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Customizing IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 email digests and notifications

Vincent Burckhardt, Software Engineer, IBM

Vincent Burckhardt is the Development Lead for the Lotus Connections News service at IBM's Dublin Software Laboratory, and is the primary Software Engineer working on email digest capability.

Lorenzo Notarfonzo, Software Engineer, IBM

Lorenzo Notarfonzo is a Software Engineer working on the Lotus Connections Homepage development team, and is the author of the developerWorks white paper, "Customizing email notifications in IBM Lotus Connections 2.5."

Summary: One of the primary new features of IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 is the email digest capability, which provides personalized daily and weekly newsletters that are generated based on the activities and updates in the user's social network. This white paper describes how to customize the daily and weekly digests emails, ranging from changing the look and feel of emails to more complex customizations such as adding your company-specific content to the email digests. In addition, this paper also covers customizing individual notification emails sent by the Lotus Connections services.

Date: 14 Mar 2011
Level: Intermediate

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One of the primary new features of IBM Lotus® Connections 3.0 is the email digest capability, which provides personalized daily and weekly newsletters that are generated based on the activities and updates in the user's social network. This white paper describes how to customize the daily and weekly digests emails, ranging from changing the look and feel of emails to more complex customizations such as adding your company-specific content to the email digests. In addition, this paper also covers customizing individual notification emails sent by the Lotus Connections services.

In this white paper

Introduction
Configuring and administrating email notifications
Customizing daily and weekly email digests
Customizing individual notifications
Conclusion
Appendix: Comprehensive overview of all notifications in Lotus Connections 3.0
Resources
About the authors

Downloads

Description	Name	Size	Download method
White paper in PDF format	CustomizingLCEmailDigestNotificationsFinal.pdf	2,480 KB	HTTP
Sample script files in GZip format	templateCheckInOut30.tar.gz	6 KB	HTTP
Sample customized template files in ZIP format	emailDigestCustomizations.zip	19 KB	HTTP

Information about download methods Get Adobe® Reader®

Resources

Participate in the discussion forum.
Lotus Connections 3.0 documentation.
WebSphere Application Server Version 7.0 Information Center.
Lotus Connections product page
Synch.rono.us, the Lotus Connections product team blog.
Configuring notifications: Lotus Connections 3.0.
Lotus Connections 3.0 Email digest JavaDoc.
Tips and tricks for developing HTML for compatible with email clients.
Guide to CSS support in Email clients.

Biographies

Vincent Burckhardt is the Development Lead for the Lotus Connections News service at IBM's Dublin Software Laboratory, and is the primary Software Engineer working on email digest capability.

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