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Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to

By : Barry Max Rosen
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Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to

By: Barry Max Rosen

Overview of this book

<p>IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 is more than just an email client. It is a powerful collaboration tool that has been around for over 20 years. Moving from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes has never been easy, but this book will allow you to quickly master new features as well as techniques to become a power user.<br /><br />Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to covers best practices, hints, tips, and tricks of Lotus Notes. As a user, you will find this book to be an invaluable reference for the 8.5.3 Lotus Notes client. This book covers the new features in detail so that you will be able to take advantage of them.<br /><br />Instant IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 How-to covers best practices, hints, tips, and tricks of Lotus Notes.</p> <p><br />We start with customizing the client experience, and move to mastering the inbox. Calendaring and scheduling as well as to dos are also covered. Next you will learn how to effectively manage your contacts. The integrated Sametime client, as well as setting up RSS feeds, is discussed. The powerful new social widgets are explored and explained. Finally there is a section specifically for users who are new to Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and are coming from Microsoft Outlook.</p> <p><br />You will learn everything you always wanted to know and more about the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Adding feeds (Advanced)


Using the built-in RSS feeder, you can add RSS feeds to your IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client.

Getting ready

All of this will be done in your sidebar, which you will access via your IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3 client.

How to do it...

You will start in your client preferences and then use your sidebar RSS feed reader.

The Lotus Notes feed reader can be found in the sidebar panel to display and manage your feed subscriptions. Use the Feeds preferences dialog box for Feeds to specify default values for the Feeds sidebar panel feature. Use any of the following options to change the defaults of your Feeds:

If the feed requires authentication, you will be prompted to authenticate.

How it works...

You can subscribe to feeds using the built-in feed reader. Feed subscriptions notify you of new web content without requiring you to actively check for it. Feeds provide an alternative to mail list subscriptions sent to your e-mail Inbox.

There's more...

You can add feeds and manage them from your sidebar.

Adding feeds

Adding feeds is quite simple. Just click on the Add Feed button.

Managing feeds

To update your feeds content, click on the Refresh All Feeds toolbar button. The Settings toolbar button enables you to display your feeds list in one of the three ways. Click on Settings, and click on either Show Feeds as List to display all individual feed entries listed alphabetically, Show Feeds Grouped to display only the parent feed names with all child feeds grouped hierarchically below their feed source, or Manage Feeds to allow double-clicking of a feed to open the Manage Feeds dialog box.