Start/notes.ini Parameters/EnableGroupByDate

EnableGroupByDate

Parameter: EnableGroupByDate
Short description: Controls whether the Notes client mail-view feature "Show > Group By Date" (grouping messages by date) is active.

Description

EnableGroupByDate controls the HCL Notes client mail-view feature "Show → Group By Date", which groups messages by date buckets (Today, Yesterday, Last Week, etc.) in views such as Inbox and All Documents.
According to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 Administrator Help ("Enabling the Group By Date feature in all mail files"), administrators can roll out the feature to Notes clients with EnableGroupByDate=1 via a Desktop Policy (Custom Settings tab).
With HCL Domino 12.0.1 the feature became enabled by default in the standard mail views. At the same time the counterpart was introduced: EnableGroupByDate=0 disables the Group By Date mail feature again ("Disable the Group By Date mail feature", HCL Domino 12.0.2 What's new).
Per HCL Support KB0109093, the notes.ini parameter affects the Inbox and All Documents views. Users can additionally toggle the grouping per folder through View → Show → Group By Date.

Profile

Parameter
EnableGroupByDate
Category
Client configuration / Mail view
Component
Notes client only (not Domino server)
Value range
1 – enable Group By Date
0 – disable Group By Date (default from 12.0 onwards: enabled)
Default
From Domino 12.0 onwards: feature is enabled by default in Inbox and All Documents
Available since
At least 11.0.1 (=1 to enable); =0 to disable introduced in HCL Domino 12.0.1
Effective
After restarting the Notes client
GUI equivalent
Notes client: View → Show → Group By Date per folder; centrally deployable via Desktop Policy → Custom Settings (notes.ini)

Examples

EnableGroupByDate=1
EnableGroupByDate=0

Notes

  • Applies to the Notes client only; it has no effect on Domino server tasks.
  • The change becomes effective only after the Notes client is restarted.
  • Primarily affects the system views Inbox and All Documents; user-created folders may keep their individual grouping and might need to be reset manually (HCL Support KB0109093).
  • Recommended deployment: a Desktop Policy with Custom Settings containing EnableGroupByDate and the desired value.
  • Users can always override the setting per folder via View → Show → Group By Date.
  • From HCL Domino 12.0 onwards, Group By Date is enabled by default. To keep the previous behavior, roll out EnableGroupByDate=0.

Sources (HCL Product Documentation)