Lotus Notes
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@Jason said in Lotus Notes:
This shows how little I know about it.. only 20 people or so have it in the company we bought out.. tiny amount. Turns out they aren't even using it for email. There was a custom app built inside of it a long long time ago. Horrible idea. Now we got to find a way to replace it.
When I saw the topic title "Lotus Notes" I thought "hey, an archaeology project"
I do warn people against this kind of thing, and one of my old specialities was moving people from old MS Access and various other legacy garbage to typically intranet web based applications. I like doing that kind of thing.
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@tonyshowoff said in Lotus Notes:
@Jason said in Lotus Notes:
This shows how little I know about it.. only 20 people or so have it in the company we bought out.. tiny amount. Turns out they aren't even using it for email. There was a custom app built inside of it a long long time ago. Horrible idea. Now we got to find a way to replace it.
When I saw the topic title "Lotus Notes" I thought "hey, an archaeology project"
I do warn people against this kind of thing, and one of my old specialities was moving people from old MS Access and various other legacy garbage to typically intranet web based applications. I like doing that kind of thing.
Yep we would have never done it.. There IT was crap (and a lot of it was outsourced).
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The client is pretty much just storing rich text in the database. Thanks to those that asked those questions so I knew what to look for when I went in. There are no attachments.
Does anyone want to propose a solution as to what to move the data to? I'm assuming a hosted database server with a simple web front end. The database won't grow because it's just archive information.
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If it's just rich text, can it be exported to Excel? or csv?
After that you can do whatever you want with it. Build a web front end to search it, or just leave it in that form and search it from Excel.
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@Mike-Davis said in Lotus Notes:
The client is pretty much just storing rich text in the database. Thanks to those that asked those questions so I knew what to look for when I went in. There are no attachments.
Does anyone want to propose a solution as to what to move the data to? I'm assuming a hosted database server with a simple web front end. The database won't grow because it's just archive information.
Is that literal richtext or something like HTML encoding of it?
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@Dashrender yes, it could be exported there, but they would like a slightly better interface than excel for doing their searches. I may try an export to see how many records we're talking about.
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@tonyshowoff said in Lotus Notes:
Is that literal richtext or something like HTML encoding of it?
I'm not sure. In their custom app, I can see text that is bolded and different font sizes. I'll have to try to export it and see what the fields look like.
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@Mike-Davis said in Lotus Notes:
@tonyshowoff said in Lotus Notes:
Is that literal richtext or something like HTML encoding of it?
I'm not sure. In their custom app, I can see text that is bolded and different font sizes. I'll have to try to export it and see what the fields look like.
huh, that sounds like real rich text or HTML encoding.. definitely not plain text.
Is that formatting important?
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@Mike-Davis said in Lotus Notes:
@Dashrender yes, it could be exported there, but they would like a slightly better interface than excel for doing their searches. I may try an export to see how many records we're talking about.
Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.
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@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:
@Mike-Davis said in Lotus Notes:
@Dashrender yes, it could be exported there, but they would like a slightly better interface than excel for doing their searches. I may try an export to see how many records we're talking about.
Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.
I would?
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@tonyshowoff said in Lotus Notes:
@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:
@Mike-Davis said in Lotus Notes:
@Dashrender yes, it could be exported there, but they would like a slightly better interface than excel for doing their searches. I may try an export to see how many records we're talking about.
Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.
I would?
For a fee of course 
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@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:
Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.
If @tonyshowoff wants to send me a proposal to host and support it, I'm all for that. I have no need to support something else.
