NotesBook: your Lotus Notes or iNotes Notebook (Journal) for iPhone or iPad
(Lotus Traveler does not sync the Notebook/Journal)
Support
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About NotesBook
Lotus Notes and iNotes include a personal Notebook (also known as "Journal"), where you can store all kinds of personal information like notes, passwords or interesting links. But if you're an iPhone or iPad user, you have the problem that Lotus Traveler does not sync this notebook to your iPhone or iPad. The NotesBook App does exactly that.
With NotesBook, you have the content of your Lotus Notes or iNotes Notebook with you on your iPhone or iPad. It works offline, and you can even create new entries.
Usage
Open the App, enter your name and password for Domino, the hostname of Domino and the path to your iNotes mailfile, Lotus Notes Notebook (on the Domino server) or your roaming path.
After that, the content of your personal Lotus Notes or iNotes Notebook (Journal) will be downloaded and is then available on the iPhone or iPad, even when you're offline.
What you need to make sure
- You have to be an iNotes or Lotus Notes user.
- If you are a Lotus Notes user, your personal Notebook (Journal) needs to be replicated to the Domino server. If you are a roaming user, this should be already the case.
In any case, you need to know the path to the notebook file or the roaming user path.
- The Domino server needs to be accessible via Web (http or https), and you need to know it's hostname.
- Domino and Lotus Notes should be version 8 or higher (older Domino versions may work, but are not tested).
Please ask your administrator if you are unsure about these details.
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Sitting in the office versus being on the road
It's perfectly fine if the Domino server is reachable from your office network only when your iPhone or iPad is able to connect to the same network via Wifi.
But that also means that you can synchronize your Lotus Notes Notebook only if you are in the office.
If you want to synchronize while being away from the office, the Domino server needs to be reachable from the public internet or VPN.
Troubleshooting and FAQ
- You get a error message about failed login or wrong URL.
Doublecheck that your username, password, hostname and roaming path are correct in this App's settings.
A hostname looks like 'domino.acme.com', and the roaming path should look like 'roaming/jdoe', 'roaming/doe' or 'roaming/john.doe'.
Hint: you can find the path in the "roaming" tab of your person document in the Domino Directory, too.
- The download progress bar get's stuck.
This can happen due to network issues. Restart the app and try again.
- Sometimes the App starts synchronizing automatically, sometimes not.
The App starts a synchronization automatically if more than 24h passed since the last restart of the App.
- I have images and attachments in my notes, but they don't display on the iPhone.
Indeed, images and files are not support yet. But we're working on it.
- I'm using sections, in the App some of them are expanded and visible, others are not.
Currently the first 10 sections are expanded automatically while the content is downloaded. Unfortunately at this moment there is no solution for expanding all sections automatically, so you can either restrict yourself to use 10 sections at the most or you set your sections to auto-expand.
- My Notebook contains more than 1000 entries and I'm missing entries in the iOS App.
Please ask your Domino administrator to increase the value of the "Maximum lines per view page" field in the web site document or server document.
- NotesBook downloads data, but only displays "loading...".
Please make sure that your journal/notebook database uses the standard columns in the "All Entries" view: icon, subject, entry date, category, modified date, attachment icon.
Known Issues
Images and attachments are not visible yet. It is planned to allow images and attachments to be downloaded to the device.
Planned improvements for coming versions
- Support for images and attachments.
- Password protection for the App.
- Availability for Android.
Support
If you have questions or issues, please check support.youatnotes.com/support!
Technical Information
Unfortunately Lotus Travler does not sync the personal Lotus Notes Notebook/Journal, so we decided to build an App for that.
NotesBook was developed using the YouAtNotes Domino To Go Framework, which is based on Titanium.
Titanium provides a simple to use, JavaScript based environment for developing native Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. YouAtNotes Domino To Go delivers ready-to-use components for synchronizing Domino data and makes Titanium development even easier.
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