Bob Balfe: Free charting in Lotus Notes

February 1 2010

This question came up at "Ask the developers" at Lotusphere 2010 and in a separate customer meeting I had during the week.  Customers want to know how to do charting in the Notes client.  This is one of the benefits of having moved the Notes client to Eclipse -- there are numerous tools, including the BIRT Eclipse plug-in and Dojo tools, to now easily do charting in Notes.

At the Meet the Developers session someone asked why there isn't charting tools "free" in the Notes client.  There actually is, as I have demonstrated integration with Notes views and Symphony in the past (video 1, video 2, video 3), however, there have recently been a lot of up-take using XPages and Dojo charting [Goes into details on both].  ... A third option, because Lotus Notes is Eclipse based, you can also use BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool).
In short, it looks like you have a few options to get free charting in Lotus Notes.  If you do not want to use Symphony, then XPages, Composite Applications, Dojo, or BIRT are alternatives.
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  1. 1  Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com | 2/1/2010 9:22:22 AM

    I also have a number of examples from Lotusphere sessions I've done on this very subject for the past three years: { Link }

  1. 2  Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com | 2/1/2010 9:24:45 AM

    Another excellent resource is the NotesReconn app on OpenNTF: { Link }

  1. 3  Mike Kinder http://www.acadiasolutions.com | 2/1/2010 2:03:53 PM

    @Julian - thanks for the links, and your presentations @ LSphere 2010, very helpful. Reports and charts are things I have been doing a fair amount of lately - so I really appreciate it.

    @Ed, thanks for starting the discussion, you could not imagine how many times I have been told Notes can't do reporting. Once again, they (the nay sayers) are wrong.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 2/1/2010 2:55:25 PM

    @1/2 - Julian, this is what I wanted to follow up on after "ask the developers". Great to see you put that content out there as well!

  1. 5  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 2/2/2010 3:57:05 PM

    both of my sessions at Lotusphere covered reporting, either with Excel or Symphony Spreadsheets.

    JMP106 “Kum Bah Yah” Meets “Lets Kick Butt” : The Integration of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET, and IBM Lotus Symphony { Link }

    BP214 IBM Lotus Symphony : Finally, A Developer's Friend { Link }

  1. 6  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 2/2/2010 6:34:58 PM

    It is easy with Notes and Symphony in a composite application... hey, even I can do it: { Link } and { Link }