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1. 1  tonyo  | 5/3/2005 11:57:49 PM

   point and click adjustable tables ( like word)

1. 2  Ingo Erdmann http://gcc.upb.de | 5/4/2005 12:29:51 AM

   My No. 1 feature: View Anchor Link

   Very often you want to tell people: You can find all the project related documents are in DB x in Category "Projects\I\IBM\Notes 7.x features". It's always a hassle for them to go there and navigate through multiple categories. Instead, if we would have a view anchor link, they could click and directly jump into that target category.

   Obviously, this would be very useful to be used in bookmarks as well.

   Current workaround:

   Send them a button with the following code:

   TargetRepID := "xxxxxxx";

   TargetServerHint := "xxxxxx";

   TargetView := "View";

   TargetFolder := "Projects\\I\\IBM\\Notes 7.x features";

   @PostedCommand([FileOpenDBRepID]; TargetRepID; TargetServerHint ;TargetView; @Left(TargetFolder; "\\"));

   @PostedCommand([ViewExpandAll]);

   @PostedCommand([FileOpenDBRepID]; TargetRepID; TargetServerHint ; TargetView; TargetFolder)

   But teach that to you end users...

1. 3  Egor Margineanu http://www.master.md/blog/kito | 5/4/2005 12:48:18 AM

   I vote for multi-level undo and multi-level redo.

1. 4  Egor Margineanu http://www.master.md/blog/kito | 5/4/2005 12:58:38 AM

   Timely remark: Also multi-level undo and multi-level redo in Domino Designer.

1. 5  Stu Mac www.syan.co.uk | 5/4/2005 1:00:05 AM

   Automatic Sametime reconnect.. (laptops resumed from standby will automatically replicate/login for Notes, why doesnt instant messaging integration do the same?)

1. 6  Stu Mac www.syan.co.uk | 5/4/2005 1:03:18 AM

   Oh and another one... (Ed would be sad if us Macheads didn't pipe up I'm sure!)

   Full admin/designer client for Mac, failing that, full Domino Web Access and Web Admin support for Mac browsers (Safari & Firefox)...

1. 7  Gerald Mengisen  | 5/4/2005 1:28:55 AM

   Re-open and really fix SPR BFRD4XLMHK that was closed as a "user misunderstanding" in Domino 6.51.

   In short, the full text search results on the web are not sorted correctly if you use the &count and &start parameters and you want the results sorted in the same way as the underlying view (&SearchOrder=4 parameter). I've read that this used to work up to a certain version of Domino 5.0.x.

   It would make Notes so much more flexible how search results can be sorted.

   For more info:

   { Link }

1. 8  Chris Dehon  | 5/4/2005 2:28:11 AM

   What about the ability to share contacts?? Is it not somewhat interesting that a/the leading collaboration tool does not allow users to share contacts easily (another product comes to mind)?

   Ed, I suggested this to you when you did an R5 presentation in Staines many moons ago.

   Clearly there is no demand for this... or is there?

1. 9  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/4/2005 2:38:43 AM

   Proper client-side spam filtering, like in Thunderbird.

1. 10  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/4/2005 2:43:45 AM

   I know you said one each, just take the next one as an indication of my enthusiasm for the subject ;o)

   Outlook has a couple of nice calendar features I wish Notes had... one is clicking on unconnected dates in the date picker and seeing them appear on the calendar side-by-side. Also viewing one person's calendar side-by-side with another - you can do this by creating a welcome page with two calendars but your average user is never going to do that.

   Multi-level undo also gets my vote.

1. 11  Wild Bill http://www.billbuchan.com/web.nsf/htdocs/BBUN693HVL.htm | 5/4/2005 2:55:09 AM

   How about (as an either-or for my one suggestion):

   - Embedding the IP address of the notes client in the server log file session open entry.

   or even better:

   - allowing restriction by IP subnet for particular users. So that Admin accounts couldnt authenticate over the VPN, for instance.

   The former is good after the horse has bolted, the latter better for the initial stable door bolting.

   ---* Bill

1. 12  Frode B  | 5/4/2005 3:00:18 AM

   What if you could make a dialogbox in one client not block the other clients? I for one would love that.

1. 13  Simon Bounds  | 5/4/2005 3:42:27 AM

   I know that this will not be possible at least in the 7 timeframe and it may fly in the face of the long term future directions, however I am sick of being told that Exchange is better than Notes.

   What they are saying is that the Outlook interface is cooler, nicer (a better UI) than the mail template.

   Can we have a really top UI for the next release. It may mean that there will be no customisation, other than adding a couple of action items and maybe some graphics such as is available to DWA however it would really top off a lot of end user (at the senior sponsor level) complaints about the clients.

   This would have to be multiplatform (i.e. inlude MAC and Linux) and could be a similar interface used in Workplace or using similar dev tools.

   Just a way out idea . . . You said I could have only one so I wanted to make it a really big one.

1. 14  Gerco Wolfswinkel http://www.domino-weblog.nl | 5/4/2005 3:51:35 AM

   Multi level undo is a long standing issue, I think. Would be very, very nice to have!

1. 15  Stephan H. Wissel http://www.wissel.net | 5/4/2005 4:15:43 AM

   support for XSLT in design elements and @formulas

   see: { Link }

   And since others have more than one :-)

   webDAV support for attachments

   :-) stw

1. 16  Stephan H. Wissel http://www.wissel.net | 5/4/2005 4:17:33 AM

   and @Command([EditAttachment])

1. 17  Axel Janssen  | 5/4/2005 4:44:48 AM

   A wizzard for creating webservices endpoint to integrate Domino easily with .NET. (no evil intentions: db2 also does have lots of .net support)

1. 18  Andres Gorostidi  | 5/4/2005 5:21:05 AM

   Yes, I known you are going to argue this is already done, and that you can syncronize contacts from local names.nsf to your IWA, but we need a more simple a powerful thing.

   People gets crazy and confused about syncronizing contacts between Notes Client and IWA. Moreover, people need a real solution.

   The concept and need is simple. Centrally managed contacts. Allows sharing of contacts, delegation of contact management, and best of all, portability. The contacts will replicate just as mail does, making contact managment much easier. They are also in a single database, making backup and restore functions easier.

   Current mailbox already implements the views&forms used by the names.nsf to store contacts. I would like the Notes Client being smart enough to known how to retreive the contacts from the mail file locations instead having to setup a NAMES=names.msf, mymail.nsf on the Notes.ini

   I would be great if such contacts, stored on you mail file, are able to be SHARED contacts for departments and secretaries (and easy accesed by IWA, PDAs, etc).

   Current solutions has a lot of limitations for my customer. Still can not understand how this is not implemented directly on mail file.

1. 19  AJP -MAC HEAD  | 5/4/2005 5:38:04 AM

   A real MAC client ;-)

   But as that is unlikely ...., how about a Post Drag-and-Drop event in all views that catches document(s) being dragged and drop from within the view and other views/frames and knows the position of the drop. This would allow dragging from different frames into calendars, drag and drop reordering of views, moving response docs around, creating response documents from documents...... etc.

1. 20  AJP -MAC HEAD  | 5/4/2005 5:43:36 AM

   Sorry thats three requests.

1. 21  Ed Maloney  | 5/4/2005 5:45:51 AM

   All great suggestions so far, but I would love to see better SQL tools. Take a look at what Cold Fusion or PHP have and you'll see that Domino developers are at a real disadvantage here.

   I won't mention Sametime for Mac ;-)

1. 22  Stanislav  | 5/4/2005 5:49:03 AM

   i'd like to have a good and clear UI for the client, something like Outlook!

   Lotus forever :)

1. 23  Huptus www.siriusonline.de | 5/4/2005 5:53:02 AM

   Learn printing...

1. 24  José Manuel Rodríguez Moreno http://www.igip-is.com | 5/4/2005 6:14:26 AM

   ServerSide

   Let me filter & modify any field

   For example, a mail rule that finds 'viagra' on the body of the message could create a field (customized with the fildname I want, for example 'myCompanySpamFilter') with a value of 'May be spam' (this value should be also customized).

   ClientSide

   Let user create rules that filter any field,

   not only the predifined list available today.

   This would, for example allow to make rules like:

   a)

   IF field $DNSBLSite contains bl.spamcop.net THEN

   move to folder X

   END

   b)

   IF field myCompanySpamFilter contains May be spam THEN

   move to folder MaybeSpam

   END

1. 25  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 5/4/2005 6:35:28 AM

   If I could have just one feature - unread marks THAT WORK. Is there anybody that doesn't have this top of their list?

   Personally, I think spam filtering should take low priority. Spam, like viruses, are better managed by external tools. Many of the Domino AV vendors are now supplying anti-spam options anyway so you just choose it as an option to your existing product like I can with Symantec. You don't want Lotus to write anti-virus too surely?

   As per my feature request, I really wish software vendors made the old system work better before pushing out a new one.

1. 26  Julian Robichaux http://www.nsftools.com | 5/4/2005 6:58:18 AM

   Ability to programmatically (LotusScript and Java) get a document or native rich text field as HTML.

1. 27  Old Dawg  | 5/4/2005 7:01:46 AM

   How about a tool that truely synchronized with a PDA without breaking meetings.

1. 28  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 5/4/2005 7:15:08 AM

   The ability to use the iNotes file attach feature in any Domino Web app!!

1. 29  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 5/4/2005 7:18:59 AM

   an @ function that has agenda like qaulities. I point it to a text or RT field and it gives me a list of date/times based on the contents, so "meeting with Bill next tuesday at 3pm" gives me May 10 3pm

1. 30  Ken Porter  | 5/4/2005 7:37:50 AM

   I have also experienced the same problem as Gerald (#7):

   "Re-open and really fix SPR BFRD4XLMHK that was closed as a 'user misunderstanding' in Domino 6.51."

   I never understood why Full Text Search works differently on the web than in the Notes client.

1. 31  Gregg Eldred http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf | 5/4/2005 7:41:11 AM

   If @17 is asking for the ability of "Synchronize Address Book" to be automatic or scheduled, like a normal replication, that is on my feature list.

   I don't envy the developers arguing for/against any of the possible features to include. But I would love to be a fly on the wall during those discussions.

1. 32  Fredrik Paasche  | 5/4/2005 7:45:37 AM

   I can't decide which one I want the most... I'm going to cheat and enter two.

   A new command:

   File, Tools, Debug LotusScript for this database.

   Or:

   The possibility to rearrange the order of functions in a LotusScript agent or script library the way I want.

1. 33  Bruce Elgort http://www.bruceelgort.com | 5/4/2005 7:56:55 AM

   It is time to give the Notes client UI a much needed face lift. I hear we will see something in 7.5 and I hope it is substantial. Ed, can you tell us about future plans for the Notes UI? Will the Notes UI and Workplace UI's begin to look the same?

   Bruce

1. 34  AJP  | 5/4/2005 7:57:48 AM

   @31 Chad has already written the spec.

   { Link }

1. 35  Dennis Heidtmann http://www.koffer-direkt.de | 5/4/2005 8:01:16 AM

   Session Management on the Webserver.

1. 36  Andres Gorostidi  | 5/4/2005 8:05:07 AM

   to @30....

   I do not want to have to "Syncronize Contacts"...Most of my users are unable to even find the option!!! I want this to be done automatically, even better, to AVOID to have to do this... Why do not have an option on the client, that allows the users if the info should be taken from local names or from their mail location ?

   Even better... MAKE this info avaiable from IWA and also SHARED with other departments. Right now, the only way to have this is to SHARE ALL the mailbox. I want to share ONLY the contacts info, and have an option on my IWA interface that allows me to check my SHARED contacts!!

1. 37  Tom Roberts  | 5/4/2005 8:08:06 AM

   Domino generation of pdfs from documents (or views) using back-end classes. Specifically, I'd like to allow a web client to "view as pdf" and translate a document to a pdf, including the ability to control headers and footers.

   I generate legal documents from my applications. I'd like to serve up that document as a pdf with footers containing page numbering and lines for customer's initials on every page. My servers at the remote offices are all Linux with only web browser interface to the applications, so having this based on Java or XSLT is worth a lot more than a Windows only dll solution.

1. 38  Adam Slagle  | 5/4/2005 8:18:01 AM

   Linux native clients.

1. 39  Matt Newton http://www.mattnewton.co.uk | 5/4/2005 8:20:18 AM

   A better newsreader (or ditch it completely). I used to like using the Notes newsreader, but I have to say that it doesn't cut it for me these days :(

1. 40  Jess Stratton http://www.mattandjess.net | 5/4/2005 8:22:43 AM

   I'd like to see more context-sensitivity for right-click options, such as right-clicking a message to "mark unread".

   It's almost not worth doing it at all for the energy required to select it, and then to to Edit-Mark as Unread.

   Yes, I realize this makes me sound inherently lazy, but when you are trying to read emails quickly and keep certain ones unread, it does add up to some decent wasted productivity. :-)

1. 41  Kevin Kanarski  | 5/4/2005 8:25:47 AM

   Make the Reply with History memo function work in native Notes as it does in DWA. In the History message get rid of the proprietary Notes headers and sections and use the more Internet friendly form of:

   To:

   From:

   Date:

   Subject:

1. 42  Bob Brodsky  | 5/4/2005 8:27:04 AM

   Here is a really small irritant that just should NOT exist:

   When users need re-certification they send in a request for re-certification. In the dialog box for sending in the request there is no way to default a SendTo address. Please provide a field on the Server (user■s mail server) form in the Domino Directory to hold the default address to which a re-certification request can be sent. I get this question multiple times almost every week. The answer is easy, but the users should just not be bothered with the issue.

   Thanks for asking,

   Bob

1. 43  Huptus www.siriusonline.de | 5/4/2005 8:28:01 AM

   @39 - ever tried preview pane...

1. 44  Bill Dorge  | 5/4/2005 8:32:55 AM

   Better integration with other Chat Clients. It would be nice if I used a chat client like Trillian with the Sametime Plug-in that awareness would be active in my mail and other databases. I don't mind getting them both running but it sure would be a lot more seamless if I could just use one client.

1. 45  Michael Korolkoff  | 5/4/2005 8:43:46 AM

   Give us possibility to set all remaining static labels like view column titles, tabbed table headers etc programmatically by means of formula code. Global Workbench is not a good solution for handling multilingual global packaged software.

1. 46  Gregg Eldred http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf | 5/4/2005 8:46:03 AM

   @35, that is exactly what I meant, allow the user to either:

   1) Manually click on Actions/Synchronize ....

   2) Schedule the Synch in the background, like replication, or,

   3) Make it an automatic synch with a Preference option.

   @39, Jess, have you ever used the "insert" key to toggle between read/unread (Thanks to Alan for that excellent tip)?

1. 47  Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 5/4/2005 8:46:54 AM

   @Personal NAB - Just adding another request for this to not have to be synchronized...

   @My request - Not sure if it's in 7 yet, but I would like to see the attaching of documents done in the background. I like what I've seen with the threaded view refreshes in the background not locking up other Notes Applications. Also add me to the request to not have the Notes Client suspended when there is a message box in Admin or Designer.

   @37 - The Workplace Client that runs in Linux will have a Notes "plug-in" for Notes 7. This will effectively give you Notes for Linux!

   @39 - Designer 7 is going to add functionality to allow actions to be used when right-clicking. I think you just have to enable a flag on the action.

   About marking document read, when you have one or more documents selected, just hit the insert button. This will toggle the read/unread mark for the document(s).

1. 48  Niel  | 5/4/2005 8:47:51 AM

   Support for JSP pages.

1. 49  Troy Fulkerson  | 5/4/2005 8:53:57 AM

   Ability to set table widths by pixels, as well as inches.

1. 50  Erik www.archondev.com | 5/4/2005 9:01:53 AM

   This should be really simple and would go miles...

   A way for XML returned by ?ReadViewEntries to pass the "prior page" viewentry for the &Count interval being used.

   It's very easy to get the "next 10" results of a ?ReadViewEntries page. Just make the last viewentry your new &Start parameter and &Count=10. But there is currently no way to "go back" 10.

   You could attempt to design an algorithm, e.g. "Going back" 10 entries from 1.1.20 should go to 1.1.10, but this doesn't take readers fields into account. The reader may only have access to 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and 1.1.20. "Going back" to 1.1.10 would pull down the exact same data - 1.1.20 and the next 10 entries.

   The web server already calculates this value internally for the link on the "Previous" button on an HTML-rendered view. Please expose this to those of us trying to pull XML from Domino!

1. 51  Sean Burgess http://www.phigsaidwhat.com | 5/4/2005 9:14:34 AM

   The ability to easily see if a field has changed. There was an @Function called @Test that was in the beta for 6.0, but it got removed in the Gold Code. It would be extremely valuable to be able to use an @Function such as this to trigger other events, such as audit proceedures. Whie this can be handled now through LotusScript, it would be much cleaner to be able to test using a single @Function. I would love to hear why this function didn't make the final code.

   Of course, the multi-level undo/redo would be really nice also.

   Oh, and on the subject of contact synchronization, wee are going through this issue right now with respect to Blackberry Wireless Synchronization. The problem ith doing it automatically is user's that switch IDs or access other user's mail files/server based adddress books. How do you easily determine when to synch and when not to? Just my 2 cents. As a solution, we have placed server based replicas of all the whiney user's Personal NABs for use with the BES.

   Sean---

1. 52  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 5/4/2005 9:14:43 AM

   @39, great work around today, use the insert key to toggle read/unread

1. 53  Nathan T. Freeman  | 5/4/2005 9:17:06 AM

   LMAO. I love how Ed is very specific to ask for *1*, and then pretty much everybody offers up 2 or 3.

   Here's mine: "Stored procedures" for NSFs, in the form of agents. Be able to tie them to API hooks in ways that today's agents can't touch. For instance, a deep-coded script sequence that runs on any document updated not triggered by the replicator. Or a script sequence that runs on deletion of any document in the database by ANY process (QueryDocumentDelete doesn't cut it... that's a UI thing.)

   For an example of how this should work, check out Damien Katz's Trigger Happy project at OpenNTF. ({ Link }

   Look at DeveloperWorks for questions about "how can I audit deletes?" (answer: you can't. There is absolutely no coherent facility in Domino to do this today.) or "how can I prevent an agent from updating documents?" These kinds of hooks are widely available in other db formats and other development tools where the idea of writing your own code to insert or update content from an external source can be made impossible. We can't do that today in Notes, and if we could, it would make it vastly more powerful as a data management tool.

   In fact, all those DB2 DBAs that get exposed to Domino apps with ND7 are going to FREAK about Domino's weak handling of, say, sequential numbering. "What do you mean someone can add documents (rows) to your database where you can't enforce data rules just by writing their own little external agent!??! That's CRAZY!???!"

   We need those hooks, and with them, Domino development will get a whole lot more respectable. (Not to mention tons of crap UI code to deal with these problems can be removed.)

1. 54  Susan Bulloch  | 5/4/2005 9:18:55 AM

   @ 41 - Yes there is, Bob - email me and I'll send the steps

1. 55  Brian Green  | 5/4/2005 9:22:28 AM

   @41 - Bob, You can define that SendTo in your Domino Directory. Look in the Certificates view, open your "Notes Certifier" document, add a name to the "Administrators" field (not the owners field). When the user gets the "Mail Certificate Request" box, the name will appear in the "To" field.

1. 56  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 5/4/2005 9:22:54 AM

   @41 - It doesn't exist if configured correctly. The send to field should ALWAYS be populated with the name of the local administrator in a properly administered environment.

   Contact me off-line if you need help with this.

1. 57  Bob Brodsky  | 5/4/2005 9:34:25 AM

   @53 Thanks

   @54 THANKS!

   @55 THANKS

1. 58  Alan Lepofsky http://www.alanlepofsky.net | 5/4/2005 9:40:07 AM

   Ability to save an embedded picture (not attachment) to my harddrive.

1. 59  Skid  | 5/4/2005 9:46:03 AM

   a 1st class, richly configurable Welcome Pane that more resembles a web portal. the GUI that we have now looks pale in comparison to whats been out there for years. and while youre at it, a mail template team that can crank out a new mail template every month with new features like rss, bayesian filters, etc. sad to say, all my tenatious attempts to stay loyal to notes all these years is coming up lacking and i find myself going elsewhere lately because lotus just isnt keeping up anymore in the features war.

1. 60  Skid  | 5/4/2005 9:46:26 AM

   a 1st class, richly configurable Welcome Pane that more resembles a web portal. the GUI that we have now looks pale in comparison to whats been out there for years. and while youre at it, a mail template team that can crank out a new mail template every month with new features like rss, bayesian filters, etc. sad to say, all my tenatious attempts to stay loyal to notes all these years is coming up lacking and i find myself going elsewhere lately because lotus just isnt keeping up anymore in the features war.

1. 61  Michael G  | 5/4/2005 9:53:44 AM

   1. An address book that doesn't look like its from a product developed 10 years ago. The address book in Notes is by FAR the worst of any PIM management out there. From annoyances like not formating numbers to not being able to e-mail multiple addresses. It is awful.

   2. Address lookup option of server then local. Another major complaint of users, especially that sync Palms\Blackberry's.

1. 62    | 5/4/2005 10:00:01 AM

   The ability to use other scripting languages in events instead of javascript. There are work-arounds for doing certain things in php or vbscript for example, but direct support for the more popular scripting languages would be a great boon and possibly encourage non-Notes/Domino developers to look again at the platform.

1. 63  James Valentino  | 5/4/2005 10:23:31 AM

   Although there are many things that I could think of, if I had to choose one, it would have to be allowing the end user to have more ability to customize their own mail file. Mail is after all, the "face" of Notes. In most places, when an end user says "Notes" they mean their mail. Administrator ability to change the mail template is one thing, but allowing the end user more control is really the heart of the "rich client" experience. UI improvements such as more user selectable columns in folders/views, having preferences all in one place, or rules that can act on documents already in the mail file could go a long way in helping the average end user be more productive and have a better opinion of Notes. Just my $0.02.

1. 64  Craig Wiseman  | 5/4/2005 10:48:12 AM

   A easy to develop for plugin architecture for Notes. This would allow third party developers to add actions, menus, right-click options, etc. to the Notes mail file.

1. 65  Craig Wiseman  | 5/4/2005 10:48:54 AM

   A easy to develop for plugin architecture for Notes. This would allow third party developers to add actions, menus, right-click options, etc. to the Notes mail file. Just FYI - this was first mentioned for R5 and the lack of it is one serious reason that Outlook has far better third party developer support.

1. 66  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 5/4/2005 10:51:46 AM

   Underline option for "Accountants double underline". of course I have been asking for that for years!:-)

1. 67  Andres Gorostidi  | 5/4/2005 10:53:18 AM

   At @63.....

   NOPE!!! Ed said 7.x...... Not 7.0, on wich we already have a beta release and it is suppose to be shipped really soon (I heard on Q3 this year).

   For sure, 7.5 releases will not be shipped at least for 1 year after 7.0

   So, NOW is the moment for people to SHARE their IDEAS!

1. 68  Fredrik  | 5/4/2005 10:56:35 AM

   The ability to create and access custom session variables from both @Formulas and LS/Java Agents.

   (different scopes is a bonus, a session scope will do fine for now)

   This single feature opens up for completely new types of webapplications to be created.

   What do you think?

1. 69  Michael Fisher  | 5/4/2005 10:58:46 AM

   Put the Designer in Eclipse.

1. 70  Chad Schelfhout www.chadsmiley.com | 5/4/2005 11:00:29 AM

   Both the idea (@31) and spec (@33) has been mentioned so that can not count as feature I would like to see, but I would like to add a vote for it.

   On the other side (Notes UI), I agree with Bruce this should be the top priority.

   New Feature vote:

   A built-in LotusScript Class browser like { Link }

1. 71  Mick Moignard  | 5/4/2005 11:14:24 AM

   Multi-level undo already exists when you are entering text in Notes, and that includes Designer. Try using ctrl-X. OK, it doesn't always work, but give it a try.

   I vote for a proper @function debugger.

1. 72  Mike G.  | 5/4/2005 11:37:36 AM

   Re: @18 -- Drag and Drop -- let me add a vote for that. Being able to program that would be wonderful. It would be one way to re-order documents without a clunky interface.

1. 73  Todd Brehe www.gallatin.com | 5/4/2005 11:58:59 AM

   I would add the ability to send a MIME/HTML e-mail message with a fixed width table to a non-Notes e-mail client and still preserve the fixed width table property.

1. 74  jonvon http://jonvon.net | 5/4/2005 12:02:24 PM

   i'm with julian here, #25, but we need Midas-level quality with the HTML, not the stuff produced by the Domino container. How about IBM just licenses the Midas classes. That would boost development capabilities significantly in one easy stroke. :-)

1. 75  Neil http://www.dominoconsultans.com | 5/4/2005 12:28:00 PM

   Same as 34

   Session Management on the Webserver.

   This is a must, then we can right really powerfull web apps

1. 76  Eric Parsons startingblockcomputing.com | 5/4/2005 12:50:14 PM

   How about autocorrect in the Richtext fields? Sure seems like a little thing.

1. 77  Brian Green  | 5/4/2005 12:57:52 PM

   Big UI improvements to the Lotus Notes client... that about covers it. :)

1. 78  Dan Wieringa  | 5/4/2005 1:20:06 PM

   For my users who have editor access to their mail file, when they enable their OOO message, the message given to them is 'please wait...' (in blue text). They could wait until they expire, but that text will never change.

   So, what happens is that they sit and wait and wait, and then they call me and say 'Notes is broken'.

   Maybe not tell them to wait? Just say 'a request has been submitted on your behalf, your OOO message will be enabled by the server.'

   Around the holidays, I probably get about 10% of my user base calling me about this, after they have stared at their screen, waiting as directed, for 10-15 min.

1. 79  Mike Fulbright  | 5/4/2005 1:43:17 PM

   We don't mind using the Notes client. It's not the best but it's certainly not bad - at least for us - we build applications that help our business tremendously and the only big gripe we have is the management of user ids. I know, just port the app to the web right - bologna. Our apps look great in Notes but look bad on the web - we're not that savy on style sheets and html but we've got several people who knock out fairly nice notes stuff. So just give us the option (maybe in their person doc) to not require use of a user id file - kind of like DWA except Notes itself. I understand the "rich client plugin" for Workplace is supposed to be kind of like this but why buy another animal if all I need is a simpler version of the one I've got.

1. 80  Bob Brodsky  | 5/4/2005 1:53:10 PM

   @66 Sinced I was proved wrong on my last request (I was unemployed when 5.0.9 was released with the feature) let me just add my support and one feature request to your mention of the double underscore. I have accounting clients that have been on me since R5 for that one. I also submitted it to R6. "One small step for Notes, one Giant leap ..."

1. 81  Chris  | 5/4/2005 1:58:24 PM

   @12

   Couldn't agree more with 12:

   What they are saying is that the Outlook interface is cooler, nicer (a better UI) than the mail template.

   No more Mickey Mouse UI's please!

1. 82  RJ  | 5/4/2005 2:38:07 PM

   Bookmarks that actually work all the time, in all the clients.

1. 83  Mike Wissinger  | 5/4/2005 2:50:33 PM

   Mail rules updates: I'll second the suggestions @23, and add the simple request that we get a text description/notes field on each rule. That would make it easier to try and remember a year later why I created rule X at client Y (and whether I should change it now).

   I'd also like the default embedded view showing mail rules to show more than 2 lines at a time, but I can continue to make that change myself if I need to.

1. 84  Henning Heinz  | 5/4/2005 2:56:39 PM

   I will just take a minor problem but I can really go mad about this.

   No more:" Only text can be pasted into this field" messages.

   Opening notepad, pasting, copying and finally paste into the Notes client is so annoying.

1. 85  Andrew Junkuhn  | 5/4/2005 3:00:12 PM

   Clean up the multitude of areas where one can input formulas, hide-whens, html, javascript etc and consolidate into one configuration pane

1. 86  Jack Ratcliff http://jackratcliff.com | 5/4/2005 3:14:32 PM

   How about single category views (&RestrictToCategory on the web) that work like real views. As they stand now, they are very limited. If I have a view with a couple of columns that have sorting enabled, they do not work if I'm using this view as a single category view. I also can't do the quick find (&start= on the web).

   I beleive that this request would help both Notes and Domino developers.

   Heck, while we are at it, give us the ability to create categorized calendar views! :-)

1. 87  Travis Retzlaff www.compures.com | 5/4/2005 3:19:10 PM

   @84 Edit, Paste Special, Click text and Ok. Not as easy as just Paste, however I like software that warns me when I attempt unsupported behaviour instead of just guessing on what I want to do and mangling things for me.

   I will abstain from my own feature request to make up for others making multiple submissions.

1. 88  Colin Williams  | 5/4/2005 3:22:45 PM

   Stop adding features and fix the things already there - debug the UI widgets that "flake out" during use would be a good start.

1. 89  Stan Rogers http://stanrogers.blogspot.com | 5/4/2005 3:32:05 PM

   @Jack (86): we can create 'em already (wink). But I know what you mean -- the thing I put together took literally years to get right (the public version is only a part of the whole) and I'd have to create an XML-spitting version to suit your purposes.

   I would go along with resorting/quickfind within categories. I understand what's going on; users don't.

1. 90  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 5/4/2005 3:32:42 PM

   Many have mentioned a better UI, I think my primary wish would cover those bases while expanding the platform dramatically:

   Full compliance with the xHTML and CSS2 standards for Rich Clients (Notes/Admin/Designer) AND Web Access. From there, the UI, portals, etc. will fall into place.

   Also, (cheating like everyone else) how about some native support for OpenOffice.org as a viewer and in-NotesDocument editor (using Java classes please, not COM/OLE....)? I like the idea of the Microsoft Office Document libraries, but just without the Microsoft.

   Have that functionality bleed over into Domino.doc and I can sell most of my clients on it. :P

   Lastly, how about you guys replace the Domino HTTP task with the Apache engine? It is open source after all, and though it can be run alongside Domino, not everyone wants to have a million different server apps with different configurations, file-structures, and skill-base when it can all be done from the (web)admin client.

   Sam

1. 91  Colin Williams  | 5/4/2005 3:35:07 PM

   @87 Nope, thats not it - if you're pasting into a text field you don't get the "paste special" option.

   Its no wonder people hate Notes.

1. 92  Simon Barratt  | 5/4/2005 3:52:40 PM

   @41, id the certificate document ahs the admin field populated it will prefill the send to address correctly!

1. 93  Gary Roberts http://www.DominoHelper.com | 5/4/2005 3:58:04 PM

   Performance, performance, performance....

   Take a look at ANY of the Domino-hosted Blogs, including my own and compare them to ANYTHING ELSE!!!! I have both Domino and PHP versions on my site with the exact same entries so you can have a (somewhat) fair comparison...

   Then take a look at real-world business apps and compare them also, if you can -- Domino is just a dog! Don't get me wrong, I love it, but seriously, performance, whether it's in the Notes Client or on the web, leaves a LOT to be desired!!!

   There are a TON of UI deficiencies to be addressed as well, but in my opinion performance is the #1 issue!

   Gary

1. 94  Simon Barratt  | 5/4/2005 4:04:43 PM

   proper rendering of html emails - no, the improvements in 6.5.4 are not good enough

   and...

   native support for wireless PDA, ala ActiveSync for Exchange. Whatever happened to Lotus' sync tool for Palms etc? Looks like it got lost as a client side app, when it should of been migrated into a piece of the Domino infrastructure (Websphere Everplace is soooo wrong an answer for Domino shops!)

1. 95  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 5/4/2005 4:25:45 PM

   This isn't a wish of mine <wink>.... as I'm not sure it CAN'T be done, but if it can't and someone else wishes to champion it, I would really like to be able to categorize emails as opposed to just sticking them in folders.

   Opera's email database allows search criteria for emails, and gmail allows assignable labels. Both of these are similar (if not the same, in theory) to the category function in Notes, but it seems that you can only categorize calendar events, and not email messages in the mail file. ...or so a Lotus Phone Support Tech has told me.

   Sam

1. 96  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net/bensblog.nsf | 5/4/2005 4:30:51 PM

   @78 - I see your point but maybe your server specs should be reviewed? If you have enough performance, maybe increase the number of adminp threads to speed up the process.

   @79 - Where's the big issue with IDs? They can be distributed via the address book, you can use single sign-on with Windows, they can be stored in a roaming profile.

   Another feature I would like to see is a dancing paperclip that pops on the side of the screen...

   "You appear to be booking a holiday, would you like me to notify your manager?"

   "You appear to be submitting a travel request, would you like me to email a copy of your agenda?"

   It's bizzare how the MS Office apps only seem to help you write letters...workflow? what's that?

   ;O)

1. 97  Samuel deHuszar Allen  | 5/4/2005 4:36:22 PM

   @94: Pylon and mNotes are currently available options, and both work great. If you have a wireless PDA/phone you might also try to just log on to your Web-based application directly through Domino. Just set up the appropriate behavior using the 'Mobile' settings as opposed to just 'client' and 'web.'

1. 98  Greyhawk68 http://greyhawk68.dominohosting.biz | 5/4/2005 4:37:47 PM

   * ACL's on groups in the address book.

   I would like to be able to lock down who can see, send to, or use certain Groups in the NAB.

   I agree with many of the aformentioned requests, most notably the auto syncronization of the iNotes and Notes address books.

   -Grey

1. 99  Rob McDonagh http://www.CaptainOblivious.com | 5/4/2005 5:12:17 PM

   This will probably be the longest Domino blog thread in history.

   I'm with Julian (25) and jonvon (74): Allow us programmatic access to the generation of HTML. If that means licensing Midas and rolling that into the product, great! If Not_Invented_Here syndrome means IBM absolutely *has* to write their own, that's fine too. We'll take whatever we can get!

   PS Does anyone else think it's a tiny bit odd that Alan has to submit his feature requests on Ed's blog? Heh...

   PPS Oh, all right, I'll cheat too - let us re-order the functions and subroutines. Come on, you know you want to...

1. 100  Mike Lazar  | 5/4/2005 5:17:54 PM

   Hopefully this is number 100...just feels lucky to be that way. I'd like a REAL incremental installer. Smart Upgrades are not it. I'm talking small package, patch like stuff. 100 MB installs are not the way of the future.

1. 101  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 5/4/2005 6:03:50 PM

   Well this certainly was a good way to determine who some of the blog readers are that don't normally comment :)

   Thanks for all the thoughts so far. I'll read through 'em all in the next day or two...feel free to keep 'em coming, though.

1. 102  Oliver Regelmann http://www.n-komm.de/blog.nsf | 5/4/2005 6:27:43 PM

   A lot of interesting comments here. Here's one from me which seems to be uncovered yet:

   A complete revision of Domino and Notes configuration options and especially the places where they're located.

   Over the years, more and more new features were added and one could get the impression the designers often had no idea where to place their configuration. There are server documents, configuration documents, domain documents, notes.ini parameters (a part of which can be set in the configuration, but not all), internet site documents, policies etc.

   Examples? One could understand the configuration documents to be there for mail configuration (Router/SMTP and MIME are in there). But why are ini parameters also there and not in the server document? What's activity logging got to do with mail config? On the other side, why is SMTPAddrLookup in the global domain and not in the configuration?

   I know this would mean a lot of re-familiarization for current admins, but there's a lot of time wasted clicking through different documents to find one particular option.

1. 103  Philip  | 5/4/2005 6:31:12 PM

   HTML - It would be nice if Domino generated Style tags instead of FONT tags. We could then apply style sheets. "Comic Sans" anyone?

1. 104  Philip  | 5/4/2005 6:41:10 PM

   @102 - Give us an option to hide obsolete 4.6 and R4/R5 settings. Clutter: "The following settings are no longer used in Domino. You should use them only for servers running versions prior to 5.0"

1. 105  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/4/2005 6:45:51 PM

   @91 - Colin, saying that "people hate Notes" is a bit of a generalisation. Minor things can irritate, but that doesn't necessarily turn into hate. No product is perfect... take PowerPoint... it doesn't have a toolbar button for 'Paste Special' so I always have to go to the menu. That drives me mad several times a day.

   Actually, come to think of it, I tried to create a complex graph in PowerPoint yesterday, and I do now actually hate PowerPoint. Talk about cumbersome. Come back Freelance, all is forgiven.

   @32 (long way back up there) - I agree Bruce. And we're not talking about a major rewrite, just a refresh on some of the images in toolbars and bookmarks to go beyond 256 colours, a re-do of the mail box artwork, and a smaller tidier font. I mean, look at Mozilla Thunderbird with the standard Qute theme. Clean and attractive.

1. 106  Brian Benz http://www.softwaresoapbox.com | 5/4/2005 7:10:31 PM

   OK, I only have one, but it's a big one......Open Source DXL. By that I mean access to the low-level routines that generate DXL, so I can catch the output before it becomes DXL, and write it to wherever in whatever XML format I wish. LotusScript and Java.

   It would also be cool of the DXL DTD and Schema were put on Sourceforge or something, so we could collaboratively bring it up to date.....

1. 107  Simon Bounds  | 5/4/2005 7:20:02 PM

   @98 - Greyhawk68 -- Have a look at Extended ACL's. This feature may do what you are looking to achieve.

   Look in the Admin help for some details.

1. 108  Les Zatony  | 5/4/2005 7:51:19 PM

   Printing, Printing, Printing!

   Printing of tables from the client. Before I would ask for something like repeating row printing for each page that a table breaks across, I would just like to have the rows break cleanly and to know that all the information is getting printed.

   Printing more than 1 line for a header. Printing something other than a 1" margin for a header.

1. 109  Carl Tyler http://www.iminstant.com | 5/4/2005 8:38:08 PM

   @105 Darren, Freelance never went away, IBMers and Loti just stopped using it. Crazy people all of you :)

   Try resizing text in PowerPoint uniformly, thats crazy, or resizing text grouped with a picture, what year is this?

1. 110  J Treloar  | 5/4/2005 8:41:05 PM

   What I would really love, would be to have all of the standard (non-user specific, ie: templates, w32 directory etc.) files located in the notes\data directory to be built into the client. This would prevent user tampering, reduce the size of the notes\data directory (it would obviously make the client bigger, but who, running ND6, doesn't have a corporate workstation with a 20gb hdd for the OS & apps?) and give pro MS people less things to complain about when it comes to the client and the manageability of it vs outlook. The smart-upgrade feature could be used to push out customisations of any 'standard' files (ie customised templates) to the clients.

   This would leave only a small number of user-specific files in the notes\data directory for admins to worry about - 4 of which are already looked after by the 'roaming users' feature.

1. 111  Richard Schwartz http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/poweroftheschwartz.nsf | 5/4/2005 9:15:48 PM

   So many great ideas here, and so many that I think are so important. E.g., @108 and others: printing, @90 CSS/XHTML in the client, @94 proper HTML rendering of mail (6.54 fixes some, breaks some others), I could go on, but I'll move on to my own #1 pick. It's a big new area of functionality, not just an improvement to what we have. It's something I've wanted for years: Annotation.

   What I want is the ability for any user, looking at any note or view entry in any database to be able to right click and select "Annotate" from the context menu. That will bring up a smallish dialog box containing a form with a date-time field, a checkbox labeled "Share this annotation" (default is un-checked), a checkbox labeled "Set alarm" (default is un-checked), a checkbox labeled "Show in views" (default is checked if the form was brought up from the view level, otherwise unchecked), a checkbox labeled "Show in document" (default is checked), a text field for the subject, and a rich text field. The user fills in a short subject and whatever s/he wants in the rich text and saves the annotation. It is saved as a document in a database on the server. (I'd prefer that it is a separate database, but I'd settle for putting it in the mail file.) From then on, whenever the user navigates to a view containing the note that the annotation was created for, a small clickable icon will be shown in the corresponding row in the view (but only if "Show in view" was specified for the annotation). If you open the annotated document, the annotation is rendered semi-transparently over the annotated document (only if "Show in document" was specified). Of course, there's an "X" box to close it the semi-transparent overlay, and a "_" to minimize it.

   Over on the bookmark bar, there will be an entry for "Annotations", which brings up a folder structure containing "My Annoations", along with folders for other people's annotations. You would add other people to the list yourself, or perhaps this could be integrated with the sametime buddylist so that anybody you add will automatically appear. Within the folders, you could see lists of all your (or someone else's) annotations, sortable by date/time, subject, maybe by the database of the note that the annotation returns to, and maybe some other ways. You can full text search the annotations too. When viewed in this context, the annotation will of course also display a doclink back to the note that was annotated.

   When you check the box to set an alarm, you are prompted for date and time. The annotation will pop up like any other alarm on the appropriate day and time. Since it's out of context, the doclink back to the annotated note is displayed.

   When you check the box share an annotation, you get to select who you want to share it with. You can choose between "Everyone" or specific names and groups. The note you are annotating is checked to make sure it is accessible to the people you are sharing with, and a warning is issued if not. (If you have manager access to the database containing the note you are annotating, rather than a warning you might get the option to grant access by making the note public access, adding a Readers field, etc., but I could live without this.) If you entered specific names or groups, you should also be asked if you want to notify the people you are sharing the annotation with -- and you could have a choice between email or sametime to send the notification.

   Your annotations should, of course, be able to be replicated locally as well as stored on the server so that functionality for My Annotations is still available when disconnected.

   RSS could be another possible way to send notifications to people you share annotations with, of course. That naturally brings up the question of whether or not annotations should be available in a browser? And why not? Annotations that you make in your mail file could even be visible in DWA in much the same way (i.e., icon at the view level, semi-transparent overlay within the doc) as they would be in the Notes client.

   Not a little wish, I know. I've raised it several times before, because I've been convinced for years that this would be a killer feature. Being a Post-It note addict, when I first heard the name "Lotus Notes" this is exactly the kind of functionality that came to mind.

   -rich

1. 112    | 5/4/2005 10:31:47 PM

   'Begins with' matching would round things out nicely. egrep-caliber regex support is overkill (I'll take it, if you're offering), but a way to match on just the user portion of an address would be sweet.

1. 113  TN  | 5/4/2005 10:36:43 PM

   What? You mean

   1) copying the page source of the MIME message to the clipboard,

   2) pasting into notepad

   3) saving as *.uue

   4) opening in WinZip

   5) dragging image MIME part out of .uue to the desktop

   seems cumbersome? ;-)

1. 114  Tim Rand  | 5/4/2005 11:18:53 PM

   Automatic date/time interpretation for the command "Copy into New Calendar Entry". How many times do you get a message (not an invitation) that says 'lets meet at 10 AM on Tuesday'. Why can't Notes determine that and pre-populate the date/time of the event? The process should read through the body of the message and make a determination of when the event would be and then default those values into the new calendar entry. They can be overridden of course.

1. 115  Tim Rand  | 5/4/2005 11:23:04 PM

   Ability to print all entries of an embedded view. Currently, you embed a view on a form and then print the form, but only the displayed 2 inches, or whatever will print. If there are a page worth of entries, I'd like to have the view space grow/shrink based on the number of entries.

1. 116  Tim Rand  | 5/4/2005 11:24:49 PM

   Mac support for Sametime (I hear an echo here)

   Mac support for keyboard shortcuts such as Alt-1 in Windows.

1. 117  Tim Rand  | 5/4/2005 11:24:55 PM

   Mac support for Sametime (I hear an echo here)

   Mac support for keyboard shortcuts such as Alt-1 in Windows.

1. 118  Tim Rand  | 5/4/2005 11:27:52 PM

   Faithful HTML rendering (though it HAS gotten better in 7.0 beta). Try to pass the Acid 2 test <{ Link }

1. 119  Riccardo Cretti  | 5/5/2005 2:09:41 AM

   No doubt, tooltips for the actions!

1. 120  Riccardo Cretti  | 5/5/2005 2:10:05 AM

   No doubt, tooltips for the actions!

1. 121  Declan Lynch http://www.qtzar.com | 5/5/2005 4:18:55 AM

   Ok, this might not be very popular but I'd love to see centralised passwords for the Lotus Notes client, this would certainly help in quickly doing password resets. The password recovery process can sometimes take too long, trying to get the users current ID file and then reading back the password recovery code to the user. With centralised passwords our helpdesk could be given the rights to reset users passwords.

1. 122  Steve H  | 5/5/2005 5:02:06 AM

   The ability to forward a document to someone and have the recipient retrieve it as discrete document (and not remain as part of the body).

   When we send a business card with a mobile phone (cell phone if you prefer), it is accepted as an entry in the recipient's address book. Why can't we do the same in Notes?

   e.g. If I have a Connection document in my NAB (because support has told me how to configure)and my colleague needs the same, I should be able to send it to him intact.

   I thank you.

1. 123  Christian Zalto  | 5/5/2005 5:37:17 AM

   A Notes application in the webbrowser should look and work like a Notes application in the native Notes client. No more adding Javascript here and different forms for the webbrowser there.

   Have a look at the SAP Internet Transaction Server: it converts SAP R/3 screens into HTML and 98% percent of the native SAPGUI functionality is available at once while the Domino rendering maybe reaches 80%.

1. 124  Daniel Wright  | 5/5/2005 6:12:19 AM

   My single request (and I'm sticking to the rules because this matters so much to me) - a sexy modern mail template with a single UI in Notes and on the Web.

   Get away from inhouse designers, get away from even using people who know Notes - hire some passionate designers (hungry people from small/tiny companies that have to rely on good work - NOT big name design companies designing by committee) and get them to push the mail template development team, without any knowelege of what is accepted as possible or not in Notes, to make a new interface that meets / exceeds our expectations of what we expect from a modern application and a modern mail system.

   They could warm up by creating a new set of icons for the Notes/Designer/Administrator that use more than 16 colors and look like they actually belong in a post 2000 operating system...

   The Notes mail interface, and the error messages in particular, do not encourage experimentation. We had training sessions on the new features in the R6 mail template when we upgraded from R5 and people came out of them buzzing with excitement about the product and all the neat things you could do with it (welcome page customisations, message coloring based on sender etc etc etc). Before the training they were convinced that Notes couldn't even do a fraction of what Outlook could and it was too offputting to try anything in it!

   What would it be worth in terms of not only gaining new clients but keeping existing ones if every part of the Notes mail experience, which as many people have pointed out IS the Notes interface for the majority of users, from the toolbars to the icons to interaction and behaviour was consistent, modern, clean and inviting even when (especially when) compared to Outlook 2003 / Thunderbird / Yahoo mail etc?

   There is no point in having the superior everything if it's not appealing to look at - human beings are wired by thousands of years of evolution (and years of high pressure marketing) to appreciate beauty, often at the expense of practicality. Take advantage of that, your competition already has - you got them beat on features/technology/robustness, beat them on this...

1. 125  Curt Carlson  | 5/5/2005 6:36:03 AM

   Make the right click shortcut menu configurable so I can add my own actions to it.

1. 126  Edward Roberts  | 5/5/2005 7:06:38 AM

   One thing? How about a consistent UI! As we know, to the typical Notes user, databases and templates ARE the UI. Icons, buttons, colors, wording are not consistent across the templates that ship with Notes, many of which are version 4.x artifacts. In other words: a revision of ALL templates that ship with the client to bring them into the 21st century.

   Or, if that is too much, how about a new personal address book instead? The version currently shipping is horrible, both in functionality and appearance.

1. 127  Alex Wilson  | 5/5/2005 7:27:14 AM

   Some design elements have a field for Alias. Others you put it in by adding "|aliasname" at the end of the element name. WHY? It should be the same across the board. Along with that, get consistent with the template names from version to version. I should not have to guess which version a particular template goes with (mail6.ntf does not tell me which version of 6 it is from).

1. 128  Mick Moignard  | 5/5/2005 7:28:19 AM

   @71, err... I meant Ctrl-Z. I still vote for @function debugger.

   Mick

1. 129  unoacaso  | 5/5/2005 7:30:14 AM

   i'm with @90 & @118 and many others: valid xHTML and CSS2 from the http task (or better: configurable beaviour of the http task)

   and my cheat is as @108: PRINT!!!!

1. 130  Norm  | 5/5/2005 7:31:36 AM

   I get this one a lot from my clients

   A centralized way to manage connection/location documents and ALL the client preferences (e.g., "turn off OS/Notes SSO" when it's installed as part of the Notes client).

   <cheat>

   IM support for the Mac, both in Notes client and otherwise.

   </cheat>

1. 131  Richard Schwartz http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/poweroftheschwartz.nsf | 5/5/2005 7:33:36 AM

   One more. This one's a little one, unlike my previous (@111)...

   Convert www.something.something-else to a hotspot, even if the prefix "http" was omitted. Make this a preference setting if you must, but I suspect most people would want it turned on.

   -rich

1. 132  AJP  | 5/5/2005 8:01:47 AM

   A Notes Lite-client. { Link }

   Maybe even one that can be distributed with a database, or run directly from CD. For packageable-demo's, read-only archives, etc.

1. 133  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/5/2005 8:12:18 AM

   @124 - couldn't agree more. Have a look at Firewheel Design - { Link } - or StockIcons - { Link } - or Bombia Design - { Link }

   The good news is that the design work being done on the Workplace client does bring us into the year 2005. I have seen some conceptual designs for Workplace 3 and it proves that somewhere there is a professional UI designer working for IBM ;o)

1. 134  Volker Weber http://vowe.net | 5/5/2005 8:14:51 AM

   Is it just me, or doesn't this look like a very long defects list?

1. 135  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/5/2005 8:37:19 AM

   @134 - Volker, it's a result of a passionate love of the product. If no-one cared, the thread wouldn't have got past 5 responses. If it had been about features you want in Outlook, there'd have been fewer about the UI and more (much more) about security and mobile support.

1. 136  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 5/5/2005 8:51:51 AM

   @127 - AMEN!

1. 137  Rudi Knegt www.EntwicklerCamp.com | 5/5/2005 9:04:45 AM

   I can really only ask for this one (eventhough printing is a major issue for me too)...

   The ability to have alternative browsers Integrate with notes, like the IE and Netscape could in a browser, in such a way the icon is listed above, and can be used from the designer as well, as in preview in [Enter preferred browser].

1. 138  Richard Schwartz http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/poweroftheschwartz.nsf | 5/5/2005 9:14:39 AM

   @134: Many of these items point out deficiencies (something missing), but only a few point out defects (something that doesn't work as documented). Plus, it's not that long compared to the real defects list for Notes -- or for any product of comparable scope. It's not even that long compared to the list of fixed defects in a typical point release.

   Let's look at this thread in a positive light. With all the fear and uncertainty that's been spread around about the Notes client being abandoned these past few years, it's great to see that IBM is soliciting ideas for new features in the client. It's also great to see all these good ideas coming together in less than 36 hours.

   -rich

1. 139  Jack Ratcliff http://jackratcliff.com | 5/5/2005 9:27:31 AM

   ?SearchViewEntries

   We already have ?ReadEntries for outlines and ?ReadViewEntries for views, how about ?SearchViewEntries that will return the same xml as ?ReadViewEntries so that those of us who use xml/xslt to format our views can do the same for view searches.

1. 140  Will  | 5/5/2005 9:33:35 AM

   The number 1 thing I would like to see from Lotus in V7.x, is to simply make all of their currently existing code function the way it is suppose to. I would live with absolutely no new features if all of the existing ones worked. We have been working with Lotus' management team on 4 open CritSis for the past 5 months. These 4 issues are causing multiple server crashes per day. Lotus has willingly acknowledged all of them to be their issues. To their credit, they meet with us twice a week, have assigned top level development personnel to assist us, and we still have not resolved the problem after 5 months.

   I realize that this is more venting then anything else, but I really, really, really would like to see all functionality of Lotus to work as expected. Stability and accuracy of existing functionality would be my number 1 choice.

1. 141  Subhan http://slate.blogspirit.com | 5/5/2005 9:55:42 AM

   Drag and Drop in Designer Forms&Pages like in Visual Age or V.Basic

1. 142    | 5/5/2005 10:15:24 AM

1. 143  Paul Pentony  | 5/5/2005 10:22:21 AM

   I'll go with Julian and Jonvon. Genrating HTML - preferably XHTML would give us the ability to do much more with both forms and rich text fields.

   And as a cheat I would also lovr support of SVG to give notes a serious graphics capability.

1. 144  Gavin Luscombe  | 5/5/2005 11:32:27 AM

   Programatic access to the Unread Mark Journal (backend classes) without having to resort to the C API. e.g. LotusScript methods to read and update the journal for individual or sets of UNIDs for a particular user.

   On the same lines, extend ?ReadViewEntries to include unread mark information specific to the user making the request, so we can render DHTML views with true unread status (in the same way Domino Web Access does today).

   Fully agree with @25 and @139

1. 145  Axel Janssen  | 5/5/2005 11:41:42 AM

   I have another 1: More people like 140, cause they are good for the stability of a platform.

   In J2EE space there are lots of those. In .net space to I think. A more self-confident community is necesary to get the stability needed these days.

   Or guys who can help themselves will move further down the Jboss, springframework, oracle, microsoft or websphere road.

1. 146  Jean-Yves  | 5/5/2005 12:02:13 PM

   @108: PRINT!!!!

1. 147  Chris Bordeleau www.itec.suny.edu | 5/5/2005 12:28:35 PM

   All around better Mac support and OS intagration... from having the scroll mouse work to dialog boxes that look the same as on the pc... Full testing on multi-processor machines... a nsd tool... I could go on forever... also on that same bend... intagration with the native mac mail/calendar/contacts apps & spotlight support. Kinda more then one unless you look at the broad picture...

1. 148  Chris Doig  | 5/5/2005 12:40:07 PM

   We have views as lists, views as calendars, how about views as charts?

   @137 - you can do that already; as I do with Firefox. Create a location doc with the "other" browser specified, e.g. as Firefox. Then add the "Other preview" icon to your toolbar in designer.

   When working in designer click on the "other preview" and Notes launches the current design element in Firefox.

1. 149  Don McNally  | 5/5/2005 12:51:27 PM

   I'll add support for multi-level undo (including in Designer!) and printing. I also liked Rich's annotations @111.

   My suggestion (and I apologize if this is in ND7 because I haven't looked yet) is to be able to call user-defined functions in view columns. That would let me easily translate aliases in fields to their full values or maintain code in only one place for complex column formulas that need to be used in multiple views. When I developed an Access application, I loved that I could write a module to translate a state abbreviation to the state name and be able to use that function in query columns, button scripts or wherever I wanted.

1. 150  Douglas Himmler  | 5/5/2005 1:47:50 PM

   My users would probably want message-recall. I am tired of people asking for that.

   Personally, I agree with the UI upgrade.

1. 151  Charles Robinson  | 5/5/2005 2:34:13 PM

   This may or may not be considered a single request, but Domino Designer needs serious attention. Other people have suggested moving it to Eclipse, which I don't use so I don't know what that would do for me. I just want it to function better. My top issues are:

   - Autocomplete does not recognize user created functions, subs, or classes.

   - There needs to be another section for LotusScript class definitions rather than stuffing them into Declarations along with all your variables.

   - There **MUST** be a formula debugger!! With the number of places that you can only enter formula I'm bewildered there isn't any good way to debug it.

   - Hotkeys for moving between functions

   - Ability to set breakpoints during design

   - Ability to reset the code execution point during runtime (i.e., move it back two lines and re-execute that code again).

   - Ability to change any variable, including objects, at runtime

1. 152  Felix Binsack www.timetoact.de | 5/5/2005 3:51:33 PM

   create better html (xhtml), therefor replace rtf editor with modern wysiwyg html editor and store rich text as mime

1. 153  Keith Nolen http://www.yellerdog.net | 5/5/2005 3:52:15 PM

   Wow, what a list.

   My 'one thing' would be to make Designer versions backwards compatible. If you don't know what I am referring to, take a look this post { Link } on my blog. If you access applications with two different Designer versions, it is possible to corrupt your design.

   Of course, that's a bug fix, not a feature. So for my one feature request, I'd like to see...

   Bi-directional password sync with Active Directory for both Notes client and HTTP passwords. Every other client we use (browser, Oracle, Outlook, etc.) can use AD authentication, but not a Notes client.

   <cheat>

   @151 - AMEN! I spend my days in Designer and it needs some TLC.

   XHTML-compliant output from the HTTP stack

   An optional Apache HTTP stack. Imagine Domino with an Apache HTTP stack natively serving PHP, JSP, and NSF...

   Proper HTML/CSS rendering in the client.

   </cheat>

1. 154  Peter Presnell  | 5/5/2005 3:56:15 PM

   The ability in Domino Designer to program the server name for objects such as embeeded views, outline entries etc.

1. 155  Peter Presnell  | 5/5/2005 3:56:29 PM

   The ability in Domino Designer to program the server name for objects such as embedded views, outline entries etc.

1. 156  Daniel Wright  | 5/5/2005 4:10:06 PM

   @133 - I agree, the latest Workplace UI being demo'd is pretty slick and shows that there are professional designers working at IBM doing really great work.

   The problem is that they're not working on Notes or Domino.

   I would have thought that given the eventual merge of, and the current ability to integrate, the Domino/Workplace product lines that IBM would be moving the UI design of Notes mail (and in fact, all the Notes templates in general as pointed out by @126) towards the new Workplace look.

   Whilst I realise my one feature request is a little bigger than multi-level undo/redo, I do feel that it still warrants some serious attention...

   @133 btw, how does one get to see these Workplace 3 conceptual designs? :)

1. 157  Jesse Bickmore  | 5/5/2005 4:22:36 PM

   I would like to see better multithreading in the client. For instance, if I'm searching a database or if I'm sending off an email with a large attachment, I should be able to switch to other tabs and continue working instead of waiting on the Notes client to finish.

1. 158  Philip  | 5/5/2005 6:27:53 PM

   @156 - That's the real question, isn't it? -- Will there be significant User Interface and Design Tool changes in today's "fat" notes/designer clients, or will those changes be deferred to the workplace/eclipse generation of clients. (Yes, I've read about the roadmaps... just saying what everyone is thinking. No biggie.)

1. 159  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/5/2005 6:29:52 PM

   @156 - how does one get to see the conceptual designs? Get a job at Lotus, like me ;o) I would hope they'd be in the public domain soon, but probably after Workplace 2.5 is officially launched.

   @157 - more multi-threading is an aim for 7.5 - but that in no way constitutes a promise.

1. 160  Anthony Lee  | 5/5/2005 7:04:23 PM

   Just ONE is such a hard ask...

   ONE for Domino Designer:

   Type ahead for user defined classes/function. Even when imported using the '%INCLUDE' directive. Maybe also a standard for JAVADOC style syntax so that context help could be displayed at the same time as the type ahead?

   *Slap* Am I dreaming again...

1. 161  J■rg Asmussen  | 5/5/2005 7:42:04 PM

1. 162  J■rg Asmussen  | 5/5/2005 7:50:05 PM

   Thank you Ed for asking. I have an addition to @108.

   Layers should be able to be placed outside the "body" and into the header/footer margins. This way we could place graphics in the headers/footers. Currently layers "disappear" if they are "touching" header/footer margins.

   Evt. enhancing layers to "hide when not printing". Or maybe a new design element: Header/footer subform with proper first page, even page etc. properties.

1. 163  Thomas Herrmann  | 5/6/2005 2:54:48 AM

   A way to put your desired JVM into the Client AND Server.

   Capsule the JVM from the nhttp.exe.

1. 164  Emil Celustka http://www.svetNotes.cz | 5/6/2005 3:00:24 AM

   Lotus Notes and Designer portation on Linux

   @46 Chris Whisonant - Workplace is not solution for everyone

1. 165  Huptus www.siriusonline.de | 5/6/2005 3:39:10 AM

   new JVM...

1. 166  Ben Rodway www.lan2lan.com | 5/6/2005 5:26:55 AM

   "Send all messages as low priority if size is between x and x"

   EXCEPT for local delivery.

   In other words, if someone sends a 20mb file to another user on the same server, deliver it. If it's another server, hold it as low priority.

   That must be an easy one!

1. 167  Ludwig Nastansky http://gcc.upb.de | 5/6/2005 6:53:55 AM

   Allow an option to use Notes NSF-applications in a "true" middleware environment. This includes on the Notes client side: no visibility of the Notes-workspace, and, on the Domino server side: just support the server infrastructure necessary for my specific "my-NSF-app", stand-alone, or peacefully coexisting with an already existing Domino corporate infrastructure.

   This option has been leading on my feature request list for years. "Kiosk mode" available in previous releases of N/D on the client side has been in the direction to what I mean; opening a Notes database in a new Window on the client is showing a similar way.

   My main reasoning for this feature:

   1) There are thousands of wonderful Notes my-NSF-apps on the market where just the data and business logic of a

   specific my-NSF-app application is needed in an effective enduser context of daily operational work. Quite often, the burden of being embedded in the powerful and highly visible Lotus N/D platform is just too much for (tiny or big) my-NSF-app. Too much on the Notes enduser side: start N-client, navigate through the tiles or bookmarks, then launch my-NSF-app. On the Domino server side, if you are in a Lotus N/D shop: kneel down in front of the sys-admin, get the process started to be allowed launching my-NSF-app on the server farm, promise to never touch it again asking for frivolous manager or developer access, etc.. On the server side, if you don't happen to be in a Lotus N/D shop or in enemy territory: "We understand that some people claim that your "my-NSF-app" is really good for your department, but, you know, corporate policies don't allow for the Lotus N/D platform."

   2) The enormous IBM investment for developing their workplace platform, related product portfolio, and "seamless" integration of Lotus N/D apps in the IBM workplace implies modularizing Lotus N/D just in the same direction of the feature I am proposing here. So, this is just fine to look forward to. BUT: the current user base of 120+ million Lotus N/D users is working on MS-Windows or Mac workplaces. An here, N/D just adds another workplace/workspace before you enter your my-NSF-app. So, get rid of this obstacle for the specific thousands of my-NSF-apps developed by IBM Business Partners which don't demand the current Notes workspace to be productively run on their own. The same conceptual reasoning that supports bringing N/D functionality seamlessly in the pages & portlets of the new IBM workplace family supports doing just the same as an option for 120+ million users on the already existing workplace infrastructures, be it MS-Windows-OS or Mac-OS. Or, maybe convince MS to replace their MS-Windows desktop by the current Notes client workspace.

   { Link }

1. 168  Michael Gollmick  | 5/6/2005 7:04:24 AM

   ability to shift-click on a certain position in a view to extend the selection checkmarks from the last checked one to this document without the need to mark all the documents in between manually.

1. 169  Alan  | 5/6/2005 7:07:12 AM

   Allow for editing attachments inline via the web...a la Quickplace or iNotes

1. 170  Richard  | 5/6/2005 8:10:39 AM

   The ability to kill individual tasks when they have hung or crashed. Currentyl we have to restart the whole server.

1. 171  Matt Newton http://www.mattnewton.co.uk | 5/6/2005 8:16:09 AM

   The ability of the ToDo list to be able to support sub-tasks and be able to assign these sub-tasks to others.

1. 172  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 5/6/2005 10:23:21 AM

   OK all, I'm going to ask that we refrain from further postings here at the moment.

   Reasons:

   1) The thread's a bit unmanagable -- I don't even know where to begin on replies.

   2) The topic got way out of control -- my fault, as I was offline much of the last few days. What I wanted was ONE thought per person, and only NOTES CLIENT features. Not server, not Administrator, not Designer.

   On Monday, I'll try to post this as a static web page and add some comments in.

1. 173  Marco Foellmer http://www.ebf.de | 5/6/2005 5:05:27 PM

   Let the integrated Instant Messaging Reconnect if connection is available again.

1. 174  Garth Thomas www.netforce.com.au | 5/6/2005 7:15:47 PM

   I have to go with @19 and @73: Drag and drop functionality in the client whereby you can keep a handle on the document dragged across frames and a handle to the document dropped on, so that users can be allowed to perform intuitive tasks.

   A very simple example could be creating an appointment with a doctor by dragging a patient document from a patient view over to a doctor document in another view in the frameset.

   Apps could then get sooo much sexier and user friendly.

1. 175  Thomas Weber http://www.dicomgroup.com | 5/6/2005 9:27:53 PM

   also a couple and also sorry to cheat

   from the enduser :

   1) multible undo

   2) drag and drop text in the editor

   3) live spellcheck

   from an admin

   1) Directory assitance with unlimeted addressbooks for acl groups

1. 176  Ulrich "eknori" Krause http://www.eknori.de | 5/7/2005 2:05:21 AM

   Ability to set all remaining static labels like view column titles, tabbed table headers etc programmatically by means of formula code

1. 177  Mathias Pohl http://www.mathiaspohl.de | 5/7/2005 8:35:21 AM

   LotusScript Methods to create & update Calendar entries.

1. 178  Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog | 5/7/2005 9:53:16 AM

   Thanks to those who voted for adding Midas, or even just the Midas HTML generation. I take it as a real compliment.

   I had trouble thinking of one thing I would like added when I first read this, but I thought of one today. Add a NotesSession.UseLSX to match the NotesUIWorkspace.UseLSX, thus allowing easy dynamic use of LSX's in backend agents and through COM. Yes, there are other ways, but they are very cumbersome, and although I am usually loathe to say that "this should be easy" about other people's programming requirements, I can't imagine why it would be difficult. Please!

1. 179  Ulrich "eknori" Krause http://www.eknori.de | 5/7/2005 11:33:38 AM

   this is just a personal one:

   maybe IBM could say a little "Thank U, Ulrich". What for ? As you might know, I was the only one so far givin' the Notes Community the ability to "reattach" an attachment since version 4.6. I have never ever seen a similatr code since posting my code in the sandbox. The code in 6.x does work surprisingly similar to the one I once developed, doesn't it ?

1. 180  Ulrich "eknori" Krause http://www.eknori.de | 5/7/2005 11:53:09 AM

   @170:

   As far as I know, this functionallity is available in Domino.doc.

1. 181  Sean Harris  | 5/7/2005 3:33:32 PM

   A lot of good suggestions.

   Seems that a number of them are for a new UI for the Notes Mail Template. However, a UI that one person likes is not necessarily going to appeal to another people. For instance, I think the Outlook Calendar UI is terrible compared to the Notes Calendar. Now the Outlook Calendar has a few features that are cool (and would be nice to have), but overall, it's not as good MPO.

   Suggestion:

   Instead of re-designing the Mail Template UI, I suggest that the development team update and enhance the template code (new features of course ;^ ), and design into the new template the ability to use themes. Then have the Development come up with 3 or 4 good themes (Classic, Thunderbird, Outlook etc.) that could appeal to any number of people. This way you could have third party UI developers write new themes that are easily applied to the template.

   My one feature is to have multiple signatures for the client work easily. The current mode is a real pain in the @

   Wish:

   Signatures (text or HTML or image) would be part of the mail file, and NOT an external file that only works from the client that has the file. And be able to easily change the signature by right clicking on the default signature (in body field) and see/select any of the other possible signatures you have.

   I'd wish for POP3 connections to work correctly (like others POP3 clients), but I think that is more of a bug fix than a feature request.

1. 182  Christian  | 5/8/2005 7:24:04 AM

   better group-calendar-interface and function like

   Lotus-Organizer :(

1. 183  Tobias Mueller http://tobias.olrato.de | 5/8/2005 8:26:02 AM

   Let this thing print, and give the developers a print-api.

1. 184  Simon Barratt  | 5/9/2005 8:33:10 AM

   Native RSS Reader

   and native ability to add RSS feeds to any view

1. 185  Dale Cybela  | 5/9/2005 9:11:34 AM

   Late to the part:

   Mail Merge: The ability to create a RTF and embed fields from any database via a view or dynamic selection criteria. I am tired of getting kicked by the Outlook people from companies we acquire that Outlook can do it in "three clicks" and Lotus can't do it at all.

1. 186  Patrick  | 5/9/2005 1:15:19 PM

   Make it look and feel more like Lotus Organizer.

1. 187  Brad Milton  | 5/9/2005 1:56:21 PM

   A really truly fine to-do database. Something similar to Franklin Planner's system.

1. 188  Michael Norr www.mpitech.com | 5/9/2005 3:04:52 PM

   To make the property box a property window:

   As much as I love Lotus Domino/Notes, I hate the property box. This small dialogbox with 6-7 tabs which one needs to open and close one billion times a day, especially when creating databases.

   My suggestion is:

   (a) Make it available in a separate window in the Windows taskbar along with the clients.

   (b) When the "properties window" is opened, make all options available to the user in sections on the entire screen. Get rid of these annoying tabs.

   Actually, I have written this before:

   { Link }

   Whether you agree og disagree, I hope you will add a comment in that forum, too.

1. 189  Joel Braverman http://www.electronicmusic.fm | 5/9/2005 3:28:29 PM

   Eliminate the Notes Clients (client/admin/designer) for a completely web oriented system, with more versatility.

1. 190  Esther Strom  | 5/9/2005 3:29:45 PM

   @96 - Lotus Phone Support is wrong... (surprised?) - you can indeed categorize email messages - select the message, then go to Actions-->Categorize. That said, there's no native way to view docs with those categories (i.e. the way GMail creates links for each label.) But you can certainly search on the Categories field.

1. 191  Richard Collette  | 5/9/2005 6:26:15 PM

   It would have to be a dynamic gui that has objects for everything that make sense, unlike the current table API. Buyout Midas as a quickstart to that goal. Netscape lost so much ground to IE because of DHTML capability and frankly this is (one of) Notes' major weak points.

   I can't bite my tongue. A real calendaring API is second.

   And the rest of the very badly wanted ones are here:

   http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/cbb23f01eff55e9485256d6c007b38ad?OpenDocument

1. 192  Teseoteseo  | 5/10/2005 3:51:31 AM

   Simplify very much the use of apps with a browser.

   Why not to use a plugin to use the almost full notes client in a browser?

1. 193  Stijn  | 5/10/2005 4:12:32 AM

   Quota Management !!

   my suggestions:

   a) additional options to prevent sending mails would better enable us to enforce the quotas. Maybe via quota policy?

   b) More information for the user -> indication bar (think it's in workplace too)

   c) completely override quotas on server side. I think it's only used in mailfiles so why can't it be limited to the router only. It would be so much easier maintaining consistency in a cluster, prevent some issues with translogs and so on.

1. 194  Peter  | 5/10/2005 5:02:21 AM

   This suggestion isn't mine (one of my colleagues made it at a Workplace/ND7 presentation last week) but I think it's a good one.

   Throw up a warning if the user tries to send a mail containg the word "attached" (or variations of this) if the user has not actually attached a file.

   How many times would this have been of assistance to each of us?!

1. 195  John Rowland  | 5/10/2005 11:01:55 AM

   @95 + @112 + @119 + @154 = Improper rendering of html mail really aggravates my internal customers. In a world of people who use Outlook Express at the house, this would seem to be a "no-brainer" but we have been promised version after version that it would work. Even 6.5.4 doesn't do the job, though I told them it would. Shame on me. Stuff like this makes Notes seem like a toy email system, though I know better. I really love Notes and would like for it to totally blow away the competition. Help us, IBM!

1. 196  John Rowland  | 5/10/2005 11:02:28 AM

   @95 + @112 + @119 + @154 = Improper rendering of html mail really aggravates my internal customers. In a world of people who use Outlook Express at the house, this would seem to be a "no-brainer" but we have been promised version after version that it would work. Even 6.5.4 doesn't do the job, though I told them it would. Shame on me. Stuff like this makes Notes seem like a toy email system, though I know better. I really love Notes and would like for it to totally blow away the competition. Help us, IBM!

1. 197  John Rowland  | 5/10/2005 11:04:54 AM

   @95 + @112 + @119 + @154 = Improper rendering of html mail really aggravates my internal customers. In a world of people who use Outlook Express at the house, this would seem to be a "no-brainer" but we have been promised version after version that it would work. Even 6.5.4 doesn't do the job, though I told them it would. Shame on me. Stuff like this makes Notes seem like a toy email system, though I know better. I really love Notes and would like for it to totally blow away the competition. Help us, IBM!

1. 198  Mat Newman http://www.iteam.com.au | 5/10/2005 8:55:25 PM

   Only one Ed :-)

   How about Gant-Chart style views.

   I would LOVE to be able to finally create REAL project management apps in Notes, with all the benefits of workflow, with the ability to see a flow diagram, rather than a flat view, a calendar, or a complex HTML based work-around.

   Yay for Lotus Organizer's planner! (almost the same thing, but not quite...)

1. 199  Marc Leblanc http://www.real.lu | 5/11/2005 4:50:17 AM

   Great ideas here.

   Just one more, what about private accessible folders. So while delegating your mail file, mails in some folders are not accessible by other people (including through the All Documents view)?

1. 200  Peter Birett  | 5/11/2005 7:10:08 AM

   Add a flag "No Attachment" for CC & BCC fields to tell the router to send the attachment only to TO-people and remove it for all others

1. 201  SG  | 5/11/2005 8:55:05 AM

   Better Mac support. Currently, Notes 6 looks (and feels) worse than a Windows 3.11 application on Windows XP.

   Of course, it would be great if Lotus Designer was also available for Mac...

1. 202  vlho  | 5/11/2005 10:04:48 AM

   vide some above

   and

   Domino server FTP Task, that enable read-write from-to Notes database

1. 203  Chris Whisonant http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com | 5/11/2005 12:17:08 PM

   Are you getting all these Ed?

   @189 - Something definitely needs to be done with the Properties box. At the very least let us resize it and retain that box size in notes.ini like the "WindowSizeBookmark", "WindowSizeBrowse", etc...

1. 204  Martin Goodman  | 5/11/2005 2:50:10 PM

   Make it possible to import holidays for the stand alone user.

1. 205  Matt  | 5/11/2005 3:39:03 PM

   In spite of Ed's 'Enough!!!' comment above, I've got a wacky idea I'd like to stick in here %)

   A new agent scheduling option - run 'whenever' - for agents where it doesn't really matter precisely when they run, just as long as they do run - so you could, say, schedule an agent to run whenever, as long as it ran twice in a given period.

1. 206  Gianni Nasutti  | 5/16/2005 3:28:32 AM

   Add the possibility to perform a FT search in views called by pick list or from embedded view.

   Make customizable/programmable the server name and the database name for the embedded views, outlines etc...

1. 207  Alex Drastico  | 5/16/2005 3:32:01 AM

   Make better the context help from LS classes, es. list of methods and properties for customized classes etc...

1. 208  Olaf Boerner  | 5/16/2005 3:57:13 PM

   add an AutoCorrect Feature like Word or OpenOffice for using text modules in writing memos

1. 209  c. wiest  | 5/18/2005 9:30:55 AM

   Support for Notesdatas/Directories on a network drive.(NAS)

   Special for Citrix solutions.

1. 210  Ramana  | 5/25/2005 9:33:07 AM

   Nice to have adding all Names.nsf names in spell check dictionary.

1. 211  Jesper Kiaer http://www.jezzper.com | 5/30/2005 7:06:05 AM

   Something that suites Domino well and should have been done a long time ago and which I have dreamt about for years.

   WEBDAV - Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning

   I know there is some form of WEBDAV implemented for design elements. But that is not very interesting.

   What I am talking about is WEBDAV in connection with documents.

   From www.webdav.org:

   Q. What are the goals of WEBDAV?

   A.

   The stated goal of the WebDAV working group is (from the charter) to "define the HTTP extensions necessary to enable distributed web authoring tools to be broadly interoperable, while supporting user needs", and in this respect DAV is completing the original vision of the Web as a writeable, collaborative medium.

   But, people working on WEBDAV have had goals which extend beyond simple web page authoring. Some view WEBDAV as a network filesystem suitable for the Internet, one that works on entire files at a time, with good performance in high-latency environments. Others view WEBDAV as a protocol for manipulating the contents of a document management system via the Web. An important goal of WEBDAV is to support virtual enterprises, being the primary protocol supporting a wide range of collaborative applications. Importantly, a major goal is the support of remote software development teams. A final goal of WEBDAV is to leverage the success of HTTP in being a standard access layer for a wide range of storage repositories -- HTTP gave them read access, while WEBDAV gives them write access.

   All of these goals are complementary, and are satisfied by the same network protocol.

   Q. What are the major features and benefits?

   A.

   WebDAV provides a network protocol for creating interoperable, collaborative applications. Major features of the protocol include:

   * Locking (concurrency control): long-duration exclusive and shared write locks prevent the overwrite problem, where two or more collaborators write to the same resource without first merging changes. To achieve robust Internet-scale collaboration, where network connections may be disconnected arbitrarily, and for scalability, since each open connection consumes server resources, the duration of DAV locks is independent of any individual network connection.

   * Properties: XML properties provide storage for arbitrary metadata, such as a list of authors on Web resources. These properties can be efficiently set, deleted, and retrieved using the DAV protocol. DASL, the WEBDAV Searching and Locating protocol, provides searches based on property values to locate Web resources.

   * Namespace manipulation: Since resources may need to be copied or moved as a Web site evolves, WEBDAV supports copy and move operations. Collections, similar to file system directories, may be created and listed.

   Domino seems very well suited for this and would really make Domino ROCK!! :-)

   regards

   Jesper Kiaer

   { Link }

1. 212  Neil Wainwright http://www.nexonia.com | 5/30/2005 1:18:48 PM

   Workplace, iNotes, anything else...Notes needs a more modern UI. Bookmarks are still clunky, database icons are 8 bit, the personal address book template is embarassing. It's really strange that this has been neglected for so long. R6.5 was a necessary step to stay in the game, but it too will fall by the wayside in terms of being acceptable. I could go on and on, but it's not my job. I wish it was someones job though.

   I agree with an earlier post...get it done by a very small team of people who really "get it"...inside or outside of IBM.

   ...Neil

1. 213  Richard C  | 6/7/2005 11:25:36 AM

   How about putting in an image editor / drawing tool? - Similar to MS Word's drawing tool?

   I've lost countless times that users have asked me this question: "How do I highlight something in a image?"

1. 214  Michael Schubert  | 6/8/2005 9:10:58 AM

   A modern LotusScript language with an improved class concept (abstract classes), method overloading, interfaces, contracts, built in basic classes (collections, trees, stacks), ...

   The current LotusScript version is an antiquated programming language.

1. 215  Richard Fenwick  | 6/14/2005 8:43:28 AM

   @172 - Sorry Bill but as everyone else has carried on :-)

   Improvements in the UI (specifically mail template i.e users to be able to choose from a list of pre-defined skin)

   Like (nearly) everyone else I am adding more than one!

   Ability to print Java Applets in the Notes Client

1. 216  Clyde McKenney  | 6/16/2005 10:18:25 AM

   In Notes and DWA, the ability to forward an incoming SMTP mail (as received by the SMTP listener, i.e., untouched--similar to R6 view/page source) as a file attachment.

   As found in Outlook Express. ;-)

   Extremely useful in reporting spam.

   May be possible with custom code, if I can ever get past all issues with NotesMIME classes.

1. 217  Kris http://www.smthop.com | 7/7/2005 10:58:22 AM

   Redesign that UI for the Notes Client. WE've got users at 800x600 resolution that have major clutter issues since going from 5 to 6, and it's not a lot better at 1024x768.

   Make it so that your Folders stay open... just slightly annoying everytime you open Notes to have to click on Folders.

   Maybe this is possible, but I would like not to have to go to a welcome page. Just get me straight to my inbox, I can take it from there!

1. 218  Greg  | 7/11/2005 7:03:06 AM

   Ability to edit table properties (i.e. column widths) by clicking and dragging column lines (like in Word).

1. 219  Jerry  | 7/26/2005 5:13:52 PM

   First and foremost, it's about the NEED for SPEED... faster, faster, and mo faster

1. 220  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 3:53:56 AM

   Please include various ways to manage categories in database more easily:

   - instead of only offering full entry of "category\subcat1\subcat2..."

   - in category view, drag doc to put in another category

   - in category view, ctrl+drag doc to add to another category

   - improve graphical support for creating/viewing sub-categories,

1. 221  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 4:01:02 AM

   For moving bullet-lines with e.g. <ctrl>+<up/down arrows>, please allow to move a block of lines together (currently only one line is affected at the time - no reaction on selection of multiple lines).

   This should include any type of bullets, and ideally also normal text paragraphs (cf. feature in MSWord using <alt><ctrl><arrows>, even to affect heading styles ...

   [yes, there are certain features in Microsoft's arena that are very useful ;-)]

1. 222  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 4:08:01 AM

   1./ Set top row as fixed column headers

   Then allow sort on any 'field' in top row

   2./ On <alt><shift><arrow up/down>,

   move entire selected rows (!) up/down (not just one selected cell)

   3./ On <ctrl><arrow up/down>, <ctrl><arrow left/right>,

   move multiple selected cells in the arrow-direction

1. 223  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 4:41:30 AM

   Wouldn't it be nice, if the formatting (incl. all doclinks, hotspots, hyperlinks... ) would be maintained as created in our Notes email, and thus viewable "as-created" for any receiver, e.g. a Mozilla Thunderbird client ...

1. 224  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 4:46:55 AM

   - column width by dragging column separator line

   - row height by draging row separator line

   - double click on table-lines to auto-size (affecting only the selected column(s))

1. 225  Pascal www.ibm.com | 8/9/2005 6:56:05 AM

   For easy organizing, allow moving/copying documents from one open database to another, e.g.

   - click/drag document ...

   - by then moving mouse pointer

   over the appropriate destination database-tab...

   - and drop it ...

   even directly into the category of your choice.

1. 226  Ivan Ouzounov www.ieb.hu | 9/16/2005 6:28:45 AM

   Ability for stand-alone Notes client ( as POP3 Client) to work with mail rules.

1. 227  Foo Swee Sien  | 9/22/2005 9:00:45 PM

   Lotus Notes Client and Browser single sign-on.

1. 228  Richard Dickison  | 12/22/2005 9:27:13 AM

   I would like to see better message tracking at the client level. The user should be able to right click a document, either sent or received and see info such as who received the note, when it was opened, etc. I know we have return receipts, but that is not a good way of collecting info for a particular document.

1. 229  Irv Schor  | 1/6/2006 8:03:34 AM

   As an admin, I would love to be able to easily secure email groups (i.e. restrict them for use by certain users only). This is one item that I've seen a competing product have an edge from the perspective of ease of administration/security on this topic.

1. 230  Ajay Yawalkar  | 2/25/2006 11:47:00 PM

   Thin notes client is the need of today.

1. 231  Mike  | 3/28/2006 10:49:04 AM

   A client that can actually display MIME messages correctly

1. 232  Terry Brooks  | 5/17/2006 8:07:53 AM

   A way to have emails automatically forwarded to another email address.

1. 233  Ajay Yawalkar  | 5/19/2006 8:28:56 PM

   I would like to see better rules management.

1. 234  Wayne Weinheimer  | 5/21/2006 12:19:37 PM

   Catching up on my NotesBlogs!

   @98, @107, @229 - re: being able to lock down who can see, send to, or use certain Groups in the NAB

   This is already available through doc-level security. Create a new security group and add the members that you want. Go to document properties of the group you want to lock down, go to the security tab (key), deselect "All readers and above", and add the new security group (and admins and servers).

1. 235  Michael Tassati http://www.tassati.at | 7/24/2006 11:00:00 AM

   a way to get standard-element code to convert NotesRichTextItem-Values to rtf, html, odf or an other standard (images, formated tables, links, etc. included)

   nice day!

   Mike

1. 236  Katherine  | 1/9/2007 3:38:47 AM

   I'd really like the Rules to be more sophisticated. In Outlook, I could set up rules so that if I sent mail to someone, the mail I sent would automatically be moved to a specified folder. At the moment (Notes 6.5.4) it seems that you can only do that for received items.

1. 237  Brendan  | 3/5/2007 4:10:30 AM

   An intuitive interface that adhers to modern HCI design standards.

1. 238  Bob Balfe http://blog.balfes.net | 5/8/2007 12:06:40 PM

   Have the Notes spell checker remember my selections (like ignore) when I send emails. I may run spell check several times, save as a draft and then edit later. Then, when I send I have auto-spell check turned on and I have to answer all of the questions all over again.

1. 239  tom http:///www.theoneils.net | 5/8/2007 9:57:13 PM

   Allow us to use regular expressions in a) Lotuscript b) Formula language c) Full-Text searches d) all of the above.

1. 240  Nasir Javed  | 5/9/2007 11:18:41 AM

   I would like to have names type fields i.e. readers, authors and names fields can allow domino designers to select the format in which they want to present the names to end users.

   e.g. If a names type field contains @username as field formula, designer could have options like display as Common Name, Abbreviated, Canonical and domino stores Fully qualified name internally.

   Currently I often need to have a fully qualified name to be stored in document for workflows but I want to dispaly the value as Common Name, so for this I need to create two seperate fields, 1 for fully qualified name and other for Common name.

1. 241  Mike http://www.iol.com | 8/9/2007 5:25:08 AM

   To enable the creator of a group calendar be able to customise colours for group calendar events (everything is a shade of red or dull red).

1. 242  Steven Klass  | 10/11/2007 3:57:07 PM

   Please!!

   Mac shortcuts that align with the Mac Standard. Or provide the ability to customize them.

   Let me repeat the one request is that you align keys to the platform standards which have evolved and subtly changed. I'm very tired of reading we use F5/F9 because back in the OS2 days... Get over yourself and move to what is the current standard today! How is a what OS2 did relevant to what is Mac/Windows or Linux today?

   Please ;)