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Welcome to the HCL Verse Administrator Documentation.
Customizing the user experience
There are many ways to customize the experience for your HCL Verse users.
Enabling user names to display in Notes format
You can choose to display names in Notes format, for example, Lucia Hernandez/Baldwin.

Administrator Documentation
Welcome to the HCL Verse Administrator Documentation.
- Overview
  HCL Verse™ is an email and business messaging experience that is based on an innovative user-centric design, including social analytics and advanced search capabilities. Verse helps users quickly find and focus on what content is most important, empowering them to build stronger working relationships while optimizing business results.
- Accessibility features
  Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
- System requirements
  See the Verse System Requirements on the HCL Customer Support site.
- Installing and configuring
  To install and configure HCL Verse™ on a Domino® mail server, complete the following steps.
- Integrating with other products
  You can integrate HCL Verse with HCL Sametime, HCL Connections, or Box.
- Customizing the user experience
  There are many ways to customize the experience for your HCL Verse users.
  - Enabling users to add photos of themselves
    You can allow users to add photos of themselves through Domino, Connections, or the Gravatar service.
  - Setting up mail-in databases
    You can create mail-in databases on the Domino server that HCL Verse users can open through the delegation panel.
  - Enabling password and Notes ID options
    As of Verse 1.0.8, features are available in Security settings for users to change the passwords they use to log in to Verse, change their Notes ID passwords, and manage their Notes IDs. This topic describes the configuration requirements for each of these features.
  - Enabling user names to display in Notes format
    You can choose to display names in Notes format, for example, Lucia Hernandez/Baldwin.
  - Reverting to the earlier calendar event design
    Use the notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_168=0 on the Domino server to disable the new calendar event design and revert to the earlier event design.
  - Enabling QR codes for joining online meetings
    Add the notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_209=1 to the server notes.ini file to allow users to use QR codes to join online meetings.
  - Enabling integration of forwarding addresses
    When a person has a forwarding address – used to deliver mail to an external address – the person's forwarding address and primary directory address can both be shown.
  - Enabling replying to and forwarding messages from archived mail
    If your users use another client such as HCL iNotes® to archive mail on a server, or if you archive mail for them, as of release 1.0.8, users can see their archived mail in Verse. By default, users can't reply to or forward messages from a mail archive, but you can enable this capability.
  - Enabling relative paths for archived mail
    To allow archive mail file URLs to be relative to the Domino server being used, use the server notes.ini setting iNotes_WA_UseRelativeUrl=1.
  - Enabling the three-click requirement for attachments and links
    Use the server notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_217=1 to enhance security by requiring three clicks to download attachments or to access web links.
  - Preventing users from downloading attachments
    By default, users can download files attached in messages to their computers. Use the notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_234=0 on the Domino server to prevent attachment downloads.
  - Controlling the concurrent iCalendar imports allowed
    Use the server notes.ini setting VOP_ConCurr_Upload_iCal to control the number of iCalendars that can be imported concurrently into users' Verse calendars. By default, 30 concurrent imports are allowed.
- notes.ini settings
  For a complete list of notes.ini settings available to use in Verse, see the Support article https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0077185.
- Uninstalling
  If you need to uninstall Verse™ application files, simply stop the Domino server, remove the Verse .jar files, and then restart the Domino server.

Enabling user names to display in Notes format

You can choose to display names in Notes format, for example, Lucia Hernandez/Baldwin.

About this task

Use the server notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_206=1 to display names in Notes format in business cards and in messages when using type-ahead addressing or when searching the directory. The Notes name is followed by the internet-style address, for example:

Type-ahead addressing showing the Notes name

Without this setting, only the internet-style address is shown.

When names are resolved after being found in a directory, use the server notes.ini setting VOP_GK_FEATURE_220=1 to display them in Notes format, for example:

Without this setting, only the first part of the name is shown, without the organization component.

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