iNotes 8.5 web client - how do I get contacts?

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I have what long-standing Notes/Domino admins will regard as a silly question - but here goes. I’m familiar with the Exchange/Outlook PST model where mail, calendar, to do and (especially) contacts are all in one stored object (the PST file).

In Notes/Domino, the Contacts seem to be stored in the local ‘Address Book’ (names.nsf) db which represents also my connections and client location setup. They are NOT stored in my Mail file. This means that when I work on my office PC I have my full list of contacts and when I work on the DWA web client I don’t (and I don’t have them at home on my PC either because that has a different names.nsf

I think I’ve missed something significant here in the Notes Contact List model. Can anyone point me in a useful direction?

Many thanks

David Clover

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Subject: Inotes Contacts not visible when using mail85.ntf (Mail R8.5 Template)

Hi there,

I finished upgrading a local copy (made new copy from server template to local drive) of the R8.5 template to our custimized version we use here in the office. After testing the INotes functionality it indeed does not show up any contacts on the INotes web page when you click on contacts. Furthermore when you try to input a new contact it gives an error.

After looking at the error console log in INotes my eye was caught to a specific view the Mail R8.5 template was missing.

I then opened the mail85.ntf (Server template) in Designer and there they were.

If you open mail85.ntf into designer and open the views you will notice the following views.

(iNotes)

(iNotes_ArchiveTOC)

(iNotes_Contacts)

(iNotes_DraftCleanUp)

(iNotes_Notices)

(iNotes_Stationery)

(iNotes_ToDo)

Select those and copy them, then open your template file in designer and paste them into the view section. When Notes asks to update these views automatically select NO.

Then don’t forget to remove the mark ‘Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify’ in the properties of the pasted inotes views.

Magically after refreshing the web page for contacts they appear out of the blue.

Then i was testing the To Do’s. The ‘To Do list’ works fine, but when you choose ‘One Day’, ‘One Week’ and so on you will not get any To Do listed there.

After struggeling this is also fixed.

From the same mail85.ntf server template in designer, copy the following 2 views

(Haiku_TOC)

(Haiku_TasksAll)

and again paste them in your template view folder by using the designer. Also remember When Notes asks to update these views automatically when you paste them, select NO.

Then don’t forget to remove the mark ‘Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify’ in the properties of the pasted inotes views.

Then after refreshing the To Do view ‘One Day’ they appear.

So far my two cents for the new INotes 8.5 little bug removals.

Hope this will help alot of people out there strugling with this problem.

Greetz,

Peter Van Boom

Network IT Admin

Conti7.be

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Subject: Thank you!

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Subject: You can replicate from local address book to mail

You go to local address book Preferences first (More > Preferences) - select Enable “Synchronize Contacts” on the Replicator

Then go to the replicator and select to replicate/synch the contacts to your mail file.

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Subject: Hmm - still getting discrepant results with DAMO and possibly home Notes client

I’ve followed the advice about setting all my clients as suggested to replicate contacts, but the results are only partial. I’m not getting what I’d regard as ‘replica’ lists of contacts on quite all my various clients. DAMO offers me only 10 (of which more in another post - I’m not convinced by the technical value of DAMO yet), iNotes 409, Notes web client (409), Notes Office client (409) so that’s consistent, and I have the impression (which I’ll clarify tonight) that my home ‘Contacts’ list has only a few of the addresses despite implementing the settings referred to.

But anyway, I’ll persist.

The thing I can’t quite understand in terms of the Notes database model and server-client replicated databases, is exactly where on the server the contacts are stored give that I haven’t put my own ‘names.nsf’ contacts file on the server - it’s only on the client.

David Clover

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Subject: Home client Notes 8.5 and contacts list

Oddly the home-based client contact list has 411 contacts and the office one has 409 - but I can live with that I think what’s 2 addresses between friends.

It works better than I thought - and a separate posting has brought me some useful DAMO advice.

Thanks to one and all - but I still can’t fathom out what the underlyig mechanism is - I don;t have a replica of my home or office names.nsf file on the server after all! How do the addresses move around - in what vehicle?

David Clover

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Subject: Synch contacts

Enable, on the replicator page, the Synchronize Contacts’.Also look at the Contacts Preference" in your local address book.