Hyperlink to Lotus Notes Database From Captivate

[danjackson9]

Hello,

My organization uses Lotus Notes (ugh) and I am trying to figure out a way to link directly to a Notes Database from a Captivate 8 course I'm developing.  Has anyone had any luck with this?

Thanks,

Dan

[andreleal]

Dan, you need to be more clear, what kind of info you are going to grab? Lotus Notes installed or the webapp?

[danjackson9]

The software is installed on every employee's computer, and we use databases within the application as our intranet site.  I want to link directly to documents within these databases.

[andreleal]

So you have a bunch of documents (word, excel) and you like to show them inside the training?

[danjackson9]

No, they're Lotus Notes documents (not word or excel).

Different question--is it possible to force Captivate to override a user's default browser with a link that opens up in a specific browser?

[andreleal]

Kkkkk, a lot of strange requests you making (just kidding). I dont think that´s Captivate role but the system. Backing on the question those Lotus Documents are JSON objects, or you can access the content like in a normal http protocol?

[andreleal]

Maybe you can show a message to the user to use the browser specific by you.

[danjackson9]

I'd rather the user be forced to use Internet Explorer, because the "Notes://" protocol works fine in IE.  It does not function correctly in Chrome. 

[andreleal]

It would be awesome to do that I would love to make the user only use Chrome im my case, kkkk, I dont know you can call inside the course something like:

console.log(window.navigator.appName);

If it is Chrome or any diffrent from IE just display a message and dont show the content.

[NixTheNext]

I have the same problem, with Captivate 9.

Andre, the URL for a Lotus Notes link looks something like this:

Notes://EU1872DJ/518318651895811633222/552518557352/81985217743221560026418

When I look at the CPM.js, it looks like its stripping out everything except the number after the last slash.