Notes 5.0 (R5): Advanced Features

Students will learn about additional and advanced features available in Notes 5.0.

Prerequisites

Notes 5.0: Database Features and Notes 5.0: Mail Features, or equivalent knowledge.

Target Student

Students enrolling in this course should understand basic Notes, mail, and Internet concepts.

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Use search features to locate Notes users, Notes databases, Internet email addresses, and Web sites.
Create programmed tables and tables with special transition effects.
Enable the automatic spell checking feature, add signatures to every outgoing email message, use the Notes Minder application to check for new mail while Notes is not running, import holidays into their calendar, and use archive settings to create a mail archive database and an archive log database.
Change the Home page and create new Welcome page styles, display SmartIcons, and use the Workspace to organize databases.
Create a new database from a template, embed information in a document, import a text file into a Notes view, and export a Notes view to a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet file.
Create a private view; create a personal folder; create a bookmark folder; and create, test, run, and schedule an agent.

Delivery Method

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course duration

1 Day(s)

Course outline

Lesson 1: Searching with Notes

Locating people and databases in Notes
Internet searching and adding Search Sites
Setting up the Page Minder feature

Lesson 2: Advanced tables

Using animated tables
Using programmed tables

Lesson 3: Advanced mail features

Using Notes Minder
Using auto spell check and signatures
Importing holidays
Archiving mail

Lesson 4: Home pages

Changing and creating Welcome page styles
Using the Workspace and displaying SmartIcons
Changing your Home page

Lesson 5: Creating new databases and importing data

Creating a new document library database
Embedding information in Notes documents
Importing text files into Notes views
Exporting documents and views

Lesson 6: Creating views, folders, and agents

Creating private views
Creating personal folders
Creating bookmark folders
Creating agents

Hardware/software Requirements

An IBM-compatible PC with an 80486 processor or higher (Pentium processor is recommended), and 150 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space; a local area network (LAN) adapter that works with any network operating system that supports Notes; a minimum of 16 MB of Random Access Memory (RAM); direct access to the Internet; a VGA or SVGA video monitor; and a Windows-compatible mouse. Printers are not required, although you will need an installed printer driver.

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