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Updated viewers
Viewer capability is now enhanced for Windows by providing the ability to view Office 2000 documents.

Designer usability
Many changes and enhancements have been made in Domino Designer to make it even easier to use. Key changes since the initial release are detailed in the "Feature Changes" section of the Things you need to know chapter of the Release Notes.


Java applets

• The four Java applets (Editor, View, Outline, and Action Bar applets) are now compiled with JDK 1.1.6 which makes them smaller and faster.
• The Editor applet can now support cut, copy, and paste of plain text from outside the applet. This applet will be signed with the Lotus Development certificate, so users will be prompted to trust the signer the first time they use it. The Editor gets its text from a hidden field on the page instead of passing in a url. This also addresses a problem where entered text is lost when the page is refreshed, but may affect existing R5.0 applications.
• The View applet adds SetDblClickTarget method in its API, so the frame target for the document can be set, for example, in the onLoad event of the form or page with the view.
• The Outline applet now supports image wells.


JavaScript

The Notes client now supports:

• window.open with height and width settings and opening in its own window.
• mouseOver and mouseOut events on images (picture)


Interpreting date/time field inputs
When a date field is formatted to expect month, day, and year, and only one of the three variables is entered, Notes will attempt to interpret what the other two entries are. If there is no month, then the default is the current month according to the operating system settings. If there is no day, the default is "01." If there is no year, the default is the current year. If an alphanumeric entry is made, Notes ignores the alphabetic characters and tries to determine the date based upon the numerals entered.

QuickStart tutorial
QuickStart is a hands-on tutorial that takes you through the steps of creating a Domino application. The \data\quickstart directory contains the QuickStart Tutorial database as well as the files needed to create the sample Domino application. There's also a link added to the Designer Welcome page. QuickStart is only available on the Windows platforms setup.

Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS)
Enhancements which add robustness to DECS include Oracle Connector support for stored procedures, ERP connector support, Collapse/Expand and Order Metaconnector support, Support Pre-Open Formula, increasing the number of concurrent activities allowed, and a Reconnect on Dropped Connection option.

Lotus Connector LSX
Added connection pooling support.

DUS option to add Administrator to mail file ACL
As part of the People and Groups Migration in the Domino Upgrade Services (DUS), two new options were added. The first option -- called "Add administrator to mail file access control list" -- allows the administrator's name to be added to a new mail file's ACL with manager access. This gives the administrator the ability to migrate mail to the new mail file during the second phase of a two phase migration, where mail migration is done during the second phase. The second option, called "Overwrite existing passwords with random passwords" creates a random password for a migrated user, overwriting the migrated password for that user if one exists.

Enhanced Internet Address Tool
The Internet Address tool has been enhanced to allow the administrator to select the person records which should have the internet address set. When the administrator selects more than one person record, and then invokes the internet address tool, the internet address tool will indicate the number of users selected from which Domino Directory and will set/overwrite the internet address for only the selected users.

56-bit encryption supported
56-bit encryption ( DES) is now supported for international licenses of the Web server.

LDAP schema database
Domino will automatically build a database called Domino LDAP Schema (SCHEMA50.NSF) in the Domino data directory. This database provides information about the Domino LDAP schema attributes, object classes, and syntax. If you extend the directory schema, you can use the server command "tell ldap reloadschema" to update the schema in memory and then update SCHEMA50.NSF with your directory changes. If you don't use this command, these two updates are done automatically when the Designer task runs or when you quit and restart the LDAP service. Refer to the "Directories Enhancements" document in the Things you need to know chapter for related information.

Transaction Logging features and improvements
• There is a new API to determine the state of a logged database or backup:
  STATUS LNPUBLIC NSFIsNewBackupNeeded
• If transaction logging restart fails, a new server console error messages appear that list dirty databases.
• During the first restart after disabling logging, restart recovery is run one final time to clean up databases.

Importing Internet certificates from a Netscape browser
Internet certificates from a Netscape browser can now be imported to the Notes ID file. The certificates can be used for SSL client authentication, and for encrypted and signed S/MIME messages. Certificates and keys which are compliant with Public Key Cryptographic Standard #12 (PKCS #12) in a version of the Netscape browser that is also PKCS #12 compliant can be imported to the Notes ID file if the browser is accessible to the local machine.

Dual key support of Internet certificates
If multiple Internet certificates are available in a Notes ID file, a user can specify one Internet certificate to use for encryption and another Internet certificate to use for signatures, instead of requiring that one certificate be used for both.

Reports
A new version of the Domino Messaging Reports database "reports.ntf" is provided. A previous version of reports.ntf was part of the R5 beta builds but did not ship officially in the R5 released code.