Features

NoteMan Toolbar is for Lotus professionals of all types. Anyone who does development, administration, analysis & testing, consulting, help desk, and data entry will save time with NoteMan. Most Lotus professionals will find most NoteMan features useful. Some roles will use certain features more than others. Below are some features categorized by the role that would tend to make the most use of them.

Developers, Consultants

    • Change any field value on any document or selection of documents in 5 clicks with no agents and no design changes!
    • Add, remove, rename, re-type any field on any document
    • See when each field was last modified on a document
    • See all readers/authors for a document in one place
    • Test a formula on a document, useful for testing lookup and view selection formulas
    • Change a document's UNID
    • Find any document by NoteID, UNID, formula
    • Find any Notes website document by its URL
    • Change the name of an attachment in place, useful for web development
    • Compare documents side by side
    • See a sortable "view" of all profile documents for editing, deleting, opening
    • Find the last few documents you edited without creating a view
    • Unhide and hide database designs
    • Sign a database without launching Admin Client
    • Sign all elements modified after a certain date
    • Copy or move more than the Notes maximum of 2335 documents at once
    • "Clean" any or all design elements to remove $UpdatedBy values
    • Make an unhidden design copy of a server database
    • Add/remove design elements on a design-hidden database
    • See a master list of design elements, sortable by modified date, author, size, and other attributes
    • Globally find and change "Prohibit design refresh..." and template name attributes
    • Copy, paste, and delete design elements of multiple types in a single action
    • "Edit-in-view" design element names and aliases
    • Export document(s) or entire database to XML

Administrators, help desk staff

    • Change any field value on any document or selection of documents in 5 clicks with no agents and no design changes!
    • Add, remove, rename, re-type any field on any document
    • See when each field was last modified on a document
    • See all readers/authors for a document in one place
    • Change a database's Replica ID
    • See and sort a view of all deletion stubs, remove all or individually
    • Change a document's UNID to fix replication issues
    • Export an ACL to an XML file
    • Import an ACL with merge/overwrite/append logic, great for company-standard ACL entries in production
    • Compare two ACLs side by side
    • Find any document by NoteID (e.g. from server log.nsf messages), UNID, formula
    • Compare documents side by side and across databases, e.g., Server and Person docs
    • Find all conflicts in a database
    • See differences between conflicts, swap winner and loser, and merge conflicts field by field
    • See a sortable view of design elements to see who changed what when
    • Unhide and hide database designs
    • Sign a database without launching Admin Client
    • Copy or move more than the Notes maximum of 2335 documents at once
    • See a view of all design elements by when they were last modified and by whom
    • Globally find and change "Prohibit design refresh..." and template name attributes

System Analysts, quality assurance engineers

    • Change any field value on any document or selection of documents in 5 clicks with no agents and no design changes!
    • Add, remove, rename, re-type any field on any document
    • See when each field was last modified on a document
    • See all readers/authors for a document in one place
    • Find any Notes website document by its URL
    • Export an ACL to an XML file
    • Import an ACL with merge/overwrite/append logic, great for setting up test environments
    • Compare two ACLs side by side
    • See a sortable "view" of all profile documents for editing, deleting, opening
    • Find the last few documents you edited without creating a view
    • Compare documents side by side and across databases
    • Find all conflicts in a database
    • See differences between conflicts, swap winner and loser, and merge conflicts field by field
    • See a sortable view of design elements to see who changed what when
    • Copy or move more than the Notes maximum of 2335 documents at once
    • See a view of all design elements by when they were last modified and by whom

Data entry, application owners, power users

    • Change any field value on any document or selection of documents in 5 clicks with no agents and no design changes!
    • Add, remove, rename, re-type any field on any document
    • See when each field was last modified on a document
    • See all readers/authors for a document in one place
    • Find any Notes website document by its URL
    • Find the last few documents you edited without creating a view
    • Compare documents side by side and across databases, e.g., Server and Person docs
    • Copy or move more than the Notes maximum of 2335 documents at once