IBM Lotus® Notes® v.7, is the premier integrated messaging and collaboration client option for IBM Lotus Domino® server. As a member of the IBM® Workplace™ family, Lotus Notes can help you enhance the productivity of your people, streamline business processes and improve overall business responsiveness.
With Version 7, new integration with IBM Workplace products allows organizations to extend and leverage their existing infrastructure investments. Enhanced instant messaging and Web conferencing integration gives employees immediate access to the people and tools they need to do their jobs more effectively. And productivity enhancements enable users to better manage daily information and resources.
The enhancements listed below represent just some of the many productivity and integration enhancements in IBM Lotus Notes 7.
Expanded application interoperability and integration
· Lotus Notes application plug-in -- allows users to run native Lotus Notes applications within the context of the IBM® Workplace Managed Client™ product. This plug-in allows you to extend the reach of Lotus Notes applications—without requiring design modifications—to an IBM® Workplace™ Collaboration Services environment.
· Integration with Microsoft Office 2003 or Office XP software -- users of Microsoft word processing software can access Lotus Notes mail using Smart Tags — a Microsoft Office capability to recognize certain types of text, such as proper names.
Enhancements to instant messaging and Web conferencing integration
· See who is online with expanded presence awareness – extended beyond the inbox to be available in calendar, rooms and resources database, address book and applications based on supplied templates such as teamrooms and discussions.
· Paste Lotus Notes links into instant messages.
· Save online conversations to your mail file.
· Multi-task with multi-threaded support – instant messaging windows are contained in a separate thread, allowing users to communicate in real time while other Lotus Notes tasks run, such as background replication or printing.
· Restrict Web conference participation to conference invitees only and include passwords in the meeting invitation. (Note: use of Web conferencing integration requires a license of IBM Lotus Sametime.)
New productivity features for mail
· Asynchronous view open -- view update takes place in a separate thread, allowing you to work with other Lotus Notes windows while the view is updating.
· Mail threads – from within a mail message, you have the option to view all the associated threads in the discussion (such as replies from various people).
· Attention indicators – inbox icons identify which e-mails are addressed to you exclusively, to you and others, and those for which you are carbon copied.
· Additional sorting options for e-mail – sort by subject or attention indicators.
· Discover folders feature – display all the folders in which a document is stored.
· Warning message for a blank subject line – if you try to send an e-mail with a blank subject line, a warning provides you with the opportunity to enter the information prior to sending.
· Easier ways to flag messages for follow-up – You can quickly flag messages for follow-up by using the quick flag feature or by dragging and dropping the message to the follow up view.
New productivity features for calendar and scheduling
· Calendar filters – let you selectively display information by meeting chairperson, by type (meeting, appointment, etc.), by status (accepted, tentatively accepted), by private (private entries only).
· Auto processing option – enables the posting of invitations to your calendar even if there is a conflict. You can later view your calendar and make determinations as to which meetings you will or will not attend.
· Enhanced calendar cleanup capability – the option to delete items that occurred before or during a specified period of time is easily accessible from within the calendar view.
· User enhancements for rooms and resources – users can send reminder notices to chairpersons to release a room or resource if the meeting is canceled. They can also transfer rooms to another person without involving an administrator or requiring multiple steps.
General Lotus Notes productivity enhancements
· Autosave – prevents data loss due to software errors, power outages or workstation crashes. You can specify to have your data saved at regularly scheduled intervals. When Lotus Notes restarts, you can then recover autosaved documents or delete them.
· Set or save open window state – Two options are available to allow you to choose which windows open automatically when the Lotus Notes client starts up:
· Set a specific window state to be displayed each time the Lotus Notes client is launched.
· Save the current window state when exiting the Lotus Notes application, and allow it to return to that state the next time the software is launched.
· Confirmation prompt on close – option to see a confirmation dialog to avoid accidentally exiting the Lotus Notes client while closing other applications.
· Enhanced right mouse support – Many of the options available as keyboard actions, in action bar views or in full menus are also available in right-mouse menus.
Close all open Lotus Notes windows with a single selection from the File menu.
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