Verse On-Premises

Verse On-Premises 1.0.9 offers a new calendar event form design. This provides an improved environment for creating and managing calendar events.

The new form opens quickly and is smaller and streamlined. Controls allow users to show just the options that they want to use. This is a preview feature that is off by default. To make this feature available to users, you must add new parameters to the notes.ini Domino server.

While testing this new “feature”, I found the issue that HCL Development will fix in future releases. More on point 2.

There are two options – two parameters:

1. To enable the new event form for all users and prevent them from disabling it, add : VOP_GK_FEATURE_168=1
2. To keep the new event form off by default but allow users to enable it, add: VOP_PREVIEW_REACT_EVENT_FORM=1
   Then, to enable the feature, users select the option New Calendar Event Form in Feature Preview section of Mail and Calendar Settings

If you use this setting (point 2) and the user selects a new form, the form will then appear completely blank when in use. HCL Development is implementing a fix for this issue. The fix will be included in a future release of VOP. For now you to use the workaround which has been described in point 1.

HCL Verse On-Premises 1.0.9.A has been released that contains changes for the following issue:

Translations in Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian languages display invalid characters: VERSE-58096

VOP 1.0.9 is available for download only a few days before the release of Domino, Notes and Sametime V11. Do you have to wait for Domino V11 or can you implement the changes already? Complete documentation LINK

There is System Requirements

• Domino 9.0.1 with Feature Pack 10 or higher on Microsoft Windows (64-bit 2008, 2012) or Red Hat Linux (64-bit 6).
• Domino 10.0 or higher on Microsoft Windows (64-bit 2012, 2016), Red Hat Linux (64-bit 7), or AIX (64-bit 7.2, TL1 or higher)
• Domino 10.0.1 or higher on IBM i version V7R2 or V7R3.
• Domino 11.0 on Microsoft Windows (64-bit 2012, 2016, 2019), Red Hat Linux (64-bit 7), or AIX (64-bit 7.2, TL1 or higher)
• Mail files require a design derived from the mail9FP9.ntf template or a later version.

Part of the HCL Factory Tour in Tokyo was the presentation of Verse On-Premise. Andrew Manby had this presentation about Verse. This build can be expected some time after releasing Domino / Notes V11.

What should appear in VOP 1.0.9?

• Calendar Event Form Improvements
• New “Change Password” link menu option
• New Verse version menu action
• Double click open event in the calendar bar
• Time zone enhancements
• Read and open meetings 24-hours or longer
• Verse can update the iwaredir.ntf template
• New action that creates a QRCode for calendar meeting URL

At the same time the plans for Verse 1.0.10 were mentioned, which of course can change.

• Search for emails within a specific date range
• Implement mail rules from within Verse
• Message “send and file” capability
• Attachments and links meet UK Cyber Essentials requirements
• Preview events contained in ICS file prior to importing file
• Create a meeting that is 24-hours or longer
• More Calendar Event Form UI improvements
• Send mail on delayed basis

Source: Andrew Manby Presentation (HCL Factory Tour 4)

Can a user find out which version of Verse On-Premises is used to access their mail database in a browser?
Yes, but it’s not quite user friendly. Someone would look for it somewhere in “About”, but you need to click a little more.

I have therefore created a new post in the Product Ideas Forum for which you can also vote LINK

I found it in the HCL knowledge database:

To determine which version of the Verse On-Premises is being used, you can examine the “build-number” in Verse. The “build-number” tag is an identifier that is unique to each Verse On-Premises version.

To view the “build-number” number you should:

• Open Verse in your browser and right click on mouse to select the option: “Inspect”
• Go to the “Console” tab and find the line that includes the word “Current Build”.
• Use the table below to determine which Verse On-Premise version is currently in use.