We want to create a customized functionality in lotus notes. After going through lotus notes documentation, Action menus seems to be way to do that. But,1.Can we create a button on the lotus notes toolbar?
- Given below is description of the customized functionality we wish to achieve. We have already done this for Outlook. Can it be done in lotus notes?
The basic functionality we wish to achieve is to allow users to copy emails from their mail client to our application.
In outlook we have used the following technique.
In outlook each email is accessible as file with .msg extension. All attachments of any email are embedded in this .msg file.
On click of button, we access all selected email(s) by user as msg files and send them as a byte stream to our remote server.
Here the files are now consumed by our application that reads each file and shows them in a grid. The grid has columns for Subject, From, To and a ‘Open’ link that points to the msg file. On click of this link, the msg file is downloaded and opened in outlook by windows as an email.
Subject: Access individual mails
OK. So a button can be created using Lotus Notes API.But the main issue is can an individual email be saved in some format to be used outside of the Lotus Notes Client.
As far as I have understood Lotus Notes, all mails are part of the .nsf database. Can we have a mail object outside the .nsf database?
Subject: The action menu
Yes it is possible. When you create an action button in domino , there is an option to show the button in Action menu.
Subject: Updates: Export functionality in lotus notes.
I managed to do part of functionality I had described in the first thread. It seems the only way to ‘export’ a collection of documents outside lotus notes is to create DXL file or .nsf file or XML file. NSF can automatically be opened by lotus notes. I did this using lotus script and agent in Action menu.
But still no luck in creating a button in toolbar. It seems the only way to create button in toolbar is using eclipse. I could not find any method in C++ APIs. Is it possible to create button in toolbar using C++ APIs ?