I do not imagine how popular is Lotus Domino / Notes tandem as an e-mail, collaboration solution, but I am sure that I have to use it on a daily basis. There are things that I do not like about it, but there are some good ones that make the day.

One of such is the Lotus Domino Web Access. It is simply a web-frontend, thru which the main resources like your mail, calendar and tasks are reachable without the Lotus Notes client. Talking in Domino / Notes language, the mentioned resources are databases and the data is represented in pre-customized views. So, the e-mail tab in the Lotus Notes or Web Access is actually a database view, which representation can be customized with some programming.
The interesting thing about the Web Access is that some of the general views can provide a XML output instead the actual layout to the browser. So, for example, if you open Calendar entries in the Web Access and all the data that is used to generate the Calendar view can be easily provided as a standard XML file (or a JSON). Continue reading “Lotus Domino Web Access & View XML Output” »