What options are available for customizing the basic Notes® client?

Empty trash on application close (if not emptied at a timed interval)

Controls how often the Trash folder in applications other than Mail is emptied. Use the Mail preference (Basics tab) to control emptying the Trash in Mail.

AutoSave every x minutes

Automatically saves documents you are working on to a local encrypted application so that you can recover your work if there is a power outage or system crash. When you send/save or discard a document, it is removed from the local application.

Local application folder

Your Notes® data directory (Macintosh OS X users, Data folder) contains local applications, local application templates, your bookmark.nsf file, and Country Language Services (.cls) files, which contain information Notes® uses to sort documents and import files.

Check subscriptions

You use subscriptions to receive real-time updated information from your favorite HCL Notes® applications. You must enable subscription checking for the subscription feature to work.

Scan for unread

Triggers automatic scanning of your startup Notes® application for unread documents and the display of those documents when you start Notes®.

Enable scheduled local agents

Runs scheduled agents when you start Notes®. An examples of a task you might create a scheduled agent for is moving certain documents to a folder.

Default Fonts

You can change which serif, sans serif, monospaced, and multilingual fonts are used by default in new Notes® documents.

Empty trash on application close (if not emptied at a timed interval)

Controls how often the Trash folder in applications other than Mail is emptied. Use the Mail preference (Basics tab) to control emptying the Trash in Mail.

AutoSave every x minutes

Automatically saves documents you are working on to a local encrypted application so that you can recover your work if there is a power outage or system crash. When you send/save or discard a document, it is removed from the local application.

Save window state on exit

Each time you close Notes®, saves whatever window tabs you happen to have open for the next session. If you want to see a specific set of window tabs every time you use Notes®, use File > Save Window State instead.

Local application folder

Your Notes® data directory (Macintosh OS X users, Data folder) contains local applications, local application templates, your bookmark.nsf file, and Country Language Services (.cls) files, which contain information Notes® uses to sort documents and import files.

Check subscriptions

You use subscriptions to receive real-time updated information from your favorite HCL Notes® applications. You must enable subscription checking for the subscription feature to work.

Scan for unread

Triggers automatic scanning of your startup Notes® application for unread documents and the display of those documents when you start Notes®.

Enable scheduled local agents

Runs scheduled agents when you start Notes®. An examples of a task you might create a scheduled agent for is moving certain documents to a folder.

Default Fonts

You can change which serif, sans serif, monospaced, and multilingual fonts are used by default in new Notes® documents.

Icon color scheme

Changes the color scheme of the icons on the Bookmark bar. Clicking the System color makes Bookmark icons coordinate with the color settings you select in your operating system control panel.

Bookmark icon size

Changes the size of the icons on the Bookmark bar and within bookmark folders, whether to show icons at all in bookmark folders.

Mark documents read when opened in preview pane

Previewing a document marks it as read.

Make Internet URLs (http://...) Into Hotspots

Changes URLs into clickable hotspots when you save or send the document.

Textured Workspace

Adds textured background to your workspace.

Right double-click closes window

Right double-clicking the mouse button closes the current Notes® window.

Enable Java™ applets

Supports the running of Java™ applets when opening pages in Web browsers.

Enable JavaScript™

Supports the running of JavaScript™ when opening pages in Web browsers.

Enable Java™ access from JavaScript™

Allows you to run LiveConnect from Netscape, if the applet is configured to include the CORBA back-end classes.

Enable JavaScript™ error dialogs

Displays error messages in a dialog box when there is a problem in the JavaScript™, requiring you or whoever is reading the document that contains the applet to dismiss the dialog box. If this option is not selected, JavaScript™ errors appear only in the status bar.

Accept Cookies

Cookies will be used to store URL login data and to let a website know that you have been to that website before.

Process print requests as a background task

Printing occurs in the background so you can continue working while during intensive printing jobs.

Disable View updates as a background task

Views will update in the foreground. Depending on the size of the view, this could interrupt your work.

Retain View column sorting

Applies to Notes® applications that allow you to change the column sorting (by clicking an arrow in a column heading). For example, this is helpful if you always want your mail view sorted with latest messages at the beginning, or your contacts sorted by Business.

Enable MS Office 97 Send to Notes®

Causes all mail Send To commands in Microsoft® Office applications to start Notes® mail and send the file as an attachment in a mail memo. Appears if you have Microsoft™ Office 97, or certain other Microsoft™ applications such as Visual Basic, installed. Not necessary for later releases of Microsoft™ Office.

Use Web palette

Uses the Web color palette (256 colors that most computers can display).

Show extended accelerators

You can use keyboard accelerators (Microsoft™ Windows® ALT+keys) to access on-screen elements such as the window tabs and action bars.

Enable MIME save warning

Notes® will tell you when data you want to send over the Internet cannot be converted to MIME format.

Enable Unicode display

Allows you to see special characters that aren't found on your default keyboard. You may need additional Unicode-based fonts installed on your Microsoft™ Windows™ operating system. Notes® comes with five different Monotype WorldType fonts to install directly from the CD-ROM.

Macintosh users: You can use Unicode, but only using characters from your native character set. English Macintosh systems do not support the use of Unicode.

Launch the CORBA (DIIOP) server on Preview in web browser

Intended for HCL Domino® Designer users who preview their designs through the Notes® client. When a designer previews any element of a Notes® application (.nsf component) in a Web browser, Notes® launches a limited version of the Domino® server to serve the web page resulting from the element. If the element (for example, a Notes® form) contains a Java™ applet created with the Java™ Notes® classes, this setting allows Notes® to launch, in addition, a limited version of a CORBA (DIIOP) server to support the applet's classes.

Standard dialog boxes

You see standard operating system dialog boxes rather than dialog boxes with a custom Notes® appearance.

Strict Date/Time Input

Notes® will not attempt to correct or change the format of values you enter in date or time fields. Keeping this setting enabled ensures greater accuracy in most cases.

Show in-line MIME images as attachments

Images you receive within the text of a MIME message appear as attachments.

Disable embedded browser for MIME mail

Uses your system browser to display MIME mail. This provides better rendering of your mail when compared with the Notes® default browser, but does not provide as accurate printing of the mail header. Use of the system browser might also result in security issues in some cases.

When text language is unspecified use the form's

Applies to multilingual applications: any text of an unspecified language automatically becomes the language specified for the form that was used to create the document.

Invoke Notes® on vCard files

Invokes Notes® when you double-click a vCard (.vcf) file. If Notes® is not running, the double-click will start it and open to the My Contacts view in your Contacts. If Notes® is running, the double-click opens Contacts or switches to its window tab if it's already open. Once in Contacts, the Contacts in the vCard File dialog box opens with the specified file displayed, so you can add contacts from the file to your Contacts.

Use inline autocomplete in the address bar

A URL will be completed as you type characters in the Address box on the toolbar, based on entries you have previously entered. Typing a single letter displays a listing of all your URLs that begin with that letter.

Prompt for location on startup

When you start Notes® you will be prompted for a location.

Use Tab to navigate Read-Only Documents

Lets you use TAB to move from object to object (for example, linked text, hotspots, document links and so on) in a read-only document. However, you can no longer use TAB, while reading a document, to navigate to the next document in the view.

Use Accessibility Keyboard navigation

Disables the up and down arrows and lets you use TAB to move from field to field in a document that is in edit mode. When TAB is a keystroke in a field, such as an editable rich-text field, pressing a directional arrow moves you to the next field.

Enable persistent breakpoints in Script debugger

For Domino® designers who are writing Script in an application. Saves all breakpoints set in Script, thus making them available the next time the script is debugged.

Enable Icon Popup Help in View

Enables popup help when you hover over icons in mail, calendar, and to do views and folders.

Expand Names field contents when printing

When printing memos or Calendar entries, prints the contents of the entire To: or cc: fields, as opposed to the default limit of three lines.

Start Print Preview On Current® Page

Your preview always begins on the current page when you choose print preview.

Use Notes® (not Web) query syntax in the view search bar

Multiple terms in a search query will find documents where those terms appear in the exact order entered in the Search field (as if they were enclosed in quotation marks), rather than find documents that contain those terms regardless of order.

Treat shortcuts as files when selecting in file dialogs

Applies to creating and saving attachments. Shortcut (.lnk) files you select in the Create Attachment dialog box will attach as the full files they reference rather than as shortcuts (links). Shortcuts chosen as the destination location when saving attachments will be treated like full files, in which case the shortcuts are overwritten by the file being saved (rather than the file being saved overwriting the file location that the shortcut points to).

Disable type-ahead for all name fields and use the Notes® Basic type-ahead

When you add a recipient's name in mail, the type-ahead feature you that helps you complete the name will be the one used in Notes® 7 and earlier.

Compress images pasted into documents

Automatically compresses images pasted into documents. Bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes® document are compressed; bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes® document are converted to a .gif or .jpg format.

Do not prompt when marking all documents read or unread

You will not be asked whether you want to proceed when you choose to mark all Notes® documents as read or unread.

Do not prompt when exiting

You will not be asked whether you really want to exit before you close the Notes®, Administrator, or Designer client.

Do not prompt when closing a document with edited attachments

When you close a Notes® document after editing an attachment to that document, you will not be reminded to go back and save the changes to the attachment.

Do not prompt when forwarding a document with edited attachments

When you forward a Notes® document after editing an attachment to that document, you will not be reminded to go back and save the changes to the attachment.

Mark documents read when opened in preview pane

Previewing a document marks it as read.

Make Internet URLs (http://...) Into Hotspots

Changes URLs into clickable hotspots when you save or send the document.

Textured Workspace

Adds textured background to your workspace.

Right double-click closes window

Double-clicking the right mouse button closes the current Notes® window.

Enable Java™ applets

Supports the running of Java™ applets when opening pages in Web browsers.

Enable JavaScript™

Supports the running of JavaScript™ when opening pages in Web browsers.

Enable Java™ access from JavaScript™

Allows you to run LiveConnect from Netscape, if the applet is configured to include the CORBA back-end classes.

Enable JavaScript™ error dialogs

Displays error messages in a dialog box when there is a problem in the JavaScript™, requiring you or whoever is reading the document that contains the applet to dismiss the dialog box. If this option is not selected, JavaScript™ errors appear only in the status bar.

Accept Cookies

Cookies will be used to store URL login data and to let a website know that you have been to that website before.

Process print requests as a background task

Printing occurs in the background so you can continue working while during intensive printing jobs.

Disable View updates as a background task

Views will update in the foreground. Depending on the size of the view, this could interrupt your work.

Retain View column sorting

Applies to Notes® applications that allow you to change the column sorting (by clicking an arrow in a column heading). For example, this is helpful if you always want your mail view sorted with latest messages at the beginning of the list, or your contacts sorted by Business.

To dither images when your system uses 256 colors

When your computer's display is set to a resolution of 256 colors, Notes® improves the appearance of images by dithering them (interpreting groups of pixels so that they can appear smoother).

Enable MS Office 97 Send to Notes®

Causes all mail Send To commands in Microsoft® Office applications to start Notes® mail and send the file as an attachment in a mail memo. Appears if you have Microsoft™ Office 97, or certain other Microsoft™ applications such as Visual Basic, installed. Not necessary for later releases of Microsoft™ Office.

Use Web palette

Uses the Web color palette (256 colors that most computers can display).

Show extended accelerators

You can use keyboard accelerators (Microsoft™ Windows® ALT+keys) to access on-screen elements such as the window tabs and action bars.

Enable MIME save warning

Notes® will tell you when data you want to send over the Internet cannot be converted to MIME format.

Enable Unicode display

Allows you to see special characters that aren't found on your default keyboard. You may need additional Unicode-based fonts installed on your Microsoft™ Windows™ operating system. Notes® comes with five different Monotype WorldType fonts to install directly from the CD-ROM.

Macintosh users: You can use Unicode, but only using characters from your native character set. English Macintosh systems do not support the use of Unicode.

Display Window Menu

The Window menu appears between the Actions and Help menus. Use this menu to switch to any open window, or choose Windows™ to manage your open windows.

Launch the CORBA (DIIOP) server on Preview in web browser

Intended for HCL Domino® Designer users who preview their designs through the Notes® client. When a designer previews any element of a Notes® application (.nsf component) in a Web browser, Notes® launches a limited version of the Domino® server to serve the web page resulting from the element. If the element (for example, a Notes® form) contains a Java™ applet created with the Java™ Notes® classes, this setting allows Notes® to launch, in addition, a limited version of a CORBA (DIIOP) server to support the applet's classes.

Standard dialog boxes

You see standard operating system dialog boxes rather than dialog boxes with a custom Notes® appearance.

Strict Date/Time Input

Notes® will not attempt to correct or change the format of values you enter in date or time fields. Keeping this setting enabled ensures greater accuracy in most cases.

Show in-line MIME images as attachments

Images you receive within the text of a MIME message appear as attachments.

Disable embedded browser for MIME mail

Uses your system browser to display MIME mail. This provides better rendering of your mail when compared with the Notes® default browser, but does not provide as accurate printing of the mail header. Use of the system browser might also result in security issues in come cases.

When text language is unspecified use the form's

Applies to multilingual applications: any text of an unspecified language automatically becomes the language specified for the form that was used to create the document.

Invoke Notes® on vCard files

Invokes Notes® when you double-click a vCard (.vcf) file. If Notes® is not running, the double-click will start it and open to the My Contacts view in your Contacts. If Notes® is running, the double-click opens Contacts or switches to its window tab if it's already open. Once in Contacts, the Contacts in the vCard File dialog box opens with the specified file displayed, so you can add contacts from the file to your Contacts.

Use inline autocomplete in the address bar

A URL will be completed as you type characters in the Address box on the toolbar, based on entries you have previously entered. Typing a single letter displays a listing of all your URLs that begin with that letter.

Prompt for location on startup

When you start Notes® you will be prompted for a location.

Use Tab to navigate Read-Only Documents

Lets you use TAB to move from object to object (for example, linked text, hotspots, document links and so on) in a read-only document. However, you can no longer use TAB, while reading a document, to navigate to the next document in the view.

Use Accessibility Keyboard navigation

Disables the up and down arrows and lets you use TAB to move from field to field in a document that is in edit mode. When TAB is a keystroke in a field, such as an editable rich-text field, pressing a directional arrow moves you to the next field.

Enable persistent breakpoints in Script debugger

For Domino® designers who are writing Script in an application. Saves all breakpoints set in Script, thus making them available the next time the script is debugged.

Use System Color

Sets Notes® user interface colors to match, where possible, colors in the scheme specified using the Microsoft™ Windows™ Control Panel > Display > Appearance menu sequence.

Because the Notes® user interface may actually display more colors than are part of the scheme, schemes other than high contrast schemes may decrease the legibility of elements in Notes®.

Enable Icon Popup Help in View

Enables popup help when you hover over icons in mail, calendar, and to do views and folders.

Expand Names field contents when printing

When printing memos or Calendar entries, prints the contents of the entire To: or cc: fields, as opposed to the default limit of three lines.

Start Print Preview On Current® Page

Your preview always begins on the current page when you choose print preview.

Use Notes® (not Web) query syntax in the view search bar

Multiple terms in a search query will find documents where those terms appear in the exact order entered in the Search field (as if they were enclosed in quotation marks), rather than find documents that contain those terms regardless of order.

Treat shortcuts as files when selecting in file dialogs

Applies to creating and saving attachments. Shortcut (.lnk) files you select in the Create Attachment dialog box will attach as the full files they reference rather than as shortcuts (links). Shortcuts chosen as the destination location when saving attachments will be treated like full files, in which case the shortcuts are overwritten by the file being saved (rather than the file being saved overwriting the file location that the shortcut points to).

Compress images pasted into documents

Automatically compresses images pasted into documents. Bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes® document are compressed; bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes® document are converted to a .gif or .jpg format.

Do not prompt when marking all documents read or unread

You will not be asked whether you want to proceed when you choose to mark all Notes® documents as read or unread.

Do not prompt when closing all currently open window tabs

You will not be asked whether you want to continue when you click the menu command to close all window tabs.

Do not prompt when exiting

You will not be asked whether you really want to exit before you close the Notes®, Administrator, or Designer client.

Do not prompt when closing a document with edited attachments

When you close a Notes® document after editing an attachment to that document, you will not be reminded to go back and save the changes to the attachment.

Do not prompt when forwarding a document with edited attachments

When you forward a Notes® document after editing an attachment to that document, you will not be reminded to go back and save the changes to the attachment.

Automatically lock my Notes® ID after 90 minutes (Notes Basic client users: Logout (and lock Notes® display) if you haven't used Notes® for 90 minutes

Allows Notes® to lock your User ID after a specified time period of inactivity. If you step away from your computer, just make sure that the page you leave up is not sensitive, and be confident that your data is secure.