Lotus Neophyte

Today, a client asked how to apply a quick rule he created to the mails already
existing in his email box.

In outlook or outlook express, it is relatively easy to do in both software.


As found in http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-10878-0.html?forumID=12&threadID=133570&messageID=3129254
This Outlook functionality is not included in Lotus Notes 6. As page 100 of the Dummies Guide states, a rule can't be applied retrospectively to email already received. 

Is this functionality available in Lotus Notes 8?   If not, is there an open source script somewhere that we can use to for this functionality. 

I remember a while back (6-7 years ago) that one of the things that bugged an IT Manager concerning Lotus Notes was that it didn't have a message recall function. If this functionality is not available, would this be one of those things that bug a Lotus Notes Power user or former Exchange User?

In response to: Debugging frustrations

Thanks Miguel for the Full Access Adminstrator tip! The 1st option was something I was thinking of trying, though I wish I didn't have to. :)

One of the things I do when I'm debugging an error that occurs only to 1 client is use the client's data. 

With the permission of the client, I'd back up their database and restore it to a test machine and then go through the steps of recreating the error.  This is difficult to do in Lotus or rather I'm having a difficult time doing this if the document is to be clicked via a view.  The document is not viewable in the new test machine since I'm using a user with different domain and user credentials.   I know this is due to the security built in to Lotus. 

Is there a technique I should be using to make it easier on myself? 

[edited] Just read something that might help me  ...  http://www.wissel.net/blog/d6plinks/SHWL-7P66BZ

As easily seen by my blog title, I declare myself to be a Lotus Neophyte, a collaboration and work flow challenged person, a dabbler in web based applications and a fetus in java programming.
So I beg your pardon as I ask the most infantile Lotus questions:

Infantile Question #1:  Why would having the current date (Today's Date) as filter to a notes view cause the view to have refresh issues?  What is the best workaround to lessen/avoid the problem?

Here is the scenario:
  We have an application which records the scheduled  meetings per salesmen in Notes documents.  Our client requested that she has a view that shows only the current date's scheduled meetings per salesman and another view to show the future scheduled meetings per salesman.

The view:
    Salesman
       Company
           Company Category
              Month + Year
                  Date       Purpose of meeting      Time of Meeting         Contact Person               Designation            Address
 
I have been told that this view will be quite slow as the number of document increases since the view will need to be refreshed all the time. Every click of the user will result in a refresh.

Disclaimer:  In my recent former life, I coded in Foxpro, SQL. Played around in Crystal Reports, Excel VBA, VB.net and C#.  In the not so distant past, I earned a living as an IT Manager and Freelance programmer.   As a fan of a unnamed show, I maintain a small fanfiction site using Efiction.