I work as an administrator for an engineering company and we recently decided to downgrade to Lotus Notes 8.5 Basic due to the fact that the advanced client was a bit heavy on memory.
People have been giving good feedback but some have been complaining about a few features missing in the basic client. One of those features is auto complete in the “To” box when writing in a contact name. The auto complete in the advanced version memorized recently contacted people and seemed to look “deeper” for a matching email address but the basic version seems to only look up in the users address book, is there a way to enable this function in the Basic version?
And one other thing, importing holidays in the Calendar doesn’t show our country, is there any way to import other country’s holidays than those listed?
Subject: Hi
As far as I know, there is no posibility. have you tried running nlnotes.exe instead of notes.exe to see if the feature remains? nlnotes.exe won’t load the Eclipse Framework.
Subject: Recent Contacts
If I am not mistaken, the recent contacts list is an Eclipse feature.
Cheers
Subject: The Recent Contacts is only available in the Standard version…
Sorry to hear that you needed to downgrade to the basic version. I’m curious about your hardware configuration which sounds like it might be right on the edge (enough hardware to think you could run standard – but didn’t work out well in practice).
Unfortunately, though, there is a whole host of features only available in the Standard version of Notes 8.x. Recent Contacts (the typeahead you are describing) is one of them. We have no plans to incorporate that functionality into the Basic version of Notes – it relies heavily on our Eclipse/Expeditor platform.
Jeff Eisen
Lotus Notes Chief Architect