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    Policy to control "Automatically append a signature to the bottom of your outgoing mail messages" setting for iNotes.

    Please add a policy to control "Append a signature to the bottom of your outgoing mail messages" setting for iNotes (and SmartCloud Notes web). Administrators would like to set users to add the signature of the Notes client to the bottom as defaul...
    almost 7 years ago in Domino / Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Prevent users to access a database that's being copystyle compacted (or make -L switch work)

    For large databases compact can take a while. If users are trying to hit the database it will interrupt the copystyle compact. Preventing the access will make compact process a lot less time-consuming.
    over 5 years ago in Domino / Administration 2 Under Consideration

    Add a Sametime Chat community to the new HCL community

    Add a Sametime Chat community to the new HCL community at this link like we once had with IBM Greenhouse. https://support.hcltechsw.com/community?id=community_home -David Hablewitz
    about 6 years ago in Sametime 0 Under Consideration

    Views with display only the TOP X documents

    It would be great if we could make views, which display only the TOP X documents depending on its sorted columns (similar to the SQL function). The result would be that we could have a fast and small view / view index containing only a limited amo...
    about 6 years ago in Domino 4 Needs Clarification

    Auto shutdown of Domino server when OS reboots

    Currently, a Windows reboot will essentially crash the Domino server. Integrate the Domino service in some way so that it is aware of a pending reboot and does a graceful shutdown. This can be accomplished via a shutdown script to stop the Domino ...
    over 3 years ago in Domino / Administration 2 Already Exists

    Chaining Smart Upgrade kits - Smart Upgrade can be used to upgrade a series of different versions at one time with the same Desktop Policy, HCL should bring this feature back.

    - During IBM period, there was a feature in Notes client called - Smart Upgrade can be used to upgrade a series of different versions at one time with same desktop policy. Example: Upgrade Lotus Notes Client 7.0.2 to version 8.5.2FP2. [https://ww...
    almost 5 years ago in Notes 2 Under Consideration

    Make the order of the columns in data view changable

    Let the developer of an app not only hide columns in data view, but change their order. The sequence of the fields in the form are not necessarily the best order of the columns to find or read the data. And this should be an easy task to do, too.
    over 5 years ago in Leap 1 Future Consideration

    ODBC 64bit driver

    There is a need for a 64bit odbc driver update for Notes/Domino as there is nothing since R9.
    about 2 years ago in Notes 1 Needs Review

    One central reply (agent/rule) e.g. on the router, instead of many scattered reply-to agents

    What is the initial problem: Using some "Simple Agent after new mail has arrived" - "reply to sender" action: The agent gets triggered (again), if the database is replicated (manually) on the same server. And these agents are decentralized. It wou...
    over 5 years ago in Domino / Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to identify forms and views that are not referenced in a database

    Not sure that this is possible, but I'm sure that many Notes users have databases that have forms, views and whatever design elements that are not needed because they are not used. Even if you are pretty sure that a form or view is not used, its h...
    over 5 years ago in Notes 1 No Plans to Implement
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