Creating a Custom Personal Address Book

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Dear allI have a problem with the look-up of the mail addresses from an Address Book Database.

I have created a personal Address Book by scratch, without the use on a standard template.

The purpose is to have a simple address book with the minimun details needed with our customers mail addresses.

I have created a “Person” form with the minimun needed Fields:

User Details:

 FirstName

 LastName

 MailAddress

 CompanyName

 FullName (by default is always "Name & Surname")

 Type (by default is always "Person")

The name of the fields is the same of a Domino Directory Person form.

I have copy and pasted the usual views used on the standard names.nsf database, as

($Users)

($People)

_People

($XACL)

($VIMPeopleAndGroups)

($VIMGroups)

($PeopleGroupsHier)

($PeopleGroupsFlat)

($NamesFieldLookup)

($LDAPS)

($LDAPHier)

($LDAPG)

($LDAPCN)

($LDAPAlias)

($Groups)

I have addedd it to the DA.nsf database.

When I write an e-mail to a contact of this address book Domino doesn’t make the address look up on this database.

Anyone knows what are the minimur requirements for a database to be used as Address Book? May be the problem is a missing views … of a missing field on the Person Form …

Thanks for your help

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Subject: Creating a Custom Personal Address Book

HI,

this database are created into Server or Local?

If is into server, edit Notes.ini of Server and search the key NAMES=

Change this line to:

NAMES=DA.nsf,NAMES.nsf

If is Local, edit the Notes.ini from the client and do the same.

João

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Subject: RE: Creating a Custom Personal Address Book

Actually what Joao is telling you to do is to create a Cascaded Address Book when you should (and say you have) Directory Assistance set up.

In order to rule out your design, try this:

Make a template from the design you have

Replace the design of the db with the Domino Directory

Restart at least the Router but preferrably the server and then see if lookup works

There are three areas that could be the issue:

The design of your Address Book

The way you have Directory Assistance set up

The way you have lookups set up within the client

If the replacing the design makes it work, you know it’s the design.

If it doesn’t work, check the forums and the help, there are a lot of posts regarding troubleshooting directory assistance.

Jeff Dayton, PCLP, CLI

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Subject: RE: Creating a Custom Personal Address Book

Dear Jeffrey,thanks for the suggestion. I have done so and I think the problem is on one or more fields required into the Person Form.

I come to thi conclusion because I did the following test:

  1. Replace the design of My address book with the Domino Directory template.

  2. I have created a contact

  3. I have replaced again the template with My own

I have then opend a new mail and tried to send a mail to the contact I have created with the Form “Person” of the domino directory template and it works: it makes the lookup.

If I try the look up of a contact created with my “Person” form id doesn’t work.

Could it be that one or more needed fields are missing?

At this point it cannot be a view problem … since one contact works.

Making a one-to-one comparison of the fields of the two documents could be a solution … but I would have to add fields untill it works … then removing one by one untill I undestand wich are the minimun required fields … but it would take a life!

Any idea? … Suggestion? … Do anyone have an idea of the required fields for the “Person” form of a Domino Directory?

thank you again

Bye

Andrea