Write it on a Rock

Awesome job on that video guys.

And I mean the new revolving doors instead of the old doors that opened to the sides.

I couldn't find anything on the Notes 8 Forums or the Domino 8 Admin Help. I found it in the Domino Admin 8.5 Help but this server is still on 8.0.2. Will I need to upgrade to 8.5 to be able to set it as a policy or am I just not finding the setting it in the 8.0.2 release?

Thanks for any help/links/suggestions!

For the most part, I love the new Designer client in 8.5. I absolutely love the way they changed the Design elements area where you can expand the entire list of forms/views/etc and scroll through them instead of just showing a few and having to scroll through each section individually. I like how you can drag-and-drop the "Eclipse Views" around to change where your information is and especially being able to tab them onto a different area. I love the Perspectives you can customize and the new Working Sets for your applications.

There are a few annoyances I've encountered, one of which I think is due to new mail notification in the status bar, but this is probably the one that bugs me the most.


I'm already missing the font dropdown selection from previous versions. Is there a preference out there that I can set so that it will show 10-15 different choices instead of just five? Yes, I'm aware I can click into the dropdown and press "V" to take me to the Vs or "C" to go to the Cs but I'd still like to see more then five fonts when hitting the dropdown.

I typically run the standard version of Notes but every so often I want to get into Notes quickly and I'll launch nlnotes.exe to get the Basic client as it launches so much faster. Today I opened the Basic client hoping to get in to the Designer Client for a quick change to an application and got this message:

This worked fine in 8.0.2 but I guess the overhaul done to the Designer client won't allow this to run on 8.5. Does anyone know if this functionality (launching Basic Designer from a Standard install) is gone for good?

Anything is subject to change, of course. =)

Sunday
8:00am - 9:30am --> JMP205 Integration of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino with Microsoft Office, .NET, and IBM Lotus Symphony
10:30am - 12:30pm --> JMP203 Getting to Know XPages and the New IBM Lotus Domino Designer
1:30pm - 3:30pm --> JMP102 IBM Lotus Domino Administrator Jumpstart
4:00pm - 6:00pm --> JMP104 The A-Z of IBM Lotus Domino Security Features (R2) (R2)

Monday
11:00am - 12:00pm --> BP402 Best Practices for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0 and 8.5 Client Upgrades
1:00pm - 2:00pm --> BP108 Getting To WOW...Interface First Design for IBM Lotus Notes Developers
2:15pm - 3:15pm --> BP111 Reports, Charts, and Graphs 2.0 (R2) (R2)
3:45pm - 4:45pm --> AD205 XPages: Things You Can't Afford to Miss!
5:00pm - 6:00pm --> AD203 The Lotus Domino Objects: Introduction and What's New (R2) (R2)
 or --> BP304 IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes
 or --> ID201 IBM Lotus Domino: A Look Ahead (R2) (R2)
6:15pm - 7:15pm --> BOF203 Design Best Practices

Tuesday
7:00am - 8:00am --> BOF408 Getting Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes
8:30am - 9:30am --> AD201 IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5: A New Beginning (R2) (R2)
10:00am - 11:00am --> BP306 The Eleven Commandments (R2) (R2)
11:15am - 12:15pm --> ID206 The Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Lotus Domino Administration
1:30pm - 2:30pm --> BP114 IBM Lotus Notes/Domino "Mythbusters" (R2) (R2)
3:00pm - 4:00pm --> BP104 Choosing and Using a JavaScript Toolkit
4:15pm - 5:15pm --> BP215 "The Great Code Giveaway": The Art of the Possible

Wednesday
7:00am - 8:00am --> BOF213 Object-oriented Programming in Lotus Notes and Domino - Present State and Future Directions
8:30am - 9:30am --> AD202 IBM Lotus Domino Designer Editor Extravaganza
10:00am - 11:00am --> AD210 Built to Last: IBM Lotus Domino Development Strategies
11:15am - 12:15pm --> BP211 Managing Your IBM Lotus Domino Clusters
1:30pm - 2:30pm --> ID108 Deploying IBM Lotus Notes 8 on Citrix
3:00pm - 4:00pm --> BP201 Adminblast 2009 (R2) (R2)
4:15pm - 5:15pm --> BP206 Health Check: How's Your IBM Lotus Domino Environment?
5:45pm - 6:45pm --> BOF204 Designers Unite: Developing A Dynamic User Experience in IBM Lotus Notes
 or --> BOF215 The Odd Couple (Admin/Dev) Define Best Practices for Agents

Thursday
8:30am - 9:30am --> BP202 Administration for the Developer: Build and Secure Your Own IBM Lotus Domino Server Playground in an Hour!
10:00am - 11:00am --> AD214 What Every Domino Developer Should Know About Performance