USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Extending policy settings to Lotus iNotes and Notes profile documents
Prior to IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.5, you could have the Administration Process update user profile documents for Calendar and Scheduling only. You can now customize the mail policy settings document and push the new or customized settings to the profile document you specify in the $Profiles field.

The mail policy settings document now includes the field $Profiles which contains a list of pairs. Each pair is comprised of a prefix and a profile document name delimited by a colon. For example, $DWA:inotesprofile indicates that any field with the prefix $DWA will be pushed to the Lotus iNotes profile document for any user to whom that mail policy setting document applies.

The Lotus iNotes profile document now contains the field $FieldsSetByPolicy which indicates the fields that have been modified by applying a policy and not by a user action.

There is no change to the way the mail policy settings document is applied to users.

To view an example, from IBM Lotus Domino Designer open the form Policy Settings\Mail Settings and then the subform $DWAMailPolicy. Open the $Profiles field:Default Value, you will see the pair


where $DWA is the prefix and inotesprofile is the profile document. In this example, the prefix and profile pair indicate that all fields on the policy settings document with the prefix $DWA get pushed to the inotesprofile document for the user, and all fields with the prefix $DOLS get pushed to the dolsofflineconfiguration document for the user.

To see an example of an individual setting that gets pushed down, open Domino Designer and look at any field on the Lotus iNotes tab(s) of the mail policy settings document. All fields begin with a prefix of either $DWA or $DOLS. Any field on the mail policy settings document that has a corresponding $UP field and does not have a $DWA or $DOLS prefix will be pushed to the users' calendar profile document by default.

Note The $DWA and $DOLS fields require a $UP field to specify how and when the setting should be pushed down, just as all of the other fields do.

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