Lotus Notes Search Date Range

Lotus Notes has a great indexing tool, that can even index attachments. When you need to perform a quick search, you can, and the results are very accurate. However, when it comes to searching for e-mail between sent or received between certain dates.

The Notes interface provides a ‘Date’ button to construct a date search. however, this provides the ability to search for only documents created or modified between certain dates. The created and modified dates of a notes email is similar in effect to searching using file modified and created dates. The dates can be changed by many processes, including a user simply changing a draft email, or by backup or archive tools that move the email or document around. Therefore this cannot be a reliable way to search for a date range.

The correct method to use would be to utilise the ‘Field’ button, to select the standard Notes fields that relate to ’sent’ or ‘received’ dates. There are more than one or two of these fields.

the correct fields to use will depend on the way your Dominio and Notes are configured. Typically though, the relevant fields are PostedDate (similar to Sent Date), deliveredDate (similar to received date) and ForwardedDate. This, combined with created and modified dates, should allow a search that catches all of those emails relevant to your date range. Let me know if you have any questions!

Martin. Martin.Nikel@gmail.com

Lotus Notes Links

Does anyone have any information on the way in which Lotus Notes links to external references? We believe that the URLs in “DockLinks” are generated automatically and can change according to the movement of the email from, say, one NSF to another. Thats why in two NSF files, you may have exactly the same email, but the “DocLink” reference is created dynamically for each email, so differs between each email. Any information anyone has on this point, or anyone who wants to correct this opinion, please do send me an e-mail.

Thanks,

Martin.

Lotus Notes

Welcome to our first posting, we hope to make this into a very useful tool for those involved in discovery and investigation of computer held data, disclosure of computers as evidence in courts, for investigations and for regulatory bodies and the like. Let me start off by asking a question….

I wondered if any of you our there have any issues with Lotus Notes Conversion? We have come across some issues with Posted Date Verses Sent Date, which we think we have solved. Anyone else got any issues with Lotus Notes Conversion to Outlook? Martin.