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My problem is in our Notes email is that we have two persons with similar nickname say for example Paul. However the complete first name of the first person which is a supervisor is for example John Paul, and the other one which is staff level is just Paul. Before, Normally by just typing paul in our notes client, the address defaults to John Paul. Problem arised when the staff Paul was hired and when users type Paul, the address defaults to Paul, inadvertently emails that is intented for a supervisor is being sent to a staff. Would there be a way in Notes mail that when we just type Paul it will still default to the John Paul, him having high priority in the organization also preventing confidential mails from being sent to Paul which is just staff level. Hope you understand the scenarion above. Thanks.
PS. We are using Lotus Notes 4.6
PS. We are using Lotus Notes 4.6
Zvonko
The only way I could think of is to change the ShortName of staffPaul to staffPaul or something else then Paul. For example: PaulII
Hi Zvonko, Welcome back!
I think your suggestion won't help, unless you send a mail to everybody that StaffPaul is to be used. The name Paul still refers to both people, since Notes looks primarily at the Notes-name. Unfortunately, I don't have any other idea, except for the usual silly ones.
I think your suggestion won't help, unless you send a mail to everybody that StaffPaul is to be used. The name Paul still refers to both people, since Notes looks primarily at the Notes-name. Unfortunately, I don't have any other idea, except for the usual silly ones.
Mine is also a silly one ;-)
All it does is to remove Paul as ShortName. ShortNames are first priority at lookup, so the other Paul will win the lookup.
In our company (or even general Notes default) was the ShortName a combination of FirstName iniatail letter and LastName. For example: SPaul
All it does is to remove Paul as ShortName. ShortNames are first priority at lookup, so the other Paul will win the lookup.
In our company (or even general Notes default) was the ShortName a combination of FirstName iniatail letter and LastName. For example: SPaul
Oh, one more note: the ShortName is first priority. And in the ShortName field you can have multiple values. What you never are allowed to do is to have a internet emailaddress as short name; that name will become the one and only web user name (at list when I tested that in Domino R4.x times :-)
I don't remember what the equivalent R4 setting is, but in R5 ...
One possible solution (although a bit labor-intensive) is to set the "Recipient name lookup" in the location document to "Exhaustively check all address books", instead of "Stop after first match". This way the user would be propted to specify which "Paul" they are sending to.
Again, if this only applies to R5, please ignore ... no other ideas come to mind.
Cheers,
- M. Shane Sturgeon
One possible solution (although a bit labor-intensive) is to set the "Recipient name lookup" in the location document to "Exhaustively check all address books", instead of "Stop after first match". This way the user would be propted to specify which "Paul" they are sending to.
Again, if this only applies to R5, please ignore ... no other ideas come to mind.
Cheers,
- M. Shane Sturgeon
... and it applies only if you go from desktop to desktop to every user ;-)
Hence my reference to "labor-intensive"
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qwaletee, does your proposal with pdjohnson realy differ from my proposal with SPaul?
Zvonko,
> qwaletee, does your proposal with pdjohnson realy differ from my proposal with SPaul?
Yes, it does. First proposal is completely different. Second proposal is to change the first name/full name, instead of short anme. Why is that different? Because it works more "naturally," for the way people work, and it does not rely on any assumptions about which field takes precedence (which is a false assumption to begin with).
- qwaletee
> qwaletee, does your proposal with pdjohnson realy differ from my proposal with SPaul?
Yes, it does. First proposal is completely different. Second proposal is to change the first name/full name, instead of short anme. Why is that different? Because it works more "naturally," for the way people work, and it does not rely on any assumptions about which field takes precedence (which is a false assumption to begin with).
- qwaletee