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- README.TXT
-
- Additional Information for Lotus Organizer, Release 1.1
- ====================================================================
-
- (See the end of this file for new information about Release 1.12.)
-
- TIPS.TXT File
- -------------
- TIPS.TXT contains further information about Lotus Organizer,
- Release 1.1. It is intended for advanced users and administrators.
- It covers the following topics:
-
- 1. Customizing .INI files (ORGANIZE.INI, LOTUS.INI, WIN.INI)
- 2. Printing tips
- 3. How to print a 4-week view
- 4. Adding a front-page logo
- 5. Starting the Organizer automatically and opening files
- 6. Using cc:Mail
- 7. Uninstalling the Organizer
- 8. Address-section sorting
- 9. The ORGFILES subdirectory
- 10. Sizing the Organizer window
- 11. Alarms
- 12. Using the Organizer as a Windows shell application
- 13. How an assistant can manage an executive's Calendar
- 14. How to handle conflicting appointments
- 15. How to use the Organizer with OS/2
- 16. A complete ORGANIZE.INI file
-
-
- TEMP Environment Variable
- -------------------------
- The TEMP environment variable should be set on each user's
- workstation. Usually it is in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Make sure
- that the environment variable is set to point to a valid directory.
- However, do not set it to point to the root (\) directory.
-
-
- Running cc:Mail and Notes
- --------------------------
- If you have both cc:Mail and Notes installed on the workstation,
- make sure that the cc:Mail program path appears before the Notes
- program path in the PATH command line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
-
- File/Open Dialog Box May Not Display the Previous Directory (..)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- In some versions of Novell NetWare, users may find that the
- previous directory option (..) does not appear in directory lists.
- This makes it difficult to navigate through network directories in
- dialog boxes such as File/Open.
-
- To resolve this problem, follow these instructions:
-
- 1. Add the following entry to SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG in the user's
- root directory--usually c:\--or in the directory from which the
- Novell network drivers are started:
-
- show dots = on
-
- 2. Reboot the user's computer, and start the Netware shell and
- communication programs--NETX.COM and IPX.COM. You'll see a
- NetWare message acknowledging the new entry.
-
- 3. The ".." directory option should now be displayed.
-
-
- CONFIG.SYS Settings
- -------------------
- Be sure that the "FILES=" parameter in users' CONFIG.SYS files is
- set appropriately. A value of 30 should be sufficient both for
- workstations running the Organizer client and also for the
- workstation that is running the AGENT.EXE program. In Novell
- NetWare, you may also need to increase the value for the File Handles
- parameter.
-
-
- Running SHARE.EXE
- -----------------
- SHARE.EXE is provided with your standard DOS operating system.
- Include it in a user's AUTOEXEC.BAT file. If you run Windows from
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, make sure you have SHARE.EXE before the
- WIN command line.
-
-
- Using Superlist of Public Mailing Lists when Selecting Attendees
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Selecting a Superlist of Public Mailing Lists from the main cc:Mail
- Directory when creating a meeting will not display users' free-time
- bars. Use regular public or private mailing lists instead.
-
-
- Using IBM ThinkPad with Organizer
- ---------------------------------
- If you're using the IBM ThinkPad configured with the IBM VGA driver
- directly connected to a LAN, the screen may repaint incorrectly
- when you exit the Schedule Meeting dialog box after creating a group
- meeting. You need to use the standard Windows VGA driver.
-
- To install a new driver:
-
- 1. In the Windows Program Manager, double-click the Windows Setup icon.
- 2. Select Change System Settings from the Options menu.
- 3. Select VGA in the Display list.
- 4. Choose OK.
- 5. When prompted to restart Windows, choose Yes.
-
- Alternatively, you can add the following line to the
- [Settings] section of your ORGANIZE.INI file in the
- "Windows" directory:
-
- [Settings]
- NoRoundRegions=1
-
-
- Inviting a Person Who Is Not an E-Mail User to a Meeting
- --------------------------------------------------------
- If you wish to invite a person to a meeting who is not listed
- in the mail Directory, you may do so by performing the following steps:
-
- 1. Type the person's name in the Add field of the Scheduling dialog box.
-
- 2. Organizer will inform you that a meeting notice will not be sent to this
- person.
-
- 3. Choose OK to add the name to the attendee list.
-
-
- Information for Network Administrators Only
- ===========================================
-
- Managing Resources
- ------------------
- The Lotus Organizer Administrator's Guide, page 34, describes
- setting up Organizer files for resources such as conference rooms
- and equipment. There are two ways to manage resources:
-
- 1. Resources are managed by an Organizer scheduling agent. In this
- case, resources are automatically booked by the scheduling agent
- on a first-come, first-served basis.
-
- The resources are defined as remote "R" users in the cc:Mail
- Directory. No Organizer licenses or cc:Mail licenses are required
- for these resources.
-
- (If you have an assistant monitoring the remote resource's .ORG file,
- have the assistant open the .ORG file in read-only mode. Otherwise,
- you need to define the resource as a local "L" user, which requires a
- valid cc:Mail license.)
-
- 2. Resources are managed by somebody; for example, by an
- administrative assistant. In this case, you define the resources in
- the cc:Mail Directory as local "L" users.
-
- Since resources managed in this way are local cc:Mail users, they DO
- require valid cc:Mail licenses. No Organizer licenses are required.
-
- NOTE: The Organizer License Packs include extra cc:Mail licenses to
- be used exclusively for resources.
-
-
- No Scheduling Information Needed for Aliases or Bankshot Mailing Lists
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- If you schedule a meeting with an alias that you select from the
- cc:Mail Directory, Organizer will find the user name to which the alias
- points. There is therefore no need to enter scheduling information
- for aliases in the cc:Mail Directory.
-
- If you have manually added scheduling information for alias entries in
- your Directory, you should remove this information and add it to the
- entries to which the aliases point, if it is not already there.
-
- Likewise, scheduling information should not be entered for cc:Mail
- bankshot mailing lists, even though these have a location of 'r' in
- the directory.
-
-
- Setting PATH on Novell Netware Networks
- ---------------------------------------
- Organizer and cc:Mail for Windows, Version 2.0, require that the cc:Mail
- program path containing the VIM DLLs be listed in the user's PATH
- environment variable. The install programs for both products optionally
- set this path in the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- Because the length of the PATH value is limited, we recommend that
- NetWare administrators write the NetWare log-in script for cc:Mail and
- Organizer users to add the cc:Mail program-path directory as a search
- path when the users log on to the network.
-
- This will reduce the chances of exceeding the maximum PATH length.
- It won't matter if users don't answer "Yes" to the prompt to add the
- path to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file during installation.
-
-
- ~ORGAGNT and Server Entries
- ---------------------------
- If you have multiple post offices and you don't have cc:Mail
- Automatic Directory Exchange, you need to make an entry for the agent
- (for example, ~ORGAGNT) in every post office. Make the agent entry
- in the same way that you'd make a post office entry, as in the example
- below.
-
- In post office Silver-HQ:
- ~ORGAGNT P
-
- In the other post offices:
- ~ORGAGNT p Silver-HQ
-
- The same is also true for server entries. You can use SRVADMIN.EXE to
- create server entries in each post office that is used by Organizer.
-
-
- Read/Write Access Rights to cc:Mail Post Office
- -----------------------------------------------
- The Organizer network guest account, referred to in the Administrator's
- Guide as ORGACCT, requires both read and write access rights to the
- cc:Mail post office directory; for example, M:\CCDATA.
-
-
- IBM OS/2 LAN Server, Version 3.0
- --------------------------------
- When running Organizer in Windows-OS/2 under IBM OS/2 LAN Server,
- Version 3.0, you may find that the following occur:
-
- - When users go to the WinOS/2 desktop, the error message
- "LANSRV.DRV not found" appears.
-
- - WinOS/2 under IBM OS/2 LAN Server treats network drives as local
- drives.
-
- - Users can't open files by selecting user names. Consequently, they
- cannot use group scheduling.
-
- If these things occur, do the following:
-
- 1. Install Organizer. Do not use SETUPDIR. Use DIRADMIN to
- add scheduling information for the Organizer users.
-
- 2. In the Organizer program directory, delete ORGNET.DLL and rename
- PORTABLE.DLL as ORGNET.DLL.
-
- 3. Run WORKSTN.EXE.
-
- 4. Find the DOS LAN requester diskettes, and unzip LANSRV.DRV and
- WINDLP.DLL.
-
- 5. Copy these two files to OS/2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.
-
- 6. Set a path to the files in the CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- 7. Add the following lines to CONFIG.SYS:
-
- DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\LANPDD\OS2
- DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\LANVDD\OS2
-
- 8. Add the following line to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- <path>LTSVCFG N1=1 S=H C=10 N=2
-
-
- SETUPDIR May Not Run Properly in OS/2 on a IBM LAN Server Network
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- If you choose to run SETUPDIR during installation, or if you run
- SETUPDIR.EXE after installation, the program may not work properly
- in OS/2 running on IBM LAN Server. A DOS window will appear briefly
- and then disappear without any updates being done.
-
- To update your directory if this happens, use DIRADMIN instead of
- SETUPDIR; refer to the Administrator's Guide section on using the
- DIRADMIN command.
-
-
- UPDVIM.BAT May Fail if VIM DLLs Are Read-only
- ---------------------------------------------
- UPDVIM.BAT is a script file that the Install program may write if
- your cc:Mail and Organizer DLLs are incompatible and your post office
- is open at the time of installation. Install gives you the choice
- of quitting, shutting down the post office, and updating the DLLs;
- or of continuing and running the UPDVIM.BAT script later.
-
- Install may find some incompatible DLLs but be able to fix them,
- in which case the UPDVIM.BAT file will not be written.
-
- Starting with cc:Mail for Windows, Version 2.0, the mail engine and
- VIM DLLs in the cc:Mail program directory are read-only files. If
- Install indicates that you should run the UPDVIM.BAT script to update
- your DLLs, you may need to make them writable by using the
- ATTRIB -R <filename> command for each file listed in UPDVIM.BAT.
- You can do this easily by modifying UPDVIM.BAT to add the ATTRIB
- command before each COPY command.
-
-
- Running the Organizer Agent from a Local Drive
- ----------------------------------------------
- The Organizer agent (AGENT.EXE) must have read, write, create, and
- erase rights to the ORGANIZE\ADMIN directory, which is where it
- runs by default.
-
- You may prefer to copy AGENT.EXE and the resource files (*.RI) to
- a local drive and run it from there instead.
-
-
- Native Code-Page Support for the Organizer Agent
- ------------------------------------------------
- In order for international characters in scheduling messages to be
- displayed properly in cc:Mail, the Organizer agent must have support
- for the native code page on the machine on which the agent is running.
- The Organizer agent supports the following code pages: 437, 850, 852,
- 860, 863, and 865. If the agent machine has a different code page
- installed, the agent will display a warning message that indicates
- that international characters may not be displayed properly.
-
-
- Using Organizer with a Mobile Post Office
- ------------------------------------------
- The DIRADMIN utility will not run on a Mobile post office.
- Use an ADE message or the IMPORT utility to update the post office
- Directory with the user information that Organizer requires.
-
-
- Additional Information for Lotus Organizer, Release 1.12
- ====================================================================
-
- Using DDE Links with 1-2-3
- --------------------------
- In the Organizer User's Guide, the description of how to get DDE data
- from Lotus 1-2-3 applies only to Release 3 of 1-2-3.
-
-
- Changes in Release 1.12
- -----------------------
-
- 1. Removed run-time dependencies on Lotus Licenser DLL (L1WNET.DLL).
- This DLL is no longer installed or loaded by Organizer.
-
- 2. Install updates the PATH statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT to include the
- cc:Mail directory. It disregards commented-out PATH statements.
-
- 3. Organizer can now launch a mail program that had "." in its path.
-
- 4. Temporary files named ORG*.TMP created by the Organizer or the
- Organizer Scheduling Agent are always deleted after being used.
-
- 5. Users are now warned when creating, deleting, or modifying a meeting
- if it is in the past. They are given the option of sending out
- messages anyway, not sending out messages but still making the change,
- or canceling the operation.
-
- 6. Workstation Install now handles all low-disk-space situations.
-
- 7. Organizer can now be installed in a directory with a name containing
- a "." character. Help will always be available regardless of the
- Organizer directory name.
-
- 8. The Scheduling Agent now handles meetings with links at all times.
- Also, it will always find Calendar sections that have been renamed.
-
- 9. The Scheduling Agent now handles zone qualifiers (for Macintosh users)
- properly in the server\volume field of the Directory.
-
- 10. SetupDir has been improved so that you can choose to have both a
- server\volume field and a drive letter in the cc:Mail Directory
- comment field. When doing free time-search, Organizer for
- Windows will attempt to read an attendee's busy time by using the
- server name first, then the drive letter.
-
- You can also add a zone qualifier to the server\volume name.
- Organizer Scheduling for Macintosh requires that the server\volume
- field is always specified, and will use the zone name if present.
-
- 11. Organizer now handles old versions of VIM; the "Error: No Error"
- message will no longer be displayed in these situations.
-
- 12. Organizer now allows adding new attendees to a meeting even if any
- of the attendees has a conflict.
-
- 13. Users can now add Organizer files of non local ("R") cc:Mail users
- to the File menu.
-
- 14. Organizer now allows you to process meetings even when you log in
- using the Public password.
-
- 15. Organizer now allows you to open a file automatically in standalone
- configurations at all times.
-