Lotus Domino

Lotus Domino is a powerful groupware application used for communication and information sharing between departments in an organization.

A Lotus Domino database can be read by Crystal Reports using either a native driver or an ODBC driver. For information about the ODBC driver, see Lotus Domino. The following table compares the features of the native driver and the ODBC driver.

Feature Native driver ODBC driver

Logon to different servers

Yes

Yes

Use Lotus Domino client extension manager to pass password to Lotus Domino client

Yes

No

Obtain list of available databases (including subfolders)

Yes

Yes

List database filename

Yes

Yes

List database title

Yes

No

Report on Views and Forms

Yes

Yes

Distinguish between Views and Forms with same name

Yes

No

Omit Forms with no fields

Yes

No

Omit Subforms (cannot be used independently)

Yes

No

Text fields shown as strings

Yes

Yes

Text fields shown as memos

Yes

No

Rich Text fields shown as strings

Yes

No

Rich Text fields shown as memos

Yes

Yes

Computed values for composed fields

Yes

No

Multiple value fields shown as first value with proper type

Yes

No

Multiple value fields shown as string and memo

Yes

No

Converting report from other driver

Yes

Partial

Left outer join on linked tables

Yes

Yes

Other joins on tables

No

Yes

Server-side filtering

Partial

Yes

Choosing Lotus Domino during installation adds the translation file P2snote.dll to the Windows or Winnt/Crystal directory.

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