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re: A 'My Ideas' link once you have logged in to IdeaJam

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:25:32 +0000

Author: Melissa Snell
Comment: Status changed to Withdrawn

re: A 'My Ideas' link once you have logged in to IdeaJam

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:04:50 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Also Melissa if this is in fact what you were looking for can you please mark your idea as "Withdrawn". Thanks.

re: A 'My Ideas' link once you have logged in to IdeaJam

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:45:30 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Melissa,

Try this:

1) Login to IdeaJam
2) Click on the "My Profile" link at the top of the page
3) There you can see links to your Ideas, Comments and Votes.

Bruce

re: Less cryptic errormessages

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:24:51 +0000

Author: Tripp Black
Comment: A user is going to go into debug mode? Even if true, that's not viable.

Yes, the error message should start out with contact your administrator and give them this bla-bla-bla coded message.

In addition, there should be two things that need to happen for that IBM help link:
1. It would be nice if somebody at IBM would load some database so that clicking that button would actually return the error in "plain english" with the cause if known. A great feature, where the final touches have not been delivered. (Yes, I know, standard for Lotus Notes, the far superior product where the finishing trim has never been "completed".)

2. Ability to turn off this button for admins, you just want their users to contact them. This is especially true, since clicking the button is rarely helpful.

This issue is not the button, per say. This issue is that we cannot turn off the button or leverage the button to solve anything yet.

re: Open Source the Domino Product Line

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:17:53 +0000

Author: Tripp Black
Comment: I'm a huge fan of open-source. If Lotus Notes/Domino didn't exist, we'd be exclusively running Postfix and PHP and JSP based code.

Why we don't is simple- Applications.

It could be released as open-source, but the risks of "holes" as other put it in the code, in the expertise, in the ramp-up time, loss of "knowledge", all are scary.

IBM has a great Foundations product. However, it needs another point release to fix such things as Domino's HTTP (80 and 443) not being available on the parts with Domino included. It makes having your "default" web site being Notes almost impossible if you are using a SSL key on 443. However, the Foundations admin GUI overall is very good. Installing the Domino package was also easy.

We already have the Express offering. It's only missing one thing - a supported free server O/S. I'd love to see IBM officially certify CentOS and Ubuntu. CentOS is the same thing as RedHat ESx anyway. Ubuntu has support, too. Then the actual purchase price is just the user CALs. I've yet to see a commercial targeting the <100 user company showing them they can have almost all the features at a price that is FAR less than an MS SBS Server w/Outlook/Exchange/SharePoint.

Basically, the product is already fine. From my perspective, keep the pricing and offering simple, just make it available with options that SMBs would like to see. Basically, there should also be small SMB bundles where they get a Foundations like install where the Ubuntu or CentOS server is added directly to "iron", distributed as a VM, or even as an appliance.

re: Resources reservations : add refreshments (coffee,...) when you book a meeting room

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:58:15 +0000

Author: Tripp Black
Comment: I have to agree more w/#1, you give someone ownership of the food/coffee and include it in the reservation, the food/coffee resource includes notification. This is similar to reserving projectors really. The overhead of the 2nd reservation document is less critical. There are generally 2nds and 3rds anyway for things like projectors and other equipment. (I've seen companies reserving white boards ands the flip sheet boards.)

re: Replication - Deafult Replication Server Issue

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:53:28 +0000

Author: Tripp Black
Comment: I have only seen the "force" server not work a couple times. It seems to work for us quite well. What I see more often is where users fail to second replica (cluster) but once that icon is on top in the workspace, it doesn't always go back next replication.

I like the policy concept, I just don't see a really good "open" way of doing it that would not tick half of us off, on how it got implemented. For mail, you can use the "administrative server" field in the ACL. For distributed applications, that's no good. You really want to spread out the users for a mixture of load and server proximity to the user. It's almost never a consistent thing.

re: Move attachments to the top of the email message

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:47:55 +0000

Author: Tripp Black
Comment: Like #11, we often use the context for attachments in-line when doing internal mail to say "this one below". In our design business, we have a lot of comparison type of evaluations between PDFs and graphic files.

However, the 8.5 behavior of leaving a tagged line and the attachment(s) at the top is also okay. We have been running a couple 8.5 Mac Betas (yes, in production) since a few weeks after the first one was made limited public. The adjustment was minimal and usability is still fine.

The reply w/history default (w/o attachments leaving a marker) is also quite handy. It allows you to have the context of the attachments w/o leaving the files in them. DAOS should also help with this, too, assuming we decide to deploy it. (We love that each mail file is separate and that issues. We disliked shared mail for that reason and one of the many reasons why we strongly prefer Lotus Notes/Domino over Outlook/Exchange).

re: Improve discoverability of old ideas via a "suggest" feature based on user voting behavior

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:15:01 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: @6 - For our archiving, we allow the administrator to choose the timeframe that inactive ideas can remain visible in the system. In conjunction with Jeff's idea, I think we can get towards something that will work for very large, long term IdeaJam sites like this one.

I should probably also say that a lot of our customers actually run their IdeaJams as short term idea gathering exercises so in those cases a lot of these problems won't arise.

Matt

re: Add a Refresh button to the unvoted view

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:23:08 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Oliver - as @Matt states the XPages version of IdeaJam has a nfity "More..." button which expands out the idea in the view wher e you can then see the whole idea. Good stuff and thanks for the idea.

re: Add a Refresh button to the unvoted view

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:36:55 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: Oliver,

In our upcoming XPages version of IdeaJam the unvoted functionality should meet your requirements I believe. WE just need to wait for the server to be released and for us to finish off testing ;-)

Matt

re: Make Truncated documents more obvious

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:09:51 +0000

Author: Paul Davies
Comment: I do this manually on library type databases with an inline warning inc a hotspot for the wonderfully named @Command([EditUntruncate]) (why not [RetriveEntireDocument] like the menu command???)

re: Ensure the keynote speaker is somebody famous 'worldwide'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:14:39 +0000

Author: Oliver Regelmann
Comment: I vote for Paris Hilton!!!!!

re: Allow Admin to Enable OOO Agent/Service for users

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:12:18 +0000

Author: Oliver Regelmann
Comment: This is solved in version 8, isn't it? With editor access admins can open a database and enable OoO service.

re: Create a Notes-Mail-Client only

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:16:28 +0000

Author: Oliver Regelmann
Comment: I'd vote for this if it included PIM data like calendar and tasks. But not strictly mail only, there are too much clients for that already.

re: Full access on Quickr with Notes Client instead just a rudimental connector

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:57:08 +0000

Author: Oliver Regelmann
Comment: Yes. This is totally a showstopper for our own usage of Quickr. Having to switch between Notes and Browser is not the way to go if you want to work heavily in both worlds.

re: Domino Search as Google Search

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:08:42 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: @Guilherme - Do you want to mark this idea as complete?

re: Idea Spotlight

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:07:04 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: @2 - You're right, that's why we settled on the "What's Hot" feature to allow you keep an eye on what other people are voting on.

If you click the What's Hot label, you can also go and look at ideas that are hot today, were hot yesterday, for the last 7 days or last 28 days as well.

re: Improve discoverability of old ideas via a "suggest" feature based on user voting behavior

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:52:59 +0000

Author: Rob Goudvis
Comment: @5 - when becomes an idea inactive? When there are no comments added? Or when no votes are added?

But what with ideas that were entered a long time ago? Do new users bother to vote on them?

When I started reading IdeaJam (Nov 2008) I entered an idea about remembering the position of some popup-screens in the Notes6/7 designer. I got 38 votes; the last by June 9, 2008. There were 25 promotions and no demotions. But there must be more than 38 developers reading this forum. So my idea is that the timeframe where an idea is hot or being read is very limited.

re: Improve discoverability of old ideas via a "suggest" feature based on user voting behavior

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:41:15 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: @4 - We are working on these items...

"- a "better" way to walk through the ideas, but I really do not have any practical suggestion for this"

In the upcoming XPages version of IdeaJam you will be able to read the full idea details from the views, thus not needing to open the idea itself as often, this should allow you to get through ideas a lot quicker

"- feedback by IBM on the ideas; I suppose IBM reads the ideas, but what will be done with them?"

We do know that lots of influential IBM-ers read IdeaJam on a daily basis and there are several ideas which have been submitted that are being addressed in the upcoming 8.5 release. We are continuing to try and get more official involvement on the site, but any help from you guys is appreciated, especially at Lotusphere in a couple of weeks ;-)

"I am not sure if IdeaJam can fulfill its promise. There are so many ideas entered, that it looks not very practical to handle them at all. On the other hand, we do not want to be limited to enter a new idea. I hope that IBM uses this forum to get some feedback on their products and learn what is hot for their users."

As I said, we know IBM-ers do read the site daily. We are also adding new features in the upcoming release to rationalize the number of ideas in the system using our new Archiving Rules feature. Ideas that have been inactive for a long time will get moved out of the live area, hopefully bringing those ideas that are getting interest from people to become more visible.

Also, we really like Jeff's idea, and are working out ways that it can be implemented at the moment.

Thanks for all the continuing interest, we definitely are seeing results.

Matt