Note Some features require an Domino™ 8 server -- you will not be able to see them if your home server is a Domino 7 server.

User Interface (UI)

Contacts

Calendar and Scheduling

Mail

Search

Other

User Interface (UI)

• Better single log-on integration. For more information, see Synchronizing your Windows NT/2000 password with your Notes password.
• Name change from "Welcome Page" to "Home Page."
• Terminology change from "database" to "application."
• Print tab labels when printing a tabbed table; or print each tab of tabbed tables independently.
• Additional table "Undo" operations.
• Multi-level Undo.
• For advanced users, a set of advanced menus that are targeted for administrators or designers, and include options such as archiving or deleting applications,
• Usability improvements in the Open Application dialog and on the Replication page.
• An enhancement to support URL lengths greater than 250 characters.
• Improved options for Network Failover/Network Awareness.
• Creating a local replica is simpler, and the Replication page has been redesigned.
• See your spelling errors as you type.

Contacts

The former Notes and Domino Personal Address Book is now called Contacts; functionality that was previously included in your Personal Address Book is now included in your Contacts. New features available with Contacts include:

• Ability to include a photograph of the contact in the contact record.
• Improvements to the Contact, Group, and Preview forms, and to the Preferences UI. For more information, see Creating a new contact entry, Creating a group entry, and Setting preferences in Contacts.
• Ability to view contacts By Company
• Deleted contact records are held in Trash for a specified period of time before they are permanently deleted.
• Ability to delegate access to Contacts to another user.

• Unaccepted calendar entries display as "ghosted" entries in the Calendar view for new meeting and reschedule notices. This feature is turned off by default; users must enable this feature in the Calendar Preferences.
• Entries with short durations, for example 1 minute, display in time slot views with a duration of 15 minutes, to allow the user to see more information about the appointment. This feature is turned on by default.
• Calendar form UI improvements.
• Users can locate free time for a subset of their Invitee list.
• Canceled meetings can be displayed automatically in the calendar or removed outright. This feature is turned off by default; users must enable this feature in the Calendar Preferences.
• All Day events now display in the full day rather then just in the top area.

Mail

• An improved Mail form, with easier-to-access menu bar choices, requiring fewer "clicks" to perform desired actions.
• Simplified Mail preferences.
• Updated and additional Letterhead choices.
• User settings to display additional information when composing or opening mail (From, Sent By, Send Options).
• Improved Out of Office dialog with new features, such as specifying hours.
• Message Recall capability.

Search

• Improved Search syntax allows for web-style queries of application content.

• You can create you own personal Web logs (blogs) from within Notes, using the Blog (dominoblog.ntf) template. You add content to the blog using either Notes or a Web browser.
• If you attempt to save a document in an application on a server and the server is not available, the document is saved to another available server, and a message displays giving you this information.

See Also

Getting started

Glossary