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What's New in Lotus iNotes and the Notes Client 8.5.2

Mary Beth Raven | Lotus User Experience Design Leadn the next 60 minutes, we will demonstrate that Lotus Knows why collaboration infrastructure decisions are critical to your organization's future and Lotus Knows how to deliver the most-complete collaboration solutions, now and into the future.

Agenda

What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5.2

Mail

Calendar

Other

What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5.2

Mail

Calendar

Contacts

Other

What's coming next

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

iNotes: What's new in Mail

Updated new message forms

Mark Subject confidential

Improved insert image UI, and all other dialogs encountered while ending mail have been converted to inline () dialogs

Inline spellcheck UI

Asterisk on tab to indicate unsaved changes

Configuration setting to prevent creation of new message if user is over quota

Light mode now allows you to sign and encrypt messages

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

Updated form with Mark subject confidential

Improved insert image UI

In-line spell checking

In-line spell check identifies misspellings with a squiggly red line; and provide spell check bar with suggestions

Asterisk to indicate unsaved changes

Asterisk to indicate unsaved changes

iNotes: What's new in Calendar

Add Sametime meeting information to invitations

Support for secondary calendars

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

Support for Secondary Calendars

Users can choose to show a secondar calendar alongside their primary calendar. The secondary calendar is displayed next to the day in the date header of each calendar view. Supported calendars:

Japanese Six Day (Rokuyo)

Hebrew national

Users set a preference

Japanese 6-day Calendar

Example of the Japanese 6-day Rokuyo calendar in the One Day, Two Days, One Work Week, One Week views:

Hebrew National Calendar

Dates encircled with blue appear according to Gregorian calendar, while dates encircled with red appear according to the Hebrew national calendar.

In the image below you can see the same view in case GUI is translated to Hebrew. Please note that in this case not only names of months are translated to Hebrew, but also date and year appear with Hebrew numerals.

iNotes: What's new Other

New Browser support

New BiDi user preference

Toolbar button to enable BiDi in the rich text editor

Ultra-light mode support for right-to-left languages

New preference to set the display language

Thai language support for PDF printing

Other new .ini settings and policies

New device support!

Apple iPad

Android OS

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

New Browser support

Firefox 3.6

Internet Explorer 8

Safari 4.x on Macintosh OS

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

New BiDi user preference

Users can now enable support for right to left languages from preferences. To access the new Bidirectional settings user preference, navigate to Preferences > International > Bidirectional Settings.

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

New Toolbar button for BiDi

Requires iNotes_WA_BidiSupport=1 NOTES.INI setting

If .INI variable set to 1, then users see the new toolbar button in the editor to switch direction

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

New language setting preference

Use default means the browser's language is used.

Other new .ini settings and policy

iNotes_WA_Prefer2DigitYearInView=1 (to have iNotes display only 2 digit years within views)

iNotes_WA_CalViewWorkDays=0 (disables the days in work week Calendar display). Set to 1 to allow user to specify explicit workdays within calendar preferences

iNotes_WA_MobileSafariBrowserBlock=0 (Browser block when attempting to use mobile safari)

Policy for initial sidebar state

Ultra-light
Home page
on iPad

Inbox on iPad

Mail message on
iPad!

Android Support!

What's new in the Notes Client v.8.5.2

Mail

Calendar

Contacts

Other

We have three things to talk about this afternoon.

First we will do a brief review of 2009:

Notes and Domino 8.51, Alloy, Traveler, Foundations, xPages, Protector, and the work of our partners.

Second, we will discuss what is in store for 2010.

You heard a bit about that this morning.

Much of 2010 will build on the success of 2009.

But Lotus Knows there will be some breakthroughs too.

Third, we are going to talk about the future.

Notes Client: Overview of Mail user enhancements

Sort Inbox by type of message

Set a default font for mail

Folders stay expanded or collapsed

Five new preferences

Forward email from the Trash

Group names included in typeahead

Set an .ini variable to collapse preview

Drag a message to the desktop and save as a .eml file

Sort by message type (with preview on bottom)

Click the envelope type icon to sort by message type (when you have preview off or on the bottom)

Sort by message type (with preview on side)

Click Sort by Who and choose Type Icons to sort my message type

Set a default font for mail

When composing an email, select text that is in the font you want to use as your default.

Click Text > Set Current Font as Mail Default

Your new default font will appear in the next email you compose. It will not effect the current email.

Folders stay open

If a folder was open when you closed Notes, it will be open the next time you open Notes. If it was closed when you closed Notes, it will be closed.

New preferences

Sort Inbox by Sender's LAST name

Always show details in mail header

Always get a return receipt

Close original email after replying or forwarding

More signature options

Preference: Sort Inbox by sender's last name

Click File Preferences. Choose how you want names displayed.

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Optional: If some senders have last names with prefixes such as Van, you can list the prefixes here.

Preference to always show details

Check the box to have mail message always show details when you open them.

Messages always show the details of From:andTo:

Preference to Always get a Return Receipt

Set a preference to always get a message when recipients open a mail message you have sent them

Preference to close original email after replying or forwarding

Set a preference to close the original email once you have replied to it or forwarded it

Preference: more signature options

You can now choose to have your mail signature be either rich text, plain text or an html/image file

Forward emails from the Trash

You can forward a message from your Trash folder without having to restore it first

Group Names included in type-ahead when addressing mail

When addressing an email, groups will appear in the type-ahead list with a group icon next to them.

Set a Notes .ini variable to close preview

You can set the following Notes.ini to have the preview pane collapsed by default in your Inbox and calendar:

ShowPreviewCollapsedInitially=1

Note: This only affects the default behavior. So, if you set this as 1, the preview pane will be collapsed the first time you open Notes. But then if you open the preview pane and leave it open, it will be open on future restarts.

Drag a Mail Message to Save as .eml File

Preference for Drag n Drop as .eml or shortcut

Overview of Calendar user enhancements

Calendar panes remember if they were open or closed when you exit Notes

See Teamroom calendars offline or on a mobile device

Add private iCalendar feeds to your Notes calendar

More internationalized options for meetings that fall on the weekend

See rooms and resources on your calendar

See calendar entries by category

Meeting subject changes get reflected in rooms and resource reservations

Other Calendar improvements

Do this

Calendar panes remember if they were open or closed when you exit Notes

If a calendar pae in the navigator was closed when you exit Notes, it remains closed when you restart Notes

If a calendar pane was open when you exited Notes, it will be open when you restart Notes

See Teamroom calendars offline or on a mobile device

Choose to add a calendar

Click to view it offline or on a mobile device

Choose a Notes teamroom Calendar

Add private iCalendar feeds to your Notes calendar

Choose to add a calendar

Choose iCalendar feed

Click to choose a private iCalendar feed

More internationalized options for meetings that fall on the weekend

Changed to say work day rather than weekend because the weekend differs based on geography

How the Work day is determined

Work days are determined by the user's choices in this preference

See and book rooms and resources on your calendar

Add the Rooms and Resources calendar just like you would any other calendar

When you choose an entry from the room and resources calendar, you can all reserve a room or resource right from your own calendar

Choose Notes application calendar, type in the URL for it, and click Lookup

Rooms and resources appears just like any other federated calendar

View Calendar entries by category

First, you can categorize meetings by turning on the Category display and adding categories

Then choose to view them by category

View by category was in Notes 6. was taken out in notes 7. do not know why. Now re-added back by popular demand :)

The by Category view

To add categories to a calendar entry, follow these steps:Edit or create a calendar entry.Enter a category into the Category field. (If you do not see the Category field, click Display above the calendar entry, and then select Category.)For this feature to appear, you must replace the design of your mail file. Follow these steps:After you install Notes 8.5.2, open your mail file and select File > Application > Replace Design. (If you do not see this menu option, select View > Advanced menus.)Open the local notes\data directory, and select mail85.ntf.De-select "Inherit future design changes." This will prevent the Domino server from reverting the design back to an older version of the mail template.Click Replace.

More about the Entries by Category viewThis new view displays a categorized list of calendar entries on your Calendar including Appointments, Meetings, Reminders, Anniversaries, All Day Events, Event Announcements and imported iCal entries. This allows the user to group their related entries into categories for quick access.

The view does not include To Dos, Notices, or calendar entries federated from other Calendars or feeds.

Any entries that are not Categorized will appear under the Not Categorized section.

Meeting Subject changes are reflected in Rooms and Resources

When a Notes 8.5.2 meeting chair changes the subject of a meeting, the meeting name in the room or resource reservation will be changed as well.

This only applies if the rooms and reservations application is on a Domino 8.5.2 server, and the meeting reservation has been accepted.

Other Calendar Improvements

Calendar times change to match operating system timezone

Offline/Mobile calendars update at midnight -- If you have added a calendar to your Notes calendar, and chose to view it offline or on a mobile device, then Notes will automatically update any changes at midnight, as long as the device is connected to the internet at that time

Better handling of Facebook calendar entries

If Day-at-a-Glance is in summary mode, it no longer jumps to the top when new mail arrives

Overview of Contacts user enhancements

Make a contact or group private

Send someone a group or location

Choose to NOT add CC and BCC recipients to Recent Contacts

More easily remove someone from Recent Contacts

Other improvements to Recent Contacts

Make a contact or group private

Choose to mark a contact as private when you add the person

Or mark existing contacts as private using a context menu from the view

Send someone a group

Select the group and click Send

Send it to people; they can import the group to their Contacts

Send someone a location

Select the location and click Send

Send it to people; they can import the location to their Contacts

Choose to NOT add CC and BCC recipients to Recent Contacts

In Contacts Preferences, choose to not add CC andBCC names

Easily delete someone from Recent Contacts

Your Recent Contacts affect who appears in the type-ahead list when you address an email. They are the people you email, chat, and meet with most frequently and recently.

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Simply use a context menu to delete a name that you do not want to see in Recent Contacts ( names that appear in type ahead)

Other improvements to Recent Contacts

On a rename of a fullname of directory record, duplicate recent contact records will not be created and original will be deleted, a new record will be created with new info.

On a rename of internet address only on the directory record, duplicate will not be created in recent contacts, and the original will be updated.

Use of DPABRemoveRule ini variable to block certain addresses is improved, it will now clean up existing records in recent contacts which match the pattern set in the ini.

Example settings: DPABRemoveRule=xyz/exchange,abc/exchange used to block any email addresses with this pattern from getting into recent contacts. In CD3 it will also cleanup existing entries which have this pattern in addition to blocking future occurrences.

Overview of other user enhancements

Better integration with Lotus Connections

Various usability enhancements

Widgets improvements

Administration-related client improvements

See pretty application icons in the Workspace

Better integration with Lotus Connections

Open Lotus Connections from the Open list

New way to Open Activities on the web

Option to set a display name for a server

Invite someone to join your network

New authentication URL field in advanced settings

Access Connections features from the Tools menu

Open Lotus Connections from the Open list

If your organization has installed the Activities sidebar and configured it to connect to Lotus Connections, you can open Lotus Connections features from the Notes Open list.

Click Open > Lotus Connections, and then select the feature that you want to use.

New way to open Activities on the web

From the Notes sidebar, open the Activities sidebar panel menu, and then select Open in Web Browser.

The Open in Web Browser link is no longer available from the bottom of the Activities panel.

Option to set a display name for a server

Users can set a more meaningful display name for the server, rather than just seeing the URL....

The display name appears in the top left of the Activities panel

New authentication URL field in advanced settings

A new field called Authentication URL was added to the Advanced Server Settings dialog box.

If you have specified the Server URL on the Connections Server Settings properties page and have selected Java Form or SiteMinder Form from the Authentication protocol field, then you can click the Auto-fill button to automatically populate this field

The field is not populated if you have not yet specified a Lotus Connections server nor if Tivoli Access Manger Form is selected for the Authentication protocol field. Your administrator might ask you to edit the Web address in this field to reflect your company's specific configuration; update the value of this field if instructed.

Invite Someone to join your network

Use a new choice on the context menu on a nameCustomize the invitation message

Access Connections features from the Tools menu

Various usability enhancements

Switch to contacts from navigator

Disable icon popup help in Mail, Calendar, Contacts

CTRL+Click to keep same document selected

No interruptions during server failover

Replication and synchronization are multi-threaded

Switch to Contacts from navigator

In the past you could switch between Mail, Calendar and To-dos. Now Contacts are included.

Disable popup help

Uncheck Enable Icon Popup Help in View

If these popups are bothering you....

CTRL+Click to keep same document selected

Inbox: American Express alert.Press Control, click on the new view....

Keep the same document (message) selected as you go to a different folder or view by holding down the CTRL key.

All Documents: American Express alert is still selected

No interruptions during server failover

If the server goes down during any of the following activities, it will fail over to another server automatically without interrupting your activity or showing you error messages:

Creating a new email, calendar entry, or to do item

Opening a document in an application

Opening a different folder or view

Replying or forwarding with attachments

Creating a new document while multiple documents are selected (multiple documents remain selected)

Sending a message

Switching back to the primary server when it becomes available

Deleting a single or multiple document.

Replication and sync are multi-threaded to improve throughput and timeliness

No longer a serial process; you can stop one or more at any time

Widgets improvements

New widget creation wizard for composite applications

Show or hide widget thumbnail in the sidebar panel

Option to specify a custom widget icon for the sidebar

Option to set a default action for double-click on a widget

Option to reuse a single sidebar panel for a particular widget's action

Option to install a widget from a .zip file, file structure and provisioning improvements

New widget wizard for composite applications

New wizard specific to a composite application.

Provides a list of actions appropriate to this composite application context

The Widgets toolbar now works in a composite application

A new widget configuration wizard is available for creating a widget using the active composite application as the current context. Prioir to Notes 8.5.2 the Widget toolbar DID NOT work with a composite application. Now it does and (thanks to Bob Balfe, the dev who came up with this idea) we think that this new wizard makes it really easy to create widgets from comp. Apps because it detects the appropirate actions for the comp app that you launched the wizard from!

Using this new wizard, users can either create a widget that simply opens the composite application in a new tab, or one that is wired to act on Live Text or selected text in a particular manner.

The following sequence configures the widget such that a zip code from Live Text in a Notes document is sent to the "Filter View by Category" action in the composite application.

1. In Notes, open a composite application and click the "Configure a widget from the current context" toolbar option to open the "Create a new widget for this application" wizard. For example, open a composite application that contains the Notes Mail and Contacts views.

2. Use the wizard to specify a new widget name, for example ZipCodeContactFilter.

3. To wire the widget to act on Live Text or selected text in a particular way, click Wire as an action.

Note: To create a widget that simply opens the composite application in a new tab, click Just configure a widget for now and Finish.4. Enter a descriptive action name to appear in the Live Text hover menu, for example ZipCodeCollect.5. Select the content type property for the action. For example, select Address and then select the address.zip child property.

Note: You should be familiar with the composite application itself before attempting to wire a content property to an action.

6. Select one or more component actions to execute with Live Text or selected text. For example, select the All Contact > Filter View by Category action.

Note: Only component actions that accept a string value as input are listed; other value types are not available.

7. Click Finish and the new widget appears in the My Widgets sidebar panel.

From here you can double click on the widget in the My Widgets sidebar panel to open the application or you can execute the Live Text widget action that you have just created. You can also right-click the widget and choose Configure a new action to create more actions for the widget. Additionally, you can add the widget to the widgets catalog to share it with others, and so on.

Show or hide widget thumbnails

Hide any widget you do not want to see

Use the Show All menu to make all hidden ones visible again

Option to re-use the same sidebar panel

Before, clicking to map each of these addresses with Live Text would have opened 3 different sidebar panels

Now, admins can put the following in the widget.xml. True = reuse same sidebar

Applications->Lotus Application Support

Notes pre-loader

The preloader option can be enabled during the Notes client install or upgrade process using the Launch parts of Notes when the operating system starts to enable faster Notes startup option. The option appears on the same install screen on which Notes can be enabled as the default mail

Specify the source of business card information

By default, the business card is populated with data from the products in the following order:

Lotus Connections

Lotus Sametime

Lotus Notes

You can either change the order or prevent a source from being used.

To change the order, specify the following in

/framework/rcp/ plugin_customization.ini

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.NotesContacts=G

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.profiles=E

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.com.ibm.lconn.client.bizcard.livename=C

Use letters that come later in the alphabet to specify higher priority products and letters that come earlier in the alphabet to specify products with a lower priority. For example, a priority of A is lower than a priority of B.

To prevent one of the products from being the source of the business card data, add the following property:

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/disable.content.for.=true

where is one of the following values:

Lotus Connections: profiles

Lotus Notes: NotesContacts

Lotus Sametime: com.ibm.lconn.client.bizcard.livename

See the pretty sailboat icon for the application icon

Last by not least: Pretty icons!!

Admin or app dev adds the pretty icon using Domino Designer

Choose an image resource. Can be .gif, .png

You can replace or remove your new icon

New project on Openntf.org where you MIGHT BE ABLE TO get pretty icons!

What might be coming next Lotus iNotes 8.5.3

Visual Style

Make the default font bigger

Adopt the One UI visual style

Adopt the new window management that integrates better with the rest of LL

Usefulness

Mail

Paul sorts on subject --the Fw: and re: are stripped out

Paul chooses from multiple email signatures

Calendar

Paul sees a ghost of counter-proposed meetings

Paul gets better automatic processing of calendar updates

Contacts- Improved experience of Mailfile copy of contacts

Execution

Action bar in the New Message form removes the New action

Optimized web forms for Calendar, Contacts, to-do and notebook

What Might be Coming Next Notes client 8.5.3

Multiple signatures

Additional/better online meeting integration into calendar

Eclipse help enhancements

Bug fixes and more!

IBM Project Vulcan

Continuity

Convergence

Innovation

Opportunity

Building off of today's capabilities

Unifying the experience across access and delivery models

Applying technology to empower people to work in new ways

Making possible the next generation of solutions

Provides a blueprint for the evolution of the IBM collaboration portfolioHeard about IBM Project Vulcan during the keynote it is a vision that provides a blueprint for how our products will evolve, including Notes/Domino.

We are pursuing IBM Project Vulcan keeping four principles in mind: Continuity, Convergence, Innovation, and Opportunity. What does this mean for the evolution of Notes/Domino?

Continuity builds off of today's capabilities. By following the N/D upgrade path you will be on your way to achieving the vision. [Insert details around current capabilities like xPages apps that are taking us in the direction of Vulcan]

Convergence unifying the experience while making the enabling technology (UI, delivery model) matter less. Client experience that is unhooked from the servers and services that support it.

Innovation enabling people to work in new ways, applying elements like social analytics, helping people move out of the inbox and towards streams of information most relevant to their work.

Opportunity making possible the next generation of solutions by bringing a new focus to Web technologies such as public REST APIs, XPages for Domino applications, widgets and mashups, and HTML5 for richer user experience.

IBM Project Vulcan

Continuity

Convergence

Innovation

Opportunity

Building off of today's capabilities

Unifying the experience across access and delivery models

Applying technology to empower people to work in new ways

Making possible the next generation of solutions

Provides a blueprint for the evolution of the IBM collaboration portfolioHeard about IBM Project Vulcan during the keynote it is a vision that provides a blueprint for how our products will evolve, including Notes/Domino.

We are pursuing IBM Project Vulcan keeping four principles in mind: Continuity, Convergence, Innovation, and Opportunity. What does this mean for the evolution of Notes/Domino?

Continuity builds off of today's capabilities. By following the N/D upgrade path you will be on your way to achieving the vision. [Insert details around current capabilities like xPages apps that are taking us in the direction of Vulcan]

Convergence unifying the experience while making the enabling technology (UI, delivery model) matter less. Client experience that is unhooked from the servers and services that support it.

Innovation enabling people to work in new ways, applying elements like social analytics, helping people move out of the inbox and towards streams of information most relevant to their work.

Opportunity making possible the next generation of solutions by bringing a new focus to Web technologies such as public REST APIs, XPages for Domino applications, widgets and mashups, and HTML5 for richer user experience.

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