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Submitted by Ian (not verified) on 23 July 2007 - 4:31am.

Any word on POA/MTA/GWIA/WEBACC live screens on Linux to match the existing NetWare console screens? I know the lack of them is a big gripe with people I have talked to.

Submitted by Ian (not verified) on 23 July 2007 - 7:55pm.

You can have multiple email addresses to a degree. You can create nicknames that are aliases of the main account, or you can create multiple accounts and give the main account proxy rights. Or are you on about something different?

Submitted by Alan Pearson (not verified) on 24 July 2007 - 10:44am.

That's great news. We're a new Novell customer, and have found that Novell are a one stop shop for everthing we ever need.

Our 3 biggest GW issues at the moment, that I hope get rectified very soon:

1) External appointments that get 'updated' show as a duplicate entry in the calendar. This is SO annoying, my CEO is jumping up and down about it.

2) When adding a contact to the address book (right click on a name, add contact) the other GW windows are inaccessible, so user can't refer back to them for cut'n'paste of postal address etc. Again, really, really annoying.

3) Copying the email address in an email TO, CC or BC field sometimes only copies the NAME not the actual email address. This is REALLY REALLY REALLY annoying, as it means when sending a new email or sometimes adding to address book, only the name goes in and not the address. PLEASE PLEASE DEFAULT to ALWAYS COPY THE ADDRESS !!!!!

Aside from that, we love Groupwise to bits, and when the new Mac & Linux clients arrive our life will be almost bliss.

Also, please please don't neglect doc management.. it ROCKS. Index PDFs as another poster said in Quickfinder, and perhaps improve webpublisher ?? (many different web publisher users with different permissions?)

Keep up the Linux love too, as that was a key decision to go GW.

Thanks again for all the work.

AlanP

Submitted by Sebastiaan Veld (not verified) on 24 July 2007 - 12:50pm.

Personally the first thing on a Linux server that I do is shut down the graphical environment :) But what would be nice is a portal like solution where we can monitor our POA/MTA/GWIA/WEBACC agents instead of accessing each seperatly at their own web page for like monitoring health. Something like a stripped down version of Readline would be nice, especially in smaller environments.

Submitted by Andre (not verified) on 24 July 2007 - 3:22pm.

Nick, I totally agree, along with the feature of being able to set view and compose defaults per account so I can set plain text for my newsgroups.

Also is html integration fixed finally? GW7 and below have HORRIBLE html handling!

Submitted by Alex Evans (not verified) on 26 July 2007 - 6:26pm.

You can remotely access the console screens if you use Monitor, though I do agree that this seems to be one of the things that keeps people from moving more quickly to Linux

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 26 July 2007 - 7:22pm.

I'm sorry. Bonsai is very much a productivity and end-user focused release. Monterrey, the code name for the release after Bonsai - is geared to more of a Administrative focus. We will consider these types of requests then.

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 26 July 2007 - 7:27pm.

Not sure I understand the HTML comment. Please explain?? HTML composing or rendering or just launching links?

We are still working on defaults per account.

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 26 July 2007 - 7:53pm.

Great ideas!! Some of these are addressed in Bonsai and others will have to wait.

The Linux client has lots of new features - that will be the topic of another blog.

We are indexing PDF files so that they can be searched.

Web Publisher is not changing in Bonsai.

Submitted by Tom Stone (not verified) on 27 July 2007 - 2:05pm.

Thanks for the update.

Nick, have any of the calendar printing functions been updated? The printing choices are moderately OK but the output is crude by today's standards. Also, has the HTML printing feature improved? It has been rather bizarre up to this point in that it doesn't try to emulate the "printer" printout at all. It has its own format and you cannot change much. It is nothing that I or my clients would put on a web page and it would be a very handy feature if it was attractive.

Submitted by Eric (not verified) on 30 July 2007 - 8:02am.

Has any thought been given to bundling Novell Identity Manager w/ the Groupwise Driver, or at least with the AD driver, as part of the Groupwise Bonsai release? This is especially something to consider given all the comments in the previous Bonsai posts regarding lack of 'good' API's. In addition, Groupwise still requires eDir, so why not throw in something like the Groupwise Driver to help those AD-only shops make a better case for GW vs Exchange, at least until Groupwise becomes eDir-less like ZEN has become?

Submitted by Sebastiaan Veld (not verified) on 30 July 2007 - 12:08pm.

That would be a pity. Just talked to a customer this spring that will look into this near the end on the year, so we discussed Cryptovision's products as an option for them. On their site http://cryptovision.com/65+M52087573ab0.html support for GW is still there.

Submitted by Blaine (not verified) on 30 July 2007 - 4:27pm.

Actually we already spoke with Cryptovision and they do not have a Groupwise 7 compatible s/mime app and are not planning on developing one unfortunately. Tumbleweed is planning on supporting Groupwise sometime in the future so we may have to wait.

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 31 July 2007 - 6:24pm.

Tom,

We have not made any significant changes to this area of the product in Bonsai. However, I would love to see a screen shot or some other example of what you would like it to look like. Some of this stuff might be easier than we think and we just don't know what it is that you are wanting...

Send me something...

Submitted by Joseph Marton (not verified) on 1 August 2007 - 10:29am.

Here is the workaround for using a nickname with a dot. So for your examples of p.van.der.wal p.vander.wal, what you would do is create two nicknames. The first nickname would have first name of p.van and last name of der.wal (the first & last name fields in a nickname allow a dot), and for the second you would specify a first name of p and a lastname of vander.wal (or first name of p.vander and last name of wal). As long as you then allow the format of firstname.lastname, you can now create nicknames that have a period.

This works today in GW7. This topic has actually been covered more than once in the gw7 forums. :-)

Joe

Submitted by Tom Stone (not verified) on 28 August 2007 - 12:32pm.

Dean,

Sorry for not responding sooner.

Almost any calendar application has nicer looking output including your main competitor. Here is a link to Microsoft's Outlook calendar printing assistant for example. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052426...

There have been several annoying bugs in the GroupWise calendar printing function for years. One that I constantly hear about is trying to print a monthly calendar. GroupWise thinks that a month only contains 4 weeks when in reality many months span 5 weeks and sometimes 6 in the overall view. (ie the 1st is on a Friday in the 1st week and the 31st is on the Monday of the 6th week.) GroupWise just truncates the final week and a half. September and December of 2007 are good examples of this problem.

Try using the HTML output feature. It just looks crude. Why can't a month look like a month without repeating the month header for every week. Also, if you try to create a month it truncates the last week just like the paper print out that I mentioned above.

Just try using it for a while and you will see how quirky it is. It is embarrassing
to show this to people.

Submitted by Rixter (not verified) on 19 September 2007 - 9:45am.

Comment / bug-fix for GW Connector for Outlook.

We're using the new 7.02 GW Connector, we've found that in Outlook only the default email account displays from GW contacts

In GW you have have multiple email addresses for a contact, of course only one is a primary address. In Outlook there is also the capability to have multiple email addresses per contact. The problem is that the connector only enumerates the first email address in Outlook. Hopefully this is fixed with Bonsai. Who can I report this to for GW 7?

Thanks

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 25 September 2007 - 8:06am.

We are planning major administration refresh in the release after Bonsai - code named "Monterrey".

It will not be ConsoleOne and probably not iManager. It will be a combination of a Web Console as well as an application. In Bonsai, we have created a new Admin API in Java and we expect to leverage that to build this new Management Console. We will probably SOAPize the API as well and expose it to our partners.

There is still a lot of design and thought that needs to go into this, but that is the current thinking.

Submitted by Dean Lythgoe (not verified) on 25 September 2007 - 8:21am.

Yes we will. It is all about timing :) When we begin the authorized BETA,just a few weeks away, we will publish a comprehensive list of new features. Bug fixes are more difficult to laundry list, but we will pick out the major ones and add them to the list.

Dean

Submitted by Alex Evans (not verified) on 3 January 2008 - 3:28pm.

Michael - those settings have been there for years. Look in the link configuration tool.