Address dialog and internet addresses

HCL Domino Domino Forum
1

When introducing R5 as a company wide mail system, one of the problems we faced was to get the users to accept the Notes address format instead of the usual internet address format. Our 6000 students uses Inotes or Imap and does not relate to the Notes mail address, nor does their teachers who use the Notes client.

In R5 we modified the “Address” column in the view ($PeopleGroupsFlat) with the following formula

:@If(Type = “Person” ;

           @If(MailSystem="100";"";

 			InternetAddress!="";InternetAddress;

                 MailAddress!="";MailAddress;

                 @Subset(FullName;1) != ""; @Subset(FullName; 1);

                 @If(FirstName!="";FirstName+LastName;LastName)

                  );

     Type = "Database";

                  @Subset(FullName; 1);

     Type = "Group" & (GroupType="0":"1"| @IsUnavailable(GroupType));

     @Subset(ListName;1);

     "")

When the user selects recipients from the standard address dialog, internet addresses are used.

The auto complete function and the acl-dialogs uses the standard Notes address format.

This is an acceptable solution, the users normally use the Notes address format and have an easy way of getting to the internet address if necessary.

I R6 it seems as if the address dialog always uses the NAME column in the ($PeopleGroupsFlat) view. I can change the formula for this column to display the internet address, but this has undesired side-effects. As an example internet addresses are used when defining acl’s.

I would prefer to display internet addresses when sending mail and using the address dialog to pick recipients, but I can find no way to implement this.

Any ideas would be appreciated !

2

Subject: Address dialog and internet addresses

I have the same problem and is wondering if someone can guide us further. Here is some furhter informasjon.

When the name is returned by use of the address picker to a Memo, a document refresh performs a lookup in address books to convert from name to internett address. I have a custom Memo form where I am not able to trigger this lookup at document refresh. Is this lookup function “hardcoded” in the client SW? Is it possible to trigger this function from a custom Memo?

Any ideas would be appreciated.