Is this possible. My co-workers in Outlook tell me that they can write an application that will watch what the user does, and can “trap” his actions and use them as triggers for their own logic. For example - user hits “Save and Close” in an Appointment, and they can transform the normal process to do their own thing. I need to do the same in Notes - user hits “Save and Send”, but I want to stop Notes there, and do my own thing. All of this must be without changing the Notes C&S design.
Any help will be greatly appreciated - I’m out of my depth.
we’re not changing the design of the Notes mail database - I’m trying to provide an external application that does something when the user hits a key. Like I said - you can do it with Outlook.
Subject: There’s an easy way to do it in Notes, why ignore it?
Notes and Outlook have different approaches to doing many of the same things, and there’s a simple way to accomplish what you want to do in Notes, so why ignore it just because it isn’t the same way of doing things as Outlook?
There probably is a way you can do what you want in Notes without changing the mail design, which would be to write a custom extension. But those extensions are generally for functions like anti-virus, and developing and deploying it will be far more cumbersome than using a process you can do easily within the Notes development framework.
this organization will not allow changes to their Notes mail design template for any reason. So it has to be an external application running next to Notes.
If your not going the CAPI/plugin route then you can create a composite application to overlay your mail file. It would be a separate NSF linking to your mail file.
You don’t have to change the template. What you do is make a copy of the template, edit that and replace the mail template in the users mail file with your own template.Check www.wissel.net and search for “templates”. There is a lot of other useful information on that blog also.
