As users become more comfortable with the new interface, they can choose their own Home page by using the mouse to right-click a bookmark entry and selecting 'Set Bookmark as Home Page'. This can help ease adoption of the R5 or 6 releases because your users can begin exploring the new features, while still retaining the familiar look-and-feel of Notes.īy customizing the bookmark template (Bookmark.ntf) before rolling out Notes R5 or 6 Client, you can set the Workspace to launch as the default Home page. For new users, the Notes R5 or 6 Client user interface (UI) is more intuitive than that of the Notes R4 however, when upgrading existing users, you might want to give them the familiar R4 Workspace (Desktop.dsk) instead as a starting point.
By customizing theĮnd-user training is always a concern when upgrading to a new release. This can help ease adoption of the R5 or 6 releases because your users can begin exploring the new features, while still retaining the familiar look-and-feel of Notes. Other Setting the Workspace To Launch as the Home Page in the Notes R5 or 6 ClientĮnd-user training is always a concern when upgrading to a new release. Now if you think about sandbox location %app data%\Thinstall\Lotus Notes 8.5.1\ and compare it to c:\program files it becomes clear the file path for ThinApp runtime might be too long.Category: Domino - User Setup Information Note: Notes installed natively works fine. To prove this point I checked %app data%\Thinstall\Lotus Notes 8.5.1\%ProgramFilesDir%\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data\workspace\logs\error-log-1.xml that has several references to file Notes could not locate:Ĭ:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\\Applications\0167891B37937F51704A54ADDFCC9DAE_1F_3KE527R200VQ502MGJOIMC2096\0167891B37937F51704A54ADDFCC9DAE_1F_3KE527R200VQ502MGJOIMC2096.xml (The system cannot find the file specified.)Īfter this I tried notepad.exe launched from notes thinapp package to save this file above - I could not do it but could save shorter file like 111.txt. My background with eclipse suggest this might be another issue of a long path OS can't handle. The Lotus Notes admin is currently looking into this. I'm guessing there is a missmatch with the rev7 template in play while using a 8 client. This only happens upon first launch of app. The only issue that remains is a "illeagal function call" pop-up window when you first open your mail box. Now the basic functions of Lotus Notes works email, calendar, todo, notebook, contacts.Īccessing anything else was and so far still is out-of-scope, so only the functions listed above were tested. What I did was copy those templates to the (%ProgramFilesDir%\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data) directory and rename the journal6.ntf too notebook8.ntf.
The Lotus Notes admins worked it out so that any user getting Lotus Notes app via ThinApp would require a downgrade of the mail template from rev8 too rev7 (rev6 would get upgraded by the thinapped LotusNotes) The Admins also gave me rev7of the following templates pernames.ntf and journal6.ntf. Some of these people have an email template based on rev8, some on rev7 and even some on rev6. So the client would like to give it's developers the Lotus Notes 8 client via ThinApp. The client I'm at is using Lotus Notes 7 servers and so the templates are all version7. So we have it working, enought to say "YEAH!"