Manage every detail of your HCL Notes databases, easily
Explore the entire contents of your Notes databases from high-level properties to individual items, to deep design components, all in one powerful tool, and without having to write a single line of code.
Get total control over the contents of your HCL Notes databases
scanEZ makes it easy to work with everything in your HCL Notes databases by giving you access to even the deepest components, those parts of databases that would normally require a substantial amount of coding to see and edit, and even parts of databases that can’t be accessed otherwise, much less modified.
All-around HCL Notes document management
It’s hard work getting to your data! It’s no secret that really seeing the data in your HCL Notes documents presents some major problems. Cast aside the old ways of the native Notes property box, long agent test and run times, and the need to build temporary views!
- Retrieve complete information about what is inside a document including all field values, item sequence numbers, sizes, flags, and more in only a couple of clicks.
- Display data such as Readers/Authors, how many Parent and Response documents there are, UNID information, date stamps, and more in composite, easy-to-navigate lists.
- Filter, sort, apply regex and text searches, categorize by attributes such as item type, and more
- Test and correct your formulas in real time—instantly and without risk.
Find items quickly, just by searching for their values.
Get your formulas right the first time you put them into production.
- Change a document’s UNID, parent, and more, all directly from the dedicated document menu.
- Modify ANY item directly in the back-end document—not only their values, but also their types, names, or flags (like the “Is Summary” flag). Create, or delete items too.
- Create new documents (even profile documents) directly with options to set the author list upon creation—add your items at any time.
- Copy/move documents to one or more databases with ease, or delete a document with selectable options to opt-out of creating deletion stubs and responses.
Change a document’s workflow status—something you normally can’t modify using the native UI.
See and edit the parent/response hierarchy for individual documents.
- Powerful search capabilities to find your documents—search by formula, UNID, NoteIDs, regular expressions, view or folder contents, full text search, formula based selection, etc..
- Find documents that contain Author/Reader type items, documents that are signed and/or encrypted, all response or parent documents, and more.
- Open a specific selection of documents directly from a Notes database.
- Organize your search results fast with the help of virtual folders. Any search results are automatically placed in virtual folders to keep subsets of documents categorized for easy handling.
Find documents that use an existing view, and analyze them based on a column value.
- Understand your documents’ contents through a range of built-in tools—compare item differences across documents, categorize data by the criteria you want, and more.
- Zoom in on the values of a handpicked selection of items across multiple documents in just a few clicks. Create virtual “views” on the fly, export data lists, and more.
Create a view of all your documents, incl look-ups to other databases, but without actually creating a view.
- “Virtual folders” behave just as Notes folders do, yet they exist only within scanEZ. Creating a virtual folder will not create a folder in Notes.
- Manipulate your virtual folder content however you choose – search within tags, combine, compare, intersect virtual folders, and more.
- Categorize your documents in your virtual folder according to whatever you want.
- Create/remove virtual folders toquickly define subsets of documents and designs for better clarity.
Categorize documents virtually for quicker workflow
- Easily create values directly, or by computing them with formula, across any document selection.
- Fix problems such as duplicates, parent/response issues, and more – all without coding.
- Encrypt/decrypt a selection of multiple documents in only a few clicks.
- It’s easy to compare a summary of field values and items, or do a search and replace, across large numbers of documents.
- Copy/Move a given selection of documents to a selection of different databases almost as easily as performing a copy/paste.
See and edit the parent/response hierarchy for individual documents.
- Documents whose total sum data exceed 32k
- Documents that are missing either parents or responses
- “Ghost” (or resurrected) documents
- Documents that remain unread—and more importantly, by whom
- Documents that should be encrypted but aren’t (and vice/versa)
- Documents with multiple fields that have the same name
- Documents with signature issues such as documents that should be signed but aren’t
- Conflicts without and parent document, or that are their own parent
Discover all documents currently marked as “read” by a given user, and mark them the same for another.
All-in-one solution to solve HCL Notes document issues
scanEZ gives you a variety of built-in tools to remedy issues that you already know about, and to find and fix problems yet to be found, before they manifest themselves.
- Copy/move or remove multiple duplicate documents to and from databases, all at once.
- Find and fix duplicate document situations across a wide range of possible types, including calendar duplicates, custom application documents, emails, person documents, etc., all without having to write a single line of code.
Get rid of duplicate emails.
- Find, understand, and fix any conflict document thanks to scanEZ’s exclusive Conflict Solver—compare differences between parent and their conflicts to determine the proper data to keep.
- Quickly solve all replication or save conflict documents in a database fast, without LotusScript and without losing ANY precious data —regardless of your view settings.
- See conflicts across entire servers by combining scanEZ’s powerful conflict detection tools with replicationEZ.
Resolve conflicts where both parent and conflict documents contain valuable data.
Resolve multiple conflicts at once.
- Find documents that have surpassed the view summary data limit of 32k bytes in only a couple of clicks, and remove them without Notes session crashes or view hang-ups.
- Handle these documents with clarity and ease thanks to the powerful categorization features of the flexYview interface—group them by Name, Title, NoteID; view actual summary data size, and more.
- Prevent future errors with dedicated search functions to identify documents at different points in their progression towards error: those that contain summary data exceeding 20k, 25k, and 30k.
Prevent the 32k error from happening
- Uncover, manage, and fix any issue with the Unread Marks table, without losing important settings.
- Gather ALL unread documents for one or multiple users, from any given database, into easy-to-analyze virtual folders.
- Synchronize the Unread ID table across replicas manually thanks to the ability to modify the table directly.
Discover all documents currently marked as “read” by a given user, and mark them the same for another.
- Grab any selection of parent documents and see all of their responses, or even the other way around!
- Change parents for multiple documents (directly modify the $Ref item).
- Uncover response document inconsistencies: orphaned responses, parent documents whose Response ID Table isn’t up to date, response documents whose UNID is identical to its parent, and more.
Review and modify the parent/response hierarchy in an entire database.
- Uncover ANY documents that are encrypted or signed across an entire database.
- Find documents NOT encrypted or signed by performing a “reverse lookup — substantially more time consuming in the native tools.
- Set encryption status for multiple documents in only two clicks, all while respecting Notes security. Encrypt using public keys for one or more users, or even use secret encryption keys.
- Reveal anomalies BEFORE they affect the integrity of your environment, such as documents that have ‘Is Signed’ or ‘Is Encrypted’ flags, yet are not so.
Find and quickly decrypt all encrypted documents in a user’s mail file.
Deep analysis and management for your HCL Notes databases
scanEZ offers unmatched ease in dealing with a range of database problems that normally grid workflow to a halt thanks to built-in tools and superior data handling.
- See all members of specific groups in a single click.
- Compare and modify multiple ACL entries at once
- Manage multiple ACL entries, their access attributes, and their role assignments in one flexible interface for fast categorization, and easy viewing.
- Expand all groups (even if they are nested) to easily view all users and their access rights—regardless of their group membership or their level within a group.
Quickly see all users that have access to a specific database.
- See ALL the different classes of designs within a given database without the need for lotusscript or to create non-standard views. In most cases the process is even faster than launching your Designer client.
- Manage the pieces that make up a design’s structure in a flexible grid interface where the interface is itself a tool with powerful data manipulation functions. Get a full understanding of the fundamentals, such as the way folders or selective replication formulas are really stored within a database.
- Edit the inner pieces of multiple designs of any kind in a database. If you need to modify designs like views or agents, we suggest other EZ Suite tools viewEZ and agentEZ. However, there may be times when you need to have access to the back-end item level of designs—scanEZ gives you that power.
Quickly adjust the hierarchy of even hundreds of folders.
- Explore and edit profile documents across an entire database —without needing to code or use special forms.
- Create/delete profile documents directly
- Test profile documents quickly and painlessly before deployment to production databases.
Delete profile documents without needing to code agents.
- Access, analyze, and purge ALL deletion stubs within a given database—sort, group, and filter by the data contained within them (such as Note ID, deletion time, sequence number, etc.).
- Prevent Note ID Table errors by isolating deletion stubs older than a target date of your choice.
- Trace the origins of resurrected documents through deletion stubs. See how in this Tech Lab post.
- Easily merge a restored database with production database quickly and successfully.
- Handle “soft deleted” documents—restore them directly from scanEZ.
Find and purge deletion stubs from created within a specific time span.
Identify deleted documents in a restored database through deletion stubs.
Powerful solutions for difficult HCL Notes database problems
scanEZ helps you find and fix a wide range of database issues—from the simple to the serious—without any need to code.
- Manage the Hidden Design flag easily through powerful options unavailable in LotusScript.
- Hide designs quickly and easily. Put your designs in a “read-only” mode in only a couple of clicks.
Unhide the design of any Notes database in only two clicks.
- Find all possible resurrected documents within a given database in only a couple clicks.
- Organize your analysis results by criteria such as resurrection status, sequence number, ‘Created (Initially)’ date, etc. all in a one feature-rich interface.
Quickly identify and track resurrected “ghost” documents along their journey across servers.
- Instantly compare replicas and see which will “win out”, when a document or design exists in both databases, but needs to be updated in only one of them.
- If a document or design should be created in another replica—see towards which database they need to be created and easily identify the documents or designs that don’t exist in the other replica.
- Prevent unwanted document deletion in other replicas by removing deletion stubs directly from within the Replication Auditor.
- See if you need to delete documents or designs in one of the replicas.
- Report your results quickly through two-click, pre-formatted export options.
- Compare replicas to prevent conflicts, or remove unwanted conflict documents.
- See if documents/designs have been edited in both replicas since the last replication.
Resolve conflicts before they even happen.
Beyond the tools: reporting, integration, and automation
Report your results fast through easy exports, pull work in from other EZ suite tools, and expand your processes through powerful automation functions.
Learn about scanEZ’s essential extras: from quick reporting, to integration with your environment, to Ytria’s adaptive API.
Export data quickly and directly from any scanEZ grid. Create reports in HTML, Excel, XML, and CSV, or simply copy/paste your data from the grid.
Leverage built-in bridges between scanEZ and other EZ Suite products, as well as your native Designer client.
Extend scanEZ’s scope through your own scripts that let you repeat functions across an even larger scale. You can even use the command line integration to create push-button, multi-step process launchers.
Find all documents that match a given formula in a database and export the findings into an Excel file.
Find multiple different types of profile documents and create reports of each different type found.
How does scanEZ work?
Installed on the client side only, scanEZ is completely independent from your Notes client. Because of this, scanEZ lets you work on a scope that just isn’t possible with any native solution.
scanEZ is a standalone compiled application coded in an efficient, low-level language. When installed, its executable file (scanEZ.exe) is detached into your Notes Program Directory. Each time you start scanEZ, a new Notes session is created, independent from your Notes client session. scanEZ runs parallel to your Notes and Designer clients and thus will not interfere in any way. In fact, you can think of scanEZ as a special “Designer client” through which you can carry out backend work with Notes databases. You can even select which ID you want to work with—without having to switch IDs in your native clients!
This means it won’t tie up your HCL Notes or Admin client, or your console. You can even select which ID file to work with – without having to switch IDs in your native clients!
Like all other Ytria tools, scanEZ is installed on the client side ONLY. There is no need to install anything on the server, and being a local install means no system downtime.
scanEZ offers you a multitude of features that surpass the functionality available in the native clients. You’ll be able to see everything contained within a Notes database immediately on startup and without having to write any code. However, our tools NEVER bypass Notes security. Basic Notes security allows editing of anything in the backend via agents as long as you have at least “editor” access. scanEZ is no different, aside from not having to write any agents, of course.
With scanEZ, you can modify masses of documents, designs, and other deeper database components within merely a few clicks. With such power available, how can you know that you’re making the right changes?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! You always know what you have changed, through a clear modification process that lets you to review your changes before applying them.
The fact that scanEZ is an independent, compiled program puts it in the position to outperform the native clients or agents coded in LotusScript. But beyond that, scanEZ gives you unmatched speed and flexibility in getting to specific documents, or a selection of documents fast. scanEZ can even be called to open on specific documents, directly from within whatever view you are currently looking at, effectively replacing in large part, the Notes property box.
scanEZ operates through the official Notes API channels; any changes that you make to documents even through backend access, will be logged in the $Updatedby and $Revisions items—as per Notes security norms. You can also create a special Modification Log database in which every single operation performed using our EZ Suite tools will be logged. You can place this database on either your local machine, or on one of your servers. And you can even use our licensing system to route logging for all EZ Suite users into a central log database.