FT Search Manager - now FREE for Personal use

If you're not happy with the standard Notes search tools, here's something that might help - our FT Search Manager product is now FREE for personal use.*

The tool allows users to search multiple Notes databases (Mail & Archives, Chats, Applications, Quickr etc) and File Systems simultaneously, providing easy navigation through the vast amounts of data that can accumulate in a Notes environment.


Notes Mail Search



Notes Mail Results



By improving user productivity, the IONET FT Search Manager makes better use of your Notes environment - 100,000 users can't be wrong.

For more information or to download a trial copy, please visit https://www.ionetsoftware.com/search.

* Personal use is defined as a user searching their personal Mail and Archives, and less than 10 users per company.

Providing proper iNotes search functionality

In the iNotes environment, Mobile Clients have no search capability at all, and Full Clients can only search the mail file that's currently in use.

Traveler Clients have only basic search functionality, and usually synchronise a subset of data.

That's fine for recent mail, but how do you find and use an email you received 6 months ago? By scrolling until you find it? That's a waste of time.

The FT Search Manager allows iNotes users to easily search ALL their Mail & Archives (and other databases, e.g. Shared Mail), via Mobile Client or Full, then use the results as per normal mail.

This makes ALL Mail & Archives available to Mobile devices - regardless of date or location - greatly improving the Mobile experience.

Mobile Home note new search icon

Mobile Search all mail & archives are available

Mobile Results results are used like normal mail

Give Mobile users a better way to use their existing Notes data and make better use of your Notes investment - 100,000 users can't be wrong.

By improving user productivity, the IONET FT Search Manager pays for itself in next to no time.

For more information or to download a trial copy, please visit https://www.ionetsoftware.com/search.

Notes to Office 365, On Demand

Our Archiver for Notes product now also exports Notes Mail & Archives directly to Office 365, including On Demand.

This means that in a migration, Administrators might choose to migrate only recent Mail to Office 365 (e.g. the last 2 weeks, last 6 months etc), but also allow users to search and migrate any important older mail that they want to keep - employment contracts, legal information, personal mail, contact information etc. 

This makes all historical Notes Mail available to users, without needing to migrate TB of unnecessary data. And this functionality can be used for as long as required.

For any other requirements, the tool also archives Notes Mail and Applications to NSF, PDF, XML, HTML and PST.


1. Administrator Archiving to O365;

2. Users can then search and export any further mail they require, from their Mail or Archives;

If you'd like to try this, please just download the demo version, then request a license key.

And for more information, please visit our Archiving page.

A new approach to migrating away from Notes

If you're migrating away from IBM Notes, here's a new option;

Instead of migrating ALL your Notes Mail data, migrate only the last X years worth (using any tool you want, but hopefully ours), and leave one Domino Server running HTTP to allow users to search and export their older mail, WHEN and IF they need it.

This saves migration resources, as users only export the mail they actually require. Users can search their Notes Mail & Archives via Browser whenever they want, as many times as they want, and export search results to PST, PDF, HTML or EML. For example a user could choose to export all their mail to the HR department, from a specific person/company, with the word 'legal' in the subject etc.

It also acts as a safety net - exporting the last X years of email provides 80% of what's required, and this approach returns the remaining 20% without needing to export TB of unnecessary data.

Powerful search functionality makes it easy for users to find the data they want, and they can export as many times as required.

The following screenshots show data exporting using a Web Browser (the same export options also apply in the Notes Client search).


1. Search
Each user sees only their own Mail and Archives. The Administrator controls options, labels, logos, and can modify the UI using CSS.

2. Export
From the results page, users select results to export, and the required format. The Administrator can show/hide each export format.

3. Status
A status of the export is shown in real time.

4. Fixes
If document fixes are required (e.g. to fix invalid email addresses), these are performed automatically.

5. Complete
Then the fixes re-exported.

6. Download
To finish, users simply download the exported files.

For more information, demos and downloads, please visit the FT Search Manager Migration Page.

Saving Notes Search results to PDF

At the start of this year, we added PDF support to our FT Search Manager product.

This allows Notes search results to be saved directly as PDFs, either after a Discovery/Compliance search, or after normal Mail & Archive searching.

For example, let's say you have a legal requirement to provide copies of all email sent between your environment and 123.com during 2015.

1. Specified power users can run a Discovery/Compliance search across all mail files and archives in the environment, select the desired results, and export them to PDF.

2. Individual users can perform their own searches in response to an information-gathering request, select the relevant email, and export it to PDF.

Metadata is captured, the PDF format is easily controlled via stylesheets, and Administrators manage options for naming PDFs, export locations etc.

The same functionality applies to our Archiver for Notes product, which can now export Notes data directly to PDF (as well as NSF, XML, HTML, PST etc). So in the above example, Administrators could also create archiving criteria with an @formula and archive all matching emails to PDF, leaving the source data untouched.

For more information, demos & downloads, please visit the FT Search Manager page.

IONET Archiver v4 - Improving your Native Notes Archiving

IONET Software are pleased to announce v4 of our Archiver for Notes product, which now includes support for native Notes archiving, even when it's already in use.

This means that for a big reduction on our normal pricing, you can use our archiving toolset with native Notes archiving.

Why would you want to do that? To make more efficient use of IT resources, find out what's happening in your environment, and - more importantly - save your users time.


What you get from Native Notes Archiving;

• Fast, large-scale moving of data.
• Easy management via Archiving Policies.
• Support by IBM.

But what you DON'T get is decent tools to use that archived data, or even tools to tell you what's actually being archived. This means users spend a lot of time trying to find and use their archived data, and that can be improved.


What you can add with the IONET Native Archiving Toolkit;
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	Simultaneous Searching across ALL Mail & Archive Databases via Notes, iNotes (including Mobile) or Browser. This makes it easy for users to find and use their data, regardless of its location.
	Discovery Search across all Mail & Archives, for Admins, Power Users, Legal Departments etc.
	The ability to natively archive Mail-In Databases.
	User Functionality like 'Archive Selected Documents', 'Restore Documents', and 'Open Archives'.
	Reporting and Charting of Archiving performance, e.g. Volume of data archived, Number of Docs archived, Production vs Archive Size Ratios etc.
	Tools to migrate local User Archives.
	Administration Tools such as ACL Synchronisation, limiting access to Archives, Archive Database naming, Archive Database moving etc.

What you miss out on by not using our full Archiving Solution;

• Up to 10 Archiving Criteria, including folders, dates, document size, and @formulas.
• Intelligent Quotas, e.g. gradually reducing databases sizes to the defined limit.
• The ability to export data to different formats, e.g. HTML, XML and PST.
• The use of Archive Stubs, to refer Notes and iNotes Clients to the archived document.
• Two-stage archiving, e.g. archiving from archives.
• Archive Housekeeping, such as automatic archive creation, rotation and expiry.
• Archive Timing functions, so you don't over-run your archiving window.
• The ability to archive duplicated mail documents.
• The ability to compress attachments during archiving.
• The ability to archive different documents to different databases, e.g. all documents in 'ACME' folders into the 'ACME Project' archive.
• The ability to archive custom applications.
• Flexibility options, e.g. protect certain documents, synchronise documents (such as lookup documents), set fields on documents during archiving, run custom agents before/after archiving and restoring, or before/after creating archives etc.

Key Features;

• Allows Users to easily find and use natively archived data, via Notes or iNotes, saving them time.
• Allows Administrators to manage the archiving environment, performing common tasks and migrating local archives.
• Gives Management visibility to archiving effectiveness via Reporting.
• Allows native archiving of Mail-In Databases.
• Adds Discovery Search functionality to your Mail & Archive environment.
• Builds on Native Archiving functionality.
• Blends seamlessly into your Notes/Domino environment.

To find out more, please visit our Native Archiving Toolkit Page.

Exporting Notes Mail, Applications & Quickr to XML

Earlier this month, our Archiver for Notes product was extended to export Notes Mail, Applications and Quickr to HTML, in addition to exporting Notes Mail to Internet Formats and PST, and normal NSF archiving.

Exporting to HTML occurs via archiving to DXL, then transforming that DXL to HTML via XSLT Stylesheets. This allows storage of Notes data as static, non-proprietary HTML.

This process now extends further to transform DXL to XML, ready for use in other products. Example XSLT Stylesheets to do this are stored as Pages, and you can modify these or add your own.

This means you can export some parts of your Notes environment (e.g. Mail) to common internet formats or PST, other elements (e.g. old applications, IBM Quickr) to HTML, and  specific newer elements (e.g. application data less than 5 years old) to XML for migration to other platforms.

The process is;

1. Select your target data, export method and stylesheet.

2. Stylesheets are stored as Pages in the Archiver Config database, so you can use these, customise them, or add your own.

3. Notes data is then exported to the target XML.

You can choose to leave the Notes data intact after exporting, meaning you can run the process as many times as you want.

For more information or a free, no-obligation trial version, please see the IONET Archiver for Notes.