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What's new in Lotus Notes and iNotes 8.5.1
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What's New in Notes 8.5.1Mary Beth Raven, Ph. D.IBM Notes Design Lead
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What We’ll Cover …
• What’s New in iNotes• What’s New in the Notes Client• Questions
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What’s New in iNotes
• New end-user features• New iNotes policy settings• New .ini settings
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Auto Refresh and Unread Count for the Inbox and Folders
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Scroll Hints – Dates of What You Are Scrolling
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Preference for Scroll Hints
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Sync ID with ID Vault (Hidden if no Policy Enabled)
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New iNotes Policy Settings – iNotes Configuration Tab
• Refresh inbox automatically• Enable unread count• Auto-update unread count• Enable scroll hits• Disable warning on opening attachments• Filer out images from emails• Proxy server name/URL pairs for Quickr usability• Show sidebar on startup• Show preferences• Server or local archiving
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Screenshot of Some of the New Policy Settings
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Other New iNotes Policy Settings
• Mail disclaimer • Security policy for configuring proxies
Previously, you set proxies in proxy.config.properties in Domino\data\properties. This is no longer supported. You msut use a security policy setting document
• ID Vault
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New iNotes .ini Settings
• Web-style search syntax: iNOTES_WA_DISABLE_WEBSTYLE_SEARCH=1
• Disable links so that users cannot identify or open links when editing or replying (IE only, and set to 1 by default): iNOTES_WA_EnableOpenLinkInEditor=0
• Pre-fetch documents – messages will open faster because the contents have already been fetched. Enabling this might have bandwidth or server CPU consumption trade-offs iNOTES_WA_PrefetchDocuments 1 = fetches all unread documents shown in the mail view 2 = fetches all documents shwn in themail view
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More New iNotes .ini Settings
• Unblock Google ™ Chrome browser iNOTES_WA_ChromeBrowserBlock=0
• Allow pass-thru of HTML in Domino 8.5.1, pass-thru HTML that is enclosed in square brackets is disabled by default. To allow it, use iNOTES_WA_AllowPassThruHtml=1
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Other iNotes: Customize Color Gradients
• Customize the color gradients use in iNotes Edit the dwa.properties files in forms85.nsf All gradient fill and roundrect colors are now defined in
dwa.properties. To change colors, edit this file in Domino Designer an dprovide new
color values.
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What We’ll Cover …
• What’s New in iNotes• What’s New in the Notes Client• Questions
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What’s New in the 8.5.1 Notes Client
• Mail• Calendar• Rich text editor• Replication and Sync• Widgets and Live Text• General
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What’s New in Mail
• Archiving improvements• More colors for color coding• New Spam protection with Lotus Protector integration• You can empty Trash from a context menu• Add a vCard• Attachments collapsed at top on incoming MIME emails• Red unread mail text• Business card on typeahead – and a new card
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Improved Look for Archives
• In an archive, the archive name is now highlighted in yellow, and the Archive, Other Mail, Follow-up, and Tools folders will not appear. Also, the preview pane will not display.
• Recently Archived view
• Recently Archived folder lists recently archived messages, categorized by archived date
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Mail: Archived Messages
• The subject line of the open or previewed message says “(Archived)” and the header has archived date
• You can view an archived message in its archive. If you chose Remove attachments, leave summary or Remove attachments, leave summary and 40KB when you set the archive criteria, you can also view the message from a shortcut in its original folder.
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Now Ten Colors for Coding!
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Better Spam Control with Lotus Protector
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Better Spam Control with Lotus Protector
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Better Spam Control with Lotus Protector
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Better Spam Control with Lotus Protector
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Better Spam Control with Lotus Protector
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Empty Trash from a Context menu
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Add a vCard to your Signature
• Append a vCard (.vcf) file to your signature Set Preferences - Mail - Signature The basic fields are filled in based on
information in your organization's directory,
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Add a vCard (Continued)
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Attachments at Top on Incoming MIME Mail
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Attachments Easily Collapsed at Top on Incoming MIME Mail
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Preference for Plain Red Text for Unread Mail
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Business Card on Typeahead, and new Card
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What’s New in Calendar
• Accept/Decline meetings from the preview pane• New “Show Timeslots” choice• Drag a Mail Message to Calendar tab or Day-at-a Glance to
Schedule meeting• Drag and Drop to Reschedule• Integrated Google: choose How many Days for Offline• New Online Meeting preference
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Accept/Decline Meetings from the Preview Pane
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Calendar View : Show – Summary or Show - Timeslots
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Drag a Mail Message to Calendar Tab or Day-at-a-Glance
Drag email; drop on empty timeslot to schedule meeting
Drag and hover on Calendar tab; wait for tab to switch, then drop
on timeslot
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Drag and Drop to Reschedule a Calendar Entry
• Drag a Calendar entry to a new date on the date picker in either your main calendar or the Day-At-A-Glance sidebar panel. This will open the reschedule dialog box.
• Use this feature to counter a meeting invitation.• To drag to a different month on the date picker, hover over the
previous or next arrow while dragging.
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Integrated Google: Choose How Long to Show
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Calendar and Day-at-a-Glance Automatically Refresh to Next Day
• At midnight, the main Calendar and Day-At-A-Glance sidebar panel automatically refresh to the next day. This feature is important if, for example, you leave Notes open overnight.
• This features is enabled automatically. To turn it off, add the following line to your Notes.ini file:
• CalendarRefreshOnSystemDateChange=0
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iCal Compatibility Improvements for Mac
• iCalendar invites sent from a Mac Notes client are just as rich as those sent from Windows. This includes HTML content such as tables, inline images, file attachments, and attached comments.
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New Online Meeting Preference
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New Location for Online Meeting Info
Click to join
Plus meeting id
Entire url easy to select and ping to others
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Rich Text Editor Improvements
• New toolbar icons:
• Permanent pen-- the cursor now changes to identify that permanent pen is in use.• The selection behavior in a Notes section is now smoother. You can scroll smoothly through the text as in normal text
The entire section is still selected as before but scrolling occurs only when you drag out of the window.• Lists: if no text on a line then no list element is displayed. (Exception: in edit mode, a list element displays on an empty
line if the cursor) is in the paragraph)• Improved Table formatting
Drag to Reorder rows or columns Multiple undo: Step through multiple edits and undo them. Note that this feature is supported when editing lists also. Table resize: Drag the outside margin of a table to resize it. Insert columns or rows: Press and hold down the Shift key. When the cursor changes appearance, double-click the border of a row
or a column to insert a new row or column. The new row or column is inserted in between the two rows or columns sharing the common border. The cursor changes as follows:
Move text from one cell to another: Drag and drop the contents of a cell to move it to another cell. Fixed width table: When you create a fixed width table, you can now specify the width in the Create Table dialog box. In previous
versions, the width for fixed width tables was automatically determined based on the available area. Columns: Drag and drop a column border to resize it.
Underline Text color Highlighter Insert Link
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Replication and Sync: Activities on Replicator Page
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Widgets: Browse Feature in Preferences
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Widgets: New Toolbar in the My Widgets Sidebar Panel
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Widgets: New Wizard Option for Features and Plugins
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Widgets: More Options for Notes ApplicationsEasily add any Notes
Application to the Search Center!
Choice is always there!
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Widgets: Wizard Improvements
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General: Open View in New Window and Change Icon
Open a View in a new Window
Change the icon so that if you have more than one application icon on the bookmark
bar, you can customize it
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General: Business Card View Matches Business Card
Pictures moved to right
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General: Workspace Roams
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New Spell Check Preferences
New Spell Check Preferences
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General• More multi-tasking:
Start a task in Notes and still use: Sametime chat Embedded browser
Sametime chat from the sidebar or use the embedded browser while Opening a Notes application Clicking a Notes document link that another user has sent you Starting to search a view
• KeyView has been upgraded to version 10.8 Improves viewing and importing Addresses security and filtering issues
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Opening Symphony Files• If you install standalone and embedded, embedded used to
ALWAYS “grab” the file association.• Now, the file association goes with whatever is installed last,
and of course users can choose:
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The Beginning of Xpages on the Client
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Improved To-Do’s/Task Management
See your tasks, and those assigned to others
on your calendar
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Tasks Sidebar
Change priority
Change due date
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And Now…
• …about the new Goth look…
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Resources
• http://www.NotesDesignBlog.com• Connections blog: synch.rono.us