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Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
Advanced Locations and Accounts topics
Learn to do additional tasks with Location, Account, and Connection documents, such as customizing Location settings, enabling Java applets in Notes, and using HCL Verse to access your Notes mail from the internet.
How can I use Verse® to access Notes® mail using a browser?
If your administrator sets up your HCL Notes® mail to use HCL Verse®, you can read and work with Notes messages using a Web browser in addition to, or instead of, the Notes client software.

What's new in HCL Notes 14.5
Learn about the many new features and enhancements in HCL Notes 14.5.
About HCL Notes
The following topics provide information about HCL Notes.
Elements of Notes®
The HCL Notes® user interface is comprised of views menus, toolbars, navigation panes, and a sidebar that you can use for easy access to some frequently used applications.
Using the Discover page
HCL Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used.
Using the Notes workspace
The HCL Notes® workspace, the legacy user interface for Notes, displays pages containing Notes application icons.
Using bookmarks
Bookmarks are links that point to HCL Notes® applications, views, documents, or Internet elements, such as Web pages and news groups. Bookmark folders organize your bookmarks. They can contain bookmarks or more folders.
Notes views and folders
Views display specific documents with similar criteria. For example, your Mail has an All Documents view that displays every document contained in the mail application, and a Sent view that displays only documents that you sent.
Printing
You print a single document or multiple documents at the same time. You can also print views (lists of documents in an HCL Notes® application) and the framesets found in both Notes and the Web.
Getting Started - Advanced
The topics in this section have been written for more advanced Notes users.
Tasks
The following topics provide details for common tasks in HCL Notes.
Mail
You can send and answer email, create signatures, and customize the look of your Inbox. You can also do things, like cancel an email sent by mistake or set up out of office notifications.
Calendar
You can schedule meetings, manage your schedule, add other calendars, and more.
To Do
You can keep track of what you need to do, and assign tasks to others.
Contacts
You can save information about people, such as title, addresses, birthdays, and more. You can also do things such as create groups to use as mailing lists, or print contacts as labels.
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.
Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Locations and accounts
This topic describes connections to servers, ways to connect to servers, and things you should know before setting up a server connection.
- Getting started with Locations and Accounts
  When connecting to servers, Notes® uses Location documents and Account documents to configure those connections. A Location document contains information that Notes needs, in order to manage your connections whenever you change the way you're connecting to servers; for example, your Home location may use remote access software in your operating system to dial your Internet server, while your Online location assumes that you're connected to a LAN. An Account document contains information, such as user name and password, for an Internet connection such as Internet mail.
- Locations and Accounts quick reference
  This quick reference card is a list of instructions for common tasks and shortcuts for Notes locations and accounts , which you can print and keep at your desk for easy reference.
- Working with Locations, Accounts, and Connections
  You set preferences for your Location, Account, and Connection documents that provide the information needed by components to connect to servers. Preferences enable you to create, edit, or delete certain Location, Account, or Connection documents.
- Advanced Locations and Accounts topics
  Learn to do additional tasks with Location, Account, and Connection documents, such as customizing Location settings, enabling Java applets in Notes, and using HCL Verse to access your Notes mail from the internet.
  - What are the options for editing Connection documents manually?
    In a Connection document, you can click the Advanced tab and specify additional server connection options.
  - How can I customize location settings?
    You can click the Advanced tab in a Location document and customize the location you are editing, for example to use a different User ID from other locations, allow multiple users for Contacts, use different bookmarks or subscriptions, or manage Web retrievals and Java™ applet security differently.
  - How can I enable Java applets in Notes?
    HCL Notes® lets you run Java™ applets -- simple programs added to many Web pages to create interesting effects. To run a Java applet, the Web page's server must access your system, which can present a security problem. You can give access to Java applets on a server-by-server basis. This method of access control works well in a corporate intranet where you want to give open access to internal servers while limiting access to external servers.
  - Sharing a computer with other users
    Notes® multi-user installation and the Notes roaming feature complement each other. If you want to share a computer with other users in your organization, ask your administrator which computers have Notes multi-user installed on them.
  - How do I configure advanced TLS settings?
  - How do I configure advanced web retriever and log settings?
    You can set how many parts of a Web page HCL Notes® retrieves at the same time. For example, you can set Notes to retrieve text, images, and video all at once, instead of one at a time.
  - How can I configure advanced MIME settings?
  - How can I use Verse® to access Notes® mail using a browser?
    If your administrator sets up your HCL Notes® mail to use HCL Verse®, you can read and work with Notes messages using a Web browser in addition to, or instead of, the Notes client software.
Automating tasks using simple agents
You can program Notes® to perform tasks automatically using agents (also known as macros). Agents can help you perform repetitive tasks, such as managing documents and sending memos.
Sharing information with other applications
You can share files and graphics between HCL Notes® and other applications using a number of different techniques.
Notes roaming user
As a Notes® roaming user, you can log in to and use Notes from any computer in your organization on which Notes is installed, and use your personal data while doing so. Your personal data includes many of your Notes preferences and personal information such as your contacts, bookmarks, notebook, feeds subscriptions, and optionally your Notes workspace. Notes widgets also participate in roaming.
Replication
You can create an offline (local) duplicate of any HCL Notes® application you use. Such a duplicate is called a replica.
Search
You can use search to find documents, text in a document, applications, and people. You can also set search preferences for type of search query syntax and scope of search.
Securing your data
HCL Notes® security enables you to protect your workspace and data at all times, so only you and the people you designate have access to your data.
Widgets and Live Text
Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in a document, including mail, using widgets (.XML files) created for their use. Power users and administrators can create and edit widgets, and deploy them to users to engage a Notes® form, view, XPage, document or Composite Application, or third party services such as Web page, feed, or Google Gadget™, or automatically install or update a client plug-in for specific Notes users.
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Notices

How can I use Verse® to access Notes® mail using a browser?

If your administrator sets up your HCL Notes® mail to use HCL Verse®, you can read and work with Notes® messages using a Web browser in addition to, or instead of, the Notes® client software.

About this task

You can use HCL Verse® depending on what browser and software release you have. Ask your administrator to help you choose the correct software. If you use HCL Verse®, you can synchronize your Notes® contact list with your HCL Verse® contact list, as long as you have set up contacts synchronization using Contacts preferences.

To access Notes® mail using HCL Verse

Procedure

Ask your Domino® administrator to make your mail file available for Web browsing, if your organization allows it.
Open your browser.
Enter the URL for your mail file (for example, company.name.com/verse.
Specify your user name and password.