This document discusses various tips and tricks for getting the most out of the IBM Notes client, including navigation shortcuts, copying data as a table, quick find and search features, full text searching, managing searches via policies, and extending functionality through widgets, plugins, and XPages integration. It provides an overview of live text recognition and regex testing capabilities, as well as how to share custom widgets and plugins.

1. Embracing the Power of the Notes
Client

2. Paul Withers
• XPages Developer since 2009
• Notes Client user since 1998
• IBM Champion
• Author of XPages Extension
Library
• Notes cheat sheets

3. New vs “Old”

4. New vs “Old”

5. The Danger of Assumptions
Powerful functionality is only good
if you know how to use it

6. View Navigation
• Next unread – F4
• Previous unread – Shift + F4
• Next selected – F4
• Previous selected – Shift + F4
• Ctrl + open view
• Jumps to selected document in the new
view

7. Copy As Table
• Say you want to export details of all
threads Frank Adams has been involved in
• Select in By Author View
• Ctrl + switch to All Documents view
• Use F3 / Shift + F3 to navigate selected
document
• Select others in thread
• Edit > Copy As > Table and paste
• Some external tools retain Notes links

8. Quick Find
• Starts With… and Find boxes merged
• Starts with for specific sorted column
• Find in Any Column
• Composite Application has richer
experience

9. Quick Search
• “Simple Search” in MastHead
• Search in current view
• If database has a ($All) view
users can also search whole
database
• IBM Notes 9.0 adds “Always
Show in Search List”
• NOTE: Blocked if My Widgets
panel restricted

10. Full Text Searching
• Full Text Indexes on Local Replicas can be
enforced via Desktop policy

11. Full Text Searching
• Help page “How can I refine a search
query using operators” explains syntax
• Alternatively enforce “Use Notes (not Web)
query syntax in the view search bar”
• Preferences > Miscellaneous
• Searches can be saved and shared
• Designer access
• Refreshed from template

12. When Searches Go Wrong…

13. New Message

14. Why the Search Bar

15. Discover

16. Manage via Desktop Policy

17. Extending Details
• Stored in com.ibm.notes.gettingstarted
• Tips in startedpageContent.properties

18. Live Text
• Works in any Text or Rich Text field
• Recognizer uses regex to identify specific
content
• Content Type determines what to do with
whole or partial elements
• Widget determines an action to take on the
recognised text
• Regex cheatsheets on web
http://www.cheatography.com/davechild/cheatsheets/regular-expressions/

19. Regex Build Helper

20. Regex Testing

21. Live Text
• Go to document in view
• Go to web page
• E.g. add to “&startKey=” URL

22. Sharing Widgets
• Publish to widget catalog
• Allow manual download or provision with
Desktop policy

23. Sharing Plugins
• Import into Update Site database
• Create extension.xml
• id must be unique
• Map url to Update Site database

24. XPages Interacting With Notes Client
• New with IBM Notes 9
• XSP.executeCommand(string
javaMethod, Object params)
• Plugin extends IExtendedCommands

25. In Action

26. Thank You
• Paul Withers
• pwithers@intec.co.uk
• http://www.intec.co.uk/blog
• @paulswithers