| Compare for yourself. Here are the top reasons Ytria scanEZ is the best way to speed up your Notes development/administration. |
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Ytria scanEZ is uniquely useful because:
- Rather than coding every time to perform simple tasks, use your mouse to inspect, change, and correct any database item
- Ytria offers a unique set of tools (example: forecast and see replication details)
- You can use the best Conflict Solver in the industry
- It’s affordable and offers best value for your dollar…why pay $600+ for a tool that does a fraction of what scanEZ can do?
For every feature listed it usually means adding a view or coding agents (that implies writing LotusScript or coding for the C API). Programming single-use code it neither productive nor cost-effective when affordable, and at times even free solutions are widely available.
1) Investigate and inspect your database to see what is happening, why does the application react this way, why doesn't it do that, etc…
 | Typical tool for Notes | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage to you |
See all the content of a database: all docs | No | Yes | Saves you time from creating a view…and it’s free! |
See all the content of a database: all Profiles | No | Yes | No time spent on coding. |
See all the content of a database: all Design Elements | Use design “views”: one view by design element category
Must modify design of the current database | Yes | You never have to change the design of your database. |
| See all the conflicts in your database | No | Yes | Saves you time from creating a view…and it’s free! |
| Conflicts: see the parent and conflicts together | Only the parent and one conflict (maybe the first?) | Yes, all conflict documents are shown for the parent | You see all conflicts, even if several conflict documents exist for one parent. |
See full document content | Limited: there is a maximum amount of fields and values a document can contain to be able to open it (due to the 64Kb limitation in the Notes interface) | Yes, no limitation in size
See the real value of the fields (even if multi occurrences
Can see the fields in the order they have been created by Notes.
See dupID and SeqNum of a Note | You have total access to document data without paying a penny |
See deletion stubs | No | Yes | No time spent on coding |
| See all responses and parent hierarchy | Parent only | Yes, navigate through the hierarchy | Greater flexibility to see order of responses and parents |
| See field values in hexadecimal (the way notes really stores values!) | No | Yes | Useful when you are developing with the C API and need details |
| See several field value situation on a collection of documents | No | Yes, use the Diff feature: check for presence, type coherence and value coherence of fields | You save time when you want to check the consistency of data in a database |
| See detailed field value and field type on a selection of documents | No | Yes, use the Diff. feature (Values button) | You save time when you want to check the consistency of data in a database |
| Export selected field values on a selection of documents | No | Yes, use the Diff. feature (Values button) | You save time when you want to check the consistency of data in a database |
2) Apply changes to your database, document, profiles etc…without coding any agents
| Typical tool for Notes | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage to you |
| Create new Document | Yes | Yes | |
| Create new Profile Document | No | Yes | No time spent on coding. |
| Change document UNID | No | Yes | No time spent on coding. |
| Link one or several documents to a new parent | One document only | Yes | Greater flexibility to control order of documents and parents. |
| Manage Author/Reader situation on a document | See only | Yes, see and edit (by field or by name) | You have editing control over your authors and readers over a document. |
| Access Composite Element in Rich Text (or any composite) | No | Yes, also delete them | No time spent on coding. |
| Change separator used to show a list | No | Allow to reorganize lists values or explode fields that was not saved as a list | No time spent on coding. |
| Copy any note to another database | Yes, target database needs to be typed (no selection) | One or several
Target database selected same way as in notes | Saves you time when acting on many notes |
| Move any note to another database | One only
Target database to be typed (no selection) | One or several
Target database selected same way as in notes | Saves you time when acting on many notes |
| Compute with form | One only | One or several documents | Saves you time when acting on many notes |
| Change Replication ID | No | Yes | No time spent on coding. |
| Delete deletion stubs | No | Yes, delete specific deletion stubs | More control over your deletion stubs |
| Delete any fields in a document | One by one | Yes, can be several at the same time | Saves you time when deleting a big number of fields |
| Create a new field in a document (fixed value or using a formula) | Yes | Yes | |
| Set a field value using a formula | Yes | Yes | |
| Evaluate a formula on a document | Yes | Yes | |
See and change the Notes.ini | No | Yes | Avoid the hassle of restarting Notes every time a Notes.ini change is made |
| Change Private agent to public and public to private | No | Yes | No time spent on coding |
3) (Multi-Document Operations) Inspecting data, comparing, applying mass changes on a big number of documents
| Typical tool for Notes | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage to you |
| Compare documents together | 2 documents at the same time only
Shows only the different fields (no easy access to the full doc: another window is needed) | Yes, 2 or MORE
See all fields or different fields only
Can edit any field directly | You save time when comparing several documents at once |
| Compare field list content of documents | No | Yes, 2 or MORE | You save time when comparing several lists at once |
| Change fields in a selection of documents (selection in a view or a folder) | Select documents, and create/change one or several fields
Must reselect documents to create/modify several fields
Must add a design in target database to be able to select several documents | Yes, select documents, and create/change one or several fields | Saves you time from adding a design to a database |
| Change fields value in a selection of documents (selection by formula) | Limited to 200 documents | Unlimited | Greater control and flexibility allowing you to change as many fields as required |
| Change fields value in a selection of documents (selection by full text search) | No | Unlimited | Greater control and flexibility allowing you to change as many fields as required |
| Change fields value in a selection of documents (full view content or folder) | Ctrl+A (select all) then must use the change GUI | Unlimited | Greater control and flexibility allowing you to change as many fields as required |
| Change type of fields in a selection of documents | Texts, numbers and dates only | Unlimited
Type can be texts, numbers, dates, names, readers, authors (even formula) | You control the field types in as many documents as required |
| Delete fields in a selection of documents | No | Yes | You save time deleting fields in as many documents as required |
| Copy fields in a selection of documents | Must use the create GUI | Yes | Easier to copy fields so you can be sure to have them where you want |
| Rename fields in a selection of documents | No | Yes | You save time renaming fields by changing them in as many documents as required |
| Delete selection of documents | One by one or limited to 200 documents maximum (search result) | Yes | Saves time deleting as many documents as needed |
4) Easily search for any item in any database
| Typical tool for Notes | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage to you |
| Find any note by UNID or NoteID | Yes | Yes | |
Search documents by formula | Limited: maximum number of documents returned set to 200 (whatever the result) | No limitation in the result
Categorized by Form name
Can be sorted by any field or complex formula evaluated on each document (quick search) | You never have to worry about whether a document has been left out |
| Find specific document (orphan responses) | No | Yes (Document Analyzer) | Saves you time trying to find “special” documents |
5) See the details of every replication, and solve save/replication conflicts with your mouse
| Typical Notes tool #1 | Typical Notes tool #2 | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage... |
| Replication Auditor | No | No | Yes, audit situation before a replication
Find which notes have been modified in the database since the last replication | You have all the details and control over each and every replication |
| See all the conflicts in your database | No | No | Yes | Saves you time from creating a view…and it’s free! |
| Conflicts: see the parent and conflicts together | Only the parent and one conflict (maybe the first?) | Only the parent and one conflict (maybe the first?) | Yes, all conflict documents are shown for the parent | You see all conflicts, even if several conflict documents exist for one parent. |
| Solve conflicts | Let you choose which document to keep (can be hazardous to your database!)
Shows only the different fields (so no easy access to the full doc: another window is needed)
Does not offer option to select values you want to keep | Does not give you the ability to edit the documents content.
Seems to show all the fields (have to click on each one to compare the value!) | You choose exactly which part of the document you want to keep.
Can automatically show what is different directly from the field list. Always keep the parent.
Can edit document content directly.
Automatically goes directly to the next conflict when the current one is solved. | You have more control and easier access to solve any conflict the way you want to. |
6) Manage your ACL more easily
| Typical tool for Notes | Ytria scanEZ | Ytria advantage to you |
See entire ACL in a flat view | No | Yes | You never pay for a tool to analyze your ACL |
| Edit ACL | No | Full access locally (even if locked) or with Manager access | More control over the ACL of a local database |
| Compare ACL | Yes! | No | |
| Export ACL to file | xml format | Any text or spreadsheet format | |
| Import/Export ACL from/to another database | Export to xml or notes document then import with rules of merging | Entire ACL applied | Easy to apply ACL to another database |
| Change “Enforce consistent Access Control List” | No | Yes, locally or with Manager access | Easy access to this option |
| See/access document with restrictive reader fields | No | Locally: full access, even if Enforce a consistent Access Control List is checked | Save time trying to examine documents reader fields |
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