A feature that would be really cool is merging from a Notes database to a document - Symphony for example. This would give the power of a report writer to Notes which has only been available in third party products.At the moment one can use a a java agent to write a document - like a pdf but to give the power to many of the Notes Designers would be awesome. I have used the merge from Symphony using a Notes names.nsf database but to able run a merge from a Notes agent using any database to a template would be ideal. Are there any plans to include this feature?
Subject: you can do this today and easier soon
Via the UNO API that Lotus Symphony has, you can do this from Notes today. When the Symphony LotusScript and Java LSX ships with Symphony 1.3, you will be able to do this without using UNO. As for a built in feature for Mail Merge in the Notes client from any db - I think we will all be waiting for a while. There is a long feature list
Subject: Not Sure if I did get you 100% -But there was a beta for an LSX to Symphony shown at Lotusphere
neat Sample - e.g. use a bunch of response documents as lines for a table in writer or doing charts in the spreadsheet. All this driven by 2 or 3 pages of Lotusscript - inkluding pdf Generation and storing the generated files as attachment in some document. (I think Java is available, too, and this is cross plattform).
Pretty impressive, I was doing the HandsOn in some lab. The code is still in beta.