Notes 8.5: look at someone else’s personal Contacts 

Notes 8.5 contains so many gems that you come across almost by accident.  How about the ability to look at someone else's personal contacts?  

Do this by, first, opening your own personal contacts (ah, and be connected to a Domino domain, too.  This one isn't good Offline).

Look on the right menu pane for Other Contacts, and expand that entry:
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Click Open Other Contacts, and you get a standard Notes selection dialog for address book entries.  Select a colleague, and wait a few moments, and with some luck, you'll see their contacts.  These come from their mail database on the server, courtesy of the fact that iNotes synchronises contacts between your personal contacst and your mail file, which of course, gets them on to the server and potentially available to others.  Neat, eh?

Here's how what you, and your co-workers need to do to make this work for you:

  • via the Mail Preferences Access and Delegation tab, ensure that you all allow other people to see your contacts; you can do that via the ACL -default- entry, as shown below, or by named people and/or groups:
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  • In your Contacts database, set up that it synchronises your contacts between your personal address book and your mail: See Contacts Preferences:
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  • Optionally, you can add other people's names to the Open Other Contacts list, via the Contacts Preferences, down at the bottom.. If you do that, you get this effect in the left menu pane of your Contacts:
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Mick Moignard February 18th, 2009 10:18:38 AM