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Notes applications
An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create "discussion applications," where employees can post responses to particular topics.
Advanced Notes applications topics
More advanced Notes applications tasks include determining which applications to back up, how to use XPages applications with Notes, and creating a subscription to an application.
Subscribing to Notes applications
Subscriptions allow you to receive real-time updated information from your favorite HCL Notes® applications. A subscription is a results document that displays the information you choose to monitor in a specified Notes application. For example, you have a New Mail subscription set up in Headlines that, when enabled, notifies you when you have new mail.

Notes applications
An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create "discussion applications," where employees can post responses to particular topics.
- Getting started with Notes applications
  An HCL Notes® application contains information about a particular area of interest, such as the forms and policy documents for a department, or it might contain documents of a similar type, such as email messages. In addition, some companies create discussion applications, where employees can post responses to particular topics.
- Notes applications quick reference
  This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes applications, which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
- Advanced Notes applications topics
  More advanced Notes applications tasks include determining which applications to back up, how to use XPages applications with Notes, and creating a subscription to an application.
  - Which Notes files should be backed up?
    You may want to back up and later restore particular HCL Notes® applications and files.
  - How do I use XPage applications in Notes?
    You can run XPage applications in HCL Notes®.
  - Subscribing to Notes applications
    Subscriptions allow you to receive real-time updated information from your favorite HCL Notes® applications. A subscription is a results document that displays the information you choose to monitor in a specified Notes application. For example, you have a New Mail subscription set up in Headlines that, when enabled, notifies you when you have new mail.
    - How can I create a subscription for a Notes application?
      You can create subscriptions to your Notes applications.
    - How can I update an old subscription?
      To update older subscriptions, such as headline.nsf, follow this procedure.
    - How can I display subscription results on my Home Page?
      Show your subscription results on your Home Page.
    - How can I set up subscription information?
      Configuration information for your subscriptions is detailed here.
  - Domino Restyle for Notes applications
    The Restyle application function is available for users with Designer access.

Subscribing to Notes applications

Subscriptions allow you to receive real-time updated information from your favorite HCL Notes® applications. A subscription is a results document that displays the information you choose to monitor in a specified Notes® application. For example, you have a New Mail subscription set up in Headlines that, when enabled, notifies you when you have new mail.

About this task

Subscription forms are created and stored in Headlines (headline.nsf), which is automatically created from the template headline.ntf. Headline.nsf is located in your Notes/data directory. If you do not see the Headlines bookmark in your Favorites folder, click File > Open > Notes Application and open headline.nsf from your Notes/data directory.

Notes® checks for subscription results based on the interval as you set for Check for new mail every preference (Mail > Sending and Receiving preferences). If you do not use subscriptions, use the steps below to make sure they are disabled to optimize the performance of Notes®.

Note: To subscribe to a particular application, the server that the application resides on must support subscriptions and allow headline monitoring.

You can create a subscription, update an old subscription, display application subscription results on your Home Page, and set up subscription information.