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Have an option 'hide in type-ahead' for groups (& regular contacts)

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Idea Author: Mathieu Pape6499 on Apr 17, 2012
Status: Open
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<div>This does already exist in 8.5.3 for recent contacts but not for groups (nor regular contacts). Very handy if you need to mail to certain (often large) groups like for announcements, but don't want to take the risk to mail this group by mistake for non-announcements.</div>

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1) Bill Malchisky8219 (5/10/12 9:39 PM)

I asked this of the core team at Lotusphere98, '99, '00, '01. I'm still waiting.

It was slated to be included in Notes 5.5, which never got released...and instead we went to R6. I think it got lost in the shuffle and despite my asking, management at the time, instead, created the multiple Group Type field in the directory: Access Control List Only, Servers Only, Deny List Only, Mail Only, Multi-purpose. Yes, this was a help of course, but it still didn't address the underlying issue for having mail lists appear in type-ahead.

As I recall, it was a hot PMR for my customer at the time as well. Point is that I concur, this should exist.

Perhaps Mail only, Mail only - Administration, to have it excluded in type-ahead, or a check-box for Mail only, that can only be set when one has Manager rights to the Directory.
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What I did as a work-around is to preface each of these special groups with a character construct that is unique and rarely if ever typed in the organization. Then, put the group name after it. e.g. _$%^!zZZZ2w$2 -- <group_name>; As the odds of someone typing an e-mail address beginning with an underscore character was quite slim there. Then I would send the note to myself with these groups in the BCC field.

That is just one way...not necessarily the most elegant, but it does work.

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Jesper Clausen549 (10/08/2012 12:07:41 AM GDT)

Christopher Boote4442 (09/14/2012 12:53:20 PM GDT)

Michel Poleur3539 (07/05/2012 11:00:21 AM GDT)

Richard Schwartz3597 (06/04/2012 01:39:20 AM GDT)

Matt White9250 (06/01/2012 02:25:54 PM GDT)

Stefan Meyer1472 (05/15/2012 01:05:11 PM GDT)

Bill Malchisky8219 (05/10/2012 09:39:21 PM GDT)

Nikolay Yushmanov1423 (04/28/2012 10:39:02 AM GDT)

Foua Vang2472 (04/26/2012 04:16:56 PM GDT)

Kenneth Axi1679 (04/24/2012 02:58:52 PM GDT)

Larry Helwig1670 (04/23/2012 07:51:13 PM GDT)

Bruce Elgort7930 (04/17/2012 01:33:16 PM GDT)

Peter von Stöckel2511 (04/17/2012 10:22:22 AM GDT)

Mathieu Pape6499 (04/17/2012 09:25:57 AM GDT)

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