When building out my new laptop, I installed Lotus Notes 8.5.3. As I was setting all my preferences, I stumbled across a section titled 'Choose how names are added to Recent Contacts' and it has a much improved set of features.
While it offers a lot of choices, I still don't see exactly the one I want. Here is what I am looking for; A combination of 'Only sender's name from emails I receive' and 'Only names from emails I send'. The third radio button, 'Only the "To" recipient names from emails I send & receive' seems close but it has it's own issues. What are they you ask? I commonly find that someone I know sends me an email with 20 other people in the 'To' field. I don't want those 20 other people added. A lot of times, I don't know them nor do I care to send them a message.
Having a check-box instead of a radio button would solve my needs. I could then pick the 2nd and 4th items and be on my way. This is definitely an improvement from where 'Recent Contacts' started, but could use a few final tweaks.
Fixed: Office 365 Invitation Issue
Mon, Apr 9th 2012 6:11a Denny Russell A few weeks back I blogged about an Office 365 issue where calendar invitations were not coming through as invites but rather as text. With some guidance from a Response to that article, we were able to solve the issue. Below are the details of how to fix this issue. The Scenario The environment we are in is a co-existence of Office365 users and on-premise Lotus Notes users. The Lotus Notes users from the organization are maintained in the Office365 environment as External Contacts. The pr [read] Keywords: lotus
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URL link to a Lotus Notes document not resolving correctly on the iPhone
Tue, Mar 27th 2012 1:11p Denny Russell I've run into an odd issue with the iPhone and a link left in an email. Let me set up the scenario a bit. A user has an email that has been 'stubbed' by an archiving process. The body of the message is replaced with a footprint of text so the user can easily get to the archived document. In a Notes client, a doclink is present and the user can click and open the message. For web/phone, there is a full url path to the archived message as seen below... If a user clicks this UR [read] Keywords: inotes
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Some Microsoft 365 Invitations arrive in Lotus Notes as text not invitations
Tue, Mar 20th 2012 1:12p Denny Russell We've run into an odd issue and I'm looking for help out solving it. We have users running Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and when an invite comes into their inbox from Office 365, one of 2 things happens. 1. It works and looks like this... OR 2. It comes through as a Memo and text only... Both Mail files inherit from the same 8.5.3 Mail Template Both Mail files have 'Keep in senders' format' for the incoming mail preferences in the Person document in the Domino Directory. What [read] Keywords: domino
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DAOS: What happens when a document is moved from one file to another
Fri, Mar 9th 2012 8:10a Denny Russell After many calls from customers, I've been doing some research to see what happens when documents are moved from one .nsf that has DAOS enabled to another .nsf. While not surprising to me, the results seemed unexpected to some customers so I decided to write about it. Here is what I found out. My test went like this. Step 1. Send some attachments in emails and verifying that my DAOS folder is growing both at the OS level as well as issuing a Tell DAOSmgr dbsummary command at the console. [read] Keywords: ldd
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Recent Contacts setting in Lotus Notes 8.5.3 is better
Wed, Jan 4th 2012 12:10p Denny Russell When building out my new laptop, I installed Lotus Notes 8.5.3. As I was setting all my preferences, I stumbled across a section titled 'Choose how names are added to Recent Contacts' and it has a much improved set of features. While it offers a lot of choices, I still don't see exactly the one I want. Here is what I am looking for; A combination of 'Only sender's name from emails I receive' and 'Only names from emails I send'. The third radio button, 'Only the "To" recipie [read] Keywords: lotus
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Folder References property does not remain when creating a new replica
Fri, Dec 9th 2011 1:10p Denny Russell We've encountered an oddity and was hoping someone out there may have some insight on how to fix this. We set Folder References on a database using the following code... Option Public Option Declare Sub Initialize Dim CurrentDB As NotesDatabase Dim Session As New NotesSession Set CurrentDB = Session.CurrentDatabase CurrentDB.FolderReferencesEnabled = True End Sub And then verified that the property is set on the d [read] Keywords: domino
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Are you aware of this LinkedIn Privacy Setting??
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 7:51a Denny Russell Stumbled across this little gem and thought it was worth noting. By default, there is a setting, 'LinkedIn may use my name, photo in social advertising' that is selected by default. To find this: 1. Click on your Name in the upper right corner and then choose 'Settings' 2. Go to the Account in the bottom left 3. Choose 'Manage Social Advertising' 4 You will find this field to update. [read] Keywords: linkedin
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LotusDr.com is 2 years old
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 7:08a Denny Russell Another year has passed and this site is still going. Looking back, I've only had 16 posts this past year, but they were some of my most commented posts. Maybe less is really more. If you read last year's 1 year anniversary post, you saw that I've taken on a new site and have focused my efforts on helping out Inline Hockey Coaches around the world. It's been a fun project and it's going strong. Much like going to Lotusphere and meeting a lot of you, my hockey site allowed me to meet up [read] Keywords: domino
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Allow agents executed using server command "tell amgr run" to be seen...
Thu, Jun 23rd 2011 6:46a Denny Russell In working with our customers, many have requested the ability to see what an agent is doing when they use the 'Run Now' option. The 'Run Now' option in our products simply uses the 'Tell AMGR RUN' command at the console to start an agent. Unlike a scheduled LotusScript agent, once you issue this command, you have no control. This is nothing new, as it's been on IdeaJam for a while now. Let me show you what I mean. (if you understand the issue and just want the information on the enh [read] Keywords: agent
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Lotus Notes Position in Western PA
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 7:10a Denny Russell This opportunity was recently passed along to me. If interested contact, Dave Watkins 412-722-0953 dwatkins@jhtechnical.com SUMMARY Lotus Notes Developer - Our client is migrating from Lotus Notes 8.0 to 8.5 and would like to have someone on staff to assist with the process and provide ongoing administration and development support. plus as it will help them to keep the person busy. DESIRED BACKGROUND - Wants someone who has Lotus Notes Administration skills - Able to handle ongo [read] Keywords: administration
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