Using IBM Notes data as a source for Google Maps API
Wed, May 22nd 2013 10:20p Mat Newman During the past couple of weeks I've been consulting for a customer who required some heavy integration between IBM Notes data and Google Maps. That project is in it's final stages and is close to coming online. What that experience has shown me is how (relatively) simple it is to take source data from a Notes application and present that information using the Google Maps API on the web for public consumption. To begin with, the complete Google Maps API (v3) is available here for your re [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting stated with IBM Notes 9 on Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04 x64
Sun, May 12th 2013 9:13a Mat Newman IBM Notes 9 installs without any problems on both 12.10 and 13.04 x32 flavour. However, the x64 version has a few tricks that you need to repair before you can run the installation files. Over on Usablesoftware's blog there's a nice reference to the steps required to get IBM Notes 9 installed. With the fantastic assistance of Jason Hatch from IBM, I learned that the only thing required to get Notes 9 running on x64 was to remove some dependancies from the control file in the IBM supplied [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 3: The Search Box
Wed, Apr 10th 2013 1:13a Mat Newman In Part 2: Introducing the Masthead, we discussed the new Masthead feature in IBM Notes 9, and briefly touched on the Search box, which has now been moved - with the IBM Social them applied - from the Toolbar to the Masthead. The Search box itself has a fantastic new feature which deserves it's own post, which is: IBM Notes 9 can now simultaneously search all Mail, Including the current Users Mail database and all archives configured for that user! YAY! The option needs to be se [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 2: Introducing the Masthead
Mon, Apr 8th 2013 5:43p Mat Newman With the introduction of IBM Notes 9, one of the major design goals was to implement the IBM "One UI" experience with an updated interface to the Notes client. Within the FRAMEWORK utilised by the OneUI design principals, major navigation elements are located across the top of the 'page'. Feedback supplied to IBM designers also indicated that many users 'lost' the quick links to their Personal Information Management (PIM) applications (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, To-Dos, etc) with the intro [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 1: Installation
Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 9:16p Mat Newman In this series of posts we are going to walk through all the new capabilities contained within the latest release of IBM Lotus Notes, or rather - the newly reincarnated IBM Notes 9. 17 years after the acquisition of Lotus Development Corporation, IBM has dropped the "Lotus" from the branding of the product, finally bringing Notes completely under the IBM brand umbrella and heralding a new era for the most powerful desktop application available. A raft of new features and capabilities have be [read] Keywords: admin
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How to add Birthdays and Anniversaries from your Contacts database to your Lotus Notes Calendar
Tue, Mar 19th 2013 5:08p Mat Newman Another one from Twitter: Is there any way to show Birthdays and Anniversaries from my Lotus Notes personal Contacts database in my Lotus Notes Calendar" Natively: No. But that got me thinking. Thanks to the "Show Calendars" overlay feature included in Notes a while ago, ANY Lotus Notes database which includes a Calendar view can be overlaid in your personal Calendar. Problem: The Lotus Notes personal Contacts database (names.nsf on 'local') does not contain a calendar view tha [read] Keywords: ibm
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Colour Coding an entire day in your Notes 9 calendar
Mon, Mar 18th 2013 6:02p Mat Newman One really nice feature relating to Calendar Colour Coding in IBM Notes 9 is related to All Day Events. When a user configures a category for colour-coding in their Notes 9 Calendar, and then applies it to an All Day Event, Notes 9 colour codes the background of that entire day in the calendar with an opaque variant of that colour: Figure 1: Notes 9 calendar background for a day changed with an All Day Event I really like this feature as it provides easy visual notification in a [read] Keywords: ibm
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How many ways can you customize IBM Notes 9 ... Plenty!
Mon, Feb 11th 2013 11:11p Mat Newman Pleased to share the BP104 session from IBM Connect by Margo Ezekiel, Ram Krishnamurthy and myself that shows you how many ways you can customize IBM Notes 9: The exceptional ability to customise IBM® Notes® to fit your customer or business needs continues with the new IBM Notes 9 Social Edition. Learn how to make company-wide changes and tweak Notes to suit your personal work style. Margo, Ram and Mat will show you how to fine tune your client experience and improve your productivit [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connect-lotusphere 2013 BP101 UserBlast
Wed, Feb 6th 2013 4:52p Mat Newman IBM Connect, BP101 UserBlast! This is my session that takes the top 40 user tips I've helped users out with during the last year, and includes some new features dedicated to the new IBM Notes 9 client. As an added bonus, every tip that can be rolled out to users via policy to enable them to make use of the feature is included as additional slides so Administrators can easily deploy them. Enjoy! [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting started with the new IBM Notes 9 browser plug in
Mon, Jan 14th 2013 10:10p Mat Newman Once you have an IBM Notes 9 client installed on your machine (under Windows) and selected the "IBM Notes 9 browser plug-in" during installation, you will find that both Internet Explorer and Firefox have the feature available. Getting started is fairly easy: Install and configure IBM Notes on your machine, During the installation process, make sure you select "IBM Notes browser plug-in" from the list of installation options, Start and configure Notes as normal, Shut down IBM Notes (in [read] Keywords: admin
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#NotesTip Want even more from the #IBMConnect session database? How about Mobile Access: NOW AVAILABLE!
Mon, Jan 14th 2013 3:14p Mat Newman The team working on the IBM Connect 2013 session database have been busily adding features, and now thanks to the guys from Mobilite (especially @GiulioCC), we're pleased to add Mobile (Smartphone/Tablet) functionality. Read the full details over on the goMobilite blog! Demo: How to access the mobile version of the IBM Connect session database Even more features are planned for the coming updates, please make sure you keep your local replica in sync by using the "Sync with Ser [read] Keywords: ibm
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Going on Holiday? The easiest way to set your IBM Lotus Notes Out-Of-Office AND block your calendar as BUSY
Thu, Dec 20th 2012 6:32p Mat Newman There are currently loads of social posts about people heading off on their annual vacation (Holiday for those outside the US). Lotus Notes has a really EASY way to set both your Out-Of-Office (OOO) and block out your calendar so that you co-workers inviting you to a meeting see that you are unavailable. All you need to do is create an all day event in your Notes calendar: Here's how: 1. Open your calendar, 2. Click the drop-down arrow on the Action Bar next to NEW 3. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Going on Holiday? The easiest way to set you IBM Lotus Notes Out-Of-Office AND block your calendar as BUSY
Thu, Dec 20th 2012 6:31p Mat Newman There are currently loads of social posts about people heading off on their annual vacation (Holiday for those outside the US). Lotus Notes has a really EASY way to set both your Out-Of-Office (OOO) and block out your calendar so that you co-workers inviting you to a meeting see that you are unavailable. All you need to do is create an all day event in your Notes calendar: Here's how: Open your calendar, Click the drop-down arrow on the Action Bar next to NEW Choose "All Day Event" [read] Keywords: ibm
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Getting started quickly with IBM Notes 9 on Ubuntu 12.10 using this install script
Tue, Dec 18th 2012 7:41a Mat Newman IBM Notes 9 for Linux is included in the latest beta versions. To quickly get installed and up and running with the new version, I've created an install script that does most of the hard work for you. The installation script will get all of the dependencies (even those missing from the current repositories) and then install the IBM Notes 9 standard client on Ubuntu. Note, this script will NOT remove an existing IBM Lotus Notes installation, which you should do FIRST, before running the sc [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Notes 9 - very nice new icon’s
Thu, Dec 13th 2012 11:21a Mat Newman The new IBM Notes 9 icons ... You will find these by downloading the NEW IBM Notes 9 client, which is now available on public beta here: https://t.co/gYR4KLq5 [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.3 UP2 - new features, and a whole lotta Blue!
Tue, Dec 11th 2012 7:59p Mat Newman Today IBM released the latest upgrade pack for IBM Lotus Notes Traveler - Upgrade Pack 2 (UP2). Andy Donaldson was kind enough to tweet about it's availability and part number on IBM Software: For those that don't feel like fishing, IBM Lotus Notes Traveler V8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 2 for Windows and Linux Multilingual eAssembly(CRK3KML) So here's some screen shots of the new native clients for Android Tablet - taken on my trusty Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet running Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandw [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to automatically remove meeting invitations from your IBM Lotus Notes Inbox after you have responded to them
Mon, Dec 10th 2012 6:18p Mat Newman Another one courtesy of Twitter: Lotus Notes meeting requests and invites--I hate them so much. You can't delete them and they never go away--just get out of my inbox! This is a really easy one to solve! File Preferences Calendar and To-Do Display (tab) Notices (tab) Check: Remove meeting notices from my Inbox after I process them (figure 1) Click OK. Figure 1: The remove meeting invitations option And for those meeting entries that are still in your Inbox: Choose the Drop-Dow [read] Keywords: ibm
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Get Social at IBM Connect 2013 ... Don’t think, Don’t Hope, DO!
Sat, Dec 8th 2012 1:30p Mat Newman I'm really so very excited about the upcoming conference, whether it be called Lotusphere or Connect, since this will be the first time in 5 years that IBM have completely overhauled the Lotus Notes client that I love and evangelise. My first Lotusphere in 2008 was abuzz as the event heralded the introduction of a new Notes client with a completely new interface that was IBM Lotus Notes 8. I remember the conference being so busy that there were actually 2 opening general sessions to cater for [read] Keywords: collaboration
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#TipOfTheDay Retrospectively running Mail Rules in IBM Lotus Notes 8.*
Tue, Oct 30th 2012 2:19p Mat Newman One of the items I see frequently in the "Lotus Notes can't do that" comments on the internets relates to retrospectively running Mail Rules within the Lotus Notes Mail Database. For those that aren't aware, Bob Balfe contributed an excellent plug-in called Mail Rule Utilities located on OpenNTF that does exactly that! Once installed, the Mail Rule Utilities plug-in adds a new tool on the tool-bar: "Run Mail Rules" Figure 1: the Run Mail Rules toolbar The process is quit [read] Keywords: ibm
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The change is coming ... make sure you’re registered!
Tue, Oct 30th 2012 12:16a Mat Newman Special Broadcast: IBM Notes and Domino Social Edition Preview and Announcements Calling all IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers, Business Partners and developers! The change is coming. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something BLUE! Nov 13, 2012 http://bit.ly/S7Si0W Join IBM on November 13th at 10am Eastern Time US for an important series of announcements and previews. Learn how IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus® Domino®, better than any other platform inves [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotusKnowsSwitzerland 2012
Sat, Sep 29th 2012 8:46p Mat Newman Back at Lotusphere 2012, Roberto Mazzoni (University of Zurich) along with Andreas Ponte and Sandra Buhler (Belsoft AG) approached me about speaking at the University as part of the Lotus Knows Switzerland meetings. An opportunity like this was obviously too good to pass up and I gladly accepted. With preparations made, I headed over to Zurich for the event following UKLug 2012. No visit to Switzerland is complete without visiting a Chocolate factory, and Andreas was kind enough to give [read] Keywords: collaboration
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UKLug 2012
Sat, Sep 29th 2012 7:09p Mat Newman A couple of notes about UKLug 2012. Once again, an outstanding conference run by Warren Elsmore and his team of champions. Smooth, well organised, a great agenda and an amazing social evening for the participants. As with all of the events I've attended in the past couple of years, this was as much a gathering of 'family' as it was a technical event. The friendships formed with like-minded individuals underscores the strong feeling of community felt by those involved with the IBM techno [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Global Lotus Notes and Domino Holiday Project
Mon, Aug 27th 2012 8:03a Mat Newman Is there a Local "Holiday/Vacation/Bank Holiday/Day Off" you can share with EVERYONE around the world? Why not submit it to the Global Lotus Notes and Domino Holiday project? Gabriella Davis from The Turtle Parntership has kindly offered one of The Turtle Partnership's servers to allow EVERYONE around the world to share local holidays to make it much easier for Admins to give their users the ability to Add Holidays to their Lotus Notes Calendar. Simply download the attached file, [read] Keywords: domino
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How to send an email to only SOME members of a group in Lotus Notes
Thu, Aug 23rd 2012 3:44a Mat Newman Scenario: One of the members of your team has a birthday coming up, and you would like to inform everyone else in your team that you are planning an event without informing the suspect. What's the easiest way to do this? Well, in Lotus Notes, one would just send an email to the Team, but exclude the 'birthday boy' from this one message. Here's how: Compose a new Email message in Lotus Notes (with Ctrl+M, of course!), Type the name of your group, as though you were sending the message t [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to update your Contacts database and ensure it’s features are current
Tue, Aug 21st 2012 11:33p Mat Newman A question from twitter. The user in question had updated their Lotus Notes client to a current release, but didn't have all of the newer features available to them in their Personal Address Book (Contacts) database. To ensure your Contacts database is up to date, which means it has the latest features and options, as well as providing your Lotus Notes client with the most up to date preferences and settings, follow these steps: 1. Within your Lotus Notes client, access the Worksp [read] Keywords: lotus
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Updating Group To-Do’s, how to send updates to assignees
Sun, Aug 19th 2012 8:12p Mat Newman A question from a user this morning regarding the use of the Group To Do functionality in Lotus Notes. The user had assigned a Group To Do, but when they modify the content of the To Do and choose "Save and Send Assignments" the people who have accepted the To Do assignment don't receive any updates. Group To Do's in Lotus Notes actually have 3 options available to them: Figure 1: Editing a Group To Do Entry after the assignments have been sent In Figure 1, you see 3 (th [read] Keywords: lotus
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This message was sent from IBM Lotus Notes - MORE than an Inbox
Fri, Aug 17th 2012 4:03p Mat Newman A great suggestion from Fredrik Norling (@XpageDeveloper): Fredrik Norling @XPageDeveloper Let's do a social group activity. Add this to your email signature!! Sent by Lotus Notes - more than an inbox. I've now updated my IBM Lotus Notes message signature: Mat Newman Principal CLP, CLI, IBM ASA, IBM AAD, MACS iTeam This message was sent from IBM Lotus Notes - MORE than an Inbox Feel free to copy the tag line above into your own signature file. [read] Keywords: clp
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How to manage groups and their members easily in Lotus Notes Admin
Mon, Aug 6th 2012 12:37a Mat Newman One of those simple little Domino Administration tools that makes it so easy to manage Groups and their content from within IBM Lotus Domino Administrator. Last week while training this was another of those gems that the participants found exceptionally useful. How do you access the Domino Group Management tool? From within Domino Administrator: 1. Go to the people and groups Tab, 2. Expand the Tools on the right hand side of the screen 3. Expand the Groups headi [read] Keywords: admin
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Resource Reservations: Setting ’Owners’? Make sure you use groups
Wed, Aug 1st 2012 11:02p Mat Newman When setting the 'Owner' for a Room or Resource in the Resource Reservations database, please ensure you use groups rather than explicit user names, even if that group only has 1 member in it. The reason is simple: Only owners can cancel existing reservations. If a user leaves the organisation, you only need to put someone else in the Group that owns the resource for that new person to be able to manage the existing reservations. [read] Keywords: database
Thinkin’ ’bout bein’ my Baby It don’t matter If you’re black or white
Thu, Jul 19th 2012 5:27a Mat Newman Two significant releases of software will be coming soon, IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.4 SE and Microsoft Outlook 2013 For those who haven't seen the screen shots yet, compare the following: Figure 1: Microsoft Outlook 2013 (Image from pocket-lint.com) Figure 2: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.4 SE (Image from edbrill.com) Over the next few months I am privileged enough to have speaking sessions at UKLug, LotusKnows Switzerland at the University of Zurich, and DanNotes. During these sessions there [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to view Message Headers in Lotus Notes
Tue, Jul 17th 2012 5:03p Mat Newman A question I get asked frequently by Admins and Help Desk staff about Lotus Notes is how to view message headers in Lotus Notes email, you know - the information that gives all the details about the routing paths, times and delivery details for a message that originated from an internet address. There are two ways to do this, the first is to browse through the document properties of a selected message. Choose the message in question, and the press [Alt]+[Enter] on your keyboa [read] Keywords: lotus
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More Lotus Notes calendar tips: Add Holidays and automatically enable Out Of Office
Sun, Jul 8th 2012 5:42p Mat Newman One of those great 'hidden' features in Lotus Notes is the ability to have your Out Of Office automatically enabled by creating a calendar entry. All you need to do is create an 'All Day Event', choose 'Vacation' in the category field, and then 'Save and Close', Lotus Notes will then prompt you whether you would also like to enable your Email's Out Of Office. Here's how: 1. Create a new Calendar entry with 'All Day Event' as the type, 2. Make sure you don't h [read] Keywords: lotus
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Saving the world, one Lotus Notes user at a time
Sun, Jul 8th 2012 7:11a Mat Newman This afternoon while watching my beloved Hawks wipe the floor with GWS (162 point win - if you don't mind!), a lady sitting near me in the hotel noticed the Lotus Notes background image on my Thinkpad Tablet. "Excuse me, I noticed the Lotus Notes logo on your iPad." (giggle- let that one go!) "Do you know much about it?" Yep, this was her lucky day ;-) Let's call her 'Siri'. Siri then asked me why it might take so long for her to open her mail in Lotus Notes. A quick check, a [read] Keywords: connections
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#TipOfTheDay Enable Auto-Save in Lotus Notes
Fri, Jul 6th 2012 5:16p Mat Newman How to enable Auto Save of every Lotus Notes document open in edit mode (which of course includes draft messages): The steps: 1. go to the File menu, 2. choose Preferences, 3. go to the Basic Notes Client Configuration option, 4. Check the box for Autosave, 5. enter how many minutes you would like Lotus Notes to autosave your documents for you. Figure 1: the Enabling the Autosave option in Lotus Notes preferences Now Lotus Notes will automati [read] Keywords: lotus
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Thank you Iris, Lotus, IBM
Tue, Jul 3rd 2012 6:16a Mat Newman Today, 17 years ago, I earned my first dollar as an IT consultant. Well, not exactly a dollar; the going rate back then was $25 an hour. And it was for 3 hours work, so that was $75 ;-) For the past 17 years Lotus Notes and Domino - in one form or another - has paid the bills, and enabled me to experience some amazing people, places and things. Whether it was a server room in sub-zero temperatures down South (and "up North"), trouble shooting connections in tropical Timor-Leste, or wat [read] Keywords: connections
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How to automatically enable Alarms for new Calendar entries in Lotus Notes - Plus 2 HUGE Calendar Tips
Mon, Jul 2nd 2012 7:28p Mat Newman During last weeks Lotus Notes training a question that came up frequently was why Lotus Notes doesn't have alarms on the users Calendar entries. Of course, Lotus Notes does have the ability to enable alarms on each individual entry, the option is located in the top right-hand corner of every Calendar type: Figure 1: Tick the Alarm Box Once the user has clicked the "Notify Me" check box, the calendar entry will have an alarm set on it, which can further be customised for that parti [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to use Categories to create a navigable ’folder’ structure
Mon, Jun 25th 2012 2:44p Mat Newman One of my favourite features of Lotus Notes is the Notebook (Journal) database. The Notebook database in Lotus Notes is an excellent way to quickly jot down ideas, or capture information from another place - like an email message or web site - that you want to reference later. Although the Notebook has the ability to use folders to organise information, I prefer using Categories. Categorising a document is more flexible than putting it in a folder (I customise my own mail database so it has [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to automatically update the status of Lotus Notes To Do’s
Sun, Jun 24th 2012 5:48p Mat Newman By default Lotus Notes does not update the status of the To Do's in your own Mail Database, for example a To Do that you create with a start date of next Monday will not automatically change to "In Progress" by itself on Monday morning, unless you enable the "Update Tasks" agent by turning on the feature through your Mail preferences. Last week I was demonstrating how to enable this feature for a user, and noticed that IBM have moved the location and wording of the setting to enable aut [read] Keywords: agent
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MYTHBUSTING Outlook IS NOT better than Lotus Notes, pt 8: Reply without History
Wed, Jun 6th 2012 9:49p Mat Newman Lotus Notes has fantastic message tracking capabilities. By combining the 'Reply Only' and 'Display, Original Message' commands when composing email replies, Lotus Notes 'conversations' functionality will help you save space and make it easier to track message history in Lotus Notes Mail. Here's how to use these fantastic features of Lotus Notes: [read] Keywords: lotus
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DAOS is so great! It will save you oodles of disk space ... what the?
Tue, May 29th 2012 7:11a Mat Newman Yep, one of those amazing moments where you've convinced the customer that implementing features such as Transaction Logging, Activity Logging and ... DAOS (the Domino Attachment and Object Service) is just so easy and such a no-brainer idea that they are enthused enough to do it. The all-important additional disk configuration for the Logs and DAOS data, the server restart, the console reporting that everything is working .... and .... An empty DAOS disk and folder! While the customer [read] Keywords: admin
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Apologies for the public post, this one’s for Nokia...
Wed, May 23rd 2012 8:11a Mat Newman G'Day NokiaHelps and Nokia_Connects , Here is the content of the .jad file for Sametime on Nokia E-Series for anyone who has a corporate Sametime server. If you could provide us with a patch for Symbian Belle, I'm sure there would be potentially millions of Sametime users who have been rendered inoperable by the update who would appreciate their Sametime client back on their Nokia device: MIDlet-1: Sametime,/iIcon.png,com.ibm.sametime.connectmidlet.Sametime MIDlet-Jar-URL: Sametime.ja [read] Keywords: ibm
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More uses for iCalendar feeds - How to add Facebook Birthdays and Events into Lotus Notes
Wed, May 16th 2012 8:48p Mat Newman Just worked out how to get Facebook birthdays and events into my Lotus Notes calendar using an iCalendar feed ... here's how to do it: 1. Log into facebook, choose Events, then choose the drop-down and select birthdays: 2. Go back to the drop-down and choose "Export Birthdays" 3. In the "Export Birthdays" dialog, highlight and copy the link 4. Back into Lotus Notes Calendar, choose the "Add Calendar" option and paste the link from step 3 5. Facebook birthdays now in [read] Keywords: lotus
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Adding the Weather to your Lotus Notes Calendar
Tue, May 15th 2012 4:53a Mat Newman Following up from a question on yesterdays iCalendar post enquiring about the Weather feed in my Lotus Notes calendar: "On another note, I would love to know how you got the weather data into your calendar?" One of the comments pointed to Darren Adams excellent post on the topic, and here are the detailed instructions updated with Weather Underground's current site design. The steps to add a Weather Calendar feed to Lotus Notes: 1. Visit Weather Underground: http://www.wundergroun [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to create an iCalendar Feed from a Lotus Notes database
Mon, May 14th 2012 12:27a Mat Newman One thing coming up over and over again on Twitter recently is how much users hate Lotus Notes because it can't provide them with an iCalendar Feed that they can sync with another service like Google or OSX iCal. Interestingly, the iCalendar standard was actually co-authored by a Loti (a Lotus employee), Frank Dawson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) Out of the box Lotus Notes accepts iCalendar feeds as a consumer (you can add feeds to your own Lotus Notes calendar using the "Add [read] Keywords: domino
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Digital Literacy, it’s more than just process
Sun, Apr 29th 2012 7:56p Mat Newman This Week in Lotus episode 97 resonated soundly with me this week, especially the discussion surrounding Digital Literacy. Darren Duke made the comment: "...If you're doing a 4 year degree ... the technology you use today is going to be invariably different to the technology when you come out..." As an educator, one of the most important things I impart to my participants on any subject are the concepts they are learning about, before moving on to the process. Sure, I can teach the [read] Keywords: connections
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Symbian Belle now available in Australia
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 5:32p Mat Newman Wandering around the Qantas lounges last week it was obvious that Nokia's market share in Australia is declining - as it is in other parts of the world - with the most visible device being the obligatory iPhone. My own device preference remains the Nokia E7, mainly due to the excellent Telephone capabilities (it is a Phone after all), in addition to the form factor; including a large physical keyboard, and the flip-up screen, which I really like working with. The hardware is just as important [read] Keywords: ibm
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REVEALED: IBM Lotus Traveler’s NEW client for Android TABLET
Mon, Apr 16th 2012 2:50p Mat Newman During the AusLUG 2012 keynote address, Ed Brill was kind enough to lift the covers on my NDA and allow me to demonstrate the upcoming IBM Lotus Traveler client for Android Tablet to attendees. Ed has also recently extended this offer to enable me to blog about the upcoming release. The new client will be available with the 8.5.4 release of IBM Lotus Traveler coming later this year. First impressions: WOW! The new IBM Lotus Traveler client for Android is a complete departure from the curr [read] Keywords: ibm
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#TipOfTheDay Don’t try and Admin a Lotus Protector server if your JRE is newer than 1.6.0_23
Sun, Mar 11th 2012 8:58p Mat Newman Had configured Lotus Protector for a customer, and was showing them how to enter the Admin page and make some modifications. The client didn't have Java installed, so we pulled the latest release from java.com, only to discover that none of our changes could be saved from his machine. That's when we found this support technote on the IBM Site: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21473125 Key thing here: All attempts to save configuration changes are ending up wi [read] Keywords: admin
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MYTHBUSTING Outlook IS NOT better than Lotus Notes, pt 7: Colour Coded Calendar Entries
Tue, Feb 28th 2012 5:35a Mat Newman A client informed me the other day that Outlook was better than Lotus Notes because one can colour-code their Calendar entries in Outlook by Category. Challenge AK...Septed! Admittedly, this feature is NOT in native Lotus Notes, but - as you know - Lotus Notes can do anything, so a couple of modifications to the standard Calendar and ... voila!: Colour Coded Calendar entries in Lotus Notes, By Category. Easy. As you may have guessed from the above image, I was planning the Au [read] Keywords: lotus
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When the Internet disappears ... thank heaven for Lotus Notes
Wed, Feb 22nd 2012 10:12p Mat Newman Telstra had an Internet outage in Australia this afternoon. It might come as some surprise to know that this wasn't a two-bit ISP that went down. Almost 60% of Australia's internet users (both business and personal) were hit by the data outage that affected ADSL, Cable and NextG/3G services beginning at approximately 1:40pm AEST. At 4:00pm AEST Telstra were reporting restored services across the country, however we still have customers suffering from a lack of Internet connectivity. Th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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MYTHBUSTING Outlook is better than Lotus Notes: Pt 1, History
Wed, Feb 8th 2012 6:50a Mat Newman I (FINALLY) received the following contribution about why Outlook is better than Lotus Notes: @matnewman better in many ways. 1 part is able to drag emails into new email for reply! Important in workplace to show history of who left the ball hanging Here is the video busting this one: PLEASE! I want to make MORE of these videos, but am having trouble getting people to tell me WHY they think Outlook is better. If you have heard a specific reason, then: Send "...me your [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2012, BP102 ’User Blast’ and BP105 ’tick.tick.tick.BOOM’ slides now online
Sun, Jan 22nd 2012 12:32p Mat Newman The slides from my Lotusphere 2012 sessions are now available online... Lotusphere 2012: BP102, User Blast Lotusphere 2012: BP102 'UserBlast' View more presentations from Mat Newman Lotusphere 2012: BP105, tick.tick.tick.tick. #! It's time to Evangelise, Educate and Engergise your users to Get Productive, Get Social and Do BUSINESS! Lotusphere 2012, BP105: tick.tick.tick.tick. #! It's time to Evangelise, Educate and Engergise your users to Get Productive, Get Socia [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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2011 ... what a ride!
Sat, Dec 31st 2011 6:10a Mat Newman I don't just mean the roller-coasters at Lotusphere and Alton Towers :-) What a year. It began with outstanding feedback and response from my "where is the love" session at Lotusphere and just kept on going from there! It was the Lotusphere where "The Yellow Suit" made it's first appearance. A year that saw everyone, including television programmes, embracing social; it was a busy time on Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Skype and with discussions on the Bloggerverse. For the first [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotusphere 2012 session: User BLAST! ... Have your say
Thu, Dec 8th 2011 2:17a Mat Newman I really pleased to advise that my session for Lotusphere 2012 got accepted: "User Blast". Building on "Where is the Love?" from LS11 - where you may have seen or heard of "The 10 Minute Demo" - this session is going to be a 50 minute full-on blast, show casing of the power of Lotus Notes (I'm supposed to leave some time for questions). I have a list of items prepared, but with so much content that could be included I thought I would throw it over to you to help decide some of the tip [read] Keywords: lotus
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Tip of the day: Automatically populate ACL’s of new databases by changing the Template’s ACL
Wed, Dec 7th 2011 8:01p Mat Newman One of the questions that came up during last weeks Domino Admin Boot-camp was regarding ACL's on new databases. The Admin in question wanted to know how to automatically include a standard group in the ACL of all new databases based on a Template. Like most things Notes/Domino, the solution is pretty simple. Just add the entry to the Template's ACL, but include it in square brackets, ie: [YourStandardGroup] From the FILES tab of the Domino Administrator client, Choose to sh [read] Keywords: acl
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Hilarious way to start your week, an Email marketer explaining why Lotus Notes is the ’bad guy’ :-)
Sun, Oct 30th 2011 4:32p Mat Newman I LOVE that most of the article discusses predominantly Notes 4.6 / 5 (that's 14 year old technology right there). And that there's a side-note cursing other applications (Outlook, Gmail, etc) blocking HTML scripts and images "for security reasons". And "Mel" - the IT security guy - who apparently is also a big "offender". I like the sound of Mel :-) But the best bit is that comments are closed to this well constructed, well researched and up-to-date post. Well done "Andre", [read] Keywords: lotus
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The value of the Eclipse framework in a Notes environment
Thu, Oct 20th 2011 3:08p Mat Newman I have a client who 'lives' in Email. But they never speak of email, they talk about Notes. They receive literally thousands of messages a day. Not bad for a site with only 12 users. When they open an email from a client their side-bar instantly identifies reference numbers/codes in the message and their side-bar widget presents that related information to them without having to cross-reference another system. That leads to efficiency. Due to subscriptions at industry sites via RSS, the [read] Keywords: agent
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#TipOfTheDay: If you use categories in Lotus Notes PIM apps, you MUST upgrade to 8.5.3
Wed, Oct 12th 2011 5:27p Mat Newman The good news: in Lotus Notes 8.5.3 the performance of Categorised views has VASTLY improved! One of the features I LOVE about Lotus Notes is the "Personal Journal"/Notebook database. It it the place where I store EVERYTHING I need to remember. From passwords to user guides for devices to favourite recipes to handy hint's and tips, everything that I find useful ends up here. If you've every seen the Australian movie "The Castle" you will appreciate the phrase I use often in this off [read] Keywords: lotus
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Tip of the day: #GetProductive by setting Flags WITH alarms in Lotus Notes
Mon, Oct 10th 2011 6:51p Mat Newman Lotus Notes not only enables users to "Flag" a message, it also allows users to set an Alarm on that flag to go off at a specific time. Using Flags with Follow-up alarms is a really useful way of tracking your "To Action" items in Lotus Notes generated by incoming email, especially when you are not able to action that message immediately. A great feature of using Flags with Alarms is that you can then get these messages OUT of your Inbox - which reduces the clutter - while still allowin [read] Keywords: lotus
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New Features for Lotus Traveler 8.5.3 client on Symbian
Sun, Oct 9th 2011 1:57a Mat Newman Lotus Traveler - the server add-in for Lotus Domino that supports mobile client access - has a number of new features for both Administrators and Users in the latest release, 8.5.3. Today I'm reviewing the new messaging options on Nokia/Symbian. For Nokia/Symbian users the Mail client on the mobile device is the built-in default messaging application. Until now, this has meant rendering messages on the device has been a simplified text version of incoming mail. While the mail client has n [read] Keywords: domino
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Voting Buttons in Lotus Notes
Sat, Oct 8th 2011 2:44p Mat Newman One of the questions about Lotus Notes I see frequently is about Voting buttons. While it is certainly possible to modify the mail database template to include this functionality, a simpler implementation is to use a shared database that enables users to ask questions, choose some recipients and then have an email message sent to those people that contains a doc-link directing the recipient to their answer document. A couple of years ago I knocked up a sample application for a customer to d [read] Keywords: acl
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IBM XWork Server ... the cover’s blown, now ... what’s under the hood
Sun, Oct 2nd 2011 11:31p Mat Newman I was pretty interested to hear more when the IBM XWork server was announced a month ago during AusLUG. Today Ed Brill blew the covers off the IBM XWork server, and I note his comment "(and you can talk about this new server now, too)", so here it is. What it IS: A Lotus Domino 8.5.3 server. Restricted to 4 individual "Applications" where each of those applications may comprise up to 4 separate databases. Costs US$2000 per server (ie: No PVU Licensing! No CAL's!) An additional licenc [read] Keywords: domino
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Why users hate Lotus Notes, Episode 1: The customisation debacle
Sun, Oct 2nd 2011 12:11p Mat Newman For the last few months I've been following a Twitter search on "Lotus Notes". The purpose has been to track the comments people are making about the product, and to offer my advice and assistance when I could. I've found lots of general posts following the lines of the "I hate Lotus Notes" sites - which really offer nothing other than a general comment - but every now and again a tweet appears that gives a specific reason that the user is frustrated with the product. In this case, it [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to Convert Outlook PST to Lotus Notes using the built-in tools
Fri, Sep 30th 2011 12:24a Mat Newman A question I get asked frequently is how to convert an Outlook file to Lotus Notes. It is a really easy process, here are the steps: During the Lotus Notes installation, there is an option to install the Migration tools. If you did not include those, you will need to run the software install again and make sure they are selected. Once you have the migration tools installed, open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> "CMD") and then navigate to your Lotus Notes install directory. By de [read] Keywords: ibm
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Plantronics Savi 740 - one VERY cool piece of Kit
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 7:11a Mat Newman A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to receive a Plantronics Savi 740 courtesy of Karen Jarvis, an ex-pat Aussie who is the Strategic Partner Marketing Manager at Plantronics. Until you've used one of these devices, you truly don't appreciate how a 'simple' piece of desk equipment can revolutionise your in-the-office time. What do I mean? Have you ever fumbled in your pocket to pull out your mobile (cell) phone's headset? While Handling a desktop phone? While removing your computer [read] Keywords: desktop
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Preventing users sending messages to >X number of recipients without approval - quick’n’easy
Tue, Sep 20th 2011 12:30a Mat Newman The great black witch of the dark art of networking (Scott Headlam) and I were collaborating the other day on a very simple method of preventing a user sending a message to more than 'X' number of recipients. The request came from a customer who had a couple of simple restrictions: No plug-ins, and No third-party tools. Ok, so a pure Domino solution ... Easy :-) It came down to a combination of Domino Rules, and a creative use for the Domino White-list feature. It is VERY easy to implem [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotusphere 2012 - YES ... there WILL be Lotusphere next year!
Fri, Sep 16th 2011 1:12a Mat Newman For those who haven't seen the News, the advisory on registrations for LOTUSPHERE 2012 have been published! Check back periodically to read more! http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=page&c=a0011789 I especially like the event overview: Save the date for the premier event for the Lotus community worldwide - developers, administrators , IT and business professionals looking for collaborative software and solutions. From presentations on the latest [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Alternate Reality, Episode 6: The Near-Death experience
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 6:12a Mat Newman As many people noticed (especially after Ed Brill pointed out during the OGS) I wasn't carrying around my normal T61P Thinkpad for the duration of the AusLUG conference. Instead, I had the "Aircraft Carrier" - as it has become know - the mighty Lenovo W701DS Thinkpad. Yes ... OK ... it IS big for a Laptop. But you would expect that from a machine that has two of everything, Screens, Disks (actually 3 since I have another in the Ultrabay slot) and processors. I love it. It is an absolute [read] Keywords: connections
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New realease of ISW’s social plug-in for Notes, WildFire 1.5 now available on OpenNTF
Thu, Aug 18th 2011 5:23p Mat Newman ISW are pleased to advise that the latest release of WildFire! - The social plug-in for Lotus Notes, release 1.5 is now available on OpenNTF: wildfire.openntf.org New Preferences Location We have made quite a big change to the way your settings are saved in this release. WildFire! no longer uses a configuration file to store your accounts, passwords and groups. There have been a number of posts about issues with the plug-in loosing settings, which came down to the randomisation of the [read] Keywords: connections
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#LotusKnows it ain’t over ’till *I* say it’s over!
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 8:10a Mat Newman To say there's been a little 'hiccup' in the Yellow bubble over the last few months would be an understatement. My take is simple. An AWESOME campaign was run by IBM that - for the first time since the Notes 5 'I AM' promotions - did something to publically acknowledge the contribution of IBM/Lotus software to the greater good - with an emphasis on 'LOTUS' to the general consumer. And let's face facts. The 'general consumer' includes ALL of the customers - and users - who have a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Sending ugly email from Notes - two settings can change all that
Mon, Jul 18th 2011 4:10p Mat Newman Some email going back and forth with a contact during the last few days prompted this post. I knew they used Notes, and just could NOT help myself to educate them on some settings that would fix their 'ugly' email. It's not the first time I have come across this scenario. Users complain that its Notes' fault for a lot of things, and often respond with the misguided 'I use Lotus Notes and it doesn't ...' Yes, Notes DOES do pretty email, you just need to make sure your settings are co [read] Keywords: domino
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