What's New in the Notes Basic Client from 8.0 to 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.

What's new in Lotus Notes Basic client by release

Notes Basic 8

Notes Basic 8.5 (including 801 and 802 really not much for Basic client users)

Notes Basic 8.5.1

Notes Basic 8.5.2

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.

What's new in Notes Basic release 8.0

New Forms for Mail, Calendar, Contacts

Single Sign On through Notes Shared logon

Multi-Level Undo in the editor

Office 2007 Document Viewers

Real-Time Out Of Office

Auto Save Function

Message Recall

No Subject Warning

In-line Spell Check

Dual Time Zone

Easily identify email folder

Synchronize personal contacts with the Lotus Notes Server

Single Sign On through Notes Shared logonMulti-Level UndoOffice 2007 Document ViewersGhosted Calendar EntriesReal-Time Out Of OfficeAuto Save FunctionMessage RecallNo Subject WarningIn-line Spell CheckDual Time ZoneEasily identify email folder Synchronize personal contacts with the Lotus Notes ServerAllows wireless BB and iNotes synching of personal contactsiNotes Lite Mode for limited bandwidth sites

New Mail Form

Names, not email addresses

Click to see the email addresses if you want

Sort the To and CC list to scan it more easily

Recall Mail (requires Notes 8 server or higher)

New Calendar Form

To find available time more easily UNCHECK the people who are not realy necessary

Ghosted meetings and all day events ( Unaccepted meetings, cancelations, show up on the calendar)

New Contacts Form

Click a link to launch a dialog; you can customize the labels

Contacts Form is Dynamic

In edit mode, many fields are shown

You can add new fields and give them your own labels

Only the fields with labels appear in read mode

Notes 8.5. Basic client

Forward Vcard

Import Contacts

Forward VCard

Save Data Import Contacts with Field Mapping

You can review each contact and reconcile any differences

What's New in the Notes Basic client 8.5.1

Mail

Calendar

Contacts

Now Ten Colors for Coding!

Attachments at Top on Incoming MIME Mail

Attachments Easily Collapsed at Top on Incoming MIME Mail

Accept meetings from the preview pane

New Online Meeting Preference

Sametime meetings = new sametimeLotuslive meetings = UnyteSametime Classic Meetings = Sametime before version?

New Location for Online Meeting Info

Click to joinPlus meeting idEntire url easy to select and ping to othersYes, the is actually where the old Sametime meeting info went, and yes this is how the old sametime attand a meeting workd (the introductoin of Unyute/lotuslive was the problem)

And YES all the info is repeated below in the body and were trying to get that removed by the time we ship.

Rich Text Editor Improvements

New toolbar icons:

Permanent pen-- the cursor now changes to identify that permanent pen is in use.

The selection behavior in a Notes section is now smoother. You can scroll smoothly through the text as in normal text The entire section is still selected as before but scrolling occurs only when you drag out of the window.

Lists: if no text on a line then no list element is displayed. (Exception: in edit mode, a list element displays on an empty line if the cursor) is in the paragraph)

Improved Table formatting

Drag to Reorder rows or columns

Multiple undo: Step through multiple edits and undo them. Note that this feature is supported when editing lists also.

Table resize: Drag the outside margin of a table to resize it

Move text from one cell to another: Drag and drop the contents of a cell to move it to another cell.

Fixed width table: When you create a fixed width table, you can now specify the width in the Create Table dialog box. In previous versions, the width for fixed width tables was automatically determined based on the available area.

Columns: Drag and drop a column border to resize it.

UnderlineText colorHighlighterInsert Link

General: Workspace Roams

New Spell Check Preferences

What's new in the Notes Basic 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

Set a default font for mail

Folders stay expanded or collapsed

Five new preferences

Set an .ini variable to collapse preview

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

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

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

More internationalized options for meetings that fall on the weekend

Meeting subject changes get reflected in rooms and resource reservations

Do this

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

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.

Overview of Contacts user enhancements

Make a contact or group private

Send someone a group or location

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

Overview of other user enhancements

Various usability enhancements

Administration-related client improvements

See pretty application icons in the Workspace

Various usability enhancements

Switch to contacts from navigator

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.

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

Administration-related client improvements

Enable or disable roaming using from .ini settings

New way to collect info in Notes hangs

Notes pre-loader option

Pretty database icons

Enable or disable roaming from .ini file

Add the following to the Notes.ini file:DisableRoaming=0 (roaming processing is not disabled)DisableRoaming=1 (roaming processing is disabled)

Why would you want to do that?The admin enabled you for roaming (no roaming data on server yet) and you do not want to be prompted for any roaming processing.

The admin registers you as a roaming user and wants to set up a client without going through roaming setup.

The (power) user is already roaming on a machine and wants to disable roaming.

The (power) user is already roaming (has roaming data on the server) and wants to disable roaming setup while setting up a Notes client on a new machine.

Collect info if Notes hangs

On Windows, go to Start App Programs-> Lotus Applications Support

When you start Notes, you'll be asked if you want to send a report (if the admin has enabled automatic diagnostic data collection)

On Mac, go to Finder ->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

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 can get pretty icons!

http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-8ANA85

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