Check marks

hcl-bot · March 10, 2010, 11:31am

Got a quick question. We are running 8.0.1 and are planning to upgrade the next few weeks to 8.5.1

I noticed when we went from 6.5 that the little area on the left side in emails and databases where you can mark 10 emails/lines and than delete them all in one go. Is this possible to do again in 8.x and above? I have several users missing that field since it had been there since 5.0 when we started.

Thanks

Michael

hcl-bot · March 10, 2010, 7:34pm

Subject: Yes - There’s A Draft Technote about it

Hi Michael,

See the Draft Technote I have included below, which details this setting that was introduced in 8.0.2. Feel free to reply with any questions, as I try to check back often.

Regards,

-Bob

Do not distribute outside IBM. Draft Information - Subject to change.

How to implement the database document gutter and check mark selection column for the Notes 8 Standard Client

Product:

Lotus Notes > Client UI > 8.0.2

Platform(s):

Linux, Mac OS, Windows

Edition(s):

Standard

Doc Number:

1316311

Date:

08/18/2008

Problem

Is it possible to modify the Notes 8 Standard Client display to implement the database document gutter and check mark selection column that is available in the Notes 8 Basic Client and clients from earlier code streams?

Yes, starting in Notes 8.0.2, users can enable the Notes 8 Standard Client to display the database

document gutter and check mark selection column. This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled manually by the user or a Domino administrator.

To enable this feature, users can select the Additional Option, called “Show check marks in margin for selected documents”, within their User Preferences (File > Preferences).

When this option is set, an INI parameter is added to the user’s notes.ini file, called

“ViewsCheckMarkSel”, and it is set to “1”.

To disable this feature, the user can de-select this Additional Option. If the INI parameter

already exists in the user’s notes.ini file, then it will be set to “0”.

As the Notes 8 Basic Client already provides this ability, use of this INI parameter

will have no affect on it.

Administrators who are interested in enabling this option for a number of users

can supply this INI parameter above through a custom policy. An SPR has

been created to review supplying an easier means to enable this option in

a future maintenance release.

This INI parameter acts as a global preference and is recognized by the Notes 8

Standard Client code starting with Notes 8.0.2 when handling Java-based views

available in Personal Information Management (PIM) databases, such as, mail,

calendar, To Do’s and contacts. This column already displays for regular, non-PIM

databases, such as the personal journal.

This feature is backward compatible and can therefore be used to display this

column for PIM databases in prior releases of Notes/Domino 8.