Hello Friends,
Please suggest your best approach for Lotus Notes To SharePoint 2013 Migration !!!
Thanks,
Ashutosh
Thanks .. I understand. Makes sense your approach. Perhaps JSLink templates is something I could consider also. 😉 So far I haven’t seen anything in Notes that is that exotic. I do however have more estates to analyse
Not hyphens – just hide-whens, the programming you can put on fields in Notes to hide or show them automatically under certain conditions. For example, only show a field to capture “Zip Code” if the user has chosen “USA” as the country, or only show a field for “Comments” if the user answers “Yes” to a question asking if they have any feedback. Notes makes it ridiculously easy to manage these, and same with the data validation that goes along with them. (That is to say, don’t make a field require a value if the user can’t see it to enter anything.) SP doesn’t have a code-free way to do this, so in some projects we’ve used JQuery to query the contents of fields and run front-end code to show/hide rows accordingly and in other projects we’ve written custom web parts.
SP does have native data validation, but in the JQuery cases you actually don’t want it to, because if you tell SP a field is required, it is required at all times whether the user can see it to enter data or not. In those cases we used JQuery again to do the validation on fields that might or might not be visible to users, since SP didn’t have awareness of it.
We only used Powershell for data migration, not JQuery, sorry if that was confusing. Powershell for the back-end work, and JQuery for the front-end.
Notes workflows are powerful indeed, and easy to set up with fairly complicated schedules. I’m glad you’ve found some tools to help!
Interesting comments. Do you mean hyphens in fields? Will add both the ‘kickers’ you mention my master list of things to find out during my analysis. I do write a lot of PowerShell, tho intrigued by your use of jQuery in migrating the data across.
Notes workflows seem really powerful, and I know how important they are to the users I have briefly met. Nintex, for me helps remove all the heavy lifting and training associated with SPD and, or Visual Studio worklows . Coupled with Nintex forms – what is there not too like 😉
I start tomorrow in one location before I move around the various sites. Yes will report back.
That’s about what our experience has been. Getting data out of Notes and into SharePoint hasn’t been too bad, and event-driven code, security and views are pretty comparable. The biggest kicker for us has been duplicating things like hide-whens on fields and anything involving scheduled agents. For me, Powershell and JQuery have been godsends in addressing some of the migration issues, but we weren’t allowed to use InfoPath or SharePoint workflows, so hopefully you won’t find agents quite as hard to deal with as I did. Let us know how it goes!
So glad I found this thead as the comments underpin my approach.
I am a independent consultant who is being brought in to analyse and migrate over 200 Notes Apps held in various locations to to Office 365. I have done a brief introductory review of some of the estate. My initial thoughts are moving basic application lists to SharePoint looks reasonable straight forward. The Notes workflows and their interconnections with other systems does concern me as I think this will require a 3rd party tool like Nintex forms and workflow.
