Jacek wrote

on Thursday 21 June, 2012 at 17:40:38 UTC

I'm using LN 8.5.3 on Mac (10.7.3) and have a problem with getting RSS massages in it. When adding new site everything look fine, data are processing but RSS reader cannot get any massages. List of msg is empty

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Ivan wrote

on Sunday 08 July, 2012 at 08:12:29 UTC

I have same configuration, no problems... did you try to put into the url

instead of copy pasted feed://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/websites/lovenotes.nsf/love.rss

the http://www....

seems the plugin is not programmed to swallow the feed:// syntax..

Ivan wrote

on Sunday 08 July, 2012 at 08:14:27 UTC

try instead of

feed://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/websites/lovenotes.nsf/love.rss

http://www.ilove...

the feed reader does not read the *feed://* syntax

Michael wrote

on Thursday 21 June, 2012 at 16:48:44 UTC

Looking for some guidance on setting up a discussion type database that is tied to an email address. All emails sent to the address are added as topics in the dicussion database automatically (similar to a bulleting board). Can't seem to find any info about this on web.

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Murray Sinclair wrote

on Monday 25 June, 2012 at 22:44:17 UTC

Hi Michael,
You could use the standard Discussion database template that comes with Lotus Notes. Create a database from this template on the server and then create a mail-in database record in the Domino Directory to direct emails to this database. You would then create a mail-in agent to the database that creates a topic record in the database based on incoming emails.

Aaron wrote

on Friday 15 June, 2012 at 19:06:21 UTC

Hello, I work in a shared mailbox on Lotus Notes Release 8.5.2FP1. Is there a way to disable or remove the reply to all function for a shared mailbox for all users.

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Jeff L. wrote

on Wednesday 27 March, 2013 at 13:42:47 UTC

Although this answer may not be what you're looking for, I thought I'd share this with you just in case...

Here's one way of preventing Reply-to-all issues. I believe that it requires Lotus Notes 8 and above...

Have the sender of the message set the "To" field to themselves, and then BCC all the recipients (not CC).

When someone has been BCC'd, the "Reply to All" button does not show up as an option for them.

Jon wrote

on Wednesday 13 June, 2012 at 18:31:30 UTC

Hello, is there a way to tell via script (e.g. reading registry key) in what mode Lotus Notes 8.5.3 is installed? I need to determine how many computers in my organization have Lotus Notes in single user and multi-user modes.

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Andrew wrote

on Thursday 14 June, 2012 at 12:12:18 UTC

You could check for the presence of C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data (or certain standard NSFs/NTFs in that directory) since with multi-user installs the data directory will almost certainly be elsewhere (by default C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\data on XP, or C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Lotus\Notes\data on Vista/7)

Stephen Bailey wrote

on Thursday 14 June, 2012 at 16:26:31 UTC

Hi Jon,

There's a company called Panagenda which offers an excellent tool called Marvelclient which helps you to manage, control and report on your Lotus Notes installs. They've recently made their Analyze system available for free (of course, it's a carrot to get you to buy the full product, but the Analyze system will be enough to get the information you need. It will give you stuff like:

- Install path.
- Client type (Admin, Standard, Basic).
- Version.
- Single user / multi-user.
Etc.

Take a look at their site:

http://panagenda.com/en_uk/marvelclient_analyze_module

http://panagenda.com/en_uk/marvelclient_analyze_module

Nick Halliwell wrote

on Monday 18 June, 2012 at 05:41:05 UTC

I beleive that you can get this information from teh Notes ini file. There arte various settings for example there is a setting installmode=1, this tells you its the standard install not the basic. You can also tell exactly which buil youare on using the: faultrecovery_build=release 8.5.2.

You can also tell what the client is by the parameter InstallType=, 2 = All clients (Designer, Admin etc.) 6 = Client only.

I am sure that there is an ini setting taht will tell you if the installation is all use or single user, try googling Notes.ini settings.

If you look at this URl, it describes how to use the single to multiuser upgrade assistant:
http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21459627
Hope all this helps.

Jason wrote

on Monday 09 July, 2012 at 18:45:28 UTC

I don't know about writing the script, but the location in the registry is the following:

WindowsXP: HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\8.0. The key is "multiuser". The key value will be zero for a single user install, and "1" for a multi-user install.

Windows7: HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Lotus\Notes\8.0. Key values same as above.

If you already knew all of that, my apologies for giving you that information.

Mekki TLIBA wrote

on Tuesday 12 June, 2012 at 23:56:10 UTC

Simply a mail client misunderstood.
it should be heavly publicized in government and education.
We're working with Lotus Notes in our company and customers use it so! thanks 2 ibm !

www.hardis.fr

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Julian wrote

on Wednesday 06 June, 2012 at 20:37:11 UTC

I like that I can mobilize Lotus Notes Apps with native iPhone and iPad Apps using Titanium (http://appcelerator.com) and Domino To Go (http://youatnotes.com/dominotogo).

And for getting my Notes Journal to the iPhone and iPad, I could write an App for that, see http://youatnotes.com/notesbook .

Lotus Notes and Domino just is so flexible!

http://youatnotes.com/dominotogo

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Michael wrote

on Wednesday 06 June, 2012 at 15:34:34 UTC

Looking for a way to identify an Invalid Field Name in a lotus notes form. We have an app that was created in 7. When we open the form in Designer 8.5 and attempt to save it we get an Invalid Field Name dialog box. How can I identify what is triggering the error?

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Krishnamoorthi Parasuraman wrote

on Monday 09 July, 2012 at 06:29:38 UTC

Michael,
This is a Lotus Notes version problem. Simply you need to sign and clean the application.

Nana wrote

on Tuesday 05 June, 2012 at 13:01:23 UTC

Can anyone please explain to me how to create printer friendly Web pages (developed with lotus notes) with CSS or any other method (including creating the actual printer friendly button link with the relevant URL)?
Thanks in advance.

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ps wrote

on Thursday 27 September, 2012 at 22:11:09 UTC

Are you doing this in xPages or the DWA? If you are doing it in xPages, this is the sh*tty hack I used, where xprintjob.xsp is the xpage that has a printer friendly page.

<xp:button value="Printer friendly" id="button4">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>
<xp:openPage name="/xprintjob.xsp"
target="openDocument">
<xp:this.documentId><![CDATA[#{javascript:doc=currentDocument.getDocument();
docUNID=doc.getUniversalID(); }]]></xp:this.documentId>
</xp:openPage>
</xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>

Ramkumar wrote

on Wednesday 30 May, 2012 at 10:12:01 UTC

Same document is edited by different replicas. The most recent edited document is saving. Other documents will become a replication conflict.

Actually we are working a database wildly. we have a tens of replica copies. But the thing is, Most common. But once again, Replication conflict is the problem. If I do the document locking, then the Manager has to do their job again. But it is not nice one. Because people may get the mail continuously by their bad.

So please tell a great solution for that. And Advance Thanks for your suggestion.

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Krishnamoorthi wrote

on Friday 29 June, 2012 at 13:44:08 UTC

Each conflict document should have $Ref field.
$Ref returns reference UNID of orginal document.
$Revisions contains revisons history of each document.
Compare the revisons date & time then save the original document as which is last modified.

Dave wrote

on Tuesday 29 May, 2012 at 21:23:57 UTC

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

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

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Gawula wrote

on Friday 18 May, 2012 at 10:27:07 UTC

Hey Lotus People

I want to configure my IBM Lotus Notes Traveler on my Nokia E71. Can someone assist

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Nick Halliwell wrote

on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 10:54:11 UTC

What version of Traveler are you running?

Nick Halliwell wrote

on Friday 25 May, 2012 at 10:56:58 UTC

Assuming that yiou have a version of Traveler that supports this VDO might help:

http://4techieblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-setup-lotus-notes-traveler-email.html

Jason wrote

on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 15:45:38 UTC

I have written a script that silently installs Lotus Notes 8.5.3 multi-user via GPO. It works successfully on a WinXP 32-bit machine. However, when I attempt same script install on a Win7 64-bit machine, it does not appear to install correctly. The program does not appear in the "All Programs" list after installation. The only way I can see to launch it is to go into the program files x86 folder and launch notes.exe from there. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Jason wrote

on Wednesday 23 May, 2012 at 15:42:50 UTC

Additional info on this: All registry entries appear to be correct as well. Just no desktop shortcut and no program folder under the start menu. Notes.exe above should have stated notes2.exe

Shiva Sanjay wrote

on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 08:18:41 UTC

Hi Friends.
It feels good to know that there is Lotus notes loving kind of site. There is a group "Team Lotus" in Facebook that helps. you can join and share your ideas.

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Wilson wrote

on Monday 14 May, 2012 at 06:35:00 UTC

Hi,

I like this blog, I found several helpful information in it.

You may also be interested in this info:
For those who also want to send SMS from Lotus Notes: sms-integration.com/p_71-lotus-notes-sms.html

This solution is based on Ozeki NG SMS Gateway and allows to send SMS from Lotus Notes. Check it...

BR

http://www.sms-integration.com/p_71-lotus-notes-sms.html

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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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sgw wrote

on Thursday 27 September, 2012 at 18:30:49 UTC

Dennis,

I would suggest checking with your Domino admin - sounds like he might have disabled FTI on the mail servers - likely a space consideration.

Steve

JH wrote

on Thursday 25 October, 2012 at 15:36:19 UTC

Have any Lotus Notes lovers been able to answer this question? I'm having the same problem.

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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Nick Halliwell wrote

on Monday 21 May, 2012 at 07:53:34 UTC

Ram, you have to get the installations files from your IT people or IBM.

You dont say what version of Notes that you are using the link below tells you how to do it, theer are several other URL's that tell you as well.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Notes_8.5.3_on_Ubuntu_11.10

Good luck.

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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chris boote wrote

on Friday 08 February, 2013 at 11:30:25 UTC

This is something that SHOULD be managed by you - so you SHOULD have design - or possibly even manager - access to it
Your corporate IT policy is misguided

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!!

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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

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.

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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

Nick Halliwell wrote

on Monday 21 May, 2012 at 07:57:24 UTC

You should be able to use the Standard Windows uninstaller. WHen installingt a new version different from what you had I suggest that you choose a different location for your data directory. You can then copy back into the new directory any .nsf's that you need.

Nice is only usefull for cleaning up a failed install, it will not actually uninstall Notes its self. But a nice tool never the less

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.

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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

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!

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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?

Mike at Portal wrote

on Wednesday 20 February, 2013 at 11:29:15 UTC

Don't forget to open the harvested id, then copy the public key to the clipboard.
You can then paste this into the newly registered person document.
Depending how long ago they left, you may need to recertify the user as well.
User will now be treated as the same account and access to previously encrypted documents will be restored.

http://www.chooseportal.com

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

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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.

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?

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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.

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

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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 ?

Ramkumar wrote

on Wednesday 30 May, 2012 at 10:16:50 UTC

I am also willing to help you. Do you need, Then reply me back...

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?

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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..

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.

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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.

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 ..

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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...

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?

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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

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)

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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

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

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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/

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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chris boote wrote

on Friday 08 February, 2013 at 11:25:10 UTC

? How did you install it? I run it just fine on Win7

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.

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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...

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...

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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.

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

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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

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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Sebastian Comme wrote

on Tuesday 03 January, 2012 at 14:59:33 UTC

Hello there!

I really like lotus notes! But I'm facing a trouble and I cannot find the solution to it! I was in vacancies and when I arrived, the "screen" of Free Available space disappear. I don't know how much I have in free space from email and that screen it is very important to me. Can anyone help me?

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Why I cannot imagine to live without Lotus Notes wrote

on Monday 02 January, 2012 at 12:47:36 UTC

Hi all Lotus Notes lovers (or haters),

I want to share with you a bit... we had a serious discussion couple days ago, how we would manage our business without all the applications done in Lotus Notes which we run in our small 20 people company.

To be frank, I am aboslutely convinced without Lotus Notes it would be a complete nightmare!

Thinking of dozens of various not interconnected web apps in the "cloud", plus myriads of excel files on shared drives, plus some odd accountancy software, aarrgh, no, thank you. NO THANK YOU.

Even Lotus Notes is not perfect for sure, the fact we can have dozens of perfectly integrated business applications in one single secure environment, we are working with databases and not files, and many of dbs are to web for clients and partners, plus replication, search, reliability, this all makes Lotus Notes absolutely a lover and critical app for us.

I heard a saying comparing Lotus Notes and wives :-) It said... Lotus Notes is probably not the most sexy lady in the world, but you can be sure, it will deliver what you expect from a good wife. I think it may be sexist :-) but very true...

Love you Lotus Notes!

Jan

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Raagav wrote

on Monday 23 January, 2012 at 18:22:45 UTC

Hi,
Its really a cute thinking about Lotus Notes. As a fresher to Lotus Notes, I would like to learn MORE about it. Can you please help me to move further

How to stop Lotus Notes from syncing pictures on iPhone wrote

on Friday 30 December, 2011 at 15:17:52 UTC

Lotus Notes 8.5 with traveler software overwrites my iPhone custom ringtones and pictures. How do I disable this feature when syncing so I can keep my iPhone pics and RT's?

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not lovin it .. wrote

on Friday 23 December, 2011 at 17:59:57 UTC

As an administrator, I am asked to do a text search on all users mail files . Call it an audit - looking for a particular text. How is this done ?

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steve wrote

on Friday 23 December, 2011 at 22:04:22 UTC

i'm not sure if this will search for just text, but try this:

http://www.mailaudittool.co.uk

Stephen Bailey wrote

on Thursday 05 January, 2012 at 15:39:06 UTC

Powertools for Lotus Notes also has a feature to do this.

http://www.helpsoftwareinc.com/

ErwinB wrote

on Thursday 22 December, 2011 at 20:55:22 UTC

Looking for sync my todo's with lotus notes and my iPhone, anyone having ideas?

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Vital wrote

on Friday 23 December, 2011 at 07:20:26 UTC

NotesF1 To Do

http://apps.cikado.com/

Serge wrote

on Tuesday 17 January, 2012 at 08:13:34 UTC

Use AweSync which synchronizes Lotus Notes Calendar, Contacts, Tasks (ToDos) & Notebook with Google. After that you can sync your iPhone with Google.

http://www.awesync.com

Ed wrote

on Wednesday 21 December, 2011 at 16:26:36 UTC

How do setup up Notes to always open my email folders at startup (or at least remember how I had when I shut it down)? That is the always the first thing I need to do when I start up notes and I'd like not to have to do this each time. I am using 8.5.1.

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KAS wrote

on Thursday 19 January, 2012 at 09:26:11 UTC

Under the 'more bookmarks' folder on the left, there is a subfolder called 'start up'. Drag the icons into there to open automatically on your next Lotus Notes start up.

http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/startup

chris boote wrote

on Friday 08 February, 2013 at 11:22:50 UTC

Or just go to File-Preferences-Windows & Themes and tell it to do just that!

Mark Hardaker wrote

on Wednesday 07 December, 2011 at 14:14:27 UTC

How can I sync my Lotus Notes calendar, notes and contacts with iCloud please :-)

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anevil wrote

on Wednesday 07 December, 2011 at 01:52:54 UTC

While fill in recipient list on a new memo, can we make it look for Domino Server Address Book first and then the local address book?
tq!

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Budi Febrianto wrote

on Friday 16 December, 2011 at 09:43:24 UTC

use directory catalog, and replicate it to your local. directory catalog simply a small copy of your server address book. A lot faster than connect directly to the server.

http://www.indomino.net/blog

heena pahuja wrote

on Tuesday 06 December, 2011 at 06:22:24 UTC

How do I transfer or forward message from Lotus Notes databases to Outlook (or any other usable format)

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Steve wrote

on Tuesday 13 December, 2011 at 20:49:21 UTC

You should be able to use 'Actions/Forward' for documents within Lotus Notes databases

Kamal Preet wrote

on Monday 05 December, 2011 at 13:49:17 UTC

We are in admin support project for lotus domino.. And I as admin feel that Lotus notes Admin client is out of the world.. You can do everything on admin on any server... And the security layer is awesome.. I wish I could know Who developed Admin Client.. Hands off... :-)

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Sam wrote

on Saturday 03 December, 2011 at 19:27:36 UTC

Can Domino run Wordpress (i.e., host Wordpress on Domino server)?

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Joe Wichowski wrote

on Tuesday 03 January, 2012 at 19:08:11 UTC

The only way this can be done is running Domino as a service - either within Websphere or IIS.

http://www.elsmore.net/warren/blog.nsf/Downloads/DominoIIS/$File/Configuring%20Domino%20with%20IIS.pdf

Anders ? wrote

on Wednesday 30 November, 2011 at 10:51:45 UTC

Lotus Notes is definitely the best of the corporate collaboration clients. I have used Outlook a lot before my latest work and it simply does not do the job. Lotus Notes on the other hand have a lot of features that I cannot be without. For example: tight integration with IBM Sametime and IBM Connections. Also possible to use Lotus Notes on Linux. Goodbye Outlook and Windows, hello Ubuntu and Lotus Notes

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MAHABOOB wrote

on Monday 28 November, 2011 at 13:10:38 UTC

Now iam working on java/j2ee platform,, my friend told me to learn Lotus Notes for good job and good pay, will java helps me to work with lotus notes.. which one is best for my career.
can i try as a fresher for lotus notes developer.
How? where should i learn this course.
Hows? the demand in india for lotus notes

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Another Lotus Notes Lover wrote

on Wednesday 25 January, 2012 at 15:46:58 UTC

Yes with four+ years of exp i get 9.5 lacs as we have very less resource in Market. We have huge oppening

Lee wrote

on Monday 28 November, 2011 at 11:17:41 UTC

Am using Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and am loving it, but am experiencing a weird issue when I 'reply to all' for an email and get a copy of my email sent back to me from my address - does anyone know how to turn this off?

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Steve wrote

on Tuesday 29 November, 2011 at 23:29:09 UTC

Have you by any chance had any sort of rename recently?
If so check your mail ownership field in your mailfile. You may have your 'old name' still in there

Lee wrote

on Wednesday 14 December, 2011 at 14:28:27 UTC

Hi Steve,

We haven't had any renames, mail file owner name is correct..
Was lead to believe that Lotus isn't identifying the reply address being the same as the sending address but have a few examples where they match perfectly so I'm struggling to find a cause

Tom wrote

on Thursday 05 January, 2012 at 21:03:22 UTC

I recently had something similar, I had a user that was recieving another persons emails temporarily so they were getting two of them when people sent emails out to groups. If you sending to a group, see if your forwarding an email address back to you.

daniel wrote

on Saturday 26 November, 2011 at 23:54:40 UTC

Hello, is there any alternativ to the pure calender in lotus notes traveler to andriod. I dont now why someone makes a calender to only have days and weeks overview and not a whole month view. Im runnig lotus notes 8.5.3

br. Daniel

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Ernie Oporto wrote

on Monday 12 December, 2011 at 22:20:05 UTC

Please don't use the Traveler app. Instead configure the built-in Android "Accounts & Sync" with Corporate Account support to connect to Traveler via Exchange ActiveSync. It integrates with the native Mail, Calendar, and Contacts. It will also help keep your battery running longer.

daniel frost wrote

on Monday 19 December, 2011 at 18:44:14 UTC

wow thanks alot Ernie, so it is posible to use en build in client :-) i will try that, is there any link on how to due that ?

seeni wrote

on Friday 25 November, 2011 at 03:13:38 UTC

Hi, I have been trying to connect to names.nsf (NAB) from .Net on a Win 7 platform but every time I try it, it throws an error. I am able to connect to other Lotus Notes databases. The code works well on Win XP+Notes 8.0.2 combo but fails on Win7+8.5.2. Any suggestions??

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Brian wrote

on Monday 28 November, 2011 at 19:05:42 UTC

Your question might gain a usable answer by visiting the Lotus Developer Network Forums at the link below

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf

Dwain A Wuerfel wrote

on Thursday 24 November, 2011 at 17:59:09 UTC

I know you can install and use the Domino Designer for free, but not sure about using the Lotus Notes client. Of course, it wouldn't make any sense to have the designer for free if you cannot use the client as well. I want to say as long as you are not using anything in a production environment you are good to go, but I would investigate on the IBM site.

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Eva wrote

on Thursday 24 November, 2011 at 14:22:34 UTC

Hello,
can anybody help me here? My husband is a Lotus Notes developer and I want to buy a Lotus Notes T-shirt for him.Please, if you know some e-shop where I can get it, post the link here
Thanks
Eva

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adele wrote

on Thursday 24 November, 2011 at 10:35:23 UTC

Hi - can anyone help me - I used to work for a company that had lotus notes and it was invaluable. I now work for a smaller company that doesn't use it - I would like to know if I can install it for myself on my work laptop so I can work more efficiently, how is it done and how much does it cost as this will come out of my own pocket
Many thanks

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Ken Baker wrote

on Monday 05 December, 2011 at 13:36:21 UTC

Look here---> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/dominoexpress/

e-mail only use IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Express $108

E-mai & databases Domino Collaboration Express
$160

For small businesses, if you license each user the server is included in the Express licenses.

Dustin wrote

on Tuesday 22 November, 2011 at 21:32:30 UTC

Ok, so I like Lotus Notes (don't love it yet...), and it does have a lot of features that MSFT doesn't have. I'm still learning, though.

Quick question, though. I have a client PC with multiple users. When opening LN, it gives me a login screen where I can select different users. However, when I want to add a new user, I need a user.id file. How can I add a new user and have it create it's own user.id (custom name, of course)? I'd appreciate the help! Perhaps one day, I may end up loving Lotus Notes!

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Graham wrote

on Wednesday 23 November, 2011 at 01:14:22 UTC

You need to get the user.id file from your system administrator. You cannot create one on your own. This is one of the benefits of using Lotus Notes - the security that the system provides.

Dustin wrote

on Wednesday 23 November, 2011 at 16:13:17 UTC

Thanks, Graham. Got it! I also found another way, which isn't recommended (editing the notes.ini file), but works. I didn't have to go that route, but got the id file from my LN admin.

Thanks for the reply! :)

Brian Graham wrote

on Monday 28 November, 2011 at 16:18:44 UTC

I have a method to utilize a single desktop login, but have multiple client sessions, each with their own personal address book, bookmarks, etc, without having to use 'switch ID'.

Provide your email and I'll send you the document.

ilovelotusnotes wrote

on Monday 28 November, 2011 at 16:35:08 UTC

If you want to email us, we will forward your email onto Brian. There's a link with our email address on the right hand side of this webpage.

Kath wrote

on Friday 06 January, 2012 at 14:14:15 UTC

I'm trying to email ilovelotusnotes so that Brian Graham can send me the document to have multiple users without switching IDs but IE keeps trying to open Outlook instead of Notes & I don't have this configured. I have tried to change it to use Notes but it won't work. Can you please let me know the ilovelotusnotes email address

ilovelotusnotes wrote

on Saturday 07 January, 2012 at 23:56:24 UTC

Hi Kath, there's a link on the right hand side of this web page, but its: info@ilovelotusnotes.net

JayNey wrote

on Tuesday 22 November, 2011 at 10:20:15 UTC

I Love Lotus Notes!!!!
BTW, how do I remove a failed 8.5.2 all clients (with admin) that doesn't install properly and how do I install it correctly?

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Atul wrote

on Wednesday 15 February, 2012 at 23:06:44 UTC

Notes Installer cleanup exe (NICE)

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21459714

David wrote

on Monday 21 November, 2011 at 05:27:34 UTC

anyone knows how to link my office lotus notes email to my ipad and iphone?

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Steve wrote

on Monday 21 November, 2011 at 09:15:48 UTC

Yes...

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler.html

Mike G wrote

on Sunday 20 November, 2011 at 06:37:04 UTC

You should sell t-shirts like the one pictured on the top of your main page. I found some generic white "I [Heart] Lotus Notes" shirts, but would prefer to buy a shirt with the official Notes logo.

I used to work for a company that used Lotus Notes for email and calendaring. At the time I hated it, but now that I'm back using Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint, I miss Lotus Notes.

Having tried both LotusLive Notes and Microsoft's Office365 as hosted services, I much prefer the Lotus option. Activities are great--much more powerful than plain to-dos!

The trial version of LotusLive has some missing features, such as calendar reminders, but assuming that those are available in the desktop client, it's still great!

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Lotus Newbie wrote

on Saturday 19 November, 2011 at 06:58:02 UTC

Do you folks really think Lotus Notes is that good?

I am just starting to set it up as a personal account. Taking them a while to set it up but the webmail portion--email, calendar tasks and notebook is far superior to anything I have seen exchange OWA come up with.

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Lisa wrote

on Monday 14 November, 2011 at 22:10:47 UTC

I've been using Lotus Notes for 15 years. I can't imagine my life without it. It tracks everything for me, personal and work related. I can easily create personal databases for keeping track of documents and records. And the plugins give me direct access to all the tools I need, my social network, twitter, instant messaging, web meetings, activites. I have stock ticker in my tool bar and Lotus Notes even tells me the weather every morning. I can even make phone calls right from my client. I would have to launch 10 different software programs to do everything that Lotus Notes does.

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Stu wrote

on Saturday 12 November, 2011 at 08:51:16 UTC

Are you guys going to Lotusphere this year? Got my tshirt from last year will be wearing it loud & proud!

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ILoveLotusNotes wrote

on Tuesday 15 November, 2011 at 09:20:04 UTC

You should see / hear about what we are planning this year shortly... watch this space!

Any suggestions..??

Thom wrote

on Thursday 10 November, 2011 at 11:46:34 UTC

Just download demo version of LN 8.5.2. Will not load because my system has no C: drive. How do I tell the software where to load over riding the preference for C: drive?

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Anand wrote

on Wednesday 09 November, 2011 at 07:13:47 UTC

Hi, I have been trying to connect to names.nsf (NAB) from .Net on a Win 7 platform but every time I try it, it throws an error. I am able to connect to other LN databases. The code works well on Win XP+Notes 8.0.2 combo but fails on Win7+8.5.2. Any suggestions??

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spoorti wrote

on Thursday 24 November, 2011 at 09:54:39 UTC

Hi Anand,
Have you got any solution on this issue? Even we are also facing the same issue for accessing names.nsf on LN 8.5.2
If you have any solution on this issue plz let us know.

Ed wrote

on Tuesday 01 November, 2011 at 23:45:32 UTC

Lotus Notes 8.5.3 & the FREE Lotus Connection features are incredible... try it out!

Lotus Rock!!!

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seku wrote

on Monday 31 October, 2011 at 08:31:38 UTC

How are you. How is your work? I have been working Lotus domino since 2009. I knew Lotus notes all futures. I want to work Lotus notes developer ever people.

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Frank wrote

on Friday 28 October, 2011 at 07:29:45 UTC

Hi,
Does anyone know if a Domino server has the capability to capture all outgoing email addresses and then be able to provide them as a dynamic address fill in for users creating mail. Apparently this is available for Exchange.
Have some users migrated over from Exchange who want this capablitiy. Note-- This is not part of the Notes client email address capture, but to be server based.

thanks

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Adi wrote

on Monday 31 October, 2011 at 12:11:37 UTC

This facility is already present in Lotus Notes 8.5, though these names are stored locally, so whenever you have sent an email who is not in the address book get added in your local address book.

Marco Magallon wrote

on Tuesday 01 November, 2011 at 21:06:53 UTC

Yes, by default in Lotus Notes 8.5 the 'recent contacts' list located in the local names.nsf file captures all inbound and outbound email addresses dynamically.

Adi wrote

on Wednesday 02 November, 2011 at 06:50:40 UTC

For Server based email address capture, you have build a custom lotus application, which would capture the name and display.

Steve wrote

on Wednesday 02 November, 2011 at 09:27:43 UTC

But you would be recording ALL email addresses...business and personal...are you sure you want to actually do that?!

BillyG wrote

on Thursday 06 October, 2011 at 20:49:06 UTC

I started my working career on Microsoft Outlook. Have spent my entire career to date just on Microsoft Outlook. I did get some exposure early on because Lotus Notes came bundled with OS/2. I hated it. I tried Lotus Notes on & off through the years. Hated it. These were brief encounters.

Now I finally ended up at a place that uses Lotus Notes on the side with Outlook for e-mail. Having been forced to use Lotus Notes & having some time to play with it to see what it can do, I've done a complete 360.

The mail is the weakest component, but I don't see it being more difficult to use than Outlook. In someways, easier. It's a mystery to me why we are wasting money on Outlook when we have Lotus Notes, especially since Lotus Notes came first here. (Ok, I know why, the head of IT is a MS trained guy and that's all he knows). I managed to wrangle Lotus Notes to do my corporate e-mail (shhhhh! don't tell IT!). Calendaring is a hit & miss thing since everyone else uses Outlook. But what else do I use Lotus Notes for?

Logbook: Absolutely wonderful having the Journal template. I keep a track of notes & other information about projects I work on. Just about anything. Outlook doesn't have something like this, comparable would be OneNote, which is extra. I've also tried Evernote and the open-source Keynote-NF. If I had this on a laptop or tablet, I'd throw away my paper notebook. One of the great features is I can link back to a particular e-mail or to any of our Lotus Notes databases.

Document Library: Again, a standard included template. I use it to keep track of all the documents I generate as well as any research papers or reference documents or pretty much anything I might need to get at again. I previously implemented something like this in MS Access or OpenOffice Base or Approach. To be fair, the big databases are more easily configured to have more features, but this is good enough. In fact, as I think about it, this template would've replaced a lot of the work at my previous company that used Sharepoint for a similar purpose, since Lotus Notes can let you circulate documents for review & approval, archive, etc.

Discussions: This has turned out to be great for our team collaborating on a project. Yes, our company has a Wiki, but it was a bit of a barrier to have people learn to use Wiki ML especially when we are heavy on images and tables. Lotus Notes works just like a word processor and we can link or attach files, images really easily. Plus it's obvious who wrote what & when. Some of my co-workers who have been here longer didn't even know Lotus Notes could do this so they're quite impressed. Plus, we could have Domino just serve it up as a web page as well.

Project Management: Yes, we use MS Project, I've also used OpenWorkbench, but I got also asked for a "light" way of tracking specific test cases & results. One option we are exploring is Lotus Notes "To-Do" list. We simply create a calendar for each piece of equipment that we are testing. It's so powerful/flexible that we could actually do this. I can have categories/subcategories which can be organized or viewed way better than Outlook Tasks. I can include or attach almost anything in the body of the To Do item, and of course I can link to other items in other Lotus Notes databases really easily. To be fair, it looks like I can make Outlook do most of this as well, but with a lot of custom form design and VB code, however, we are having a go of it and not looking great so far. Lotus Notes can handle this out-of-the-box. Also found a decent one on OpenNTF. If anyone knows of more, let me know. (Cost is an issue, since our IT is anti-Notes, unlikely I could purchase anything for Lotus Notes).

After wrapping my head around Lotus Notes and what it does and what it was meant to do, yes, I really love it. It helps me to be waaay more productive. Weakness is probably the sales/training guys who fail to communicate to customers what it is for. Considering what it does, what a business needs, it's a way better value for business than the equivalent MS solutions right now.

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chris boote wrote

on Friday 08 February, 2013 at 11:17:57 UTC

He has seen the light ... 8-)

Now all we need to do is get IBM marketing to go out and SELL our favourite software!

Syam wrote

on Wednesday 05 October, 2011 at 08:36:46 UTC

Hi, i got problem with my LN. Can't open URL from email. When user click on url nothing happen. i already do the basic solution. Check preferences->web Browser >USe browser as default. Still nothing. If i use embedded browser then i can browse. Any other solution

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Achilles wrote

on Monday 31 October, 2011 at 12:28:00 UTC

Pls. provide error screenshot, so that it can be checked.

Billb wrote

on Thursday 03 November, 2011 at 18:54:18 UTC

Probably a relatively simple fix is this is your issue..

Go into your operating system (default Programs in the control panel in Win7) or your browser and Internet Options - PRograms - Set Programs (IE8) and choose the "Set program access and computer defaults" option.

Make sure IE or Firefox or whatever your choice of browser is has been selected as the default. You may have to try changing a few things to see if it has any impact.

Some of these options and the client's behavior will vary depending on your client version, operating system, etc... but I've seen this same behavior when a default was not set.

Superdupont wrote

on Tuesday 04 October, 2011 at 09:21:40 UTC

Its just astonishing how Lotus Notes works pretty good on my machine. I would recommend it to anybody interested in a spiritual experience !

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Agamjot Singh wrote

on Saturday 01 October, 2011 at 12:45:03 UTC

Is there any way I can write and maintain comments on e-mails which I recieve on Lotus Notes?

Some kind of tag/comment/stickynote... where I record the context in which the mail was received and what needs to be done on it.

simplyagam@yahoo.com

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BillyG wrote

on Monday 03 October, 2011 at 21:21:09 UTC

I'm no expert, but here's some potentially cheap tricks:
You could "Categorize" the e-mail.
Or right click and go into Properties. In the <+> tab, write something in the "Description" field. It's not immediately obvious there's a note attached to it, but it works....

Lean van Heerden wrote

on Tuesday 04 October, 2011 at 03:51:56 UTC

If you double click on the mail it will place the e-mail in edit mode. You can then enter your comments and save the message.

You can also click on More->Copy Into New->ToDo to create a task from the message.

Ports wrote

on Tuesday 04 October, 2011 at 16:39:27 UTC

You could use Follow up Flags. When a message is highlighted you can click the flag icon which means the message is one you need to follow up. If you bring down the follow up menu and select "Add or Edit Flag" you can also write up follow up actions as well as set reminders or alarms as required

http://www.mrports.com/

Gehil wrote

on Friday 23 September, 2011 at 09:04:26 UTC

... maybe Lotus Notes could be called the most underrated and misunderstood piece of Desktop software.

Whereas Outlook is given away for free with every single Windows PC, Lotus Notes usually appears only in the corporate environment. Very few (non-IT professionals) really understand what Lotus Notes & Domino can do for them and how easy that is (if one knows how to avoid the pitfalls).

The most common complaint that I've heard in my 17 years with Lotus Notes is "Notes is soooo non-Microsoft". Well that's an indication of quality, since useability never was a main concern of MS in the first place. It is a little bit as if someone was sitting in an airplane cockpit complaining "this is soooo non-car".

While the rest of the world seems to be moving towards SharePoint, Websphere, J2EE, RubyOnRails etc. I am still amazed how easy it is to create a new Lotus Notes application in a day using Domino designer & server...

I manage my private correspondence, my taxes, my bank statements with Notes. I wrote a little Domino app that allows me to check my lottery ticket for that big win.

I replicate two desktop PC's and two notebooks via one Domino server. and keep all my private and professional emails (three different accounts) since 2002 accessible and fulltext searchable there.

http://www.gehil.de

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BillB wrote

on Thursday 03 November, 2011 at 18:28:13 UTC

I've worked with Lotus Notes/Domino since 1995 and know it quite well from an Administrative (Infrastructure and Mail routing and everything in between...) and one thought I've had MANY times is...

Why don't they (IBM!) just package up a nice mail client for public consumption. It could be a dumbed down a bit and geared towards mail only, no other applications. Don't do anything web based and you should make some slick wizards to let users connect to their POP or IMAP mail accounts. Let the masses play with it, tear it apart, recommend improvements. Give them all your best features, explain how you can make messages appear in tabs or fly out in new windows.

Why not let the average person have a chance to use this just like Outlook Express, Firefox or any of the other free mail clients? Then when they go to work for a Notes shop it's not culture shock.

Why do you think people in Notes shops complain when they first come on board? Because this is new to them.

Not to mention people have a certain amount of disdain for the giants in industry at times, everyone (sometimes unfairly) bashes microsoft so they 'd be eager to play with something that ISN'T Microsoft based.

It's just a thought.. and one I wish they'd done years ago because it seems my place of work is moving on to MS based products soon for mail and applications. Welcome to a nightmare... (Anyone need some consulting work done? I can spot issues and fix 'em from a mile away.. .further if you can let me VPN in to your environment and work remotely!)

BillyG wrote

on Tuesday 20 September, 2011 at 17:33:59 UTC

I hated Lotus Notes, but new job forced me to use it. Now that I have time to settle in and discover what it can do, I love it. I even use it for corporate e-mail (shhhh! don't tell IT I'm not using Outlook!). There are so many useful things it can do, I want to use it as home as well.
One thing I can't figure out is how to have it gracefully handle multiple e-mail accounts. I don't prefer everything in one Inbox, but more importantly, my reply has to look like it came from the appropriate account. My only "trick" so far is to switch locations for different account, but the catch here is that if I'm in the "wrong" location and reply to an e-mail from another location, it will still send with the "wrong" e-mail. Any tips???

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Irv wrote

on Friday 30 September, 2011 at 14:18:01 UTC

Hello, I believe an easier way to incorporate multiple accounts/email address (sent from) will be present in Lotus Notes 8.5.3, being released next week.

http://planetlotus.org/profiles/darren-duke_91010

BillyG wrote

on Friday 07 October, 2011 at 20:19:10 UTC

I don't see it. There's nothing obvious in the description, so I downloaded the 8.5.3 trial, but I couldn't find anything that helps.

What was it you had in mind that could ease the pain for multiple e-mail accounts?

Steve Doig wrote

on Monday 29 August, 2011 at 06:32:19 UTC

A Lotus Notes 8.5 user gets:

Not a sub or function name NAMESORTVIEWPO

I refreshed the design but the problem remains. Ideas?

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ilovelotusnotes wrote

on Saturday 03 September, 2011 at 15:25:24 UTC

Open your Inbox
Select Actions - Folder - Upgrade Folder Design

After you complete the process, close/reopen mail. This should fix your problem.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/dba3ca7e515d55ff85256a0700727b35/cd70d2d5dd340ce98525779900529a8a?OpenDocument

Matt wrote

on Wednesday 17 August, 2011 at 23:45:33 UTC

Can anyone tell me what the "S" column is for in LN 8.5.3? It wasn't there in 8.5.2, and I am searching all over for someone who can tell me what it is supposed to before.

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Matt wrote

on Thursday 18 August, 2011 at 14:11:56 UTC

That doesn't make any sense, does it?

I am searching all over for someone who can tell me what the is supposed to be.

Ste wrote

on Thursday 18 August, 2011 at 14:14:47 UTC

Can you give us a bit more info?...where is this column?!

Matt wrote

on Thursday 18 August, 2011 at 15:00:17 UTC

In 8.5.3, it's available to the Inbox, Drafts, Sent and All Documents views, not in any other folders. The default position is to the right of the Size column.

Matt wrote

on Thursday 18 August, 2011 at 17:17:17 UTC

I have somewhat of an answer: it is apparently something specific to the version of LN IBM distributes to employees.

I got brave and opened LN in Domino Designer. I found that the "S" column is a formula which looks at the subject line and returns a values if the words "Confidential" or "IBM Confidential" are present. There's also something about whether it is a response or forwarded.

Don't have it fully figured out yet. I sent myself a note marked IBM Confidential, responded to it and also forwarded it to myself, and I still don't see anything in that column.

Ben wrote

on Monday 21 November, 2011 at 23:00:23 UTC

What's the column formula then? Understanding what it means will definitely help :)

John wrote

on Wednesday 17 August, 2011 at 13:22:07 UTC

Is it true you cannot have single word email address in Lotus Notus? i.e I cannot have john@smith.com?? Is there any official documentation about this?

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JTF wrote

on Wednesday 17 August, 2011 at 13:48:31 UTC

Hi John,
This isn't true :) I've had myname@domain.com for over a decade now ;)

I doubt there's any documentation explicitly stating this; the Domino docs simply state "enter an email address" ->

http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/rnext/help6_admin.nsf/f4b82fbb75e942a6852566ac0037f284/39010a286bd5465285256c1d003919fa?OpenDocument

Any valid email address that conforms to the SMTP RFC standards should be fine, perhaps excluding "%" characters which are special to Domino.

The default format is FirstNameLastName@domain.com - but you can simply edit the internet address in the person document and set it to whatever you want.

Billb wrote

on Thursday 03 November, 2011 at 19:01:03 UTC

John,

JTf has this right, it's not true, however what you may be running into are some issues with unique names and some old school logic.

For example a few versions ago if you had 20 John's in your office all with unique last names and one laid claim to john@smith.com, well, the server would not find that name to be very unique.

I did some extensive testing after we acquired a new company and domain and integrated them into our environement that I was able to have the same single name sent uniquely between two domains.. since that made little sense..

Chris Jones - jones.com
Chris Smith - smith.com

Both exists in the main NAB. Each wants chris@<theirdomain>.com for an address.

All I had to do was ensure that their internet address field in the person document had the unique address and it routed fine.

Some of how your mail routes will depend on your server configuration documents and your domain configuration, but it certainly can be done!

Devon wrote

on Tuesday 22 November, 2011 at 17:44:40 UTC

It is not true....You can have any eamil address you want .... as long as int comfrms to SMTP RFC Standards.

KenD wrote

on Thursday 11 August, 2011 at 16:13:09 UTC

New to LN, does anyone know if LN has a 'Notes' feature as in Outlook?

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NotesUser wrote

on Monday 15 August, 2011 at 15:37:25 UTC

That'll be the Journal / Notebook. You should have Mail, Calendar, Notebook, Contacts, ToDo. Just click on your Open bar and you should see them.

KenD wrote

on Thursday 25 August, 2011 at 10:55:52 UTC

Thanks Have managed to find the 'Notebook' tab on the 'Home' page and created a database for my 'Notes'

BT wrote

on Tuesday 09 August, 2011 at 18:08:00 UTC

I think IBM is not promoting notes when we compare them with other products. When we attend any strategy meetings with business folks, they talk and compare Domino with Exchange. But the fact remains Exchange is way too from Domino and it is just meant for messaging. Why IBM is never thinking to position Domino as a application platform. With XPAGES I think it is possible and atleast we developer community should take care of our bread winner for past 2 decades

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Nikhil wrote

on Monday 19 September, 2011 at 09:58:29 UTC

I absolutely agree with this...

HKM-ABB wrote

on Tuesday 02 August, 2011 at 21:50:24 UTC

Looking for some help with Lotus Notes 8.5 Themes. I would like to change the Theme, but there are only a couple to choose from. Would anyone know where or how to make more?

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Steve wrote

on Wednesday 21 September, 2011 at 17:17:19 UTC

I am looking into this as well.
Drop me an email and we can discuss
sdp1793-noteshelp at yahoo dot com

Matt wrote

on Thursday 22 September, 2011 at 10:25:55 UTC

Hi there,

There are a 4 new themes that you can download from OpenNTF: http://www.openntf.org/projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Themes%20for%20Lotus%20Notes

To install, unzip the file, then unzip the Theme_updatesite.zip inside it (zip within a zip, why?!) to c:\themes or somewhere.

Now click the 'Getting Started with Widgets' button in Notes (the Jigsaw piece) and select 'Features and Plugins'. Click Next and put in the URL as file:///c:\\themes\\site.xml (note the odd slashes) and click Load. Select the only option and finish. It should pop up with a prompt (after a short wait) to say it's installing. When complete, restart your Notes client and you should have them in Preferences.

To see how these themes are made, browse the folder where you unzipped to and look for the folder 'plugins'. Make a copy of the .JAR file in there and rename it to a .ZIP so you can open it up.
There's a 'themes' folder in there that contains the 4 new themes. All they are are .CSS files so you can make your own in a similar way.
When you've made your own CSS file, put them inside this .ZIP file, open the 'plugin.xml' file that's also in there, add a line for your new theme (copy an existing one and change it) then finally rename the .ZIP back to a .JAR and you should be done. Now install as before.

Alternatively, you can create your own graphics for the workspace (which kind of gives you a theme) but it's not a complete makeover, more of a skin. You can find details of this (and an example skin) at the link below...

You can also combine the 2 methods above to give you one of the selected themes with a custom workspace and icons.

Cheers,
Matt

http://blog.panagenda.com/pub/panablog.nsf/D6Plinks/FLOR-7DRBHC

Anthony Crasto wrote

on Wednesday 12 September, 2012 at 12:40:05 UTC

Can I install themes on Lotus note for Mac OSX mountain lion as well?

Magnus Toth wrote

on Sunday 17 July, 2011 at 18:25:24 UTC

I am the product manager for NotesF1 To Do. NotesF1 To Do is an iPhone (iOS) app that provides syncing capabilities for Notes To Do's and it uses Lotus Traveler server which means that no other software is needed on the server side.

This is currently the only app supports syncing of To Do's from an iPhone.

Check it out at App Store.

http://apps.cikado.com

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JamesG wrote

on Monday 18 July, 2011 at 21:14:04 UTC

Thanks for the info I have really missed this functionality in my iPhone and iPad. Good job!

Roky King wrote

on Thursday 21 July, 2011 at 05:54:16 UTC

I have actually purchased this application and it works incredibly well for being a first release. Nice, Slick interface as well. Only downside is because it uses iNotes to connect to tasks their is no reminders! ( Yet ) :)

Dave45 wrote

on Thursday 30 June, 2011 at 15:37:45 UTC

Does any other product handle replication as well as Lotus Notes? I am aware of other application suppliers quietly dropping replication features based on Microsoft's replication... not every multi-office firm can afford fat fibre data connections and Notes replication is a great solution for thin connections.

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Gehil wrote

on Friday 23 September, 2011 at 09:12:57 UTC

You can can replicate Lotus Notes apps between different operating systems (MacOS, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7) and different Lotus Notes / Domino versions.

You can replicate the app design / programming as well as the app content. Replcation can be compressed & encrypted over the network.

No, there is no other application platform that provides replication the way Lotus Notes / Domino does it.

chris boote wrote

on Friday 08 February, 2013 at 09:34:49 UTC

Well, there is one...

It's called RETAIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RETAIN

And it's 37m lines of executable code, and runs on 16 S/370 mainframes

I love Lotus Notes
I love being a geek
8-)

Dave45 wrote

on Thursday 30 June, 2011 at 15:21:08 UTC

I love Lotus Notes too but how do I make it work properly on a Terminal Server?

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Ed wrote

on Thursday 07 July, 2011 at 11:36:24 UTC

I worked on this many years ago, but remember that I had to install a Notes client on each user's workspace on the terminal server.

ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Thursday 07 July, 2011 at 12:44:01 UTC

Lotus Notes works fine on server 2008 terminal services. We have deployments on Notes 8.5 of over 40 users with just one Notes install (with a script to create data folders on log in etc).

ITholics wrote

on Friday 08 July, 2011 at 12:53:50 UTC

Exactly, we also deployed Lotus many times on Terminal Server with just one installation.
Greetings

Stefan wrote

on Thursday 18 August, 2011 at 10:48:38 UTC

Here https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21265898 you will find the instructions.

Peter wrote

on Wednesday 24 August, 2011 at 07:33:07 UTC

We map a drive H on the a server and the notes data file is installed to H:\Notes\
We copy the notes.ini file to this data file and setup the shortcut to notes to "C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe" =h:\Notes\Notes.ini
Delete the notes.ini file from the terminal server and it has worked this way for around 15 years now.

Cheers

Ed wrote

on Wednesday 29 June, 2011 at 16:06:55 UTC

Has anyone succeeded in syncing a Windows Phone 7 device with Lotus Notes via Notes Traveler? I know WP7 is not yet officially supported by Traveler, but I have managed to get a Palm Pre to sync with it, and I know some other people got a Nokia N900 to sync

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Nick wrote

on Tuesday 16 August, 2011 at 17:55:05 UTC

No dice, have been trying for months to get it to work. Can't even get IBM support to answer the question if it's even on the radar

Sam wrote

on Wednesday 17 August, 2011 at 10:02:57 UTC

Nick - what's your scenario? Are you adopting W7 in your enterprise? Doing a proof of concept? A single end user? IBM did a informal survey of customers a month or two ago, and not one company was actively looking at W7. When there is need for W7 support, you will see W7 support. Until then, probably not.

Siva wrote

on Friday 14 October, 2011 at 18:58:38 UTC

WP7 doesn't support ActiveSync but webOS does, that's the reason traveler not working in WP7. Also WP7 doesn't support Exchange 2003 properly..it needs 2010 and above. Still wondering why active sync support was removed in WP7...I was hoping it will be added back in Mango.

Angie wrote

on Thursday 16 May, 2013 at 09:31:02 UTC

Meanwhile you can try Awesync software (www.awesync.com) to sync WP7 with Notes via Google.

Amir wrote

on Thursday 23 June, 2011 at 14:13:59 UTC

im new in lotus and domino and looking for good forum

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Rony wrote

on Saturday 18 June, 2011 at 01:37:56 UTC

Hi! one thing I use from Lotus Notes, is the "Follow Up" option:

http://runakay.blogspot.com/2011/06/using-follow-up-in-lotus-notes.html

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Murray wrote

on Thursday 09 June, 2011 at 15:44:35 UTC

Have been working with Notes & Domino since 1997 -- remember the buzz around the 4.6 release !

I/we have developed a small collection of Web enabled "apps" for SME's which some of you may find of interest. We also host them for the SME.

http://oakmont.co.uk/OakmontBusinessServicesSME.htm

http://oakmont.co.uk

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Eddie wrote

on Monday 06 June, 2011 at 15:14:28 UTC

I work with a company that sells solutions for Lotus Notes, and I use it at my station. It has such a charm to it, all the capabilities. For a big company, it still looks like a good bit. I use Google at home, and it encourages me to get in so many bad habits.

http://www.avabiz.com

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Gaurav Daga wrote

on Sunday 29 May, 2011 at 07:16:01 UTC

I could not see a most required feature: For setting default font setting of Emails. Every time I had to choose the font for outgoing mails.. really frustrating.
Can anybody please help?

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Eugene Ishchenko wrote

on Tuesday 13 September, 2011 at 19:16:32 UTC

For Eclipse (Java) interface:
While in your Mail application open "New -> Message". In that window, type a sample word/string and then select. Change it's font settings, so that they meet your default font settings. Then, with that string selected open the "Text" menu and select the "Set Current Font as Mail Default" item. Notes will prompt about the change, where you should answer positively. You're done! :) Hope this helps

polymorph wrote

on Thursday 26 May, 2011 at 15:37:36 UTC

We are currently recruiting. We are looking for a solid Lotus Notes application developer to be based in Cheshire, UK (permanent role). Any Java / .Net skills an advantage. If you are interested, please email careers@polymorph.co.uk for more info. Many thanks.

http://www.polymorph.co.uk

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The Notesman wrote

on Thursday 26 May, 2011 at 16:49:45 UTC

Fantastic opportunity for the right candidate. Great company and excellent prospects. Pity I'm tied up....

Wal Webster wrote

on Thursday 26 May, 2011 at 15:18:30 UTC

I'm sold.

With a spare machine, and well and truly over the whole Windows thing, starting from scratch, I set out yesterday (from a position of almost total ignorance about the product) to determine whether Ubuntu Linux was ready for prime time yet. I'd downloaded and burned a 10.10 CD, and it very effectively resuscitated a decidedly-moribund XP machine, in very short order.

From the start, I was very taken with the user interface, "out of the box", and really delighted that it solved the issues I'd been expecting to have with my wireless network adapter card about 20 minutes before I was ready to roll my sleeves up and tackle the problem. That was yesterday.

Today I started thinking "could it be that at last I have an affordable platform for non-profits?", and I seriously think I do. The icing on the cake would be the ability to run a Notes client on it, where I can drive some stand-alone Notes database applications that I built and am already using for my own favourite charity.

Before I could even ask that question, though, Ubuntu refreshed itself (with my consent) because it seems I just got my release 10.10 installed in time for 11.04 ("Natty Narwhal" to 10.10's "Maverick Meerkat", in the style of Ubuntu's offerings) to come along. NOT small -- some 300+Mb of download, but not an issue, either, because in the time it took me to go away and have my lunch, it had been downloaded, installed, and re-started. Sweatlessly. (How cool is this?!?!?)

Well, by this afternoon, I was ready to go looking for a Notes download, and found it quickly enough. To lay my cards on the table, I've been in the game long enough to know that I really don't want to know any more about Linux internals than I ever needed to know about Windows. Don't get me wrong -- I've more than proven myself capable of mastering the technical intricacies of software in the past, and while I know it's a real buzz to be the real boss of the box, I just don't really need that sort of fulfillment these days.

I went looking for some install instructions, and frankly couldn't easily see what I needed on IBM's impenetrable website, though I'm sure it's there somewhere. The few blogs that I skimmed effectively said, "it's dead easy, all you need do is enter this 570-odd-character command string, and Bob's your father's brother!" I wasn't too reassured, either, to see that no-one addressed the specific combination I was interested in, namely the 8.5.2 client for 32-bit Linux on Ubuntu 11.04, but it was at least acknowledged that it was too early for that.

Well, I guess I'm now THE authority, though there's really nothing to know. I downloaded the "tar" (400+Mb) while I was away from my desk feeding the dogs, and came back to find the contents nicely itemized. Wasn't altogether clear what was what, but the 306Mb piece HAD to be the Notes client, so I just did a bit of double-clicking, and the install process launched itself.

AND IT WORKED!!!

(very swiftly, too, compared to a Windows install.)

A bit of setup and validation, and I've already opened and used my primary database, which I'd loaded onto the machine yesterday.

My congratulations to everyone (else) who made my experience so enjoyably possible. And my condolences to everyone who's on an earlier platform. I know I'm the tourist that a former boss of mine had in mind when he said, "You know how you can tell the pioneers from the tourists? They're the ones with the arrows in their backs ..."

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errm ... Wal Webster again wrote

on Tuesday 07 June, 2011 at 02:48:13 UTC

One small reminder of the good ol' days -- next morning, Ubuntu 11.04 "failed to thrive", as they say. In fact, it hung at boot, and couldn't be persuaded to start ("oh, the old frozen-mouse bug", the forums said ...)..

The good news is that a total refresh over the original 10.10 base, re-installed from a standing start, appears to have been a mere formality.

John Dillon wrote

on Tuesday 28 June, 2011 at 07:10:24 UTC

I played with Domino on Ubuntu back around Ubuntu 7.04 on a pre-Y2K Gateway home unit: 256 MB of RAM, P3-900 processor, etc.... you know, OLD hardware.

Ubuntu ran great right out the box. I added Apache as web server. It worked. I added CUPS as a print server. It worked. I added Domino 7. It worked.

Amazing!

More recently I found a great guide to installing Domino on top of Ubuntu and saw that it works even better than when on ancient hardware.

I've got it replicating with a Windows-based Domino box, and all the other usual stuff. It ALL works.

Good work, IBM! I sing your praises in all my classes (I'm an occasional college professor.)

http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tutorial/Build-a-complete-Lotus-Domino-85-server-for-400?asrc=EM_NLT_9299984&track=NL-598&ad=726826&

Karen Hooper wrote

on Monday 23 May, 2011 at 13:23:38 UTC

I am a passionate Lotus Notes person, so much so that I wrote a Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide...you can get it on Amazon. There is also a Lite version that includes 3 chapters, Interface, Mail and Mail Tools.

http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Lotus-Notes-User-Guide/dp/1849680205

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pehr L? wrote

on Wednesday 20 July, 2011 at 18:26:29 UTC

Inform me please Psa@city.dk

treay wrote

on Thursday 19 May, 2011 at 12:40:07 UTC

Another plus - Female Notes admins are usually much hotter then their Exchange counterparts!!!

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Somebody wrote

on Wednesday 01 June, 2011 at 09:38:30 UTC

Show examples;-)!

wrote

on Friday 17 June, 2011 at 00:15:34 UTC

Pics or it didnt happen

James D wrote

on Thursday 19 May, 2011 at 10:23:27 UTC

Hi There,

I am fairly new to Lotus notes and I know it sounds like a small thing - but I hoping one of you can help

Can you get Lotus notes to remember your previously entered email address' like you can in that microsoft version that we dont mention :)

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Dave S. wrote

on Friday 20 May, 2011 at 12:09:06 UTC

Hi James,

Yes there is, in Lotus Notes we have something called "Recent contacts" in you address book.

You can enable this feature in your Lotus Notes preferences (file --> preferences --> contacts)

Greetz,
Dave

Dik wrote

on Wednesday 22 June, 2011 at 11:49:32 UTC

This is really a comment on the solution given by Dave S...
I'm new to Notes and I find it clunky compared to Outlook. Having to type in commonly used email addresses is just one example, so I was delighted to find a way to avoid this. Unfortunately the Notes implementation at my new employer does not include a Contacts option under File -> Preferences. Are there any other ways to achieve the same thing?

Dave wrote

on Thursday 29 September, 2011 at 21:41:29 UTC

You would need Lotus Notes 8 or greater for this feature.

Hrushikesh P wrote

on Friday 13 May, 2011 at 15:15:28 UTC

The Lotus notes is an excellent software provided by IBM and perfectly suitable for office environment.
The features are uncountable!!!!!!!!
We can develop almost any type of application in notes within less effort and if the same application tries to build in another technology it take huge number of efforts.
Thanks to IBM Lotus notes

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Dave Hay wrote

on Saturday 07 May, 2011 at 20:56:11 UTC

Lotus Notes 8.5.3 CD4 on Ubuntu 11.04 with the oh-so-nice Unity desktop, looking good, looking VERY good

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Murray Sinclair wrote

on Thursday 05 May, 2011 at 04:44:02 UTC

After 20 years of using and developing in Lotus Notes, I still love it.
It has survived many challenges from dishonest competitors to terrible marketing. It's still one of the best solution platforms around.

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jhenie wrote

on Friday 15 July, 2011 at 02:12:35 UTC

wow!
Great to to hear!

Per Andersen wrote

on Saturday 30 April, 2011 at 06:09:40 UTC

Perfect with some advocates for Lotus Notes. Love it - been working since 1991 version 2......What makes Notes great is all the different apps and add-ons you can get. So what about a Signature Solution - get Crossware Mail Signature - come and see us at UKLUG in Manchester. Get a free trial http://www.crossware.co.nz/cmsdownload

http://www.crossware.co.nz

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Akash wrote

on Tuesday 19 April, 2011 at 08:19:16 UTC

Can anyone please help me with installing lotus notes client. Lotus Notes Server has been installed on 10.71.1.10 server IP.

Now I want to install Lotus Notes 8.0.2 on Client PCs. I need to know where to store the .id files (in server or client).

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Stuart McRae wrote

on Tuesday 19 April, 2011 at 14:12:17 UTC

You have multiple choices. The traditional way was to distribute the ID file on a floppy disk (guess that would be a USB key, shared file or web mail, now) for the user to provide at the appropriate point at the install process. The easiest way is to deploy ID Vault in Notes 8.5 - then the client will automatically retrieve it when needed (and you just need to tell the user the password to specify initially).

http://www.smcrae.com

wrote

on Tuesday 19 April, 2011 at 18:04:16 UTC

Thanks for the response Stuart,

But, Is there any place where I can be spoon-fed to install Lotus Notes Client. Any Video or other alternate.

Akash wrote

on Wednesday 20 April, 2011 at 06:25:00 UTC

Hey Stuart, Any update or assistance possible for me!

Murray wrote

on Thursday 05 May, 2011 at 04:40:19 UTC

Hi Akash,
Try this video on YT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-Ayc8_7h4

Nigel Dawson wrote

on Thursday 14 April, 2011 at 14:22:28 UTC

Great idea to highlight things Notes does well, particularly with 8.5.2, features such as saving email as eml files which is even better with the File navigator widget so you can drag & drop an email from your inbox to a folder on your C: drive

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Lina Farr wrote

on Thursday 14 April, 2011 at 08:55:05 UTC

Very well organised event today - well done Polymorph! Lotus was proud to be the centre of attention and thanks to all our customers for attending LCTY! Can't wait until the next one...

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TheNotesMan wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 20:45:02 UTC

Lotusphere says it all. What an amazing event. It's like one big family. It is one of the many reasons I LOVE LOTUS NOTES.

The other is you can deliver a full collaborative, workflow enabled and secure business application in a fifth of the time it would take with microsoft !

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James Lovell wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 13:21:40 UTC

A very enjoyable day at LCTY. Lots of exciting new stuff coming from Lotus...

http://www.csiltd.co.uk

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spradders wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 13:19:42 UTC

Having a great day talking to all sorts of organisations about the cool way they're using Lotus software.... fantastic stuff at the Polymorph LCTY event.

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Bob Naismith wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 13:18:04 UTC

Notes supports our business and helps my customers get real return from their investment.

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TheNotesMan wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 12:39:48 UTC

Brilliant event, same again next year !
Well done Polymorph !!

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Emma wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 11:38:32 UTC

J'adore Lotus Notes xxx mmmwwwa

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Mary Kelly wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 11:30:53 UTC

I love lotus and it nice to see so many people agree with me here at LCTY in Warrington

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Gill Nunn wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 11:29:07 UTC

Great event - LCTY 2011 - thanks Polymorph

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Dip Patel wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 11:27:31 UTC

Great event at LCTY in Warrington, UK. Well organised by Polymorph, thank you

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Kathryn Payne wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 11:10:44 UTC

having an amazing time an Lotusphere Comes to You - brilliant event - follow the tweets for more feedback and looking forward to seeing you there next year!

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jhen wrote

on Wednesday 13 April, 2011 at 08:29:55 UTC

Sad sad.. Microsoft is really fighting again Lotus Notes.... Please promote Lotus notes more!!!

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ACT! for Lotus Notes wrote

on Friday 08 April, 2011 at 18:38:05 UTC

An example of the new and improved search capabilities in ACT for Lotus Notes

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Andrzej Szmyt (Epacta SI) wrote

on Friday 08 April, 2011 at 10:51:19 UTC

KANBAN board in IBM Lotus Notes.
Easy way to manage your tasks.
Powered by xpages.

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Trisha Hazarika wrote

on Thursday 07 April, 2011 at 14:49:25 UTC

Lotus Notes is so cool - only when you use it - you know it !! :)

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Erich Geissbuehler wrote

on Tuesday 05 April, 2011 at 09:53:45 UTC

Greetings to all Lotus Notes users and lovers.

I am Working with Lotus Notes since 1999 from version 3.x. I am a great lover of Lotus Notes. I can't really understand why people are saying it sucks, SharePoint should be better and faster. I believe because they have less knowledge of lotus notes and no idea for groupware.

Love You :-)

http://www.btag.ch

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Abdul Raheem wrote

on Friday 01 April, 2011 at 19:42:05 UTC

Lotus Notes is a very simplified application development platform that can fullfill all IT needs of any small to medium size organisation. As well as fullfill at least 30% of IT needs of any large size organisation.

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Joe Singer wrote

on Tuesday 29 March, 2011 at 13:49:22 UTC

New version of ACT! for Notes...phase 2 coming this summer will be done in Xpages

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Jyotiprakash Mohanty wrote

on Saturday 26 March, 2011 at 02:39:16 UTC

I love Lotus Notes because of it's Rapid Application Development capabilities. Develop once and runs everywhere.

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Thursday 17 March, 2011 at 23:24:56 UTC

We will be at the UK's premier post Lotusphere event, Lotusphere Comes to You on 13th April 2011 - if you are going come see us & post live on to I Love Lotus Notes at the event!

Hope to see you there..!

http://www.LCTY.co.uk

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Episode 3 - training is a MUST when deploying ACT for Lotus Notes wrote

on Monday 28 February, 2011 at 17:58:43 UTC

The most important aspect of deploying software is user adoption. User Adoption can only happen when the users are given direction on how to use the application and are trained as to how to use the system in a uniform way

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Episode 2 - Now that you have purchased ACT for NOtes....what now? wrote

on Wednesday 16 February, 2011 at 19:22:47 UTC

There are many items to consider when you deploy ACT for Lotus Notes....enjoy!!!!

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Epacta SI wrote

on Tuesday 15 February, 2011 at 13:37:04 UTC

IBM Lotus Notes & Siemens phone central office integrated...

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Joe Singer wrote

on Friday 11 February, 2011 at 14:37:04 UTC

Is ACT! for Lotus Notes right for your organization?

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Jeni wrote

on Friday 11 February, 2011 at 08:34:20 UTC

I'm also a lotus developer--just 1 year...Please promote lotus notes more....!

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Jens wrote

on Wednesday 02 March, 2011 at 13:43:39 UTC

Great .... new people in the communitiy are fresh blood for an excellent environment

Pat Sawyer wrote

on Tuesday 08 February, 2011 at 19:07:01 UTC

Thanks to the ilovelotusnotes.net guys. We need more evangelists like you. Also thanks to the ilovelotusnotes.net guys for the t-Shirt. Yes I did wear it on the Wed night party.

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Tuesday 08 February, 2011 at 19:18:28 UTC

thank Pat! much appreciated. glad you like the t-shirt!

friend of alan wrote

on Saturday 05 February, 2011 at 12:23:25 UTC

does anyone know if alan found any single IT girls at lotusphere?!

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polymorph wrote

on Saturday 29 January, 2011 at 21:19:21 UTC

we've created a video showing the salvation army's use of our lotus notes based help desk product across the world. we love lotus notes...and it looks like the salvation army does too!!

http://www.helpdeskpro.co.uk

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Thomas Kuchenbrod wrote

on Sunday 06 February, 2011 at 13:28:52 UTC

Is this really Sarah Palin ? =;-)

Pettrie @ ilionx wrote

on Thursday 26 May, 2011 at 20:42:53 UTC

Yes they use Lotus Notes, see this link also: (it is in dutch)
Leger Des Heils en ilionx winnaar IBM Company Challenge

http://www.ilionx.com/nieuws/9852/

ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Friday 28 January, 2011 at 17:43:53 UTC

Are you going to Lotusphere 2011..? If so, follow us on twitter and pick up your free I Love Lotus Notes T-shirt...!!

See you in Orlando..!!

http://twitter.com/ILoveLotusNotes

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Mike P wrote

on Wednesday 26 January, 2011 at 08:46:45 UTC

I'm a web developer by training but when I started using Notes (with R5 training, then progressed to R7) everything changed. Where else can you get a fully-functional web application with an enterprise database backend in under a few hours? Sweet.

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Julian wrote

on Tuesday 25 January, 2011 at 17:22:09 UTC

Hello Guys
I need to take lot 952 exam certification, I was browsing on internet and I found too many test guide preparation. I need to chose the best one, any recommendations ? thanks a lot

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Cal wrote

on Wednesday 26 January, 2011 at 14:49:06 UTC

We've always used 'CertFX' for practice questions and found them to be a very close reflection of the actual tests in almost all exams!

http://www.certfx.com/p-221-lot-952-ibm-lotus-notes-domino-85-application-development-fundamentals.aspx

Kittie wrote

on Thursday 31 March, 2011 at 21:43:08 UTC

I had used the CertFX tests in the past and they were fine. However the 8.x and 8.5 tests were awful. Both SysAdmin and Dev tests were 'off', had wrong answers, etc. Both myself and our developer ended up purchasing practice tests from examsheets and other vendors that were much more helpful. Very disappointed in CertFX.

Anyone else have similar issues?

steve wrote

on Monday 24 January, 2011 at 10:37:26 UTC

Short clip from Lotusphere 2010 opening session - just a few people there!!!

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Victor wrote

on Monday 24 January, 2011 at 07:43:45 UTC

Well I really like Lotus Notes. I been with 5 different Multi National company and all of them use Lotus Notes :P I can't really understand why people are saying it sucks?? But for the point of view as desk worker, I really love it!!!

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Jhenie wrote

on Friday 11 February, 2011 at 09:25:15 UTC

I agree with you.. Some people say it sucks..i believe because they have less knowledge of lotus notes

IT support wrote

on Friday 21 January, 2011 at 00:31:53 UTC

Lotusphere starts in 10 days!

http://www.affordableseofl.com

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Mobile Admin is Now on SALE !!! wrote

on Tuesday 18 January, 2011 at 16:52:37 UTC

I love Lotus Notes so much. And also I love my BlackBerry with Lotus Notes Mails :))

So I developed an application for both of them and waiting for you my friends ... I hope, you like it ...

For most Lotus Domino Admin & Developers, life saver, Mobile A

http://www.blackberrytool.com

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Ken Haggman wrote

on Friday 07 January, 2011 at 07:57:16 UTC

For all the Lotus Notes developers out there - NotesHound is now free!
You get 18 tools absolutely free.
Some of the tools are really useful to administrators as well.

http://noteshound.com

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steve wrote

on Thursday 06 January, 2011 at 14:07:58 UTC

IBM have added full colour images for Notes workspace icons in Lotus Notes version 8.5.2 (finally) - thanks IBM, you took your time, but I'm glad you've done it!

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Rocky Bevins wrote

on Thursday 06 January, 2011 at 06:54:52 UTC

I've been a lotus developer since v6, and it is a very capable platform. The real issues tend to be poor development and design. Most complaints concern the GUI, and those issues are nearly gone thanks to 8.5 -- and with web access could be avoided in the first place.

Doclinks, speed of development, better email, a vBasic subset, JAVA, xpages, backed by IBM, replication, test of time, security! I love lotus notes.

http://www.lexingtondesigner.com

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Nagarajan PV wrote

on Saturday 01 January, 2011 at 12:15:17 UTC

Seasons Greetings to all Lotus Notes users and lovers.

I am Working with Lotus Notes since 1999 from version 4.x. I am a great lover of Lotus Notes especially for its capability in terms of coming up with an application quickly.

http://www.csscorp.com

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Oliver wrote

on Wednesday 29 December, 2010 at 18:33:05 UTC

Hello there!
I am very split concerning Lotus Notes and the whole stuff besides, but if it comes to web techs Notes is still a great product. Though i am currently struggeling with C&S this platform offers a lot more than only just mail & stuff.
Why do not check out our company driven website jNotes, featuring topics all around Notes and Java and a lot more. Sorry, this is in German only, but driven by a CMS on Lotus Notes - which I developed myself ;-)
Hope to see you!
Wish you a wonderful start to 2011!
p.s.: please do not use fireworks, only watch others wasting their money ;-)

http://www.jnotes.de

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Philippe Abadie wrote

on Wednesday 29 December, 2010 at 12:49:44 UTC

Hi, I worked on Lotus Notes version 2.0 since late 1991 in Monterrey - Mexico. Since then I love to date him, because of its speed, simplicity and harmony, to develop simple or complex applications thereby delivering critical applications and remarkable customer they have on the lot of satisfaction because they can meet their objectives and concerns. During these years I have developed in different technologies such as J2EE,. Net, Sharepoint and IT architecture, but still prefer for everything I've mentioned Lotus Notes. Today I have my own company in Santiago de Chile, I service all of these technologies and I am happy to have one of Chile's most important customers in the financial area and has won awards for Innovation, and still using Lotus Notes from 1995, thanks to our efforts and overall strategic partnership with them, with 10,500 users! Thanks for making a product like this, with so many applications for business and add each year enabling technologies and integrate with all new technological trends!

http://www.philippeabadie.com

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AD wrote

on Tuesday 28 December, 2010 at 02:08:03 UTC

Seasons Greetings to all Lotus Notes fans..!!

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Scott Sullivan wrote

on Wednesday 22 December, 2010 at 13:54:42 UTC

Lotusphere says it all. What an amazing event. It's like one big family. It is one of the many reasons I LOVE LOTUS NOTES. If your budget won't allow you to go this year, Notes Code and gracious sponsors are giving away a trip to LS11.

http://notescode.net/2010/12/525/

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Gayathri Viswanathan wrote

on Wednesday 22 December, 2010 at 06:23:09 UTC

Lotus Notes Enthusiast and Developer since 1994 - I love the backwards compatibility and the new capabilities which are increasing day by day

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Feri wrote

on Friday 17 December, 2010 at 21:39:44 UTC

Lotus Notes developer since 1994: it rules more and more with every new version.

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The Notesadvocate wrote

on Friday 17 December, 2010 at 12:14:53 UTC

Rapid Application Development (RAD) - I know it wouldn't be glamorous but I can (via a template) build a Lotus Notes database and have it posted on a server and be doing Collaboration with coworkers via doclinks in under 30 mins. Shoot it would even be web enabled via the Domino server. Nobody else can say that.

http://www.famcomp.net

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The Notesadvocate wrote

on Thursday 09 December, 2010 at 12:45:24 UTC

Doclinks Microsoft people don't get doclinks. Doclinks were the precursor to URL links long before the web was all the rage.

Another thing is reusing e-mails you have already sent. You can sort of do it in Outlook mail but it is far from the same and not near as easy.

http://www.famcomp.net

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Vaughan Rivett wrote

on Thursday 09 December, 2010 at 04:58:06 UTC

I have been using Lotus Notes for about 15 years and still like it a lot. I have been a fan for a long time......wish I could say it has been 21 years!

http://www.vaughanrivett.co.nz

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NewNotesUser wrote

on Tuesday 07 December, 2010 at 19:11:50 UTC

I have 8.5.2 basic (-sa) Lotus Notes and a coworker changed her name. I cannot figure out how to remove name from recent contacts so it doesnt auto populate.... Any assistance would be great as I have searched atleast 6 different search term combinations.

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Ryan wrote

on Wednesday 08 December, 2010 at 10:33:05 UTC

Go into your personal address book, "recent contacts" - and remove the email address you don't want.

Also, go into 'More/Preferences' (from the same view) and tick the 'Do not Automatically Add'...if you want to.

There you go!

Denny Russell wrote

on Monday 24 January, 2011 at 16:45:24 UTC

You can also Right-click the mouse on the entry when it appears and choose "Delete".

http://www.lotusdr.com

ray wrote

on Tuesday 07 December, 2010 at 10:12:51 UTC

Happy Birthday Lotus Notes - 21 today!!!

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Andy wrote

on Friday 03 December, 2010 at 18:54:22 UTC

Love the new site model. Makes me think back to "I am superman" from R5

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Mike wrote

on Friday 14 January, 2011 at 16:50:47 UTC

Love that ad.

Great times

Pettrie @ilionx wrote

on Thursday 26 May, 2011 at 20:46:53 UTC

Does anybody have this video in HD format? It is the best Lotus Notes video of all time, really love it!

Megan Moyer wrote

on Friday 03 December, 2010 at 16:08:28 UTC

Today's the last day for early bird pricing for Lotusphere 2011. Who's going?

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2011/

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Friday 03 December, 2010 at 16:22:35 UTC

We're definitely going! See you there!

ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Wednesday 01 December, 2010 at 16:08:14 UTC

She loves Lotus Notes too!

Sent by Graeme

http://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/websites/lovenotes.nsf/DSC_0386.jpg

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Wednesday 01 December, 2010 at 15:16:55 UTC

Oh Yes!

sent by Graeme

http://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/websites/lovenotes.nsf/DSC_0385.jpg

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Myriah wrote

on Monday 29 November, 2010 at 19:36:39 UTC

I love lotus notes because our junior Lotus Notes developer wrote an application in 18 hours, that would have taken our .NET developer 5 weeks.
I love the trans log back ups, and clustering that has been available for years.
Now having said that I am at a client site where they have decided to convert Lotus Notes mail to Exchange and applications to .NET.
This is a done deal and there is nothing I can do. It is political as far as I am concerned. Are there support groups for people like me? Feel free to email me at misswind@gmail.com as I don't want to clutter this wonderful site with negativity.

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dave wrote

on Friday 26 November, 2010 at 18:32:12 UTC

i've just knocked together an online survey for our employees using lotus notes. took me 2 hours. that's one example of why i love lotus notes!

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chas wrote

on Thursday 18 November, 2010 at 15:21:16 UTC

Albert wrote
on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:23:02 UTC
One would hope IBM marketing would be as good as product is.

Lotus Notes is not an email product.

i agree completely!!!!

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jumbo wrote

on Thursday 18 November, 2010 at 15:32:40 UTC

exactly - it's SO much more than that!

Jim Ryan wrote

on Sunday 14 November, 2010 at 19:41:13 UTC

They get everywhere those ILoveLotusNotes.net people...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/idonotes/5163882474/in/set-72157625224032311/

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Sunday 14 November, 2010 at 21:42:32 UTC

Ha ha - fantastic...well spotted!!

RTG wrote

on Wednesday 10 November, 2010 at 05:27:44 UTC

Wednesday nights at Lotusphere. That's why I love Lotus Notes.

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hi from Lotus Notes fan wrote

on Saturday 06 November, 2010 at 21:50:59 UTC

I just came across your blog and glad that there are some people that still like/love Lotus Notes!

http://www.ibsi-us.com

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Michael Sobczak wrote

on Friday 05 November, 2010 at 20:48:25 UTC

The user group meetings rock!

http://www.aktion.com/events/may-18-detroit-notes-user-group-meeting

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Michael M wrote

on Friday 05 November, 2010 at 15:12:28 UTC

I've just started getting to grips with the joys of Live Text with surprisingly good results. Next stop, XPages. MM

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Graeme Gilbertson wrote

on Wednesday 03 November, 2010 at 20:02:06 UTC

Working my way through the MS Access apps in the office and re-writing them all using the power of Lotus Notes.

The users never knew we could do so much with it - and they all say it makes their life so much easier!!!

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Graeme Gilbertson wrote

on Wednesday 03 November, 2010 at 19:51:45 UTC

Just got my T-Shirt - A huge thx to you!!!!!

I can wear it in the office proudly!!!!

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Wednesday 03 November, 2010 at 19:56:45 UTC

You're welcome!...where's the photo now?!

Graeme wrote

on Wednesday 03 November, 2010 at 19:59:52 UTC

Photo to be taken in the office tomorrow - will post it on FB tomorrow night!

Cheers again!!!!!!!!

lotus notes support wrote

on Saturday 06 November, 2010 at 21:55:53 UTC

how do i get a i-shirt?

http://www.ibsi-us.com

ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Saturday 06 November, 2010 at 22:43:11 UTC

Send us an email (link on the right) with your name and address...preference over medium and large, and whether you want semi naked girl logo or semi-naked man! We've got a few t-shirts left, happy to send them to a good home!

Alan Scott wrote

on Thursday 11 November, 2010 at 10:19:49 UTC

sad git :o)

ok, i admit it, i want one too...

Cedros wrote

on Wednesday 03 November, 2010 at 09:33:30 UTC

We just finished our Quickr Connector for the Lotus Notes Basic Client. All poor customers who are forced to use Xitrix or whatever, now can continue loving lotus notes :-)

http://www.cedros.com

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Mr Porter wrote

on Tuesday 02 November, 2010 at 13:10:43 UTC

It's official. Lotus Notes is cool.

http://www.notesiscool.com/

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Darren wrote

on Tuesday 02 November, 2010 at 10:41:44 UTC

Love it that you're loving Lotus Notes on ilovelotusnotes.net - now come and get an extra big hug at notesiscool.com

http://www.notesiscool.com

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Friday 29 October, 2010 at 16:32:25 UTC

If you are attending the Irish Lotus User Group (ILUG) in November this year, be sure to pick up your free ilovelotusnotes.net t-shirt (limited stocks). Even better - there's a prize for the most 'interesting' photo of you in one of the t-shirts! please email your photo to info@ilovelotusnotes.net

http://www.ilug2010.org

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Sean Cull wrote

on Friday 29 October, 2010 at 11:47:16 UTC

I Love Lotus Notes because my boring old Lotus Notes databases can look like this

http://www.deliverytoolkit.com/moc

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Darren wrote

on Saturday 30 October, 2010 at 01:02:40 UTC

And you can smarten up your old Lotus Notes applications, and integrate them with other solutions, web pages... and Symphony. See this link, no coding required to graph your Lotus Notes data.

http://www.dadams.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/employeerecs.png

Benoit Dubuc wrote

on Wednesday 27 October, 2010 at 20:46:39 UTC

Lotus Notes/Domino is a lot faster to produce small, medium and large web applications. I have been into .Net a lot lately as I thought I would go with that technology for an upcoming web project, but Lotus Notes is so much faster and so much easier to deploy that I came back to my first love!

If you need RADD (rapid application development and deployment) then Lotus Notes is the way to go.

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how to get started with lotus notes web development? wrote

on Thursday 28 October, 2010 at 13:52:50 UTC

I can make a database or two (non-eclipse development) but how can a guy like me learn how to get into web creation? very wet behind the ears with web dev?

Sean Cull wrote

on Friday 29 October, 2010 at 20:13:11 UTC

The best place to get started is here

http://xpages.info

Bernd Blue wrote

on Sunday 24 October, 2010 at 17:25:19 UTC

The manchester airport used also Lotus Notes as Webserver:

http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf#247

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Piyush Mathur wrote

on Tuesday 30 November, 2010 at 09:47:33 UTC

So Does Indian Farmer Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO)

http://www.iffco.nic.in/applications/iffcowebr5.nsf/?Open

Mika Heinonen wrote

on Friday 22 October, 2010 at 21:55:35 UTC

The Finnish police uses Lotus Notes:

http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/pages/0F1952F245FE4200C22571CE004C0912?opendocument

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Mika Heinonen wrote

on Friday 22 October, 2010 at 18:44:10 UTC

Lotus Notes is the only Web Server which allows drag and drop of attachments (comes in XPages 8.5.2+).

http://www.siipi.com/mika

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Gayle Elgort wrote

on Friday 22 October, 2010 at 14:53:56 UTC

This is also Lotus Notes:

http://linkjam.elguji.com

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Bruce Elgort wrote

on Friday 22 October, 2010 at 01:39:40 UTC

This too is Lotus Notes

http://iqjam.net

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Johnny Castro wrote

on Thursday 21 October, 2010 at 23:20:26 UTC

I have 11 years developing applications in lotus notes, and for me is the best platform to make solutions. It is really easy. You can make great solutions in a short time. johcasal@hotmail.com

johcasal@hotmail.com

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Dougie wrote

on Thursday 21 October, 2010 at 20:55:26 UTC

Love the new pic is that ray Ozzie back in the day??

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Bruce Elgort wrote

on Thursday 21 October, 2010 at 17:05:17 UTC

This is Lotus Notes...

http://ideajam.net

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Andy DZ wrote

on Wednesday 20 October, 2010 at 08:48:20 UTC

It is still Super Human Software.!

http://www.lotusmuseum.com/files/I_Am_Sign.JPG

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Frank Cseh wrote

on Monday 18 October, 2010 at 19:45:20 UTC

Is it a dying beauty, or just blame the recession. Less known as it would deserve.
I'm with Lotus Notes since 1991

http://tinyurl.com/FrankCseh

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Guido Fischer wrote

on Friday 15 October, 2010 at 15:17:22 UTC

try to build an application like this in a few days and behind all you got a webserver, a full text engine, a mail server and a lot of integration tools.

http://www.rocad.de/rememberme.nsf/home?Openpage

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Patrick Sawyer wrote

on Tuesday 19 October, 2010 at 20:26:24 UTC

Wow, that really looks great!

Hope to see it when its completed.

Ivan Petruv wrote

on Thursday 14 October, 2010 at 19:44:30 UTC

I found great videos on youtube from David Allen

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Ryan Heathers wrote

on Friday 22 October, 2010 at 01:56:43 UTC

Thanks for posting that video of David. He's a huge Lotus Notes fan. After all, he's been using Notes for over 15+ years! Maybe IBM Lotus should work with him to bring visibility to Lotus Notes...

You can see other clips from our conversation with David about Notes & more

- Ryan @ eProductivity (the people behind this video)

http://www.eproductivity.com/medialibrary

Anthony Harris wrote

on Thursday 14 October, 2010 at 08:38:24 UTC

We all love lotus notes, no doubt about it. I've seen a big shift toward intones this year, anyone else noticed that?

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Joe Singer wrote

on Wednesday 13 October, 2010 at 23:45:24 UTC

I am an owner of Vigilus LLC the developer of ACT! for Lotus Notes CRM.

This is a great site and I am really happy to have found it.

http://vigilus.net/Website/index.html

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Darren wrote

on Thursday 14 October, 2010 at 21:02:40 UTC

Fantastically shameless self-promotion... good for you Joe ;o)

Thanks for providing applications that run on Lotus Notes. I know that a great many businesses get a lot of value from your solution.

Fabietto wrote

on Wednesday 13 October, 2010 at 09:33:33 UTC

Working with Lotus Notes since version 2.x (don't remember the year..) Really happy , a lot of challenges succesfully won with Lotus Notes. I'd like to see more new installation here in Italy.

http://brontolio.blogspot.com/

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polymorph wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 19:30:32 UTC

Lotus / Lotus Notes very alive in the UK. We (Polymorph) hosted a very busy 'Lotusphere Comes To You' earlier this year, here's the video:

http://www.polymorph.co.uk

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Bruce Elgort wrote

on Thursday 14 October, 2010 at 02:15:49 UTC

love the video. Good stuff.

http://Www.elguji.com

Carl Goos wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 11:49:29 UTC

Let?

http://www.notes-signatur.de

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David Vasta wrote

on Wednesday 27 October, 2010 at 16:13:07 UTC

Very nice Carl. Good to see you online here.

Cristian D'Aloisio wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 11:31:37 UTC

I work with Lotus Notes / Domino since 1997!
Still an amazing product, and getting better.

http://www.dominobaloney.com

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Krishna wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 10:50:25 UTC

I am using Lotus Notes from past 6.5 years. Its best software product from IBM.

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Baron Greenback wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 09:00:47 UTC

What other enterprise messaging platform has well designed, complete webmail support for the iPhone and iPad within months of their release?
Absolutely none, years if you're lucky with competitors!

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Lisa Whitsell wrote

on Tuesday 12 October, 2010 at 01:12:20 UTC

My company has been creating applications using Lotus Notes / Domino for over 12 years. So far there is not an application we have not been able to build using the software.

http://www.whitsellconsulting.com

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Paul Farrow wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 22:47:41 UTC

Lotus Notes Traveler on Windows Phone 7....anyone?

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Bryan wrote

on Friday 15 October, 2010 at 15:58:26 UTC

I'd like to know this myself but haven't found any information on it. Left a blog note with Ed Brill as well, still nothing noted.

Jim Engle wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 21:17:27 UTC

Keep the cupid man. It adds an edgyness to the site, besides I have seen him in the labs at Lotusphere.

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Jim Engle wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 21:07:49 UTC

We have been asked to do a lot of custom Lotus Notes development of late and we have been able to keep the customer cost low and the application functionality high because of the ease development within Lotus Notes / Domino.

Eleven years ago we made Lotus Notes / Domino our strategic focus and our clients reinforce the correctness of that decision every day.

http://www.rprwyatt.com

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Ed Brill wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 19:06:25 UTC

I've spent most of my adult life working in and around Lotus Notes. My colleagues and I have brought the product a long way since the days of OS/2, NetBIOS, and stacks of floppy disks. My current mission is to help the current marketplace learn, understand, and succeed with Notes 8.5 and beyond for messaging and collaboration. Looking forward to the next 20 years of Lotus Notes.

--Ed

http://www.edbrill.com

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Tasos Christidis wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 17:26:50 UTC

Back in 2002 another Lotus Notes developer (!) said to me: "you are crazy thinking that you can create an accounting system on lotus notes".
Well, I did, and now our small Greek Company is taking its "inexistent" software to USA!

http://tchristidis.blogspot.com

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Roy Rumaner wrote

on Tuesday 26 October, 2010 at 22:11:36 UTC

I am proud to be involved in this endeavorer. It shows that Lotus Notes/Domino can be used to build incredibly complex and detailed applications that are easy to use and deploy.

Roy Rumaner wrote

on Tuesday 26 October, 2010 at 23:00:09 UTC

I am proud to be involved in bringing this amazing software to the US. People are finally going to realize that Domino can do anything if you put enough thought behind and work into developing it.

Roland Reddekop wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 16:33:19 UTC

That cupid man is well "repulsive". Please change :-)

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 16:40:25 UTC

watch this space! new imagery coming in next few weeks (just for you!)

PS Be careful what you wish for!!

Add link to LotusKnows wrote

on Sunday 10 October, 2010 at 16:07:50 UTC

You should add a link to Lotus Knows, its an IBM initiative and is gaining momentum.

Andrew Broxholme

http://www.lotusknows.com

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Monday 11 October, 2010 at 16:48:31 UTC

ta-da!

Doug M wrote

on Friday 08 October, 2010 at 19:37:25 UTC

Lotus Notes is great it has kept me in the lifestyle I have become accustomed to by developing 'great' products

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HelterSkelter wrote

on Friday 08 October, 2010 at 23:05:50 UTC

Lotus Notes is an Essential Bit of Software when used correctly and by the right people - long live Lotus Notes & Lotus Domino

Rayd wrote

on Saturday 16 October, 2010 at 13:43:05 UTC

Essential! Get it! Good one Doug!

Alan Forbes wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 17:40:30 UTC

I love the fact that IBM is putting on FREE xPages seminars to help us leverage this new technology. (at IBM Waltham MA USA today)

http://www.rprwyatt.com

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Andy Higgins wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 17:38:29 UTC

Lotus Notes/Domino rocks as does Sametime.
An incredibly versatile product matched only by Microsoft Office, Exchange, OCS, Sharepoint, Active Directory in combination....
Small business take note - it's still your best choice!

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Brian O'Curran wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 16:28:07 UTC

LOL! that picture is AWESOME!

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Eric Jewett wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 15:35:26 UTC

I've been at it for a few years. I was "sold" from our first very basic discussion database reporting back on site visits, conferences, news articles, and sales contacts, back in v3.0 -- who knew we were doing BI before it was cool?
Even though my role has primarily been as an admin, there were tools enough to build more sophisticated tools to solve problems like divestitures, external directory synchronization, and records retention - quickly built to our specific needs and tweaked as we went.
What I have always seen as one of Lotus Notes/Domino's chief values is the ability to quickly develop and then evolve an application as your understanding of the problem changes. Another that was rather unique (though maybe others have caught up) is the ability to take a collection of semi-structured data and look at it from multiple perspectives, to coax out the maximum understanding.

Thanks to those "giants" who have been leading the way.

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Frank Paolino wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 14:03:31 UTC

Lotus Notes Floats My Boat!

Besides expressing my personal love for the product, I of course want to share the NotesAppStore site with everyone so they can see the vibrant apps built by Lotus Notes professionals and sold worldwide.

This third party ecosystem shows that many companies love Lotus Notes and believe in it enough to make it their main business, providing products and services to Lotus Notes users.

http://www.notesappstore.com

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LongLiveLotus wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 11:26:55 UTC

Richard Moy has it spot on -
1. Lotus Notes / Domino is one of the best software products not only for large corporations, but small businesses.
2. There is no other product that even comes close to matching the ability and versatility of Domino.
3. I have always called it the Swiss Army Knife of applications servers.
4. The total cost of ownership is incredible. I

Versatile, secure, mobile, simple, reliable, cheap, futureproof, proven over 20 years - what more do you want as CEO/CIO that this product (not 28 products to a simple job Mr Gates) does not deliver?????

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Notesadvocate wrote

on Thursday 09 December, 2010 at 13:52:13 UTC

unfortunately they want Outlook and have no clue about Notes or it's capabilities nor do they ever care.

http://www.famcomp.net

Don wrote

on Thursday 07 October, 2010 at 08:46:17 UTC

nice pic I love lotus notes!

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Julian Buss wrote

on Wednesday 06 October, 2010 at 10:42:36 UTC

I like Lotus Notes because it let me solve a wide range of business problems with exactly ONE client and ONE server - no need to jump around between different tools.

http://www.juliusbuss.de

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Jens Bruntt wrote

on Saturday 09 October, 2010 at 19:31:26 UTC

Spot on!
Lotus Notes is the IT Swiss Army knife.

http://www.jens.bruntt.dk

Liam S wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 23:32:01 UTC

I have been working with Lotus Notes 8.5 for almost 6 months now and I am impressed with the functionality and features It has all in a single application.

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JB wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 10:29:17 UTC

I love double click to close documents. Try it, I'm sure you'll love it too!!!

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Scotty_Dog wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 11:30:23 UTC

Yep, really catches me out when I use someone else's client and they've not turned it on!
:-)

Bolek wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 09:56:53 UTC

DOMINO IST HAMMER!

Oh Domino du bist so genial,
Oh Domino wir lieben dich total.

Mein Lotus ist so heiss,
Mein Lotus ist doch echt kein scheiss.

Dein Design das ist so lecker,
Auch v?

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RichM wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 13:32:03 UTC

Translation courtesy of Google Translate. (I take no responsibility for expletives!)

DOMINO IS AWESOME!

Domino Oh you are so awesome,
Domino Oh we love you totally.

My Lotus is so hot
Lotus is my shit but not really.

Your design is so delicious
Also v?

Michel Jacks wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 22:35:25 UTC

I love Lotus Notes & Domino but not Websphere

Looking forward to R9..!

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Andrzej wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 13:21:13 UTC

Miracles in Lotus Domino - part 1

An example of Lotus Domino - Flash integration.
Domino application showing data stored in a Notes db on an interactive map of Poland in web browser.
Raports titles translated to english. The rest in polish (now).

This is only a demo of course...

http://www.epacta.com.pl/epacta/mapa.nsf/mapa

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Andrzej wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 12:47:22 UTC

I am in love with Lotus Notes since 16 years!

http://www.epacta.com.pl

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Pedro Sola wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 10:40:14 UTC

just three words: "I love u"

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Axel wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 10:33:11 UTC

I like Lotus Notes better than Rational Synergy ;-)

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Trond-Martin wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 10:32:39 UTC

Lotus Traveler 8.52 work's now with meeting calendar, to call a meeting from my mobile divice bring this to a absolutely perfect travel companion!

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Manfred Dillmann wrote

on Monday 04 October, 2010 at 09:37:34 UTC

Lotus Notes / Domino is getting better with every new release. An that is true for over 20 years now!

My biggest wish: Administrator and Designer Client for the Mac! :-)

http://www.madicon.de

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Scotty_Dog wrote

on Tuesday 05 October, 2010 at 11:36:34 UTC

That would be excellent - a Linux/Mac Admin & Designer client would be the nads

Fredrik wrote

on Sunday 03 October, 2010 at 15:50:22 UTC

Can you imagine any other system that can be upgraded from one version to another so simple 8.5.1 to 8.5.2 in 15 minutes and then Traveler is also upgraded.

http://everythinglotus.blogspot.com/2010/10/cant-imagine-that-any-other-system-is.html

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Roland Reddekop wrote

on Saturday 02 October, 2010 at 01:54:31 UTC

I cannot think of a development platform that enables useful business applications to be built so quickly and economically as in Lotus Notes. As a business user in a hectic constantly changing environment Lotus Notes gives me the resources I need and the ability to all organize all my "stuff" so that I can get my job done. For the insatiably curious and power users like me, Lotus Notes has depths of capabilities that are worth plumbing.

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Lindsey wrote

on Friday 01 October, 2010 at 16:42:35 UTC

I have worked with Lotus Notes as a developer since version 3 and it has kept me employed for 14 years. I hear all the time "Lotus Notes is over move to something else - bla bla bla!". To me every year I attend a Lotus event I just see it getting bigger and better. I LOVE LOTUS NOTES!

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Amanda wrote

on Thursday 30 September, 2010 at 23:30:46 UTC

Even just for email, Lotus Notes 8.5 is HOT. And for those end users that don't want a client, the web browser version is almost as HOT (and way better than GMAIL or Outlook Web Access). Trust me, we looked at them all and battled our own MS Bigots (and won!)

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chris wrote

on Friday 01 October, 2010 at 12:55:21 UTC

not sure I would use hot as a descriptive word for Lotus Notes. While I find it fustrating at times and resource intesive it is better in my opinion than any MS offering. I am curious as to how to patch it and upgarde to the latest 8.5.2 client. If anyone can hekp it would be much appreciated.

Darren wrote

on Friday 01 October, 2010 at 17:46:02 UTC

My personal experience (and that's my caveat, this is what I've found) is that Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is a lot faster than 8.5.1, loads quicker and takes less memory. Shouldn't really be a surprise as development focus on performance as well as new features in point releases.

JP Liggett wrote

on Saturday 02 October, 2010 at 00:22:44 UTC

8.5.2 is one of the best releases ever!! Get the installation file, its easy to upgrade. The installer found my existing installation, and updated my files to the new template versions and ODS (on disk structure) 51.

David Schiffer wrote

on Thursday 30 September, 2010 at 21:16:30 UTC

My heart is yellow ;-)

http://www.atbits.de

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Darren Adams wrote

on Thursday 30 September, 2010 at 12:36:34 UTC

Loving the comments here, thanks everyone.

I agree with many of the points. Lotus Notes is not just about e-mail, far from it... secure business applications are the true differentiator, and they can be built quickly in many circumstances with Lotus Notes / Domino providing everything required.

Negative comments tend to come from users of older versions. New Lotus Notes versions are adding capabilities with each point release... not always big things, sometimes small valuable additions which make the difference.

Another key point is that Lotus Notes is proving itself to be extendible with other collaborative tools plugging in... again, proving that Lotus Notes is more than e-mail and ready for how people will collaborative in the future. Enjoy the journey.

http://www.dadams.co.uk

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Mary Beth Raven wrote

on Thursday 30 September, 2010 at 02:37:49 UTC

Whether you love or hate Lotus Notes, our design team is ready to listen.
Please follow our design blog at
www.NotesDesignBlog.com

http://www.NotesDesignBlog.com

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Robert Galati wrote

on Thursday 30 September, 2010 at 00:19:18 UTC

I love everything about Lotus Notes. Even a beginner developer like me can make some great applications on the fly.

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Scott Sullivan wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 20:19:01 UTC

Pre-registration is now open for LTAP - a virtual conference for Lotus Technical and Professional users!

http://www.ltap2010.com

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Jim Engle wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 20:03:23 UTC

One of the reasons I believe so strongly in Lotus Notes has been the comittment to reverse compatability.
I work with enterprise solutions all the time and the avoidance of the pain and cost associated with the alternative philosophy of 'Rip & Replace' is almost priceless.

http://www.rprwyatt.com

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Friso E.C. van den Berg wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 19:54:06 UTC

Lotus Notes is great, a lot of great applications and functionality wich provide a lot for my organisation. It's better, cheaper and......then MS....I love it.

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Alan Forbes wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 18:41:58 UTC

Over the years I've built several dozens of Lotus Notes applications and browser applications-- I shudder to think of how hard they would be using other technologies. Lotus Notes is awesome!

http://www.rprwyatt.com

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Paul Mooney wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 12:03:16 UTC

Judging the product at its merits from a business stand point, I wrote a post here a few months back. My "love" for the product is based on what it can do. I respect the fact the client is improving since Mary Beth Raven has been on this scene.

http://www.pmooney.net

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ADZ wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 21:15:21 UTC

Would be good to see ILoveLotusNotes.net at Lotusphere 2011 - I presume you're attending?

and maybe these guys too...

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 21:31:13 UTC

We've been for many years now - but not as 'ilovelotusnotes.net' obviously. We'll be there...

RichM wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 18:41:56 UTC

I remember reading this article a few years back. It epitomises the ignorance of hardened Microsoft users that "it's not as user friendly as Outlook", blah blah blah! Not user friendly, not intuitive, they most be holding it wrong!
Thankfully, we come across only a smattering of individuals with this attitude, but are able to seduce them with all the good stuff Lotus Notes delivers.
Long live Domino!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/feb/09/guardianweeklytechnologysection

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DrFierce wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 21:05:30 UTC

If we had to use a car analogy for the Outlook vs. Lotus Notes debate, it would go like this...

You'd have an Outlook user that would pull next to you in his Outlook car look at your Lotus Notes "car" and say: "Pffff... what a lame design: It doesn't have a steering wheel, but some kind of two hand controller... Pffff... It has those two big fins and the wheels are in a weird configuration... Pffff it's also wider and it can't be easy to drive on the highway as with my car"

Upon which you would grin, look down with pity at the Outlook user, then close the window of your plane, take off and fly in the sky instead of being stuck in traffic on the ground.

That's the difference between Outlook and Lotus Notes. One is a mail system and the other is so, so, so much more.

Pity there are so many people who think it is cool to be in a car that can do 200 miles an hour (yeah, it is cool, but dangerous...) without realizing they could be in a plane that does Mach 2 and gives you an amazing view of the world. Worse, some do realize but refuse to take a ride because they don't want to make the effort to learn about the Lotus Notes "car".

Mark Barton wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 16:28:21 UTC

Lotus Notes & Domino has been the tried and tested platform for delivering real business value and continues to lead the pack. Your costs go down and your business performance goes up.

It amazes me in the current financial situation that more business haven't realised that certain other software companies have led them up the garden path with regards to cost and features.

The problem seems that in many large organisations the tail(IT) is wagging the dog. As soon as the business demand service levels and cost benefits its surprising how fast IT Directors fall back in love with Lotus Notes.

http://markbarton.com

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Lotus Museum... wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 16:22:47 UTC

To supplement the Lotus history to 2002 video, here is the link to the virtual Lotus museum... Ah, those were good times and with everything right that Lotus is doing these days, it seems that there are still good times to be had, now and in the foreseeable future.

http://lotusmuseum.com/

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Brian O'Curran wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 01:42:29 UTC

What a blast that was, thanks for sharing all that stuff. It's amazing how much of it I remember.

Danny Lawrence wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 15:45:16 UTC

Here's an article I wrote about a catastrophic failure I had in a Domino server (hardware related, not Domino's fault). User impact -- basically zero.

This happened to me in 2000 or so, with Lotus Notes/Domino version 5 (that's 10 years and 3 major releases ago for those of you keeping track), and you know what? Exchanged STILL can't handle this sort of problem with no user impact!

http://tinyurl.com/387xhs2

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Brian Moore wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 14:05:40 UTC

I started in R3 as a user making my own little apps and I've never looked back. The product is easy and complete. It amazes me that more isn't made of a platform that can do so much for so little - heck, there is a reason why Lotus Notes Developers are so often alone: with Domino, a single person outperforms a team of .netter or Javanese (platform, not islanders)

http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/DominoHerald/?lang=en

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Mike wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 13:40:01 UTC

Let's see ...

- Build a complex, completely customizable work-flow engine for an international chemical company that approves BILLIONS of dollars a year in capital expenditures (check)

- Build a Domino social networking website for a 125k employee financial institution years before MySpace and Facebook become popular (check)

- Build an interactive Flash website with a Domino back-end to celebrate the 100+ year history of an international candy manufacturer (check)

- Build a Lotus Notes application to convert a small manufacturing shop from a paper based process and almost double revenue due to increased productivity (check)

- Build an XPages shopping cart application for a chemical company that allows their distributors to login securely and order products (check)

Yeah, I think Lotus Notes is pretty cool.

http://www.magnitudesolutions.com

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Jean wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 12:43:41 UTC

I have been working with Notes since 5.0 and it is amazing as to what it can do. In reading all of the other blogs as everyone has noticed, Lotus Notes does a lot.

Here at our company we are using Lotus Notes in every possible manner. Our manufacturing floor uses it to report missing items to the warehouse instead of tracking it down by phone calls. We use it for our application site, for all of our workflow applications. I believe we are close to 1000 different types of databases. New ideas keep evolving within our company to make things better and Lotus Notes has been the answer.

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Giulio wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 12:08:10 UTC

Hi everybody!
I work with lotus domino/notes since 1997 and i'm administrator. I worked for many customers with domino tecnology and i live this job.
I'm happy that IBM continue to develop new versions for us.
See you!

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Femke wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 11:38:31 UTC

Ten years ago I criticized a support application saying it wasn't user friendly.

The reply: "If you think Lotus Notes can do better then proof it!" I bought a book spent a summer discovering Lotus Notes... and have been ever since!

Lotus Loves People and I love Lotus!

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Scottie_Dog wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 09:39:43 UTC

I've been 'in' Lotus Notes since 1997 and used all versions from 3 to 8.5
It really annoys me seeing comments on other sites saying that Lotus Notes is this-and-that when all they need to do is use it properly or stop comparing Lotus Notes 5 with Outlook2010, we've moved on!
It's way more powerful than anything else, it has no more quirks than any other dev environment but gives you much more in return.
No other environment allows you to create powerful applications in the same (short) timescales and my clients are always wowed with what they have.
Outlook/Sharepoint/.NET all have their place, and some of those places overlap Lotus Notes, but nothing comes as 'complete' in my opinion.

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Dave W wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 14:10:21 UTC

Our Outlook enthusiasts say that Outlook can easily send a link to a file-system file (rather than attaching it) and Lotus Notes can't.

Help me answer this one coz I can't see how to do it - we're on Lotus Notes 7

Scottie_Dog wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 14:30:06 UTC

Hi Dave,

Are you programatically creating the link?
If so, you can just use the usual 'file' format as follows:

file:///c:\blah\myfile.xls
OR
file:///192.168.0.1\share\files\myfile.xls

Either put that in a hotspot or directly in the email - I'm in Lotus Notes 8 and it parses the text as a clickable link when that is emailed.
It does go via your default browser which is a little strange but works.

Either that or add a button to your form to launch the file with the following script behind it:

dim pathName as string
pathName = "c:\test.txt"
dim thirtythree as integer
thirtyThree = Shell(|cmd /C "start "ATitleWithNoSpaces" "| & pathName & |""|, 3)

Give that a whirl!

Pete wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 14:35:28 UTC

Thought about Quickr?

DrFierce wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 15:41:30 UTC

"...and Lotus Notes can't".

I am actually thankful for this snippet of phrase, because I make a really good living as a consultant showing how untrue that is.

1. From the Notes pull-down menu: Create - Hypelink
2. Provide the path and file name (example: d:\dct_report.txt)
3. Type a bit of text for the link
4. Click Ok.

Notes will convert the path into a proper URL, i.e., file:///d:/dct_report.txt and when clicked, the recipient of the e-mail will have access to the file...

...Provided he too has access to that shared drive. Seems we're back to "put everything on the shared drive and somehow ignore the mess that this generally degenerates into". But's that's an observation best left for another post.

For now, as show, it's easy to do it in Lotus Notes and Lotus Notes indeed can.

'nuff said

Dave W wrote

on Friday 15 October, 2010 at 14:17:59 UTC

There is no "Create Hyperlink" in Lotus Notes 7

Deborah wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 09:36:30 UTC

We use a Lotus Notes database to track external training requests. It has a workflow which automates all the PO generation, joining instructions and invoicing. It has cut the dross from our workload by two days a week so we can get on with more meaningful work. We have tried to do this with other systems without any success until we discovered Lotus Notes.

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Breaker Breaker One Nine wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 09:05:21 UTC

Just found a link to here from Ed Brill's site.
I have to compliment who ever set this up. It's about time the people of the world realised that Lotus Notes is still very much alive. I've been using and developing in Lotus Notes since 1993 and still get a thrill out of developing great applications.
Now, where's my mug? ;-)

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Peter May wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 06:22:39 UTC

I love Lotus Notes because:

It makes me look good when I am able to consistently deliver development projects on time, within budget, exceeding expectations.

Lotus Knows what we need, and keeps making their products better.

Five years of Lotus Notes projects paid for my house.

What a top site !

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Keith Brooks wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 02:23:46 UTC

What is there not to love about a solution that lets you not only review data from 20 years ago but still actively use it!
Try that with ANY other mail or database solution. Still running Foxpro? No. Db3+? no. Access 95, 97,2000, to today, not without some conversion process.
It...Just....WORKS!

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Marty Buckley wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 00:19:17 UTC

Here's my contribution to the FUTURE!

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Alan Lepofsky wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 23:23:44 UTC

Here's my contribution to the memories...

http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/LotusNotes1991ad.JPG/$file/LotusNotes1991ad.JPG

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Peter Presnell wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 22:17:30 UTC

I don't understand all the hype about Lotus Notes! Sure it lets developers create applications for a fraction of the cost in a fraction of the time of alternatives and deploy then them in minutes. OK, so it has a total cost of ownership much less than Exchange. ummm IBM make new releases of the software available much more frequently, and provides backward compatibility. But does it really matter that it doesn't lock you in to a single operating system, or web browser?

OK... So it's a cheaper, faster, more effective way of building collaboration solutions and it supports open standards? But apart from that, what else does it have? That's right... It doesn't have the hype that Microsoft can generate for its products that sucks in all those CEO's and CIO's who have somehow forgotten to protect their company's bottom line.

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Nathan T. Freeman wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 04:32:21 UTC

What have the Romans ever done for us? [link removed for censorship reasons - sorry!]

Chris Boote wrote

on Thursday 07 February, 2013 at 12:19:47 UTC

This should be emailed to every CIO/CTO/IT Director bamboozled by the microsoft lies and fud

DrFierce wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 22:12:54 UTC

Insipired from a deodorant commercial...

Hello users...
Now look at Exchange, now look at Notes,
Now back at Exchange now back to me,
Sadly, Exchange isn't Notes.
But if you stopped using inferior one-OS software
You could be as productive as a Notes user.
Look down, back up.
You're at a conference that everyone wants to attend
What's in your hand? back to me.
I have in my hand an oyster with a ticket to Lotusphere
The ticket is now diamonds.
Anything is possible when you use Lotus Notes,
I'll see you in Florida.

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 22:28:26 UTC

more please!! (more of the comic genius as opposed to semi-naked men) ;)

Ali wrote

on Tuesday 28 September, 2010 at 12:24:20 UTC

Hey! Why not both? :-)

ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Saturday 09 October, 2010 at 18:22:00 UTC

Male image added at top of page just for you!

Gordon Uszkay wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 22:04:00 UTC

I co-founded a consulting company in 1993 to provide Lotus Notes (v2 !) services. We delivered hundreds of applications to dozens of clients and I can say that overall it was an incredible platform. I too am perplexed by IBM's practice of unmarketing (demarketing? exmarketing?) Domino and their other software products, but after 20 years of observing it have ceased to question it).

I would say that you can do a lot of the same things now by cobbling together 5 - 7 nearly incompatible, flaky, expensive to maintain competitive or open source platforms. I just don't know why you would.

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Alan Lepofsky wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 23:21:19 UTC

Hey Gord. How are Adam, Armand, Jeff and the gang?

Richard Moy wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 21:40:44 UTC

Lotus Notes / Domino is one of the best software products not only for large corporations, but small businesses. There is no other product that even comes close to matching the ability and versatility of Domino. I have always called it the Swiss Army Knife of applications servers. The total cost of ownership is incredible. I hope IBM can focus on investing even more marketing into Domino and especially the small business market. A number of our customers run all their mission critical applications on Domino and we intend to grow that significantly in 2011.

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Alan D wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 21:39:59 UTC

Worked on a few "migrations" to Exchange, some many years ago. To this day, all sites are still running Domino because they can't rewrite the apps using .net/SQL/Sharepoint/Oracle/SAP etc.
Lotus Notes/Domino is the pre-eminent RAD platform for businesses of ANY size, but loses to Google and M$ thanks to the old "marketing beats quality" adage.
It's. More. Than. Email.

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Mark R. wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 21:20:27 UTC

Great product, poor marketing, just can't understand the way IBM hiding it from the public.

Domino server is one of the best software products ever, so many features, so easy to run and to maintain, but most people will never know because IBM just don't know what to do with it.

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Daniel Theo wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 20:44:41 UTC

I started my career as a ccMail Administrator, and then became a Lotus Notes Administrator, and have used Lotus Domino since those days. The strength of the product has been proven through the years, in security, scaleabily, and now the look and feel and embedded UC capabilites have outshone any other offering on the market. Those that put their faith in the product originally, would have had a significant ROI.

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Roger rowan wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 20:31:40 UTC

I've used Lotus Notes since version 4.5 and have NEVER had to consider how I would upgrade my servers and preserve my users mail files. IT JUST WORKS!No changes are needed to continue using the mail file until you want to replace the design and that happens without user disruption or lose of email.

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John Turnbow wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 19:56:58 UTC

LiveText - Makes everyone more productive with automatic links with recognizers in my email or Lotus Notes application and provides links to any Lotus Notes Database, Web Application, or other Apps. I can bring up an individual link or a full panel of multiple links/applications

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Tim Paque wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 19:29:09 UTC

Why I love Lotus Notes:
1) I can do the work of a dozen dot-net developers
2) My apps are secure, replicated, enterprise available, and web capable, with no extra effort on my part.
3) I can usually fix a code problem and implement the fix in less time than it takes to describe the problem.
4) I can easily interface with any other type of database, making it to have the best of many worlds.
5) Lotus Traveler Is free and does a beautiful job connecting Lotus Notes to your Smartphones!

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Gerry wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 18:46:05 UTC

Clustering just works.... Nice

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Jan wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 19:27:35 UTC

Not only that, but you can use it to upgrade a cluster member while the other(s) keep serving users. When you bring that member back up, the cluster works with mixed versions (and that is by design and supported). Then you can upgrade the other member(s). All without user disruption !
You can even mix OSes within a cluster. Talk about flexibility ...

Raj wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 17:01:37 UTC

Outlook search sucks

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Ian Mannion wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:41:14 UTC

Have been working with Lotus Notes for 8 years now and it's brilliant.

It's harder to think of the things you can't do with Lotus Notes rather than what is possible and all done in a blink of an eye lid, or two.

It's only bad when you're using a poorly designed system, using an insufficiently powered workstation or using < 8.5.

Good on this site for something positive for once!

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BrianB wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:31:22 UTC

I've been using and administering Lotus Notes / Domino for 15 years or so. Only once have I seen a virus come in and it only affected 4 people out of 1500. I also love the face that I normally make far more than an Exchange admin :-)

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Albert wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:23:02 UTC

One would hope IBM marketing would be as good as product is.

Lotus Notes is not an email product. There are hundreds of them and, although I haven't seen something better there is no very much to add on email landscape.

I've seen large Lotus Notes deployments and, unfortunately, some CIOs do not understand the product potential either.

One would hope IBM would improve its efforts on value creation across Lotus Lotus Notes deployments. Notes value is beyond email.

Again, unfortunately, only users on organizations where this value has been created will understand how deep this message is.

Since nothing is perfect, I would also like to raise a concern. One would like Lotus Notes developpers to use 'common performance' PCs. Lotus Notes client always does perform well on next year hardware.

Lotus 4ever!

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Piyush Mathur wrote

on Wednesday 29 September, 2010 at 08:23:09 UTC

I completely agree with you on this Albert..
I have seen only few organizations using notes to the fullest, rest use it just for messaging & that too without using the best of the capabilities of the product.

Steve wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:09:34 UTC

I have used Lotus Notes for email for years. Before that I used ccMail. Two years ago I was moved to Outlook. I have to say that whilst for me the differences between two different mail clients are trivial the one thing that REALLY annoys me is the search facility in Outlook. Lotus Notes seemed to have this sorted - I could find any email in seconds...all documents view, full text search. Outlook - I'm forever trying to find the damn things!

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Abel wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:08:30 UTC

On the west coast, being on lotus notes is like being a 2pac fan in NY, lonely and misunderstood. Thank you for the opportunity to say, its more than email, its a solution platform.

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Rob wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:18:00 UTC

Great analogy.

Mark wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 16:00:45 UTC

When will the Outlookers get it? Lotus Notes is about so much more than Email?

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Keith wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 15:38:26 UTC

Married to the product. Couldn't be happier.

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Andy wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 15:32:50 UTC

I have used Lotus Notes for 15 years. In all that time I have never had a single virus. Unlike a certain virus delivery system I could name. (Yes I'm looking at you Outlook).

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Mike wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 15:28:17 UTC

Been developing with Lotus Notes/Domino since '95 and still love it as much today as I did then as a wide-eyed youth

Sure we've had our ups and downs like any marriage, but we have grown together which makes our love even stronger!

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Chris Boote wrote

on Thursday 07 February, 2013 at 12:15:56 UTC

8-)
<3 <3 <3

Love is not all I need wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 15:08:38 UTC

Will Lotus Notes become sexier in Notes 9?

http://quintessens.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/lovelotus.jpg

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Andy_DZ wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 15:14:49 UTC

Isn't it already... cant wait for R9!

Bob Balfe wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 14:57:34 UTC

I have used Lotus Notes since 1993 and was a customer up until 2000 when I joined Iris. I can say I do love Lotus Notes and I blog about software development at Lotus all of the time.

So why do I love it? Well, I have been using the same address book (contacts) for over 10 years now and even when I get a new phone the contacts just copy over. I think its funny when people around me have to back their contacts up, re-type them all in etc. Even on their PC's, when I set up a new PC, I just copy the DB's or replicate! With the introduction of Notes 8.x and the support for Eclipse and XPages I do think its the most advanced development platform for the enterprise today - both client and server.

http://blog.balfes.net/

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Nick Halliwell wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 14:35:50 UTC

I have been using and selling Lotus Notes since 1990. It is an amazing product. Lotus keeps on updateing for new things like the Web, Social networking etc. Its easy to create a basic app in Lotus Notes that can be used by many people in your organisation. You can also create very complex apps as well, use by 100's of people across the world.

You just cant do that in .net and other such apps.
Lotus Notes has everything in 1 box and they keep adding more, like Sametime Symphony, these are free with the staandard Notes licence. Unlike MS where you sometimes have to buy 4 liceces to use 1 app.

Notes Rocks.

http://www.comware.net

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Graham wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 14:28:36 UTC

Nice to find somewhere to praise Lotus Notes/Domino. As a developer in a company where Lotus Notes e-mail is being replaced by Outlook and Exchange because we were never allowed to upgrade from a v6 client, it's going to be nice to hear from people who appreciate it's diverse capabilities and can see behind the FUD that is thrown up.

http://lotusnotesrocks.wordpress.com/

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Phil wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 13:12:59 UTC

It's great giving Lotus Notes some love but let's not forget Domino. Release after release it gets better and better. Things that Microsoft have only just started to get right (like clustering) have been stable and consistent in Domino for years. In 8.5.x DAOS allows you to halve your e-mail storage space - Exchange 2010 will require more disk space than older versions. But it's end user who complain and don't know about how good the back end is. With Lotus Notes 8.5.2 they shouldn't have any cause to complain, it rocks!

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Stevie_B wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 09:55:20 UTC

Most of the whinges on other sites are about older versions, like 5 and 6. Those people need to get a grip and look at what's here today. Lotus Notes 8.5.2 is the d's b's.

Nice site, guys!

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ilovelotusnotes.net wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 10:02:42 UTC

thanks ;)

Paul in NZ wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 01:20:47 UTC

If you need an email enabled Database with easy customisation no other products can touch it. We use Lotus Notes to run our customer service and order entry tracking systems very successfully.
We can handle huge spikes in activity from email with confidence that nothing will be missed.

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Notesdev wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 23:37:36 UTC

I've developed with Lotus Notes since R3 as well with a whole variety of competitive platforms and I can honestly say that it's the best RAD environment I've used. I can literally get working applications in front of business users within days if not hours; if properly planned and implemented you can avoid all the performance problems that Lotus Notes-bashers routinely harp on about. OK, so you're not going to run a bank on Domino, but for the vast majority of our mid-sized customers it's opened the door to the kind of applications they can only dream of affording in other technologies.

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MDot wrote

on Wednesday 21 March, 2012 at 15:28:03 UTC

The Federal Reserve runs on Lotus Domino/Notes...

http://www.federalreserve.gov/oig/lotus_notes_security_201006.htm

Dan wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 22:31:00 UTC

Anyone who whines about Lotus Notes probably hasn't seen an up to date version. I'm running 8.5.2 - it's fast, it has more features than 8.5.1 (which has more features than 8.5.0), and there's loads of ways to customize it and integrate with other collaboration tools. Okay, the UI did lag behind Outlook in versions before Notes 8, but not any more. It looks better than Outlook, and you can do more with it.

Whiners - get your IT guys to upgrade you.

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ADZ wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 22:00:08 UTC

its just a really great product!

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Sam wrote

on Sunday 26 September, 2010 at 16:58:17 UTC

Not just good but awesome

john wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 21:33:40 UTC

We use Lotus Notes to run our sales system (orders, invoices, purchases etc). Seems to do the trick to me - can't see why we would want to change it for something else.

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jd wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 20:44:30 UTC

i've been creating apps in lotus notes for over 10 years now - and i still impress my 'customers' every time...thanks lotus!

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Steve wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 18:59:51 UTC

Thought a little history of Lotus Notes may help...!

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jesslovesyou wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 21:35:58 UTC

ha - i love those yellow form backgrounds! - haven't seen one of them for a few years!

wkd wrote

on Monday 27 September, 2010 at 14:01:27 UTC

haven't seen this for a couple of years. those shoulderpads get bigger and bigger :)

Paulaye wrote

on Friday 08 October, 2010 at 19:58:37 UTC

not seen this before - awesome!

Steve wrote

on Saturday 25 September, 2010 at 14:47:12 UTC

Excellent idea! Can I just say to all those M$ Outlook users who migrate to Lotus Notes and don't seem to be able to cope with the switch from CTRL+N to CTRL+M for creating a new email - GET OVER IT!!! (Am I the first post?!) ;)

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