A Lotus Notes database is a single file that contains multiple documents called notes. Notes include design notes (such as forms, views, folders, navigators, outlines, pages, framesets, agents, and resources), data document notes, profile document notes, access control list notes, and collection (index) notes. KeyView can extract text items, attachments, and OLE objects from data document notes only. Data document notes include emails, journal entries, discussion threads, documents (Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite), and so on.
All components of a note are prefixed by field names such as "SendTo:
", "Subject:
", and "Body:
". When a note is extracted, the field names are not included in the extracted output; only the field values are extracted.
When a mail message in an NSF file is extracted to disk, the body text and header information (such as the values from the SendTo
, From
, and DeliveredDate
fields) in each message is extracted to a text file. (If you do not want the header information to appear in the message text file, see Exclude Metadata from the Extracted Text File.)
NOTE: The Lotus Notes Database (NSF) reader is an advanced feature and is sold and licensed separately. To enable this reader in a KeyView SDK, you must obtain the appropriate license key from Micro Focus. See Update License Information for information on adding a new license key to an existing installation.
The NSF format is proprietary. Therefore, KeyView accesses NSF files indirectly by using the Lotus Notes API. Because the NSF reader relies on functionality in Lotus Notes, a Lotus Notes client or Lotus Domino server must be installed and configured on the same machine as the application
KeyView supports the following Lotus Notes clients and Domino servers:
Lotus Notes 6.5.1
Lotus Domino 6.5.1
KeyView supports NSF files on the same platforms supported by Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino:
Windows XP x86 (Service Pack 1 and 2)
Windows 2000 x86 (Service Pack 2)
Solaris 8.0 and 9.0 (built on Solaris 8.0)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 (x86)
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9 (x86)
IBM AIX 5.1, 5L version 5.2
Before KeyView can
Install the Lotus Notes client or Lotus Domino server. You do not need to configure the client or server.
Make sure that the notes.ini
file is in the proper location.
If Lotus Notes is installed, the file should appear in the install
\lotus\notes
directory, where install
is the installation directory.
If only Lotus Domino is installed, the file should appear in the install
\lotus\domino
directory, where install
is the installation directory.
If the file does not exist, create an ASCII file named notes.ini
, and add the following text:
[Notes]
Add the KeyView bin
directory and the install
\lotus\notes
or install
\lotus\domino
directory to the PATH
environment variable (the KeyView bin
directory must be first in the path). Micro Focus recommends that you add the KeyView bin
directory because the Lotus Notes or Domino server installation might contain older KeyView OEM libraries.
Install Lotus Domino server. You do not need to configure the server.
Make sure that the notes.ini
file is in the install
/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa
directory, where install
is the directory where Lotus Notes is installed. If the file does not exist, create an ASCII file named notes.ini
, and add the following text:
[Notes]
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa
directory to the PATH
environment variable:
setenv PATH install
/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa:$PATH
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa
and the KeyView bin
directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATHkeyview_bin
:install
/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa:$LD_LIBARY_PATH
where keyview_bin
is the location of the KeyView bin
directory. Micro Focus recommends that you add the KeyView bin
directory because the Lotus Notes installation might contain older KeyView OEM libraries.
Install the bos.iocp.rte
file set if it is not already installed, and reboot the machine. See the Lotus Domino server documentation for more information.
Install Lotus Domino server. You do not need to configure the server.
Make sure that the notes.ini
file is in the install
/lotus/notes/latest/ibmpow
directory, where install
is the directory where Lotus Notes is installed. If the file does not exist, create an ASCII file named notes.ini
, and add the following text:
[Notes]
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/ibmpow
directory to the PATH
environment variable:
setenv PATH install
/lotus/notes/latest/ibmpow:$PATH
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/ibmpow
and the KeyView bin
directory to the LIBPATH
environment variable:
setenv LIBPATHkeyview_bin
:install
/lotus/notes/latest/ibmpow:$LIBPATH
where keyview_bin
is the location of the KeyView bin
directory. Micro Focus recommends that you add the KeyView bin
directory because the Lotus Notes installation might contain older KeyView OEM libraries.
Install Lotus Domino server. You do not need to configure the server.
Make sure that the notes.ini
file is in the install
/lotus/notes/latest/linux
directory, where install
is the directory where Lotus Notes is installed. If the file does not exist, create an ASCII file named notes.ini
, and add the following text:
[Notes]
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/linux
directory to the PATH
environment variable:
setenv PATH install
/lotus/notes/latest/linux:$PATH
Add the install
/lotus/notes/latest/linux
and the KeyView bin
directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATHkeyview_bin
:install
/lotus/notes/latest/linux:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
where keyview_bin
is the location of the KeyView bin
directory. Micro Focus recommends that you add the KeyView bin
directory because the Lotus Notes installation might contain older KeyView OEM libraries.
KeyView enables you to specify a user ID file and password to use to open a secured NSF file for extraction.
The KeyView NSF reader uses XML templates to format note subfiles. You can customize the templates to approximate the look and feel of the original notes as closely as possible. For more information, see Extract and Format Lotus Notes Subfiles.
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