MS Access 2000: Is it possible to open a connection to query Lotus Notes?

Question

Can I create either an ODBC connection or a connection string in VBA to get into a lotus notes database to pull data out of it?

Answer 1

Yes, there is an ODBC connector for Lotus Notes called NotesSQL. I used it years ago and you can find it on-line http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomino/notessql/

Answer 2

Yes you can. You need to install the "NotesSQL" ODBC driver for Notes (and you will need the Notes client on the machine running your VB code).

You can download the driver here.

And there is some more info here.

Answer 3

I haven't had a need to work with Lotus Notes in a while, but ConnectionStrings.com usually is a good resource for things like this.

Answer 4

I don't know about Access, but I used to connect to Notes in a DTS package. We had a special ODBC Notes driver that worked fairly well.

I think if you have the ODBC driver you can probably do it.

A word of warning, unless things have changed, Notes will throw you some curves. The form value data types can change from one release to another and this can really confuse the driver so that it returns nulls when there is actually data.

Good luck :)