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Domino is a platform that is easy to build databases and applications. Should there be tools or examples available in Domino IQ?
It will provide companies with a more convenient way to apply AI in practice, such as applying existing data in the Domino database to AI, or adding fields when adding form design as a reference for AI classification (analysis).
Provide AI application templates for various types of business applications (HR, regulations, ERP) to strengthen the company itself
🧬 Human/AI Hybrid Functionality — Beyond Mail
Domino’s superpower has always been its application and database architecture. Imagine this core being upgraded with AI-native features that partner with human users across workflows, decisions, and insights. I'm in the OpenAI beta that does all this already in other fields.
Some expanded use cases:
🗃️ AI-Enhanced Domino Databases
AI as a field-level advisor
Within complex forms, AI suggests inputs, validates logic, or auto-completes data from context.
Semantic search across Notes documents
Search not just by field names or keywords, but by meaning: “show me high-risk project assessments”.
Contextual auto-summaries in views
Every Notes document gets a dynamic summary line or AI-generated title visible in the view.
Pattern detection in unstructured data
Flag anomalies, trends, or gaps across entries, including historical datasets.
Auto-tagging and classification
Based on content, AI labels entries by type, risk, urgency, or department.
🧑🤝🧑 Human/AI Collaboration Layer
AI as a shared agent in workflow apps
Each team can have a “cognitive teammate” that tracks decisions, notes contradictions, and flags ambiguity.
Multi-user reflective summaries
After multiple users edit a document or pass through a workflow, generate a meta-summary: who did what, why, and what’s unresolved.
Long-term memory agent
Revive institutional memory by querying the AI for “what did we do last time we faced a similar issue?”
possibility to perform AI search after similar or related documents as the current document, could be contracts, orders, tasks, etc So AI should make judgement of what and how strong the relation is.
Verse Email suggestions and writing.
-Query AI with input from field A and return a value to a field B... or fields in a database
Let AI generate meeting notes / summary from a SameTime meeting. Send it to the organizer for approval to distribute to the participants.
We very need to be able to qualify and separate sensitive data from other data to share only this non-sensitive data with the AI.
This should be policy driven.
By this Domino would have much better opportunities as i.e. Mi***ft Cloud solutions in regulated companies or government infrastructures, who should not connect their sensitive data to any Cloud-AI.
As an external web user coming into our portal:
From the list of Document Databases that I can access...
Provide me with a list of rules for condition X (We develop rules for payment systems)
Summarize the minutes for the past 3 meetings of Group Y
Obtain the statistics for XYZ (Statistics are frequently uploaded as Excel Attachments in Document Libraries - or they are submitted directly to Domino databases).
As a Domino admin
Check over my domino server and give me a prioritized list of recommendations to improve security.
Go through Log.nsf and perform a health check - is there anything that needs to be addressed?
Go through Domlog.nsf and create a statistics report for the dates X/X/XX to Y/Y/YY.
Our server experienced a DDOS (or other) attack between Date X and Y. Go through the server logs and other facilities and check if everything is okay.
What is the state of our databases? Do any need to be compacted/fixed? Do they need ODS upgrades? Can you do this for me?
Mail is not routing. Can you please check our mail settings.
The http service is not working, can you check what is wrong.
What is the quality of our SSL? Is the chain okay? Is there something that needs to be fixed - and if so what and how?
Give me a list of users who have not logged onto the system in the last 12 months.
Write an agent to go through this database Server/Org Folder\DBName.nsf and for every Form = "XYZ" with the field "CreateDate" < 2020 change the field "Status" to Archived.
How are our Server programs doing. Should we be adjusting the times to prevent clashes?
Comment on idea DOMINO-I-2012: Analyse at least log.nsf in real time and predict server problems.
Use Domino IQ to establish workflows that you can either develop with an existing HCL DS tool or give to a developer for completion
Record a Sametime Meeting and distribute notes to attendees with the chair's approval -- internal AI is better than third-party for companies
Setup email automated response based on criteria -- existing auto-reply agents are unreliable and counter-intuitive (opened a few tickets over the years and gave up)
Load all of the standard Domino documentation plus online technotes to permit queries
Summarize all of the attachments in an email or DB document
Use certain criteria to select a DB document set and generate a new document or create a report
Run through version history on a document and present all the differences/changes, color coded with a key
Administrators to audit reporting and log analysis across the domain - which of my <n> hundred servers have more than three errors in the log in the last five hours;
Scan outgoing email for certain security criteria (e.g. no SSN numbers); usually caught with a firewall and a good backup; more efficient to scan it before it leaves the server or user's local mail.box file
Use AI to write pseudo code or actual code (option) given an algorithm and problem to solve (Take feed from server x and sort descending then display in report format through VoltMX Go displayed on iPhone N phones
Use AI to assist Swiftfile.
Apply AI also to the Designer Help. Nowadays I often visit an AI site to find for code and an explanation how to use it. Since there are a lack of development courses it makes it hard to find educated people. AI can help to get developers onboard with Domino. Also the Designer help search is very strict. 1 typo and you get no hits. Perhaps AI is les forgiving. Another pain with designer help is that you almost need to know what to search for. A simple question "how do I extract all attachments from a HCL Notes document with help of LotusScript" gives me a descriptive explanation what the steps are and it provides me example code. Designer Help nowadays would think I am stupid if I asked that question. From the AI answer you could point to the actual documentation as in the current help. So place AI in front of the current Help documentation. Would be awesome if you would made this AI also available on the online product documentation on your website.
Very good. Processing information in-house alleviates most of GDPR concerns.
1) Extract information from emails.
2) Extract information from documents.
3) In-house PDF processing (OCR and extract information, check validity)
4) Pre-write responses to emails.
I hope this is not restricted to Notes data? Notes design elements are equally interesting. Autocomplete code, check code on memory leaks, apply documentation for code, scan code for vulnerabilities.
We NEED OpenAI in our Notes/Domino environment. It's ridiculous that we have to copy and paste over ChatGPT documents whe we could be doing the queries and storing the responses in Notes. HCL should have been on top of this months ago.
Translate email on fly; and summarize the content.. answer with appropriate automatically... language support. Analize attachments...
It would be nice to have it in the domino designer too.
To improve code or help to write new code.
Additionally the possibility to use it for better searches in the domino databases.
The option to run locally, externally (openai, azure, google or perhaps another domino server) or not at all must be an option. So we don't get a huge java application or something starting up on the Domino server that increases the server specs with alot.
Remember also to implement so we can use this with custom application development in lotusscript, java, ssjs and perhaps @formula
I would love to see easy to understand developer interfaces for Things not really out of the box:
Example 1: Lets say, someone (Lisa) finds a Mail from someone (Marcus) in her inbox, and is wondering what she had done with his mails in historry ... (how many ended in Junk right away when read for the first time, how many went to folders (which ones? + a Menu to do move the current one to the same folder?) how many did lead to other Actions for Lisa (Maybe how many triggered a Ticket or an Invoice written, which Colleges are the ones involved to solve things last time, did something escalte or everything run smooth …)
Example 2: Lets say someone wants to have a simplyfied Page of Information of the Sender from the web (What is the Company of the senders Domain offering, is the Sender mentioned on this companies Website, which other Websites the sender can be found (and a way to configgure where to look - and where not to look) what are the senders skills according to his/her Profile in Xing or elsewhere. (I might want to look at hobbies, too, someone else not)
- This was ment more to show where this might lead if you enable us, than in what actuall requrements there are-
Example 3 (a Personal one) Maybe to big a tool for this, but: A design Synopsis that is not running into Memory issues all the time - and to put the AI in this on Top: Allow me to search e.g. for a Field Name, and get highlighted whereiever it is used (Forms, views, @Formular, the varius was it an be done in Lotusscript …)
(Of course I could have chosen to search instead for only a list of the Forms with an available Postopen Event or something - and clicking on one of the Resultlist would open the form in designer).
Search in documents and responses etc.