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Administrator Documentation
Welcome to the HCL Verse Administrator Documentation.
Customizing the user experience
There are many ways to customize the experience for your HCL Verse users.
Enabling Verse Contacts
HCL Verse 3.0 introduces the ability for users to create and manage contacts from Verse.

Administrator Documentation
Welcome to the HCL Verse Administrator Documentation.
- Overview
  HCL Verse™ is an email and business messaging experience that is based on an innovative user-centric design, including social analytics and advanced search capabilities. Verse helps users quickly find and focus on what content is most important, empowering them to build stronger working relationships while optimizing business results.
- Accessibility features
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- System requirements
  See the Verse System Requirements on the HCL Customer Support site.
- Installing and configuring
  To install and configure HCL Verse™ on a Domino® mail server, complete the following steps.
- Configuring a proxy to provide high-availablity
  You can configure a proxy for HCL Verse to distribute requests across Domino servers to provide high-availability.
- Completing optional post-installation steps
  There are some optional post-inatllation steps to consider.
- Integrating with other products
  You can integrate HCL Verse with HCL Sametime, HCL Connections, or Box.
- Customizing the user experience
  There are many ways to customize the experience for your HCL Verse users.
  - Enabling users to add photos of themselves
    You can allow users to add photos of themselves through Domino, Connections, or the Gravatar service.
  - Enabling user names to display in Notes format
    You can choose to display names in Notes format, for example, Lucia Hernandez/Baldwin.
  - Reverting to the earlier calendar event design
    Use the notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_168=0 on the Domino server to disable the new calendar event design and revert to the earlier event design.
  - Enabling QR codes for joining online meetings
    Add the notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_209=1 to the server notes.ini file to allow users to use QR codes to join online meetings.
  - Enabling integration of forwarding addresses
    When a person has a forwarding address – used to deliver mail to an external address – the person's forwarding address and primary directory address can both be shown.
  - Controlling the concurrent iCalendar imports allowed
    Use the server notes.ini setting VOP_ConCurr_Upload_iCal to control the number of iCalendars that can be imported concurrently into users' Verse calendars. By default, 30 concurrent imports are allowed.
  - Enabling Verse Contacts
    HCL Verse 3.0 introduces the ability for users to create and manage contacts from Verse.
  - Enabling finding availability when scheduling a meeting
    HCL Verse 3.0 allow users to find availability of invitees when scheduling a meeting using the new Find a time option.
- notes.ini settings
  For a complete list of notes.ini settings available to use in Verse, see the Support article https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0077185.
- Uninstalling
  If you need to uninstall Verse™ application files, simply stop the Domino server, remove the Verse .jar files, and then restart the Domino server.

Enabling Verse Contacts

HCL Verse 3.0 introduces the ability for users to create and manage contacts from Verse.

Procedure

To enable this feature, add the following notes.ini setting on a Domino server that runs Verse:

VOP_GK_FEATURE_201=1

If this setting is not enabled, users can click People > Mail Contacts to continue to manage contacts through HCL iNotes.