I am working on a global deployment of notes and my customer should like to customize the inbox. I am familiar with customizing the inbox but this request has me stumped.
My client would like to add a column in the Inbox that would display the department name of the sender. Since this information is not stored in the mail file how can I acheive this. My thought is to modifiy the memo/reply/etc… forms to include a hidden field that would perform a DBLOOKUP on names.nsf for that user. When a user composes a message the lookup is perform and stored in that field, then I could grap that field and create a column in the inbox folder.
Would this solution work or should I just tell my client no? Or are there any other ideas and is anyone doing the same or something similiar?
TIA
Subject: Inbox customization
Once you start customising the mailfile your client is on a slippery slope of increased costs managing notes… don’t do it if you can avoid it!
Also consider that these mods may have to be replicated in inotes / web access - other mail clients accessing the domino store…
Subject: RE: Inbox customization
I understand the slippery slope I am treading on however this implementation will have 10K users spread across the globe. Most of the users will be Japanese and there are many people with the similiar name and we need a way to provide a difference between the users. I thought about using the OU but because the users will switch department fequencantly, this make it unfeasiable
Subject: RE: Inbox customization
well if you must your inital idea is probably the most simple. Remember offline use with minimal address book, etc.
If this is for the notes client only- You could impement a smart icon to maybe do a lookup for the selected document and display the department that way?
Subject: Inbox customization
I think I have a solution for your problem.
The solution is based on the iQ.Suite for Domino (I am working for GROUP Technologies).
I don´t want to flood this discussion with features of a product and I don´t want to advertise the iQ.Suite (not in context of this discussion ;-)).
But if you are interested in further informations don´t hesitate to contact me.
Best Regards,
Michael
Mail: michael.ingendoh(a)group-technologies.com