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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 1

IBM/Lotus Notes Developer View

I appreciate this might seem like incomplete information but I dont have full information on this.

I've been given a number of NSF files to try get the data out of. I have downloaded the IBM Notes Demo. When I open one of the files, I get two colums that look like a mapping between two integers.

If I then highlight one of the rows and go to Create>Developers Form, I can see the full information for one of the records. We have tens of thousands of records and I would like to be able to see them all at once like a table view.

The system that the files came from has been decomissioned so we cant run it properly to access the data.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, if you have any questions please ask.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 277

Answers (1)

Tode
Tode

Reputation: 12080

Without having somebody to explain, what is in that NSFs you will have no chance to get the data out.

NSFs are document databases, that can contain a large amount of unstructured data.

This data can be "visible" using a view, but there are not necessary views for all kind of data.

Knowing LotusScript (a programming language that is very similar to VisualBasic) it is no problem to export the data as CSV, Excel, into a relational database or even as structured text or HTML, but the first step is to KNOW, what data you want to export.

Analysing a NSF- file without knowing its internal structures and without knowing the basics about NSF- Databases (what are forms, views, documents, items) is almost impossible, while an experienced Lotus Notes / Domino developer can extract data within minutes.

So the best advice to give you: Find an expert for Lotus Notes Databases and let HIM export the data, otherwise this will be a very long task to do.

Upvotes: 3

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