Hello there,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have a pop-up window in the browser for an address book lookup feature similar to that found in the new iNotes application. I have found some JavaScript utilities in the sandbox that work ok but what I would really like is the same utility Lotus is using in the iNotes template.
Truthfully the real catch and problem I am having is… I need to be able to let users choose between the server’s address book and their local address book. I can guarantee that all users local address books will be stored in the same path on their local machines but I have no idea how to create a drop down of choices that could toggle between the two.
Has anyone done something like this before… I really don’t want to put replicas of local NAB’s on the server. Any insight would really be appreciated.
Subject: Web Address Book Lookups
If I understand you correctly, you will like your users to be able to choose between using their personal address book and the global NAB when sending emails from inotes. This option is available already. First all your users will need to do the following from their notes clients: Action → Synchronise Address book. This will make available their local address book the next time they want to send emails from the web.
I hope this helps.
Subject: RE: Web Address Book Lookups
Thanks for your quick reply… but no… I am using this in a separate application and need to allow the users to select contacts from both the server NAB and their local to populate a SendTo field. I hope this is more clear. And again… thanks for any and all input.
Subject: RE: Web Address Book Lookups
I think the problem is going to be getting the information to the webserver from the local address book. You need something to read the nsf file, which the server can do and the Notes client can do, but not the web browser. iNotes gives you this by creating a copy of the user’s personal NAB on the server (not quite that simple).
One possible solution would be to create an agent that can be run via the client on each user’s machine which would generate an HTML version of the name address picker that can be called from a local path using the pnab for its list of names. The user would need to keep this external HTML file up to date. An idea, but depending on your HTML & agent skills it may not be a good solution to come up with.
Subject: RE: Web Address Book Lookups
thanks Chuck,
I agree that getting the data from the local machine to the browser is unlikely. The new iNotes template has the ability to choose the local address book entries because they are stored in the persons mail database on the server by way of syncronization… Kind of cheating but works nicely and users don’t seem to mind.
Any idea’s on how I might be able to create a pop-up address book from a web application that would allow the users to toggle between the names.nsf on the server and their mail file reading from the ‘People’ view? Without running into a 64K block?
Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!