Blog, published August 30, 2022 by Justin Hill

Notes 12.0.1, Danube and beyond

If you work with Domino, you work with HCL Notes a lot, so let’s explore what’s new with it and what is yet to come with the drop of HCL Domino Danube.

What’s New In V12.0

Search Center

HCL Notes v12.0 brings a new and improved Search Center. You get a search history to quickly execute a previous search and you are also able to quickly search on recently used Notes applications.

HCL Notes interface with search results for "90". Menu includes options like "What's New" and "All Mail". Blue and white theme with visible search suggestions.

The “Search this view” section has also been improved. You are now able to search on people and subjects faster. Also, ShowSearchThisViewTypeahead=0 will disable the dropdown.

Two search interface windows with filters like Date, Author, and more. Text includes "Search in View 'Inbox'" and "From: Rahul Saxena."

Alternate From

With HCL Notes V12.0 you have the option of selecting alternate from in Mail-In database.

Email interface showing a "Select From" window with user options. Blue highlighted selection and "OK" button visible. Neutral tone.

Workspace

The Workspace got an upgrade in HCL Notes V12.0.

Desktop interface with icons in circular patterns on a blue gradient background. Text includes "Workspace" and various mail and folder labels.

Improved Import

The Import tool has some improvements of its own.

Excel files with embedded charts can be imported with no fidelity loss
Word documents with embedded charts imported with good fidelity
PowerPoint slides imported with high fidelity

Bar chart shows dosas, bread, sweets quantities; pie chart shows oranges, mangoes, apples. Blue, yellow, purple colors used.

Install Improvements

Apart from these changes that come in handy, HCL has included some Install improvements to HCL Notes V12.0.

Three sections with white text on blue icons illustrating dictionaries, install process, and storage efficiency. Descriptive text alongside.

Performance Improvements

Icons and text on blue backgrounds highlight network performance improvements on Windows and Mac, with a focus on slow networks.

What’s new in HCL Notes V12.0.1

Resizable Advanced Property Dialog

Resizable scrolling list
Able to quickly search on properties
Ability to export the list
Ability to compare properties from two different documents

Document properties window showing fields like file names, sizes, and metadata on a white background. Includes a "Close" button and "panagenda" logo.

Policy For JVM Parameters

A new desktop policy to modify JVM settings
Preserves customizations on upgrades
Example Notes.ini:
– WCT_vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx512m
– WCT_vmarg.Xmca…
– WCT_vmarg.Xms…

Online Meeting Integration

Dynamic Meeting Services

By default, five different services are offered for online meeting integration
For Sametime Meetings, this ini needs to be set DOMI_ST_ROOTURL=.
The latest 12.0.1 mail template is available here .

Mail Template Fixes

Text with error messages and solutions for IBM Notes, showcasing various language templates and highlighted "Error loading USE or USELSX" alert.

Workspace Icon Support

Laptop screen displaying various app icons; labels indicate "64 x 64 icons for chicklets support" and "Older 32 x 32 icons still show through."

What’s Next in HCL Notes Danube

Online Meetings – Improvements

Allows delegates to setup online meetings with all the services like Webex, Zoom, Teams, Sametime and GoTo Meetings
Robust support for Repeat meetings with online meetings
Integrates dial-in numbers and passwords automatically from the services

Email settings window with options to grant mail access. Choices include Everyone, specific person, and access levels like Mail, Calendar.

64-bit Client Support

64-bit Notes Standard and All Client kits will be supported from Danube onwards
Apart from English, 9 other languages (Group 1) will be supported. Full language kits as well as MUI kits will be released for these Group 1 languages
32-bit kits will be also made available as before and no changes of support for 32-bit client kits are planned

ODS Upgrade

Automatically upgrade all NSF dbs in the data folder to the latest default ODS version of Danube client (55)
This will upgrade them unconditionally by default regardless of other INIs enabled.
The above behavior can be turned off through setting NSF_AlwaysUpgradeODS=0
This will provide faster performance for the client and still be compatible to older versions on the server

Workspace

Workspace screen of HCL Notes displaying various database icons with labels. Sidebar on left, login section on right; blue and white theme.

General Improvements

Improved support for Chinese/Japanese Fonts (automatic recognition of unsupported characters in the font)
Accelerator to deselect all (ctrl-shift-a to deselect)
Improved support for HTML rendering (out-of-box improvements by default) \
“Invite Others” now supports external invitees
Override preference for default mail signature
Prompt free SAML upgrade (no dialogs when upgraded for SAML)
Policy setting for default font (MailEditorFontAsDefault=fontname,fontsize)
Policy to disable GroupByDate (GroupByDate = 0 disables the feature)
MS Edge support for embedded browser in Basic.

If you are new in your journey with HCL Notes and require assistance, just drop us a line and we are more than happy to help.

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