Question came up from a customer today requesting the ability to link to a Lotus Notes database form upon receiving an email with the associated link embedded in it. More specifically that the email is generated from a source outside of the Lotus Notes environment itself.

My first thought was a resounding NOPE… CANNOT BE DONE, however my response to the customer was more in the form of :

“Although there may exist a technical solution, it is not part of the IT Standards and Best Practices” to facilitate this type of functionality. There exists other standards in place that would be followed instead.”

Needless to say this did not go over well with the customer, who asked the question again…but differently. Realizing they were not going to let this one go, I did some more research. I decided I would share this research with everyone else also.

Much of my research had me landing here at http://www.alanlepofsky.net.

NOTE : This only works for emails received into the Lotus Notes client itself. You cannot just type it into your favorite browser and expect it to launch your Lotus Notes and drive to the requested destination. I am pretty sure that would violate most security and audit provisions regarding the execution of host applications via web page actions.

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