I’d like to customise the Notes 8 Mail Navigator, but I’m not sure how to go about doing it
I have successfully modified the Outline that’s used to control the contents of the mail navigation, but linking the outline entry to a view doesn’t work. Rather than the Mail View Frame being filled with the specified view, a “No Mail Service” error is shown, and an “Invalid or nonexistent document” message appears in the status bar.
My changes work fine in ‘basic’ mode, or in Notes 6.5 so I’m guessing this has something to do with the composite application-ification of the Mail template.
Does anyone know what else I need to change to be able to load content into the Mail View Frame in standard mode?
yeah, your assumption is correct. when using the mail8.ntf in the standard 8 client, the database is displayed as a composite application. although the underlying elements are nsf design elements, there are several java plug-ins used to display the elements the way they do. changing the underlying design elements will break the java plug-ins. so if you really wanted to change the appearance of the mail 8 template, you would have to change the elements and the plug-ins. but you can’t really change the plug-ins since the source code is not provided.
It is possible to modify the outline only and include additional views. I also received this error, but realized it was because I had copied the outline entry from another database and it was still pointing to that database. Once I changed it to “Current database”, the error went away.
