Group emails by Date

[chrisaroundtown]

Hi,

I am an MS Outlook user from way back and have just started using Lotus Notes for emails.

I'd like to create a view which groups my emails by date. How do I do this? A very easy task in Outlook but one which requires programming knowledge in Lotus Notes no doubt.

Can't understand why this system is so hard to customise for the first time user.

Please help me out if you can.

Chris

 

[JohnOB]

Is it not easier when you are in a folder (ie inbox, sent etc) just to click the Date heading which will order your emails in order of date?

If you want to create a view you can select View from the Create menue at the top of the screen, to see emails within a specific date range, though again to sort it by date I think you would have to just click the Date heading. I am on v 6.5

"Stupid isn't not knowing the answer, it's not asking the question

 

[chrisaroundtown]

I have many many emails and I don't want to see them all. I guess my question doesn't just relate to dates but also sender or any other field. I might want my inbox to show me a list of senders, then I click on a sender to expand and show all the emails from that sender. Sorting shows me all the emails in one very long list. I want them to be grouped in some way and expand the ones I want to see.

If you have any experience using MS Outlook, which seems to be much easier, much more versatile and is obviosuly the market leader you would understand what an email system is meant to deliver. These jokers that built this Lotus Notes system need to spend some time using it as a front end user to understand how inflexible their product is. I think Lotus Notes was built for database management which it seems to do resonably well but when will companies learn that it is just a terrible system for your average employee to keep track of and organise emails.

Any help you can offer would be great as I am stuck using this pathetic thing just like everyone else here.

Chris

 

[pmonett]

As you have guessed, you will need programming skills to put categories in your Inbox - which is not meant to hold all your mail by the way.
I have never used Outlook, so I cannot compare, but I must say that using any product for a long time, thus becoming expert with it, makes changing to anything else a chore.
Notes does well what it does and, although I agree that flexibility is indeed a term that Lotus/IBM developers would need a bit more study in, bashing the product in a forum where a lot of people actually LIKE said product is rather indelicate on your part.
That said, from all the comments I regularly read on how Outlook is sooo much better and easier to use, I guess it WOULD be a good thing for Lotus guys to use it a bit, if only to cut down on the sheer number of such remarks.

Pascal.


I've got nothing to hide, and I'd very much like to keep that away from prying eyes.

 

[mbarron]

You could create a view - if you have the correct access of course- that can group dates.

Create a View
Go to Actions / View Option> Design...
Right click on the first column and choose Insert New Column
For the formula paste:
@Text(@Year(@Date(@Created)))+ "-"+
@If (@Length(@Text(@Month(@Date(@Created))))<2;"0"+@Text(@Month(@Date(@Created)));@Text(@Month(@Date(@Created))))

Right click on the column header, and choose Column Properties... On the Column info tab (the first one), check the Show twistie option.

Save the view and you should be good to go.


Mike