Comments on: Extending Notes 8

By: Chris Pepin

Chris Pepin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:23:53 +0000

Very slick. I know another group inside IBM that uses an LDAP group with subgroups for similar functionality.

By: Peyton McManus

Peyton McManus — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:10:05 +0000

Very cool app. It’s a buddy list, flipped on it’s head, to dynamically represent online experts. Slick
BTW, it would be difficult to do this in an Outlook addin…I’ve built a few

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:29:03 +0000

Thanks for the info Carl. You are right of course… some clever folks have written Sametime add-ons for Outlook, and some other clever people are working on a Quickr Connector for Outlook. So I acknowledge the fact that this should be possible in Outlook too.

By: Carl Tyler

Carl Tyler — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:15:26 +0000

OK tell me why you say this “Nice one Chris. Try doing this with Outlook.”

This is totally possible with Outlook. Seriously, to remain credible you can’t just throw that out there, you need to make sure what you’re saying is true. Now if you said, try doing that with Outlook in Java then you’d be telling the truth.

You should really investigate the add-ins that are available for Outlook, some of them are very clever have IM awareness, hook into SAP, SQL, DB2 etc. Outlook may not be considered “Open” because it isn’t Java, but it actually has lots of published hooks available for 3rd parties to use, and sorry to tell you this, many of those hooks are much easier for 3rd parties to use than those in the Notes client.

I love Notes, use notes, but you need to understand Outlook capabilities better to really be able to take on Outlook advocates.

By: Steve Cogan

Steve Cogan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:09:47 +0000

Excellent! For the record, I’m often ‘available’ (sounds desperate doesn’t it?!) rather than on ‘DND’ in Sametime

By: Ed Brill

Ed Brill — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:19:26 +0000

nice one, Daz and Chris! Would be interesting to see how this could be tied into something like Bluepages — surf to other parts of the organization coordinated around a customer.

By: Stuart McIntyre

Stuart McIntyre — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:56:25 +0000

Very very cool, Darren…

You can guess the next step, right! Wouldn’t it just be fabulous to let us UK partners have access to that!