Calendar conversion for rich text
This topic details the conversion method for rich text calendar entries from HCL Notes® when displayed in Microsoft™ Outlook.
Conversion to plain text
When communicating via the Exchange ActiveSync protocol, Outlook does not support rich text
descriptions, such as those that can be created in Notes® - for example, multiple font sizes, colors, tables, etc. To provide the
best experience for an Outlook user viewing a calendar entry containing rich content,
elements like tables are converted into the closest plain text representation of the
data. For proper alignment of table columns, this requires that the user have a
monospace font set for viewing plain text in Outlook:
- In Outlook, select .
- From the Personal Stationery tab, under Composing and reading plain text messages, click the Font button.
- Select
Courier New
and9pt
(recommended), then click OK.
Configuring rule width
The width that the Traveler server uses to format tables and horizontal rules is configurable via
the following INI parameter:
NTS_CALENDAR_CONVERSION_WIDTH
161which means that, by default, a table created in Notes® will be 161 characters wide in the formatted, plain text version synced to Outlook.