#### 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 Seagate 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

Choosing Lotus Domino during installation adds the translation files P2snote.dll and P3slnen.dll to the Windows or Winnt Crystal directory.

Note:

- Nextpwd.dll and the Lotus API DLL (Lcppn201.dll) are installed in the Lotus Domino executable directory.
- The following line is added to the Notes.ini file:

`EXTMGR_ADDINS=extpwd`

- The Lotus Domino executable and data directories are added to the PATH.

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