Hi,
I’m going to list some of the features we always add to our company mail template… Obviously we feel they are useful, but if others do as well, please post here! May of them are quite simple, so they would be easy for IBM to add to the default template, if people want them!
- Remove attachments on mail send
We have added code to the mail send so that users have the option of removing attachments from the mails they send, so that the copy in their Sent view just contains the rest of the mail. Most users don’t need to keep a copy of the attachments they send, so this helps control the size of their mail files.
- Display size of a mail while composing it
We add a field to the “Additional Mail Options” subform that shows the size of the message. So when users add attachments, pictures, etc. they can hit F9 and check that their mail is within our size guidelines.
- Filter calendar by meeting invitees
We have added an option to filter the calendar by the invitees to a meeting, instead of just the chair.
- Add ‘New’ button to To Do mini view
We like having the ability to make a new To Do directly from the mini view, so we added the ‘New’ button here as well (by default, it just has ‘Open’, which is the same as double-clicking an item anyway).
- Link to the outbox
Our users like to be able to see what they have in their outbox when they are working locally or offline, so we add an entry for the outbox in the mail navigator.
An extra note to this: the design of the outbox hasn’t been changed in many versions, so it looks very out of place in Notes 8+. Maybe it could be updated to match the Notes 8 UI, or possibly even integrated into the mail application itself?
Comments appreciated!
Thanks,
Bruce