Lotus Notes/Domino Designer 8 - Get User Name from E-mail

Question

I have a bunch of users I am adding to conference. They are contained both in a user's address book and on the Notes server/main company address book. Once I have the e-mail address of a user, is there a way to look up their user name?

Answer 1

You can lookup the internet email address in the company Name and Addresss Book (NAB) database. I believe out-of-the-box, there is a view in the NAB named "Person / By Internet Email". From within a Notes agent, you can use formula language (use @DBLookup) or script (using notesView.getDocumentByKey). Or you can use COM to do the lookup.

In script, this would look something like:

...
dim s as new notesSession, db as notesDatabase, vw as notesView, doc as notesDocument
set db = s.getDatabase (YOUR_SERVER, "names.nsf")
set vw = db.getView ("People\By Internet Mail")
set doc = vw.getDocumentByKey (EMAIL_ADDRESS_VALUE, true)
if not (doc is nothing) then
    sName = doc.FullName(0)
end if
....