The telephone usage survey results are in!
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 11:14a Velda Bartek This is Velda and Michelle again... On February 24, we asked you to complete a Telephone Usage Survey to help us gather data about how you typically use your phone. 42 of you accepted our invitation! You shared really interesting information that will help us as we continue work on our Sametime Unified Telephony product. Here's a sample of what you said: When making a phone call, 48% of you find the person in saved contacts/number on your phone. 86% of you typically look up the call [read] Keywords: sametime
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How to send someone an email that shows your calendar availability
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 1:14p Mary Beth Raven Fabulous Free-time users, Even though Notes has a tab for "Find Available Time" in our invitation AND even though we have integration with Tungle, sometimes we get asked if you can just "send a snapshot of your free time" to an AA or other person (It appears that former Outlook users might be the most common source of this request), At any rate, YES YOU CAN, Here is how (many thanks to John Lance for writing this up) To send an email with your availability, do the following: 1. Go [read] Keywords: notes
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Share files in online meetings?
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 3:18a Velda Bartek If you share files in online meetings, I'm looking for you. I need your assistance in understanding what features are important to you when you share files from your local system, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, LotusLive, or other file sharing applications in Sametime Meetings. Your responses will be used to assist the Sametime Meetings UX team as we consider how to improve file sharing in online meetings. Please take 5 minutes to rate the 16 features in this brief study. The stu [read] Keywords: connections
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How to let users define their own default font for Rich text fields
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 11:15a Mary Beth Raven Terrific Template users, If you have users who like to always use certain colors or fonts when writing in rich text fields, here's a tip on how to let them set their own and then make it the default for themselves. (Thanks to Mike Carroll for this tip). Use this trick in any template to allow users to use their own font for rich text fields. To accomplish this the following must happen. The Template developer needs to create a Permanent Style (ex. MyRichTextStyle) and apply it to the par [read] Keywords: rich text
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Please consider voting for the Lil Iguana Children’s safety foundation so that they get a grant
Thu, Mar 4th 2010 8:45a Mary Beth Raven Hi friends, this is a purely personal post that has nothing to do with IBM Lotus. My children have benefitted from the "Lil Iguana" children's safety programs. The Lil Iguana foundation is a local (Nashua NH) organization and they are in the running for a grant from Pepsi. People get to vote for the charities they think should receive the money. Please feel free to check out -- and vote for - the Lil Iguana foundation. ( think only USA-based people are supposed to vote) You can learn mor [read] Keywords: ibm
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Regarding Andy’s blog posting abotu the going to the wrong replica
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 5:44p Mary Beth Raven Over on Andy Pedisch's blog today he asked about a recurring "goes to the wrong replica" issue Here is how it is supposed to work. There was a bug (now fixed but I do not know which release, I think in 8.5.1) introduced in Notes 8.0 in which the last used replica was used even on startup. There is a location document and it has: which specifies either use server or local copy. The behavior is suppose to be: During a Notes session, the 1st time mail is opened it is based on this [read] Keywords: notes
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Talk on the phone? Take 5 minutes and talk to us.
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 3:15a Velda Bartek Hi, everyone. This is Velda and Michelle. We are members of the WPLC User Experience team. We work with Mary Beth and the other User Experience team members that you frequently talk with. We are focusing on phone support in our Sametime set of offerings. We would love to hear how you commonly use your phone. Here's a brief survey that asks you twelve questions about your phone usage. In 5 minutes, you can provide us with invaluable input to the future design direction of the Sam [read] Keywords: sametime
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Here is an opportunity to tell the internationalization team what you think about Lotus Product consumability
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 4:14a Mary Beth Raven Customers, I invite you to take the consumability experience survey (link below). My colleagues in IBM's internationalization tea are conducting a survey, and would like your input. Generally, they are looking for customer satisfaction information related to several aspects of IBM products. You can respond to the survey for any IBM product, but obviously, they've asked me to help gather some additional responses as it relates to Lotus software. The survey questions are detailed and ask abou [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to add a web app THAT REQURES AUTHENTICATION to your sidebar
Fri, Feb 19th 2010 10:14a Mary Beth Raven My last post explained how to add a web app to your sidebar-- in this post, I explain how to add a web app that requires authentication to your sidebar. This includes web apps like gmail, twitter and so on. In this example, I'm going to use Twittergadget. The Configure a Widget wizard opens and detects two options from the context: Configure a component from this web page or Configure a component from a form on this web page. Choose the first option: “This Web Page…(HTTP GET) [read] Keywords: twitter
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How to add a web page to the sidebar
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 5:14a Mary Beth Raven In this post I explain how to add a web page to the sidebar. Since the aspect ration of the sidebar is "tall and skinny" I find that pages like the Digg iPhone app work the best. Thus, I'll be using the Digg iPhone app. [read] Keywords: iphone
How to add a widget from the Lotus Greenhouse Catalog
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 3:15a Mary Beth Raven This post explains how to add a widget from the Lotus Greenhouse catalog, Specifically, how to track local gas prices in a sidebar panel. Go to the Lotus Greenhouse Web site and log on: greenhouse.Lotus.com You must register to use it You must use a business email address. Here's a screenshot of the catalog as it is today (tho do not be alarmed if they change the look; which is what they did the night before my Lotusphere presentation and then, in front of a crowd, I could not find the log-in [read] Keywords: lotus
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Open Notes Widgets in 4 ways-- not just as sidebar panels
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 11:14a Mary Beth Raven In the My Widgets sidebar panel, you can select any of the widgets and choose to open it as a Tab, a sidebar panel, a new window, or a floating window. By default, when you double-click to open a widget from here we open it in a new window (in Notes 8.0.1 we defaulted to opening a sidebar pane, but that made the sidebar very crowded for power users so we changed it based on your feedback.) Here is how that Digg iPhone app looks in both a new window and a floating window. The floati [read] Keywords: notes
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Keep an eye on your Inbox by making is a sidebar panel
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 9:44a Mary Beth Raven Here's how you can keep an eye on your inbox as a sidebar panel, while you work in another Notes application. First, open the non-java view of your inbox, as shown in the following screenshot: Now click the MIDDLE button in the "My Widgets" toolbar. The *new* Notes configuration dialog appears! You can choose what type of Notes widget to create. For now, let's add the Inbox view. [read] Keywords: notes
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Add a Notes View to your sidebar with one click!
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 6:14a Mary Beth Raven You can open (almost) any view in (almost) Notes application, and simply click the "Add to sidebar" toolbar button to add that view to your Notes sidebar, as shown in the following screenshot. The ONLY views that do not work like this are the views in Java-- so that means, no Mail, Calendar, Contacts, blog template. HOWEVER, you can open the "old, non-java" view of any Notes application by holding down the CTRL+ALT keys when you open the application. THEN once the old view is open, you can a [read] Keywords: notes
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How to set your Widget preferences to point to a public catalog
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 6:18a Mary Beth Raven I'm resuming my series of posts about the sidebar and widgets. (Regarding my other recent posts about pretty application icons and cache mode... I'll post some decisions/more news in a few days). To get started playing with the my widgets sidebar panel (without deploying a widget catalog of your own), you can use a public widget catalog, one of which is hosted by the Turtle partnership (thanks!) Here's how you do it. 1. Choose File - Preferences - Widgets 2. Check ”Show [read] Keywords: notes
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The My Widgets Sidebar Panel is a way to add and manage additional sidebar panels
Mon, Feb 8th 2010 3:15a Mary Beth Raven We introduced "My Widgets" in Notes 8.0.1. The Panel is hidden by default; you have to turn it on. (The Domino Admin can also control it using a desktop policy). Here is how to turn it on-- and if your organization has not deployed any kind of widget catalog, you can see if you can build your own or pull a few from either Open ntg or the Turtleweb partnership (72.51.41.44). I hope to post more about how to use public catalog and/or build your own in subsequent posts. [read] Keywords: admin
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Need your opinion on some new policy settings for Mail and a new cache mode approach
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 1:44p Mary Beth Raven Potential Policy setters, We are working on some POTENTIAL (no promises!) changes to local mail replicas, and we're calling it "cache mode" (the term is not final, if you have suggestions, make them). I want to check with you to ensure that our proposed new/changed desktop policy settings are OK with you. Please read thru and see the questions at the end. Description Cache mode: essentially a copy of Samantha's data from the mail file is kept locally and Replicated/synchronized automatic [read] Keywords: admin
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Question about how important it is to have pretty application icons for roaming users
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 7:44a Mary Beth Raven Patient programmers (and others), We are making headway with the idea of allowing you to use image resources (e.g. .gif, .png) as database.. er.. application icons. These pretty icons would appear in the open list, in the tabs, and of course, in the workspace chicklets. (YOU, or someone at your organization has to create said pretty new image resources and put them into your Notes application, of course.) Our next deadline is fast approaching and we're trying to fit all the work in to make [read] Keywords: notes
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What is on the sidebar Panel menu and why
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 9:44a Mary Beth Raven As of Notes 8.5, we've simplified the titlebar so that it has: An icon The title A "panel menu" (on the far right). The panel menu is divided into 3 parts: Actions specific to that panel (e.g. Specific to Calendar, or Activities or Feeds) (Yeah, the Day-at-a-Glance sidebar panel menu has a bug because one of the "Calendar Footer" menu item specific to calendar got stuck at the bottom... I hope to be able to fix that) Actions generic to all panels (e.g. Manipulating the panel like openin [read] Keywords: notes
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How to hide a sidebar panel that you don’t want
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 9:44a Mary Beth Raven There are 2 ways that you (as an individual user) can hide a sidebar panel that you don't wont to see. You can: 1. Use the View - Right Sidebar Panels menu item. 2. Use the menu items on the "panel menu" Here is a picture of how you use the View menu. Here is a picture of how you use the "panel menu" [read] Keywords:
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All about Sidebar Panels
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 9:44a Mary Beth Raven The Sidebar has panels (many of you have also heard it called a "sideshelf" or just a "shelf." This is because the API for controlling the sidebar panels calls them "shelves," but the official documentation refers to them as panels. A panel can be: Maximized Minimized to a Title bar Minimized to an icon Restored Hidden Opened in a new window As you can see in the following screenshot, you can open more than one sidebar panel at a time. [read] Keywords:
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The three states of the Sidebar
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 9:44a Mary Beth Raven Today I'm starting a series of short posts about the sidebar-- many of which will be taken from the 2-hour "show and tell" that Jamie Liu and I did at Lotusphere 2010. Since Notes 8.0, we've had a sidebar, and it has had 3 states. You can manipulate those states by using the menu items on the View menu or by clicking the sidebar splitter, as shown in the following picture. Notice that we have shortcut keys (added in Notes 8.5 I think( for opening, closing and "making skinny". They are: CT [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Happy birthday to my sister!
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 7:17a Mary Beth Raven Happy 40th birthday to my sister jen-marie! After Lotusphere 2010, my sister flew down and joined me in Orlando, and then we drove to the Florida keys for her 40th birthday vacation. Her wish was to swim with dolphins. This pic is the first of several-- happy birthday, sis! [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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How to turn on the File - Application - Install menu item in Notes
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 10:44a Mary Beth Raven If you want your users to be able to install Eclipse-based plug-ins, you have several ways to allow them to do this. 1. Turn on the "Install" menu item 2. Use a widget Catalog to deploy the plug-ins. Today's post is about how to turn on the "Install" menu item. To enable File > Application > Install, add com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true into the plugin_customization.ini in the Notes folder\framework cp This tip applies to Notes 8 and any version above. This scr [read] Keywords: ibm
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Listen to the Taking Notes podcast about Ux and the UX lab at Lotusphere and other stuff...
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Lovely Loti, Julie Forgo and I had the pleasure of recording a "Taking Notes" podcast with Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux yesterday morning. You can listen here: http://www.takingnotespodcast.com/blogs/takingnotes.nsf/dx/TakingNotesEpisode105.htm Many thanks to Bruce for getting up at 6 am his time to do the podcast with the rest of us east-coast people. And even tho you don't hear him on the podcast, John Lance was "There" because I recorded the podcast in our design studio, where J [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Overview of the Web-only Instant messaging client in Sametime 8.5
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Sametime 8.5 brings you a web-only instant messaging experience. Here are a few pictures below, following by a list of what you can do. The web-only client has the following features: User presence status message Contact list Adding contacts and groups Quick Find for contact list Business cards Location 1 to1 chat N-way chat with invitation Sending announcements Rich text Emoticons Public IM presence chat via Sametime Gateway Click to call (via 3rd party telephony partners) Instant Meeting [read] Keywords: rich text
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Tweet some ideas for widgets and live text, Tag it with #AD204 and we’ll try to build them live!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Wonderful widget users, In the LS session"What's new with Widgets and Live Text" session at 4:45 in Dolphin S hemisphere 1, We're going to do much of the demos "live and unscripted" -- we want you ideas of what kinds of widgets to build. That means we need som enew ideas. Even if you will not be attending the session, you can tweet your idea and tag it with #AD204 My job is to monitor the tweets and pick out as many challenging ones as possible. Hum.. I am starting to think of the session [read] Keywords: widget
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At Lotusphere, On Tuesday at 11:15, don’t be afraid to attend the Nerd Girl panel.. I mean, we’re just women, and there are so FEW of us....
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Nice Nerds, For the second year, Lotusphere will be hosting a "Nerd girl" panel and a BOF to discuss (and raise awareness about) the fact that there are so few women in IT. And according to various research, the numbers of women entering IT is going DOWN. NERD101: Nerd Girl panel, at 11:15 in the Swan Mockingbird Why should you care? Well, first, do you want to work with only men? Second, if you're a single guy, how do you expect to meet any women if you spend 10 (or more!) hours [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Add the LS 10 Sessions database to your sidebar, here’s how!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Many of you have already retrieved the Lotusphere 2010 sessions application from Ben Langhinrich's web site already. If not, you can do so now. http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/LS2010_SessionsDB Once you have it open in your Notes 8.5.1 client, all you have to do is make sure that your Widget toolbar is turned on, and click the "toolbox" toolbar button to "Configure a Widget from Current Context", as shown below. (This also work in in Notes8.0.1, 8.0.2, and 8.5, but the ensuing wizard [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Special Deal, Monday only! IBM Designers will give you a UI review of YOUR app at Lotusphere!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Calling all Notes application developers! On Monday of Lotusphere 2010, the UX lab is Asia 4, will have several UI designers and usability specialists available to critique YOUR application (database) designs! We'll compare your app to how it conforms to the "one ui " look and feel and/or general usability guidelines. Just stop in the lab Monday afternoon and ask for an evaluation-- we assume you'll bring your app on a laptop using a local copy so that you can show us. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Take Advantage of our (new feature!) Calendar federation in the UX lab at lotusphere !
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Lovely Lotusphere 2010 attendees, As you know, we have User experience (UX) lab in Asia 4 in the Dolphin hotel during Lotusphere. You can stop in any time to test things. However, more importantly, you can schedule time in advance by sending mail to Julianne_forgo@us.ibm.com, and you can already see below who is booked for what-- this is a screenshot of our new "row by row" calendar feature! 19 UX Lab calendars federated - this is the row by row view that Julie will be using for the scheduli [read] Keywords: ibm
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New at Lotusphere! A panel on Research and Design Methods wed from 3-4 in Swan ballroom 1-2
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Attentive Lotusphere attendees, We're trying something new this year at Lotusphere! On Wednesday at 3 in the Swan 1-2 ballroom, we're having a panel discussion with 5 of our Lotus design and user researchers. The title of the panel is: INV103: State-of-the-art research and design methods at Lotus I'll be moderating. One of the primary things we want YOU to get out of this panel is ideas or tips and tricks for you and your own app dev organizations. So it is NOT just about hearing what we [read] Keywords: lotus
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Where you can see and test Technical info, education and documentation at #LS10!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Lucky Lotusphere attendees, The Lotus Technical Information and Education (in the old days these were the "documentation folks") team leads efforts to ensure that you and your customers have the technical information needed to get the most out of Lotus products. They have several activities planned for this Lotusphere this year, and would LOVE for you to participate! Visit them in the UX Lab, stop by their ped in the showroom, attend their XPages breakout session, or give them a high-five yo [read] Keywords: domino
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Come to the UX lab at Lotusphere and Test Sametime Unified Telephony!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Hey Lotusphere attendees, Sametime unified telephony is really cool, and fun! We'll have it all set up and running in the UX lab at Lotusphere. Tracee Wolff is the UI designer for it and she'll be running usability tests and other usability feedback sessions about it-- this is your chance (without having to set it up yourselves!) to come and check it out! I hope to see you there. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Sametime 8.5 Presence and Instant Messaging integration into Microsoft Outlook
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven There are several ways that Sametime 8.5 can integrate into Outlook. First, you can install a plug-in that adds a toolbar button-- when you click it, you get a "dynamic" buddy list based on the people in the To and CC field of a mail message. (See picture below). We also provide another set of toolbar buttons that let you "slick to talk", send a file, an announcement, start an instant meeting, etc. Take a look at the pictures below. [read] Keywords: sametime
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Mike Squillace of the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center about Notes 8.5
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven Lotus Community, I'd like to share with you a comment I received today from Mike Squillace, of the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center: " I use Jaws 11.734 with the Standard Notes 8.5 client and, for me, this has been an amazingly usable solution. A big thanks and lots of praise to the Lotus team for their work in producing such an exemplary accessible tool." [read] Keywords: ibm
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Come to the first Linux Installfest at LS10 - Thursday at 12:30
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Mary Beth Raven The First Linux Installfest at LS10! Date: Thursday, 21 Jan Time: 12:30pm - 1:30 pm; right between GURUpalooza and Ask the Developers; you can bring your box lunch Room: Dolphin 6111 -- Central Elevator bank Do you have Linux running at home and have questions on installing Lotus products on your machine? Do you have questions on Linux or how to install the conference CD provided in your bag? Are you curious about Linux and have usage questions or concerns? Then come to the Installf [read] Keywords: ibm
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A quick summary of Lotusphere 2010 UX lab activity , my impressions, and other stuff
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:10a Mary Beth Raven Many thanks to all of you who spent time in the User Experience (UX) lab at LS10 this year. We had a steady flow of visitors-- even on Monday, which is usually a slow day. Our Lab Captains were Julianne Forgo and Amy Wentley. Julieanne is a veteran of several years, but this was not only Amy's first year running the UX lab, but also her very first year at Lotusphere! Please join me in congratulating them both on a very smooth-running lab. I could tell that Amy was really pleased with her f [read] Keywords: domino
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Give yourself a Holiday gift: Register for Lotushere before the price goes up (Jan 14)
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 12:48p Mary Beth Raven I want to see as many of you as possible at Lotusphere, and I know time are tight for many organizations. I was just checking out the registration page, and noticed that you get cheaper registration if you register before Jan 14. And there are some other types of offers-- like the group discount if 20 or more people go, or the one-day passes. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2010/register.html I just submitted my 1hr 45-minute session slides for "Extending your r [read] Keywords: ibm
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Add your own Search scopes in Notes 8.5.1 (or hide ones you never use!)
Fri, Dec 18th 2009 12:28p Mary Beth Raven Serious searchers, First, I am sure you are all aware that you can use the "search toolbar" to automatically search ALL your mail, even if you are looking as a specific mail folder-- no more need to first switch to the all docs view (or no need to switch BACK to the view at all. As a matter of fact, I can start a search of all my mai right now from my "compose blog entry" form!) Here is a screenshot of my search toolbar when I am looking at a mail folder. Here's the cool thing we added [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Does anybody miss this feature that you used to have in Notes 7x?
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 3:05p Mary Beth Raven Dutiful draggers and droppers, In Notes 7 and earlier, you could open a document and then, before saving it, drag that tab to the bookmark bar and save it as a bookmark. As of Notes 8 this did not work any more (Tho you can right-click on the tab and choose "Create Bookmark. " When you click the bookmark, it then opens up a new document of that type. Should we bother to add back the drag and drop? Does anybody use or miss this feature? [read] Keywords: document
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Feedback on the iNotes editor
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 10:48a Jodi Rexford We're looking to gather feedback on the iNotes editor. Please take a moment to provide us with the following information on your iNotes editor usage: 1. Do you use the rich text editing features in iNotes (for example, bulleted lists, tables, links, inserting images etc.)? 2. Have you encountered any general usability issues while using the iNotes editor, if yes what are they (for example, with formatting operations)? 3. What features may be missing from the iNotes [read] Keywords: document
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Our decision regarding "Open as Workspace"
Thu, Dec 3rd 2009 1:48p Mary Beth Raven Many thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions about the "Open in New Workspace" menu item and whether we should add it back. We have decided NOT to add it back to Noes 8.5.2. Not enough people really seem to need it, and, also, we've had only one customer register a complaint that it ever went away. Now, IMPORTANT. We are keeping the "real" Workspace in Notes 8.5.2. We are not touching it. We are just NOT adding back a feature that you had in Notes 7.x (and in 6) where you [read] Keywords: notes
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Do you miss the "Open as Workspace" feature? Should we add it back?
Tue, Dec 1st 2009 12:45p Mary Beth Raven Clever client users, In Notes 6 and 7, there was an option to open a folder in the bookmark bar "as a workspace. " Specifically, you could right-click a folder in the bookmark bar, and choose the "Open as Workspace" menu item and get something that looked like the workspace but was not the REAL workspace. It looked something like this: Way back in Notes 5 (or thereabouts). we tried to take the bookmark bar and its folders-- and provide a graphical, workspace-like layout. (Ok, "we"is no [read] Keywords: notes
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Save Attachments to Quickr from Notes
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 2:46p Jodi Rexford In iNotes if you have installed Quickr Connectors you will see this icon in your mail view. From your inbox you can select messages with attachments and use this action to Save your attachments to Quickr. We think this might better serve you from within a message. You tell us. The questions are... Do you use the Save your attachments to Quickr action? If you answered no that you don't use it... why? a. I didn't know it was there. b. I didn't know what the icon stood f [read] Keywords: inotes
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Do you use the iNotes mode switcher?
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 12:25p Jodi Rexford We've been thinking about cleaning up the iNotes ui. I'm wondering if we can remove the mode switcher from the top right in the ui. The 3 modes offered are Full, Lite and Ultra-light modes as shown here. Here are my questions to you: 1. Do you (or the users you support) use the mode switcher to toggle between modes? 2. What are the reasons or situations that require you to switch between modes? 3. Would it be acceptable to remove the mode switching functionalit [read] Keywords: inotes
Dominopoint Day is off to a great start!
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 5:45a Mary Beth Raven The Opening session of Dominopoint Day here in Milan has just finished. It's taking place here at the IBM Forum in Milan. The large auditorium was full, and full of excitement. There is an excellent showcase area with many different vendors. It's great to see some that I recently saw in Scotland at UKLUG, like GSX and Integra. I give the last talk of the day, and don't start until almost 17.00. I hope I can stay awake that long! [read] Keywords: ibm
Starting to think about what activities to have in the UX lab at Lotusphere this year
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 3:05p Mary Beth Raven Lotus Knows that the UX team is starting to get organized for the UX lab this year for Lotusphere. The designers and user researchers write proposals of what to test/get feedback on, and what methods to use. We have a "mini submission" process to the UX management team, who then selects the most important areas on which to get feedback in the lab this year. Just like Lotusphere talks, we usually get more UX lab submissions than we can fit in the lab. But it is exciting to see all the propo [read] Keywords: lotus
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In Notes 8.5.1: Calendar Alarms pop up just the dialogs-- modeless
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 10:05a Mary Beth Raven Hi Folks, I know that many of you have complained that when your calendar alarm goes off, Notes steals focus from where you are, pops up the dialog and switches focus to the entire Notes client. As of Notes 8.5.1, we now pup up only the alarm dialog, and it's modeless so it does not stop you from working. You can see my Alarm, which popped up over Tweet Deck. Step by step... we're trying to make each release better for you. [read] Keywords: notes
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Reminder! Bowling party tonight for Boston-area customers!
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 7:05a Mary Beth Raven Boston bowling customers (and even those that do not bowl). Reminder, I invite you to join me for some social time at: Lucky Strike Tuesday, October 27th - 5:30pm - 8pm 145 Ipswich Street Boston, MA We (Lotus) will be providing free drinks, bowling, food, and also have some fun games and prizes. You'll know where at Lucky Strike to find me... look for Yellow :) Please bring your business card so we can get an idea of which customers show up. No sales people. No sales pit [read] Keywords: lotus
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Boston area Lotus customers! Join me Tuesday evening for an impromptu social gathering
Fri, Oct 23rd 2009 8:06a Mary Beth Raven Dear Boston area Lotus customers, I have recently had the opportunity to visit customers in Scotland and in Belgium-- and I realized that I rarely get an opportunity to meet with/socialize with local customers. To that end, I invite you to join me for some social time at: Lucky Strike Tuesday, October 27th - 5:30pm - 8pm 145 Ipswich Street Boston, MA We (Lotus) will be providing free drinks, bowling, food, and also have some fun games and prizes. You'll know where at Lucky Strike t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Opening Symphony Files in Notes 8.5.1 (or not)
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 12:46p Mary Beth Raven Sophisticated Symphony users, Prior to Notes 8.5.1, embedded used to ALWAYS “grab” the file association and open Symphony files in the Notes window, even if you had installed Symphony standalone. Now, the file association goes with whatever is installed last, and of course users can choose which to open a file in embedded or standalone if they have install both. Rather than inventing our own preference, we are simply leveraging the operating system conventions. So if you installed bot [read] Keywords: ibm
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A belated thank you and summary of the BLUG event in Belgium
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 11:47a Mary Beth Raven I want to extend a belated thank you to the people who organized the Belgium/Luxembourg Lotus User Group (BLUG) last Tuesday, 13 October. The event took place in an IBM briefing facility and seemed to me to be very well planned and well attended. I talked for 90 minutes about the Lotus strategy and how the latest release of Notes (8.5.1), and Connections (2.5) , Quickr (8.2) and the upcoming release of Sametime 8.5 all fit into the strategy. Unlike at other conferences, such as ILUG or UK [read] Keywords: connections
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Notes 8.5.1: More threads
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 12:46p Mary Beth Raven Mindful multi-taskers: In Notes 8.5.1 you can: Start a task in Notes and still use: Sametime chat Embedded browser Start or continue a Sametime chat from the sidebar or use the embedded browser while Opening a Notes application Clicking a Notes document link that another user has sent you Starting to search a view [read] Keywords: document
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Look smarter with Notes 8.5.1 instant spelling corrections!
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 12:29p Mary Beth Raven Spiffy spellers, Notes 8.5.1 has a new spell check engine-- the same one used by Symphony. We hope to be converging on spell checking UI and features over the next few release (but no promises!) In this release of Notes, you can do 3 new things: Use a replacement table to correct typical misspellings - When you type a letter combination that has a match in the replacement table, the text is replaced with the replacement text from the table. For example, "teh" is replaced with "the." In this [read] Keywords: admin
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Notes 8.5.1: Policy to enable "Synchronize Contacts"
Sun, Oct 18th 2009 12:26p Mary Beth Raven Polite policy users, If you were at the "beat the developers, er, um, I mean the ASK the developers" session at Lotusphere last year, you may remember that a woman got up and asked for a policy so that she could turn on "Synchronize Contacts" on the replicator page. (The preference is still there for end users to do it themselves, and we do agree that it is not the easiest thing to find.) So, here you have it. Don't forget that these uses should also have a replication schedule, which you [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Wonderful Widget improvements in Notes 8.5.1
Thu, Oct 15th 2009 5:25a Mary Beth Raven Wonderful widget users, Here are the changes we made to Widgets and the My Widgets sidebar panel for Notes 8.5.1. To the My Widgets sidebar panel we have added a toolbar. From there you can choose for view your widgets as thumbnails or as a list. You can also filter using the same "Type to find" mechanism that I am sure you all love in the Open List. From the Widgets preference page, you can now browse for a Catalog, as shown in the following screenshot We have made several chang [read] Keywords: notes
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Notes 8.5.1: Open Applications in new windows
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 5:08a Mary Beth Raven Patient customers, I am pleased to tell you that in Notes 8.5.1 you can once again open an application in a new window. We never meant to take this function away from you when we shipped Notes 8; we were unable to re-implement it properly until now. I know that many administrative assistants really missed this feature because they'd open the bosses calendar in a separate window. Another feature that we didn't intentionally take away from which, which we have now added back, is the ability to [read] Keywords: notes
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Activities are on the Replicator page
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 9:46a Mary Beth Raven Rapacious Replicator page users, If you also have Activities sidebar integration, and you like to take those Activities offline, you can now manage the Activities offline from the replicator page. They will sync using your Notes replication schedule. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes 8.5.1 is generally available today! Here is a presentation that covers most of what is new
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 5:07a Mary Beth Raven Ecstatic engineers and all the rest of you interested in the Notes 8.5.1 client, I have been posting a "new feature a day" for a while, and will continue to do so until I cover all the things we've added to the Notes client in 8.5.1. Since the client is available today, here is a presentation that covers everything I've been posting about what's new in the Notes client. It's from my talk at the IAMLUG conference this summer. I give you three formats for your reading pleasure. [read] Keywords: notes
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Calendar starts afresh at midnight
Sat, Oct 10th 2009 2:46p Mary Beth Raven Night-owls, You'll see in Notes 8.5.1 that the Calendar and Day-at-a-Glance Automatically Refresh to Next Day At midnight, the main Calendar and Day-At-A-Glance sidebar panel automatically refresh to the next day. This feature is important if, for example, you leave Notes open overnight. This features is enabled automatically. To turn it off, add the following line to your Notes.ini file: CalendarRefreshOnSystemDateChange=0 [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Even more of a drag (IN A GOOD WAY!)
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 8:26a Mary Beth Raven Dutiful draggers, We have even more drag for you in Notes 8.5.1. Drag a Calendar entry to a new date on the date picker in either your main calendar or the Day-At-A-Glance sidebar panel. This will open the reschedule dialog box. Use this feature to counter a meeting invitation. To drag to a different month on the date picker, hover over the previous or next arrow while dragging. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: It’s a drag (but in a GOOD way!)
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 2:26p Mary Beth Raven Dramatic "Drag and drop" users, Notes 8.5.1. Will let you drag more things to more places. Specifically, from your Inbox, you can drag a message, hover on the calendar tab, wait for the tab to switch to the calendar, and then drop the message on the timeslot to schedule a meeting. You can also Drag a mail from your inbox over to the "Day at a glance" to do a similar thing. [read] Keywords: lotus
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A few things that did not make it into Notes 8.5.1
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 7:06p Mary Beth Raven At the Lotus Leadership alliance conference last month, one of the things that the customer council asked was for Lotus to be clear on NOT ONLY what made it into a release,BUT ALSO what did not. I am sorry to report that the following did not make it into Notes 8.5.1. 1. You cannot use an image resource (such as .png or .gif) for an application (database) icon. The best thing you can do, if you want the image resource issue considered for Notes 8.5.2, is to Go vote for it on Ideajam (I'd [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: More usable choice for "show summary or show timeslots"
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 2:26p Mary Beth Raven Timely Timeslot users: In the past, over on the Show drop-down we had a check mark to turn "Summary mode" on or off. Users found that a little confusing so we have made it more comprehensible by showing them that they have 2 options: Summary mode or Timeslot mode, and indicating which they are seeing with a little "Dot" (aka "radio button menu"), as you can see in the following screenshot. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: New look for the business card
Sun, Oct 4th 2009 1:46p Mary Beth Raven Busy Business card users, We have a new look to the business card for Notes 8.5.1. We moved the photo of the person to the right. This was based on feedback from many of you who do not deploy photos and did not want to look at "empty head pictures" as the first thing in all of your business cards. We also modified the format at bit, as you can see in the following screenshots. If you have Connections integrated, we also have links at the bottom of the card for you to go directly to such th [read] Keywords: connections
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Louts Notes 8.5.1: Typeahead also gives you the business card
Sat, Oct 3rd 2009 1:46p Mary Beth Raven Typical Typeahead users, Notes 8.5.1 also allows you to see a person's business card, as shown in the following screenshot. This is useful if you work in a large company and you are trying to distinguish between several people with similar names. [read] Keywords: notes
Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Improvements to attachments on incoming MIME email
Thu, Oct 1st 2009 1:46p Mary Beth Raven Attentive Attachment users, Notes 8.5.1 has made improvements to where the attachments go in MIME email messages. They used to go at the bottom. In Notes 8.5.1 they will be at the top, in a "twisty section" that is opened by default, as shown in the first screenshot below. To quickly gloss over the attachments, Samantha can close the twisty, as shown in the second screenshot. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Better Spam protection with Lotus Protector
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 1:26p Mary Beth Raven Profound Protector enthusiasts, Lotus Notes 8.5.1 will have better spam protection thru better integration with Lotus Protector. In the picture below you'll see that Samantha has a new icon on her action bar, for "Block Sender's Mail" When she clicks it, she gets the following dialog asking if she wants to block mail from the address. She also has a few new choices over in the Navigator for "Spam Protection". For example, in the following screenshot you'll see that she can get a vi [read] Keywords: lotus
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What do we need to do to make install and setup eaiser, especially for Foundations customers?
Mon, Sep 28th 2009 1:07p Mary Beth Raven Fervent Foundations Fans, What, if anything, should we do to improve the usability of the Notes client install and setup? I ask primarily in the context of small and medium businesses who are using the Notes Client as part of Foundations. (I recently received my first feedback email from a Foundations user, so I've decided to open this question more broadly to you-all.) For those of you who sell/use Foundations -- do you Business partners install all the clients for the users and get [read] Keywords: foundations
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Lotus Knows that my outfit matches the bus....
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 9:45a Mary Beth Raven I was fortunate enough to get a quick picture of me with the Lotus Knows bus during the LoLA conference the other day... and I understand that we'll get to see the bus here in Westford today. I like the idea of a reality show where we load some developers, designers and testers on the bus and head slowly toward Florida for Lotusphere.. and the idea is to design and build the Opening general session demo while on the bus... (and voting folks off)... hum.. as long as I am not one of the ones stuck [read] Keywords: lotus
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Questions about your use of the Home page (Or why you do not use the home page)
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 2:10a Mary Beth Raven Honest home page users: We are beginning to think about a home page redesign To that end, I have these questions for you: Does your organization in general customize the Notes client home page? Do you personally customize your Notes client home page? (If so, what do you do and why?) Do you use the default links on the Notes client home page? Was/is getting started helpful? If not, what would you like to see there? Do you use Connections 2.5? What are the most useful things about [read] Keywords: connections
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Notes 8.5.1 will have a new look for Archives
Wed, Aug 26th 2009 10:48a Mary Beth Raven Notable Notes users: The 8.5.1 version of the Notes client will have a new look for archives. • In an archive, the archive name is now highlighted in yellow, and the Archive, Other Mail, Follow-up, and Tools folders will not appear. • There is a Recently Archived view , as shown in the following screenshot: • The Recently Archived folder lists recently archived messages, categorized by archived date, as shown in this picture: • The subject line [read] Keywords: notes
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Some ideas from the Lotus Knows Ideajam were just too good to wait... like the "Message on an M&M" one....
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 8:48a Mary Beth Raven Some ideas on the "Lotus Knows" ideajam were just too good to wait... or so thought our friends from Business partner Lotus911... Specifically, I asked for "Lotus Knows" on M&Ms candies... see here: http://lotusknows.ideajam.net/ideajam/ibm/lotusknows/ideajam.nsf/0/239BB3A46A575C0386257617006AC851?OpenDocument And look what I received today! A bag of Lotus Yellow and Lotus911 red, "Lotus Knows" M&Ms! Some say "Lotus Knows" and others say "Lotus911 knows 2" Great idea! Thanks [read] Keywords: ibm
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