Notes 8.5.1 and Symphony integration needs some enhancements.
Category Notes Symphony
Notes 8.5.1 cleaned up a lot of the rough edges in Notes 8.5 and fixed some of the irritating inconsistencies, there are some though that still remain. One area that Lotus has started to improve is drag and drop, but it still needs some work, especially in the interaction between Notes and embedded Symphony. Here are the things I like to see improved.
* If I have Symphony installed, why can I choose Create, Clipart in Symphony inside Notes, but not Create, Clipart into a Notes Rich Text fields?
* I can drag stuff from Symphony Document and Symphony Spreadsheet into Notes Docs, but I cannot drag anything from Symphony Presentations?
* They need visual indicators that you about to do drag and drop, and what kind of drag and drop you are performing. Try moving to the edge of a selected cell in Excel and 1-2-3, look at your pointer it changes, hold down the left mouse button, try holding down Ctrl and the left mouse button, see how you're given a visual indication that you're doing something a little different. Drag text in Notes 8.5.1 and you'll see a visual indication too. Symphony needs that.
* Shortcut key conflicts - If you use Notes, you probably know Ctrl-M is File, New Memo. Now if you going it Symphony, it still says File, New Memo, but it does different stuff. In Documents for example it shows non-printing characters, and doesn't create a new memo.
I'll try and get around to creating a video later that shows what you can do between Symphony and Notes if you're not familiar with drag and drop.
Notes 8.5.1 cleaned up a lot of the rough edges in Notes 8.5 and fixed some of the irritating inconsistencies, there are some though that still remain. One area that Lotus has started to improve is drag and drop, but it still needs some work, especially in the interaction between Notes and embedded Symphony. Here are the things I like to see improved.
* If I have Symphony installed, why can I choose Create, Clipart in Symphony inside Notes, but not Create, Clipart into a Notes Rich Text fields?
* I can drag stuff from Symphony Document and Symphony Spreadsheet into Notes Docs, but I cannot drag anything from Symphony Presentations?
* They need visual indicators that you about to do drag and drop, and what kind of drag and drop you are performing. Try moving to the edge of a selected cell in Excel and 1-2-3, look at your pointer it changes, hold down the left mouse button, try holding down Ctrl and the left mouse button, see how you're given a visual indication that you're doing something a little different. Drag text in Notes 8.5.1 and you'll see a visual indication too. Symphony needs that.
* Shortcut key conflicts - If you use Notes, you probably know Ctrl-M is File, New Memo. Now if you going it Symphony, it still says File, New Memo, but it does different stuff. In Documents for example it shows non-printing characters, and doesn't create a new memo.
I'll try and get around to creating a video later that shows what you can do between Symphony and Notes if you're not familiar with drag and drop.
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