Subscription forms are created and stored in Headlines (headline.nsf), which is automatically created from the template headline.ntf. Headline.nsf is located in your Notes/data directory. If you do not see the Headlines bookmark in your Favorites folder, click File > Open > Lotus Notes Application and open headline.nsf from your Notes/data directory.

Notes checks for subscription results twice as often as it checks for new mail. For example, if you set your preferences to check for mail every four minutes, Notes checks for application subscription results every two minutes. If you do not use subscriptions, use the steps below to make sure they are disabled to optimize the performance of Notes.

Note To subscribe to a particular application, the server that the application resides on must support subscriptions and allow headline monitoring.

Click any of these topics:

• To enable subscription checking
• To create a subscription for a Notes application
• To update an old subscription
• To display application subscription results on your Home Page
• Setting up subscription information

1. Open the Notes application to which you want to subscribe.

2. Click Create > Subscription.

3. Subscription forms can vary for each application; specify the required information, and then click OK.

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To update an old subscription

If you have an old headline.nsf, you can update it in these ways:

• Delete headline.nsf and it will be recreated with the new template information.
• Change the archiving on headline.nsf to purge every 2 days instead of 365.
• Disable the New Mail subscription in the headline.nsf file.
• Manually purge the subscription results by right-clicking New Mail results on the Subscription outline and then clicking Remove.

To display subscription results on your Home Page

You can set subscriptions to display results right on your Home Page.

1. From your Home Page, click the text Click here for Home Page options, then click the Create a new Home Page button.

2. Use the Home Page wizard to set up your Home Page. When choosing what you would like on your Home Page, select to have frames, and then select Subscriptions for a frame content.

Note You can also check your subscription results in Headlines (headline.nsf).

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To set up subscription information

1. Open Headlines (headline.nsf), and click Subscription options.

2. Select the subscription you want to set up and do any of the following:

Task	Action
Edit a subscription	Click Edit
Enable or disable a specified subscription	Click Enable/Disabled
Set how long to keep results	Click Global Subscription Results Expiration and then select one: Keep results forever Automatically discard after, and then enter the number of days

Tip If you have subscription results set up on your Home page, you can also edit subscription information there by clicking Customize in the Subscriptions frame.

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