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Monday, February 9, 2009

How To Enable the Lotus Connections Person Card in Notes 8.5

Friday, was a VERY long day. I'm going to quickly summarize what I've been up to and why I've been seemingly disconnected from Twitter. The good thing is that there are lessons learned that I would like to capture here for various reasons:

  1. So that I don't make the same mistake again
  2. So that others can benefit from my mistakes

Let's start with the fun stuff first. A customer wanted to know how to enable the Lotus Connections person card in Notes 8.5. Not sure why, but for some reason this capability is disabled out of the box. To enable, follow these steps:

  1. Go to C:\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.openactivities.client.common.service_3.5.0.20081211-1925
  2. Make a backup of plugin.properties
  3. Open plugin.properties with your favorite text editor
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the file and find this line:

    bizcard.show=false

  5. Replace it with

    bizcard.show=true

  6. Save the file
  7. Close and restart Notes

Now when you are in the Activities sidebar and look for people, simply hover over them, right click and the person card will show up as shown below!


Mac users: If you are using my hack, this should have already been done for you.

Enjoy!

6 comments:

  1. Pierre 1100February 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    Why the business card from ST in Notes 8.5 is not based on profile if possible ?

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  2. Luis BenitezFebruary 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    Pierre, I'm not sure why the ST business card is not based on Profiles in Notes 8.5. I have heard, however, that in an upcoming release, the ST business card will be the Lotus Connections business card!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM

    Weird, I had to enable the biz card on my Mac. Checked for updates to the version, but it said it was up to date.

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  4. Luis BenitezFebruary 10, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    Hi Ted.. I think it depends on when you got my plugin.. I believe I updated it a week after Notes 8.5 came out, but did not change the version #! Thanks for catching that :)

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  5. UnknownFebruary 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM

    How do you get to the people view?
    When I search for people, I only get results inside the search text-box.

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  6. Luis BenitezFebruary 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM

    Hi Roy,

    When you are in an Activity, click the Display button and select 'Membership...'.

    That should bring back the list of members for the Activity. You can then right-click on each member and get the person card!

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