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To be really ready for a diet, it is always good to get a head start, so today I was in true form, Mountain Dew with Eccles cake... To really have an effective detoxifying diet, I really need to make sure my body is full of Toxins first. I'm well on the way!

I would just like to say that Notes/Domino may be over 10 years old, and has matured in many ways, but the Import/Export still feels like it's 10 years old. This morning I had a need to import about 1000 test users into our Sametime development servers NAB. I already had the Names in an Excel format, but the columns weren't in the same order as the View in Notes, and some of the fields I wanted weren't in the view, so who should come to my rescue but my ever faithful Lotus Approach. Within about 5 minutes, I had all the names imported into Domino. I wish IBM would realise they have some great UI for doing Importing and Exporting with field mapping in Lotus Approach, and Approach already has all the development work done to read in from pretty much any data source.

Approach is one of those products that was really powerful yet easy to use. I still have some Approach and Notes Reporter memorabilia at home as I had the lovely job (dripping with sarcasm) of being the marketing manager to sunset Notes Reporter, it's always fun to do a job you hate where you have to deal with decisions that were made by people that really didn't get it.

I guess I'm just a big old tree hugger at heart.

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Gravatar Image1 - Carl...not to try to use this venue as a selling mechanism, but if you are looking at some better/easier import/export/reporting tools, check out our website, we sell a couple of good and reasonably priced solutions (Integra for Notes and Synchro). If you want an evaluation of either product, let me know...I'd be happy to help you out. (Synchro is a database synchronization tool and Integra is the import/export/reporting tool)

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