You can access a person's business card to find out more about the person and retrieve their contact information. The following products can potentially provide the data that is displayed in the business card:

• Lotus Connections
• Lotus Notes
• Lotus Sametime

If you have more than one of these products installed and enabled, you can optionally specify which product should serve as the primary source of the business card data. You can optionally prevent one or more of the products from contributing to the business card retrieval altogether.


To prioritize the source of the business card data, complete the following steps:

1. Find the plugin_customization.ini file in the following directory:

Notes_install_dir/framework/rcp

2. Open the plugin_customization.ini file in a text editor.

3. Do one of the following:

• To prevent one of the products from being the source of the business card data, add the following property to the file:
  

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/disable.content.for.provider_name=true

where provider_name is one of the following values:

• Lotus Connections: profiles
• Lotus Notes: NotesContacts
• Lotus Sametime: com.ibm.lconn.client.bizcard.livename

• To change the order of products from which to retrieve the business card data, add a "com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority for.provider_name=priority" property for each of the supported products where provider_name is one of the following values:
  
• Lotus Connections: profiles
• Lotus Notes: NotesContacts
• Lotus Sametime: com.ibm.lconn.client.bizcard.livename
  
and priority is a relevant alphabetic character. Use letters that come later in the alphabet to specify higher priority products and letters that come earlier in the alphabet to specify products with a lower priority. For example, a priority of A is lower than a priority of B.

By default, the business card is populated with data from the products in the following order:

• Lotus Connections
• Lotus Sametime
• Lotus Notes
  

For example, you can have the business card retrieve data from Notes first, then Lotus Connections, then Sametime, as follows:

com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.NotesContacts=G
com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.profiles=E
com.ibm.rcp.bizcard/change.priority.for.com.ibm.lconn.client.bizcard.livename=C

4. Save the changes to the plugin_customization.ini file.

5. Restart Notes.

Note: To push these Eclipse preference values to client users through Domino policy, use the Custom Settings, Managed Settings options in the Domino desktop policy settings document. See the following two documents for related information:

-- Pushing policy settings to the client for updating notes.ini and Eclipse preference settings
-- How to setup desktop policies to set Sametime Eclipse Settings and Preferences