greetings
i have recently started work at a company that uses lotes notes - and i’m finding it a very differcult program to use.
For example - how do I send an email to a person from within the Domino address book view, ie, the company address book not my personal address book?
I’m used to programs like Outlook and Thunderbird when the user can just right mouse click and go ‘send mail’ or something equally as intiative, but with notes Ive tried everything but can find it - I know it must be there somewhere!
thanks
Subject: how to send email from Notes address book?
If you use the Address function from within a new mail message - you get the opportunity to choose which address book to select names from. This will include the Domain Directory as well as your local address book.
Once you change - the new selection will saty until you change it back again.
Subject: RE: how to send email from Notes address book?
thanks, but what I am wanting to know how to do is to select names in the address book view, that is from the Domino Directory view and THEN send an email to those people.
can you tell me how to do this please? I’m sure it must be possible, its a very common function is all email clients.
Subject: RE: how to send email from Notes address book?
Notes is NOT an email client, although it can be (and very often is) used for email. Whether or not you can use Notes for email depends on the type of license your organisation has for its servers/users. That being said, it seems clear that your primary use of the client is for email. Cool – it happens (though it is unfortunate to limit yourself in that way).
You need to understand that the Domino Directory is not an “address book” as such – it’s a configuration storage database. Among the configurations stored there is user mail routing information. But by and large, it’s not a database that users actively interact with. That is, most users do not open the Domino Directory directly very often at all – the names selection is accomplished with the names or addresses dialog in the primary application (the Memo form in the mail database, a Names-type field on a form in a Notes application, and so on). The Names and Addresses dialogs provide all of the functionality you need – they will allow you to search for individual names, groups, etc. And you can also avail yourself of type-ahead in the To, CC and BCC fields on the memo form itself.
Subject: how to send email from Notes address book?
From absolutely EVERYWHERE in Notes, you can go to the menu and hit Create->Memo (or Create->Mail->[something] to create any of a number of “canned” message types). For addressing purposes, though, you use the address books (your own and the server-based directories) from within mail, not the other way around. For instance, you wouldn’t select a recipient in the company directory’s People view and then create a mail memo, you create a mail memo, then use the Address action button on the Memo form to select a recipient from the address book(s).
Subject: RE: how to send email from Notes address book?
thanks for youre response, but now im confussed. you say I can do this from absolutely EVERYWHERE in Notes, but I wouldnt select a recipient from the company directorys people view and then create an email.
But that is exactly what i am wanting to do!!!
This would be one of the most common functions of an address book. Are you seriously telling me that I can send an email from the company address book view???
A really doubt that IBM or anyone would build an email client where you cant send an email to a contact from the address book!
Subject: RE: how to send email from Notes address book?
Don’t confuse the Domino Directory with an “address book”. It’s a major system repositoryfor all kinds of user/server information (certificates, administrative policies, internal mail routing, server settings, etc.), and it’s not something that ordinary users find themselves opening directly very often at all. User activity in the Domino Directory may include things like looking up telephone numbers (if no other facility is provided online locally), application administrators adding or removing people from access control list groups, and users changing some kinds of data on their own Person documents (like their cell phone number, internet password, etc.).
The “address book” functionality of the Domino Directory is provided in the names/address dialog (a system-level dialog that is available on almost any field on any type of form that requires that a name be selected). There is no need to open the Domino Directory directly.