IdeaJam(tm) feed for Carl Rizzo

Domino Designer / : Allow users to sort within categories of a view.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:30:43 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Tags: sorting category
Idea:

A view might be sorted by date or by model. The user finds the model they are looking for and then would like that category sorted by serial number or date or customer name, but only for that model.

re: Allow users to sort within categories of a view.

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:13:33 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Comment: I am not sure if this is something that could be implemented within the model we have for views. Views work using pre-built indices. A sort within a category must be defined in advance so the index can be built. There is no mechanism to build an index on the fly. I would not suggest we redefine the way views work just to handle this one scenario. I would design a view that has a secondary sort on the column you mention.

re: Allow users to sort within categories of a view.

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:36:19 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: Thanks for the reply Peter. I thought this might be difficult for Notes. In Excel the user can sort by a column and then choose the next sorted column and so on. My users want to be able to do the same thing. As a developer it is difficult for me to please everyone without creating 10 or 15 or more views. I use the click on header to sort often and even that can really confuse users for some reason. Maybe a bigger visual clue than just the colored in up arrow would help. I think I can use the seconday sort feature more often than I do and it will help, but ussrs that are more used to excel find it easy to critisize a view that just looks like a spreadsheet to them and they want to know why it can't behave like one. Thank again Peter. This idea jam thing is awsome.

re: Allow users to sort within categories of a view.

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:03:04 +0000

Author: Johannes Madsen
Comment: This would be extremely useful when a single category of a view is embedded

Domino Designer / : Impliment a stronger visual indication when a column has been clicked on to sort by that column

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:18:20 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Tags: sorting views columns
Idea:

I get a few calls every now in then when a user has clicked on the header of a sortable column and they do not know why their type ahead search is not working. They also don't know what happened to any catagorized column. They might have even clicked on the column in a prevoius session. Maybe changing the color of the column or the header when that column is sorted or some indication in the area where the catagorized column is fot how to get it back? I just think the colored in up or down arrow is not enough. Thank you.

Notes Client / Mail: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:39 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Tags: mail hotmail gmail
Idea:

I use hotmail for my personal mail and I would like to be able to retrieve my hotmail mail with my Lotus Notes client. If this is already possible I do apologize, but I don't think that it is. I would think that a lot of users either have a hotmail or gmail personal account. Thank you.

re: Impliment a stronger visual indication when a column has been clicked on to sort by that column

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:38:36 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Comment: I agree. At the view level we should have similar options as we have with outline entries and be able to change the text font and background color. I would prefer to see the ability to associate CSS styles.

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:01:25 +0000

Author: Keith Brooks
Comment: Carl, you could do this for years, decades in fact.
What exactly are you asking?
set up a pop or imap connection document and let it know which file to download to.
You need to know the pop address and your login/pword and that's it.

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:15:28 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: Thanks Kieth,

I have set up pop mail before witout a problem, but I do not know how that would work for hotmail.

Do I pick HTTP or POP in the account set-up page?

Would I use www.hotmail.com for the server name?

Thanks

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Author: Keith Brooks
Comment: start here:
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Then google more specifics on hotmail which is now called Windowslive hotmail it seems.
Also if you are NOT in the US, it might not work.

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:44:15 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: Thanks Kieth,

I appreciate the information!

Domino Designer / : I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:53:13 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Tags: View field
Idea:

This would be extremely useful when I am creating a view with many fields. Especially when that view is specifically used for importing data. Thank You.

re: I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:29:30 +0000

Author: Paul Davies
Comment: yes - this would be useful for importing and debugging

re: I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:57:58 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Comment: Yes it would be useful but I am not sure how often I would use it. A feature such as this would simply be so far down on my priority list.

re: I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:13:12 +0000

Author: Bruce Lill
Comment: Would it pull just the fields on the form or on the documents using that form?
I would have to agree with Peter, too low in pirority to consider. I don't think I have ever had or wanted more then 4-5 columns in a view anyway.

re: I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:47:52 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: I do see how you might think it not too important, but I run into this all the time.

The first thing you want to do after you create a form is usually create a view for the docs created with that form. I would rather be able to pick a form than a default view to base my new view off of. I just completed an ROI Db where I imported most of the data. I had five forms with about 20 fields each. I need each column in the view so I can see that the data was imported correctly.

The other scenario that I run into is I am adding a field to a view and it is a Db with many forms. I have many forms in some DB's that go back to before I was the developer, so I can't always remember the name of each field. I have to go and open the form where the field is to see what the name was so I can add it to the view.

Thanks

re: I would love it if while creating a view I could select a form and have notes create a view with all of the fields in that form.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:52:40 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: Oh and Bruce - I would put just the fields on the form. Maybe I would just catogorize the list of fields by forms that are already listed in designer.

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:07:56 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: I set it up today and it worked great. Thanks Kieth.

re: Allow me to use Lotus Notes Mail with my hotmail or gmail account.

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:03 +0000

Author: Carl Rizzo
Comment: Status changed to Withdrawn

re: Impliment a stronger visual indication when a column has been clicked on to sort by that column

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:24:49 +0000

Author: Hynek Kobelka
Comment: Agree. And a simliar idea is here: { Link }