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Lotus Notes

More than welcome to help where I can!

That's right with regard to how it sync's. You can get multiple calendars, full contact search, Sametime etc etc and you are totally in control of when you get up dates so you wouldn't have email bugging you at all hours if you didn't want!

As for pricing, it is a yearly subscription. This is probably different from what you had before as the products were changed last year. I guess your old licence would be out of maintenace now...

I think it is worth a free trial to see how it works out for you. Hope you have a good experience - always good to get feedback but especially from Android users as it is a new platform for us!
 
HollyHayley said:
More than welcome to help where I can!

That's right with regard to how it sync's. You can get multiple calendars, full contact search, Sametime etc etc and you are totally in control of when you get up dates so you wouldn't have email bugging you at all hours if you didn't want!

As for pricing, it is a yearly subscription. This is probably different from what you had before as the products were changed last year. I guess your old licence would be out of maintenace now...

I think it is worth a free trial to see how it works out for you. Hope you have a good experience - always good to get feedback but especially from Android users as it is a new platform for us!
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OK - works for me. I just need to get the Android phone first (probably a couple weeks away yet).

If I wanted to submit feedback that I am interested in a desktop sync solution for Android, where would I do this on your web site?

Thanks,
Jeff
 
I can not find the price for this product on commontime.com. Does anyone know the price and also if a pure desktop solution will be on the market soon?
 
theil01 said:
I can not find the price for this product on commontime.com. Does anyone know the price and also if a pure desktop solution will be on the market soon?
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I found the price by adding mNotes Wireless to my basket, and then looking at my basket to see how much it was. It was $140.

I got another email from a person at Commontime, and they basically said that a desktop sync is not possible at this time (if I understood his explanation correctly). I got the impression that there were technical limitations, and there may not be a desktop sync option...

Hope this helps...
 
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the solution is out of my price range, so I guess I will have to look for another solution to replicate my notes calendar and contacts :(
 
theil01 said:
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the solution is out of my price range, so I guess I will have to look for another solution to replicate my notes calendar and contacts :(
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Do you already have an Android phone? If so, I have seen a product called Companionlink for Google that has a free trial (14 days I think) that is supposed to work with Google. It looks like it is $40.

Once I get an Android Phone, I will try it out...along with the mNotes product.

Sync Palm Desktop, Microsoft Outlook, ACT!, Lotus Notes, GroupWise, and GoldMine with Google and your phone | CompanionLink
 
Unfortunately companienlink will not work for me, since it replicates notes to gmail. We use Lotus Notes at work and ot would be a serious security offense to replicate via an email account on the internet. Therefore I need to be able to replicate directly from my desktop to my phone. My Phone is a private phone, so the replication tool should be installed directly on my laptop and not the company server. Does anyone know such a programme that is freeware/inexpensive?
Thanks
 
I am also looking for a direct sync between lotus notes calendar and the htc hero ... had not found a solution yet

This is what i stumbled upon but also requires the calender to be sync with google ...which poses a corporate security concern
AweSync | Lotus <-> Google Calendar Synchronization Tool

Anyone sees a freeware for lotus notes and android platform sync ... i can only interested in calender sync ... do not need to sync my notes email
 
You can use HTC Sync to synchronise your Lotus Notes contacts and calendar with a HTC Hero, and probably other Android based HTC phones. This came on the Micro SD card included with my Hero or you can download it from HTC - Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Cell Phones, PDAs in the support section.

It creates a calendar named Outlook on your phone, shame it is not called Lotus Notes. This means that you can add entries, such as personal entries, to the default calendar on the phone and they will not synchronise back to your Lotus Notes calendar or you can add entries to the "Outlook" calendar on your phone to have them synchronise back to your Lotus Notes calendar.

If you also want mail then check if your Domino servers are enabled for IMAP4 or POP3 and whether you can access your mail server over the Internet (without a VPN connection) or over a company WiFi network.

What I really want is either a BlackBerry Connect Client or a Lotus Notes Traveler Client with a Lotus Mobile Connect Client for Android.
 
cjscol said:
You can use HTC Sync to synchronise your Lotus Notes contacts and calendar with a HTC Hero, and probably other Android based HTC phones. This came on the Micro SD card included with my Hero or you can download it from HTC - Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Cell Phones, PDAs in the support section.

It creates a calendar named Outlook on your phone, shame it is not called Lotus Notes. This means that you can add entries, such as personal entries, to the default calendar on the phone and they will not synchronise back to your Lotus Notes calendar or you can add entries to the "Outlook" calendar on your phone to have them synchronise back to your Lotus Notes calendar.

If you also want mail then check if your Domino servers are enabled for IMAP4 or POP3 and whether you can access your mail server over the Internet (without a VPN connection) or over a company WiFi network.

What I really want is either a BlackBerry Connect Client or a Lotus Notes Traveler Client with a Lotus Mobile Connect Client for Android.
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Interesting - I won't have an Android phone for about a week...so can't try yet.

I looked on their site for HTC Sync, but it only mentions Outlook in the description. Have you successfully used it with Lotus Notes?

And I wonder if there is some sort of built in hardware check that tests to see if you are installing it on an HTC device...

EDIT: It also syncs over USB, right?
 
Yes I am successfully using HTC Sync to Synchronise my Lotus Notes calendar with my HTC Hero. I am running Lotus Notes 8 client against a mail8 database design. HTC Hero will also synchronise contacts but i don't use that functionality. It will not do email and I can not remember it having an option to do To-Do list or personal journal.

My Lotus Notes client is configured to use a local replica of my mail database and HTC Sync appears to be using this replica as I can still successfully sync when I do not have access to the Domino server. Some synchronisation tools I have used in the past have insisted on using the replica on the Domino server even if the current location document says to use the local replica. There are options to force it to use a specific server and mail file but I just leave it at the default. I think it works if the Lotus Notes client is running or not.

And yes I simply connect the Hero to the computer by USB and either select Synchronise Now on HTC Sync on the computer and select the option on the phone to Synchronse. There are options to get it to automatically synchronise whenever the phone is connected via USB. Would be nice if I could do this over bluetooth but only appears to work via USB.

I guess it will only synchronise with a HTC because there is some software also running on the phone and this software is pre-installed and not available to load on another phone.
 
cjscol said:
I guess it will only synchronise with a HTC because there is some software also running on the phone and this software is pre-installed and not available to load on another phone.
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Dang. That kills that option for me then...

Could have been useful!

Would be nice if Motorola provided a program like this...
 
Does anyone know if the Commontime Mnotes Wireless application relies on a completely separate dataset than the built-in contacts, email and calendar databases? I am looking for someting that allows a single view into everything, versus a need to open the work calendar application and then open up the included calendar app to determine if I'm available.... does that make sense?

This would also give me the ability to change my calendar view and exclude my work calendar or email on the weekend, etc.

Anyone?
 
I have found that loads of Lotus Notes syncing apps for android are very, very expensive!

I'm testing an app called MyLink that can sync your email, calendar, apps etc
 
Well - I tried emailing their contact address, and the email was returned (something about a non-unique name). I am sure I spelled it right - not sure what is wrong...
 
leeladisky said:
Does anyone know if the Commontime Mnotes Wireless application relies on a completely separate dataset than the built-in contacts, email and calendar databases? I am looking for someting that allows a single view into everything, versus a need to open the work calendar application and then open up the included calendar app to determine if I'm available.... does that make sense?

This would also give me the ability to change my calendar view and exclude my work calendar or email on the weekend, etc.

Anyone?
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I installed it for use with the new Motorola Droid. I found that the current version of mNotes (5.10) does NOT work with the Droid. I emailed their tech support team and they confirmed it doesn't work. They say they've identified what the problem is and know how to fix it. I'm awaiting the update to test further. From what I know, mNotes essentially implements Exchange Active Sync so you can use the Droid natively as if it was going against a standard Exchange server.

In the mean time, I have been using Touchdown by Nitrodesk: NitroDesk Inc. - TouchDown features

I can use this against our company's Lotus Traveler server whereas Android 2.0 does NOT work against Lotus Traveler.
 
borderless said:
I installed it for use with the new Motorola Droid. I found that the current version of mNotes (5.10) does NOT work with the Droid. I emailed their tech support team and they confirmed it doesn't work. They say they've identified what the problem is and know how to fix it. I'm awaiting the update to test further. From what I know, mNotes essentially implements Exchange Active Sync so you can use the Droid natively as if it was going against a standard Exchange server.

In the mean time, I have been using Touchdown by Nitrodesk: NitroDesk Inc. - TouchDown features

I can use this against our company's Lotus Traveler server whereas Android 2.0 does NOT work against Lotus Traveler.
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Hello,

What is the limitation with the Droid? Is it the fact that it is running Android 2.0?

I would be connecting without any IT intervention (personal phone - no support from IT), so I don't know what this Lotus Traveler thing is (and I therefore assume that I can't use Nitrodesk Touchdown), since I was expecting mNotes to provide the Activesync Exchange go-between for Lotus Notes.

EDIT: Just to clarify - I am not looking to access email - I just want to get calendar, address book, and Tasks synced...
 
spiff72 said:
Hello,

What is the limitation with the Droid? Is it the fact that it is running Android 2.0?

I would be connecting without any IT intervention (personal phone - no support from IT), so I don't know what this Lotus Traveler thing is (and I therefore assume that I can't use Nitrodesk Touchdown), since I was expecting mNotes to provide the Activesync Exchange go-between for Lotus Notes.

EDIT: Just to clarify - I am not looking to access email - I just want to get calendar, address book, and Tasks synced...
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Yes - you are correct. For my solution to work through either Touchdown or native EAS, you must have Lotus Traveler running by your company.

You will need to wait for mNotes support which emulates a hosted EAS server that connects to your local desktop connector.
 
theil01 said:
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the solution is out of my price range, so I guess I will have to look for another solution to replicate my notes calendar and contacts :(
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If it is the price that is stopping you trying the product out, the good news is the price of CommonTime mNotes is coming down - significantly. Certainly before your free trial is up the price will be reduced. Not certain of the exact date yet, but will post as soon as it is set. Hope that is good news for some of you :).
 
HollyHayley said:
If it is the price that is stopping you trying the product out, the good news is the price of CommonTime mNotes is coming down - significantly. Certainly before your free trial is up the price will be reduced. Not certain of the exact date yet, but will post as soon as it is set. Hope that is good news for some of you :).
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Holly - not sure if you work for commontime but if so, do you know when you will have a fix ready for the Droid?
 
borderless said:
Holly - not sure if you work for commontime but if so, do you know when you will have a fix ready for the Droid?
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I am interested in this timing too! And a lower price! And a quick note to borderless, Holly does work for Commontime...

I just got my Droid yesterday, and I am using the 15-day trial of Companionlink for Google application on my computer, and it does a "so-so" job. It doesn't handle cancelled repeating meetings well at all. For me, mNotes desktop for WinMo phones was always very good with repeating meetings/reschedules, etc.

I would have tried the mNotes wireless trial (in fact I signed up for it, but didn't download it yet), but I saw in this thread that it didn't work with the Droid yet...

Thanks for the update, Holly, and I look forward to a reduced price and support for the Motorola Droid with Android 2.0.

Thanks
 
borderless said:
Holly - not sure if you work for commontime but if so, do you know when you will have a fix ready for the Droid?
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Quite right, I do work for CommonTime. As for the Droid update I know that it is being worked on at the moment but we want to test throughly to make sure it is a great solution for you guys! It will be sooner rather than later but we don't have a date as yet - if you are in contact with our Support Team over email then they will let you know as soon as. We are as keen for people to get using it as anyone. As soon as I know, you will know...that is if Support don't get there first! :)
 
HollyHayley said:
Quite right, I do work for CommonTime. As for the Droid update I know that it is being worked on at the moment but we want to test throughly to make sure it is a great solution for you guys! It will be sooner rather than later but we don't have a date as yet - if you are in contact with our Support Team over email then they will let you know as soon as. We are as keen for people to get using it as anyone. As soon as I know, you will know...that is if Support don't get there first! :)
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Hi Holly - any update on this?
 
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