NOTES APPLICATIONS

Subscribing to Notes applications
Subscriptions allow you to receive real-time updated information from your favorite IBMR Lotus NotesR applications. A subscription is a results document that displays the information you choose to monitor in a specified NotesR application. For example, you have a New Mail subscription set up in Headlines that, when enabled, notifies you when you have new mail.

Subscription forms are created and stored in Headlines (headline.nsf), which is automatically created from the template headline.ntf. Headline.nsf is located in your Notes/data directory. If you do not see the Headlines bookmark in your Favorites folder, click File > Open > Lotus Notes Application and open headline.nsf from your Notes/data directory.

Notes checks for subscription results based on the interval as you set for Check for new mail every preference (Mail > Sending and Receiving preferences). If you do not use subscriptions, use the steps below to make sure they are disabled to optimize the performance of Notes.

Note: To subscribe to a particular application, the server that the application resides on must support subscriptions and allow headline monitoring.

You can create a subscription, update an old subscription, display application subscription results on your Home Page, and set up subscription information.

To create a subscription for a Notes application

1. Make sure Check subscriptions is checked in File > Preferences > Basic Notes Client Configuration preferences.

2. Open the Notes application to which you want to subscribe.

3. Click Create > Subscription.

4. Subscription forms can vary for each application; specify the required information, and then click OK.

To update an old subscription

If you have an old headline.nsf, you can update it in these ways:


To display subscription results on your Home Page

You can set subscriptions to display results right on your Home Page.

1. From your Home Page, click the text Click here for Home Page options, then click the Create a new Home Page button.

2. Use the Home Page wizard to set up your Home Page. When choosing what you would like on your Home Page, select to have frames, and then select Subscriptions for a frame content.

Note: You can also check your subscription results in Headlines (headline.nsf).

To set up subscription information

1. Open Headlines (headline.nsf), and click Subscription options.

2. Select the subscription you want to set up and do any of the following:


Subscription management tasks
TaskAction
Edit a subscriptionClick Edit
Enable or disable a specified subscriptionClick Enable/Disabled
Set how long to keep resultsClick Global Subscription Results Expiration and then select one:
    • Keep results forever
    • Automatically discard after, and then enter the number of days

Tip: If you have subscription results set up on your Home page, you can also edit subscription information there by clicking Customize in the Subscriptions frame.