User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes
Three innovative new capabilities in Lotus Notes 8 dramatically increase personal and organizational
productivity:
Composite applications
- Composite applications combine components from multiple applications into
a single, role-based work environment. With support for composite applications, Lotus Notes 8 offers
greater flexibility to organizations seeking to rapidly respond to competitive markets. Combining
multiple technologies into a single application provides significant business value by enabling
companies to protect and extend their existing assets with increasing degrees of flexibility and to
respond quickly and cost-effectively to their emerging business requirements, with applications that
are significantly easier to create than those of alternative application development environments.
Composite applications can be composed of any combination of Notes applications and
Eclipse-based components. When components are interconnected in such a fashion, data that is
changed in one application affects the corresponding data and views in connected
applications/components.
IBM Lotus Productivity Tools
- Lotus Notes 8 comes with a complete set of integrated productivity
tools for creating, editing, and sharing a variety of document types. The productivity tools include IBM
Lotus Documents (word processing), IBM Lotus Spreadsheets, and IBM Lotus Presentations.
Activities
- Lotus Notes 8 is built to provide activity-centric computing, which lets users organize,
navigate, manage, and share information based on specific projects or team activities. Activity-centric
computing organizes tasks and projects by associating multiple types of communications and
resources into a cohesive grouping. Note: The activities server is not provided with this Notes Domino
8 Beta release.
Note: To take full advantage of the Notes 8 Mail and Calendar experience, you need to upgrade to the
Notes 8 Mail template. To take full advantage of composite applications and Activities, see the Installation
notes section of these release notes to learn what server products you need to install.
Besides increasing end-user productivity, these new software innovations in Lotus Notes 8 let developers
combine their existing Lotus Notes applications with line-of-business application components to solve
specific business problems.
More specific information about the new capabilities in Lotus Notes 8 is provided below.
User interface
The Lotus Notes 8 user interface has been re-designed to greatly enhance usability. Some of the
highlights of the new user interface include:
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Consolidated user preferences
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The new Open button provides a drop-down menu with quick access to all your bookmarks and
frequently used applications. You can access the Open button from within any Notes 8 screen.
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The sidebar provides easy access to Sametime Contacts (optional), Feeds, Day At-A-Glance,
and Activities (limited availability in this beta release).
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Intelligent addressing for improved typeahead, based on your collaboration history.
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Lotus Notes 8 supports common keyboard and mouse shortcuts and gestures, including the
selection of multiple messages using the Control key and the left-mouse button.
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The new user interface gives users greater flexibility to view open messages and other
documents in Lotus Notes 8:
Flat tabs
. You can view each item as a tab.
Group tabs. You can view each application as a tab.
New window
. You can open messages and documents in separate windows.
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