User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes
Documentation updates
Notes Client Help
Lotus Notes
No context help for programmer pane in Notes client
When creating a button that is a hotspot, a programmer's pane opens in the Notes client. There is no
context-sensitive help (F1, or clicking the Help button) in this pane.
For help with Designer commands or formulas, or for more information about creating a button, see the
IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help. To download or view Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help, go to Lotus
Documentation on the Web.
Lotus Notes
Web Style Query
The new default for view searches is "web style" syntax, meaning that if the user searches several words,
the documents returned contain those words, but not necessarily in order. This is a change from the
current Notes syntax; to search exact terms, quotation marks are now needed.
In effect, the AND operator will be placed between all query terms, including those terms using operators
such as NOT, ACCRUE, etc. If the user types AND or OR (or the symbol equivalents) between two
words, it will not be added.
Commas continue to mean ACCRUE, and will be left in the web query.
If an operator is given in lowercase (accrue, matchinglevel, exactcase, topic, etc.), it will become quoted
to find the actual term instead of using it as an operator. Operators must be in all uppercase in order to
apply properly.
The exception to this rule is the "common word" operators such as AND, OR, and NOT. They do not
have to be in uppercase. Please note that NOT, however, is not an operator, so if the word NOT, in any
case, precedes a word without a needed operator, AND will be added, for instance (lotus not ibm) =>
(lotus and not ibm).
Wildcards (* ?) will be passed through to a web query.
Finally, the symbols + and - will mean AND and NOT, respectively.
To turn off web-style query and use the old Notes query syntax, you can set the following Notes.INI
parameter:
UseFTSyntaxOnly=1
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