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SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0
21570 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
I found over at
There are people who love mail folders and people who hate them.
Nowadays using folders is the “old” way to organize e-mail messages: put this memo here, that one there, and so on. Right, as in real life…
I’m trying to love Notes mail folders, and I must say that one handy tool is helping me a lot: its name is SwiftFile!
So what does SwiftFile do? Well, as Cristian goes on to explain:
SwiftFile is very handy because it “learns” how to manage you Inbox messages and then, for any open memo, it suggests which folders are likely to be chosen by the user, just showing folders name on top of the memo. Then the user make just one click on a folder name to move the memo inside that folder! Easy and fast!
In more formal speak, according to the readme:
SwiftFile is an intelligent assistant for Lotus Notes that helps users organize their e-mail into folders. SwiftFile uses a text classifier to learn each user’s mail-filing habits. SwiftFile uses the model it learns to predict the three folders into which the user is most likely to place each incoming message. The predictions are presented to the user as three shortcut buttons that allow the user to quickly file each message into one of the predicted folders. When one of SwiftFile’s predictions is correct, the effort required to file a message is reduced to a single button click.
SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0, part number C1436EN can be downloaded from Passport Advantage. I have it installed and running fine in Notes 7.
A nice find, gracias Cristian!
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IBM warming to Ubuntu?
71571 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
Tell me its true!
on his blog :
So it was a big (and welcome) surprise to find not one but two groups within the company putting together distributions of the IBM desktop products for Ubuntu.
This was by Julian over at :
Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of IBM products specifically for Ubuntu. I know it’s internal to IBM and not-for-the-public and unofficial and all that, but very interesting to hear. Maybe that’ll get us one step closer to official Debian support.
Lets hope so. I know it would make a lot of people happy, and would get IBM products in front of a lot of linux users. Imagine Dell flogging laptops preloaded with Ubuntu + Notes + Sametime + Symphony! That’d be nice!
This also gives us a glimpse of the power of social software tools behind the firewall. Without them, Glen would have found it extremely hard, if not impossible, to locate this kind of virtual community within such a large organisation. The truth is though that all organisations have these kind of dispersed groups with common interests, and tools like Sametime and Lotus Connections can allow them to unite and achieve results.
It would not surprise me to see this made available in some form at some point in the future. Please IBM!
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The Notes Domino 8 proposition
31590 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
the key strengths of the Lotus story and how that faces off to Microsoft’s offering:
I think there’s more to the story, however: if you consider the Eclipse.org-based foundation in Notes 8, along with the OpenOffice.org-derived Lotus Symphony “productivity editors”, the fact that Notes 8 runs on multiple platforms (eventually multiple versions of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS), and the fact that Notes is also a template-driven application development platform (with a tightly-coupled and purpose-built, multi-platform server counterpart), the competitive overlap goes far beyond Outlook. You could argue that aspects of Notes actually compete with Windows, Office (not just Outlook), and even the .NET Framework.
Emphasis mine.
He was commenting on on the latest version of Notes and Domino.
Maureen is asking some questions
01595 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
Two in fact:
- is it ok to remove database properties from the infobox selection hierarchy in Designer (where infoboxes remain)?
- is it ok to have to click on the database header in the bookmarks or make another gesture to get to database properties?
and let her know what you think. Personally I’m OK with both, I think that the eclipse-based designer will need us to relearn a lot of things anyway, apart from all the good it will have to offer, so I’m not too worried about the design team making changes where necessary.
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Revisited: What am I missing? (admin help [still] needed!)
21604 days
Thanks to those who responded to my previous bleat for help, I have been back to try and get this working but still no luck!
The situation is as follows:
- Domino 7 sever running on RHEL as a guest in VMware
- I can ping from the host both IP address and hostname of the guest
- I can ping the host from the guest
- The Domino server is up and running and I can connect over http and run the Domino web admin
- nmap shows port 1352 as open on the guest
- I have allowed incoming traffic from the guest to the host in my firewall
- the VM has a fixed IP addressed and is running in host-only mode
- I have added the IP address and FQHN for the guest to my host’s “host” file
- I can connect to the guest from the host via SSH and FTP
The continuing problem is that I can’t connect from the Notes or Admin client on the host. I’m not sure whether I made that apparent before. I have tried the following:
- I have a connection document configured for the server.
- I have tried using both a FQHN or the IP address as destination address
- When I try opening a database and enter the server name, I get the error:
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IBM Lotus Notes
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The server is not responding. The server may be down or you may be experiencing network problems. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.
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OK
--------------------------- - When I try opening a database and enter the IP address, I get the error:
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IBM Lotus Notes
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Unable to find path to server. To trace this connection, use File - Preferences - User Preferences - Ports - Trace (Notes client) or Trace command (Domino server)
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OK
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To me this makes no sense, and is beyond my networking problem-solving abilities, I feel I can’t see the wood for the trees!
Has anyone else done this? I can’t imagine I’m the only one! So I must be missing something simple, right? Any ideas most welcome!
In the meantime, I going to install a Notes client in another guest VM and try to get them talking.
Wish me luck!
New to Me . . . too!
51617 days
Still catching up with email and blog reading, not helped by the excitement over the Notes Domino 8 release while I was away!
from caught my eye:
The functionality I am referring to is running the Notes client in “Kiosk” mode, that is running a Notes application as if it were a stand alone product. What this does is it launches an application full screen on a users computer with no toolbars or bookmark bars.
So how do we manage it? Easy!
To launch the application in Kiosk mode use this in your Notes icon, startup script, whatever:
“[path to Notes executable]” /kiosk “[path\db.nsf]”
(e.g. “C:\Program Files\lotus\notes7\nlnotes.exe” /kiosk “af\main.nsf”
I didn’t know how this was done either, thanks Michael!
Lotus Notes & Domino 8 to be released August 17th
01640 days
The wait is over!
I just had to blog this, too big a date not to!
Official announcement .
Its going to be an exciting autumn.