta" will not work on your 32-bit machine. You should look for a 32-bit version instead. You cannot run 64-bit software on 32-bit Ubuntu.

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TomF wrote

on Wednesday 25 January, 2012 at 11:51:46 UTC

Can you get me a link to download the Lotus Live Meetings Desktop Icon which I use for logging in.

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pratheek wrote

on Wednesday 25 January, 2012 at 09:11:32 UTC

we are actually creating exact replica of a lotus notes application.
we need to replace the URL of the old application with the new URL. please suggest me how shud i achieve this.
In a lotus notes application where can i find the url links which links code with the application.?

plz help ..

frus wrote

on Friday 16 March, 2012 at 08:58:31 UTC

Well suppose the application's path is "Apps/App01.nsf", on server "Server01" and it is in the "Data" folder, the url should be
http://Server01/Apps/App01.nsf
You could try putting the IP of the server instead of its name.
You could also try looking at the database properties to see the server and filename...

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IBM XWork Server wrote

on Tuesday 24 January, 2012 at 15:42:45 UTC

I'm trying to buy IBM XWork Server for a project that I want to roll out, but I cannot seem to get a timely response from IBM. Does anyone know what is the best way to obtain IBM XWork Server?

Christopher Pauley wrote

on Tuesday 24 January, 2012 at 16:04:52 UTC

If you are based in the UK, there is a Business Partner called Polymorph, who I know do a lot of work with IBM and who are very responsive to questions like this. You may like to give them a go. There web site link is below...

If you're not UK based, I can't really help :(

http://www.polymorph.co.uk/

Sam S wrote

on Wednesday 25 January, 2012 at 05:10:11 UTC

The best way to obtain this is through a Business Partner. IBM Sales seems to really focus on large (really large) businesses; smaller customers get better support/response through Business Partners.

Rob wrote

on Wednesday 25 January, 2012 at 17:03:49 UTC

I posted this question and I'm in the US. I'll look for an IBM Business Partner. Thanks for the reponses.

Tom wrote

on Tuesday 31 January, 2012 at 03:30:55 UTC

I wouldn't normally solicit, but if you're looking for a BP to sell you software, I suggest you look at preferredpartner.com
I love those guys.

https://www.preferredpartner.com

Lisa Duke wrote

on Thursday 02 February, 2012 at 22:48:30 UTC

We'd be happy to quote it for you! You can email me at lisa.duke@simplified-tech.com or call at 678 378 4278. I'd need to speak with you to gather a bit of information on your company but then I can get you a price.

http://www.simplified-tech.com

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Dirk wrote

on Tuesday 24 January, 2012 at 01:00:00 UTC

Hey Guys,
since our upgrade to Lotus Notes 8.5 there is a weird problem with my offline/online replication.

1st step: I switch Lotus Notes to offline mode
2nd step: I send some emails that are stored in "Outgoing mail on local"
3rd step: I switch back to online mode
4th step: I start replication and sync for all applications including "send outgoing mail".

NONE of the outgoing emails is send - display says that there is no email.

Work arround: Restart LN , when it asks to sync say "YES" and everything is send.

What is the solution to this problem?

Dirk

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Patrick wrote

on Monday 23 January, 2012 at 10:01:54 UTC

DominoTeamMailbox alternative / update?

Hi guys,

We are still using the above mentioned template from openntf to share some mailboxes with a group of users.
It has always served us well for mailboxes like support@ sales@ etc. but this project is really limited and dated e.g. no decent webaccess support, calendar support, lacks modern look, follow-up and features.
Any of you have better alternatives for this kind of need?

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Sneha Poddar wrote

on Friday 20 January, 2012 at 15:05:19 UTC

Hi,
I was looking for a comprehensive list of elements within Lotus Notes application that work in notes client but fall over when the application is accessed over the internet.

A few that I know of @PickList, @Prompt and Hotspots with Lotus script on the form.

I tried googling for the same, also looked at lotusnotes forums.. but wasnt fruitful.

Many thanks
Sneha
(snehap.1284@gmail.com)

Jeremy wrote

on Friday 20 January, 2012 at 17:23:37 UTC

I found this - a list that do not work - the rest do - the list is also available in the designer help - search for @functions on the web

http://darewinchip.com/help/help7_designer.nsf/b3266a3c17f9bb7085256b870069c0a9/21a49ea01fde00898525704a003fb73e?OpenDocument#162724432029338336

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sp wrote

on Thursday 19 January, 2012 at 10:06:04 UTC

We have had an upgrade to Lotus Notes 8.5 and I have lost the function to go back to the profile/email I was in last and the drop down box which showed me my last 10-15 locations - does anyone know how I get this back. The back facing arrow appears in the toolbar in the customisation box but does not then appear in the actual toolbar.

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jp wrote

on Wednesday 18 January, 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC

I want to run Lotus Notes Applications on a tablet - we are not talking about access mail. We have a suite of applications that run on windows xp/2000/7/etc can we run the applications on any tablet platform such as android - may be a silly question but I need to move to a tablet if possible. any assistance is received gratefully. thanks
JP

Michael Falstrup wrote

on Sunday 22 January, 2012 at 19:58:05 UTC

Two possibilities:

1. Use the new upcoming browser plugin, announced on LotusSphere 2012.
2. XPages.

Abigail Roberts wrote

on Wednesday 18 April, 2012 at 10:49:18 UTC

Hi,
Have you heard of Unplugged by Teamstudio. They have a solution to move your notes apps to mobile devices.

A.

http://unplugged.teamstudio.com/

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Marianna wrote

on Wednesday 18 January, 2012 at 14:15:49 UTC

My Lotus Notes is saving temporary file sin the DTF format. ANy idea how I can open them, read them and save them in the doc format please?

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Chapi wrote

on Monday 09 January, 2012 at 22:22:35 UTC

Hi,

I'am a newbie to Lotus Notes, coming from Outlook and other MS products. I used to work with Onenote, which is a valuable notebook application ( easy to paste images, include handdrawing...).
Now, switching to Lotus Notes 8.5 journal/notebook application for taking meeting minutes, I wonder how I can create actions/todo/follow up. I was expecting, as in Onenote, to be able to create flags or todo items when typing in the journal, and then, having all these flag/todo items transferred in the followup/todo apps.

I didnt find how to do it, though I'm pretty sure there is a work around.

Thanks for your help.

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Jason wrote

on Monday 09 January, 2012 at 20:30:51 UTC

I am running version 8.5 on Win7. Because of certain hardware limitations, I have a need to run it within XP on XPMode. I cannot do it by simply browsing to the native hard drive, going to program files and selecting Lotus Notes. Is there a way to get this to run without a full uninstall?

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Kjeld wrote

on Sunday 08 January, 2012 at 12:36:48 UTC

How do I perform a search across all local Lotus Notes databases?
I run Notes 8.5.3

I previously used Google Desktop, however that is now discontinued.

peter wrote

on Monday 09 January, 2012 at 22:03:16 UTC

have a look at notes connectors. 20 bucks or so for the version that indexes everything in Lotus Notes.

http://www.notesconnectors.com/

Jim wrote

on Friday 20 January, 2012 at 13:53:20 UTC

Technically speaking, doesn't Google Desktop still work even though it is a discontinued product? I am using it...

But my question would be is there a Linux way of searching all archives? notesconnectors seems to be only for Windows...

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Rohit Thomas wrote

on Saturday 07 January, 2012 at 11:17:11 UTC

Hello,

Am an absolute newbie to using Lotus Notes and thought of trying to get the lotus notus client 8.5.3 running on a Ubuntu 11.10 x86 machine - with the primary intention of reading my google mails via an IMAP connection. This, purely for self education purposes.

The issue(s) are, on invoking the client,
1/ I do not see a window where I could read my mails or the google mail folder structure
2/ On clicking Mail in the getting started page there's a pop-up that says "lotus notes is not a registered protocol"
3/ I can see that it retrieves the message from the google servers - but it does not appear in any of the workspaces / pages.

Any help towards finding a solution would be a great help...

Sebastian Kurzawa wrote

on Monday 09 January, 2012 at 18:21:56 UTC

You need to install for the unity desktop in Ubuntu 11.10 the following libs:
http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/lotus-notes-8-5-2-fp2-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-64bit-beta-1/

After that it works fine, as I had the same problem.

http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/lotus-notes-8-5-2-fp2-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-64bit-beta-1/

BillyG wrote

on Monday 09 January, 2012 at 21:47:30 UTC

You're kind of out of luck. Notes kind of sucks for IMAP operations such as you describe. There is an IMAP mail template, but it looks horrible (you can't even move the columns around). It does work though.

The other trick is to use the "IMAP Offline" type of account, in which case you can use the standard Notes mail template, which is much nicer. The downside is that it really functions more like a POP client...

This is one complaint I have about Notes. It has all sorts of wonderful bits, but functioning as a standard Internet mail client really, really sucks. It needs some brushing up. The excuse is that their business customers don't need this function. However, I would argue that it has been shown time and time again, there is no real separation between home & business. People will eventually "bring" in what they use at home to the business in way or another.

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Marianna wrote

on Thursday 05 January, 2012 at 12:14:25 UTC

Hello there,

I would like to mark my emails in Inbox by having dots (round circles) in front of them. Full blue dot means that the emails were sent to me, half blue/half white dot means it was sent to me and someone else at the same time and a white dot means that the email was sent to someone else with me in CC. The dots really help me to have a quick overview about most urgent emails.

Do you know where can I set this option please? I tried preferences and user preferences but I cannot find it.

Thank you, Marianna

Steve Bailey wrote

on Thursday 05 January, 2012 at 15:35:50 UTC

Hi,
This function is held in the mailbox preferences. Most mail templates for Notes 6, 7, or 8 contain it. (The feature was introduced in Notes 6, but your administrator may have chosen to remove it from your mail template).

It's here:

Go to inbox -> Tools -> Preferences -> Mail -> Message Marking -> Recipients.

Here you can choose whichever dots and semi-circles you want!

If you don't find the feature there, contact your IT guy, and ask them to give you a Notes 6 or above standard mail template.

Hope you find it!

SB

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Joe Wichowski wrote

on Tuesday 03 January, 2012 at 19:10:24 UTC

Just announcing some free data connectors for Lotus Notes to work with Talend Open Studio. Talend is a true ETL tool (open source, written in Java). Our connectors work either with a Client (to connect to the server), or directly through DIOOP.

You can read about them and grab the connectors if you like here:

http://ebiztechs.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/talend-components-for-lotus-notes-released/

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