How to find a Lotus Notes database

Document number: 10059

 

The Domain Catalog located on the PSSearch/PeopleSoft server is a directory that contains the names of the public Lotus Notes databases and the servers they reside on.

To find a database in the Domain Catalog:

  1. Open the Domain Catalog on the PSSearch server and click the by Title view.

    • For information on how to find the Domain Catalog, click here.

  2. Type the name of the database and press the {Enter} key. Click on the title of the database to open the section listing the servers the database is located on.

  3. Single click on the server name that the database should be accessed from.

  4. Click the Open button and press the {Esc} key to close the "About this database" document after it has been read. The database will be open.

    A bookmark for the database will automatically be created in the Databases bookmark folder with the blue book on it. You can open the database in the future by clicking the bookmark. For additional information on bookmarks, see Eureka! document 12039 — How to create a bookmark in Lotus Notes.

If a user does not have access to a database, an error will be received when trying to open it. For additional information, see Eureka! document 12031 — How to get access to a Lotus Notes database.

 

 

 

 

 


To open the Domain Catalog in Lotus Notes:

  1. Open Lotus Notes.

  2. Select F ile from the menu bar.

  3. Select D atabase from the drop down list and select O pen... from the next drop down list.

  4. Type PSSearch in the Server: window and click the Open button.

  5. Double click on Domain Catalog in the Database: window to open it.

The Domain Catalog database is now open.

 

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Created by the PeopleSoft Knowledge Management Team.
Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved.
Created: jkc 01/16/1997
Revised: dcb 10/30/2003
Reviewed: 08/09/2004