Meet the Developers

As noted in the Closing session blog (See Lotusphere 2007 Closing Session), this year I was able to attend the complete "Meet the Developers" session where other Admins and Developers from around world are able to directly question and get feedback on future enhancements. The availability of being able to "Connect" with the lead developers within IBM is a just a great experience. While not having a specific item in mind to have addressed, I thoroughly enjoyed hearing others experiences and getting the insight into what is currently going on in the industry and what is going to happen. In the read more session, I have included just a few snippets of ideas that I was able to get from the session.

• In Notes 7, Nomad was introduced. The ability to completely run Lotus Notes from a USB key was highly touted feature that has found a great appreciation in a lot of consultants, developers, and admins. Currently planned release R8 does not have this, however...
• Version 8.01 "should" have Nomad ready
• Embedded Views ability to become dynamic will be put on the list for future development
• An enhancement to the Search Results view (searching?) is on the DWA list to be looked at making available. It was mentioned that it currently used within IBM, but was not yet at "commercial" grade/ quality
• Daylight Saving Time issue still remains to be a problem. On the 31st of this month an agent will be made available to address this issue for those users needing to address. A tech note number was given(not noted here) as to what to reference if needed to request it.
• In the Room & Resources reservation on before and after update....Not enough notes taken on this one. If I get the chance, I will see if there are any posting on this from Lotusphere Online
• When pasting graphics directly in Notes, Notes by default uses a format that stores the graphics in a large format. To override this functionality an ini variable was given to change the default behavior. I believe the mentioned variable was IMAGEPASTESIZE= 1 will use a GIF size for pasting.
• A requested default change on Paste action to "Paste Special" to address the issue of copying HTML instead of simple text
• Request to have MySQL available as a direct version, as it is only available through ODBC which is apparently too slow
• Version 8 will correct the issue of multi-monitors having the properties box get stuck to one monitor
• IBM is looking at integrating more SAP scenarios. Currently only have HR, time sheets available, will look at others. A suggestion from developer to address having the finance module available.
• A question regarding the relationship of Domino.doc to QuickR. There would be no migration necessary as both would be supported.
• A 7.03 release addresses a bug when searching the log file. The search was taking too long and should be addressed in this release.
• Todo's will be better integrated with R8, not as part of current design update, but soon after. The designers of R8 concentrated heavily on mail, contacts, & calendar

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