Lotus Notes Improvements
Hynek Kobelka has 37 improvement request for Lotus Notes, reminded me of some options that I would like for the LotusScript debugger as mentioned before. This even made it to Ed Brill's discussion "If I could add ONE feature to Lotus Notes 7.x, it would be...".
Back to the list of 37, some of the improvements have been discussed by Mary Beth Raven and others so I will not touch on those.
9. Calendar-Alarms get the focus while working in a different application - The alarm window just needs help. Take a look at the other's alarm implementation.
10. Add a "File-Attach" - Button into the Memo-Form - makes sense, why disable the option when you know where it should go.
12. Display in the mail file the current usage of the quota - Yes this would be nice.
13. Give us a "-Cancelled-" Status for Calendar-Entries - The strike through should only be there until I remove it from my calendar. It would be nice to see the meeting is being canceled if I have not looked at my Inbox.
15. Make Type-Ahead a "combobox" - Yes, showing a list is much better.
17. Contacts in the Mail-DB - YES!!!
24. Resorting of a view should be "cleared" once the user closes and reopens a database - I would disagree, I like it when it remembers what I want.
27. Create a function which is only available from a Conflict-Document "COMPARE WITH PARENT" - That would be sweet.
33. Computed View-Column-Titles - Please
Another improvement would be to Implement type ahead for class I create, not just the Domino classes. The next thing on my list would be to redesign the properties box, so here are some thoughts:
- Nothing else that I know uses this concept
- Why does it always change size
- If I position it towards the bottom then I could lose some information when I select another tab
- I do like the floating concept
- Why does Notes not realize that the properties box is position outside of the screen when I am forced to lower my resolutoin, why
- I find my self browsing through the tabs to find something because I can never remember what the icons mean