Your most valuable assets are tied up in Notes documents. The Midas LSX gives you access to those assets in new ways with a powerful export engine that allows you to completely utilize your Notes content, including all the complexity stored in rich text fields.
Whether you have an XPages app to drive with well rendered JSON, or a mobile app that needs an instant eBook, or a need to take data outside of Notes completely to SharePoint, Google Apps, MSQL or elsewhere, the Midas LSX offers a simple, powerful engine with the highest level of control and fidelity possible. | 
Click on images to see two of several ways to use the Midas LSX to get the most out of your valuable Notes/Domino data!
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Read about our pricing and licensing to determine what you need. Order licenses on-line or by e-mail or by phone at +1 216-310-0552.
Download the Help database (or read it on-line) and the Midas LSX software itself.
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| If you need technical support, or have additional questions: To ask questions that are not answered in our FAQ, contact our e-mail support. If you have an urgent problem or complex questions, please give us a call at +1 (216) 310-0552. |
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Midas Exports: Tabbed Table Options
| Features |
• Adds classes to LotusScript that can be used in Notes client or Domino server
• Powerful addressing model allows developer to target defined "chunks" of rich text
• High level methods allow simple calls to build cross references links, sort tables, export to HTML and other common tasks
• Low level methods allow fine control over almost any property or attribute of any rich text construct
• Backward/forward compatibility allows use in Notes 8.5x through 14.x, and supports constructs from all
• Export/Migration of up to 500 documents - higher limits available with separate Midas Exports license |
| Benefits |
• Gain access to the corporate assets in your rich text
• Control your content for both Notes and the Web
• Create high quality, standards compliant HTML which meets accessibility standards such as WAI and Section 508 guidelines
• Send MIME/HTML e-mails with simple LotusScript methods
• Use rich text editing classes better than those in Notes/Domino |
Frequently Asked Questions about the Midas LSX
1) What is an LSX?
LSX stands for LotusScript eXtension, and as the name suggests, it is software package that extends LotusScript by adding additional functionality.
2) Is the Midas LSX easy to install and configure?
Yes. Installation is simply the addition of a single DLL (shared library on UNIX systems) and a license file, both in the same directory as your Notes client or Domino server software. There isn't really any configuration. If your script includes Midas using the Uselsx statement you will see in all our samples, and if Midas is installed, it will simply work. No special NOTES.INI entries or re-boots are required.
3) Do I need to be a LotusScript expert to use the Midas LSX?
No. Midas has a very simple model with only three classes used in most applications. There are many samples available, and most customers do not need to do much more than modify a sample slightly. We are also always willing to help with ideas, sample code, pre-written agents and extensive documentation.
4) Is the Midas LSX fast enough to use with thousands of documents?
Yes. Midas is written in highly tuned low level C using the Notes C API. It has been used by companies who need to process hundreds of thousands of documents each day. Of course, performance is one of the toughest software metrics to test. The only true test is whether your application is fast enough, and only you can find out.
Nonetheless, we have performed various tests as part of our stress testing that should give a feel for how fast Midas can be. These random tests show Midas performing some ordinary tasks at extraordinary speeds.
Midas LSX Version 5.00 on Windows 7:
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| Generate HTML for every document in the BP Technical Forum for 2001 (typical discussion forum) |
38 seconds to translate 38574 documents [1015 docs/sec]
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| Cross reference Midas LSX Help db for V5.00 |
24 seconds to generate 1471 links in 722 rich text fields [30 fields/sec, 61 links/sec]
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5) If I modify rich text with Midas in one version of Notes, will the changes be visible in other versions?
Yes. Midas uses the same structural conventions that Lotus Notes/Domino uses, so all rich text will be both forwardly and backwardly compatible. Of course, since tabbed tables were added in R5, they won't be visible in R4 except as normal tables, and since layers were added in ND6, they won't be visible in R5. Similar limitations are found with any features added in a later version. Unlike Notes, Midas can create rich text for a future version, so layers can be created in R5, but will only be visible in Notes 6, and so forth.
6) Will the Midas LSX work with earlier versions of Notes/Domino?
Yes. Midas was originally created for R4.1, but now supports ND8.x through ND12.x. Virtually all functionality in Midas is available to all these versions, except where the rich text itself does not support the functionality.
7) Why do I need the Midas LSX even though Notes/Domino has some rich text programmability?
You may not, if your needs are very simple and are covered by the very limited functionality exposed by the Notes rich text classes offered. If you need to create a table, but don't really need to control its appearance or contents or nest one table in another or turn on and off borders, Notes 6+ will let you do it natively. If you want to add formatted text, but not a section, horizontal rule, layer, graphic or embedded view, Notes 6 will let you do that as well. If your application is not mission critical, so you can afford some crashes and slow performance, Notes 6+ rich text classes may well be enough for you. After all, a bicycle may get you where you are going, but you wouldn't drive it on the highway.
8) Do you have local support in [name that region]?
Yes and no. Our offices are in Cleveland, OH in the United States, our support team is based outside London in the U.K. with a branch in Australia, but support is available all over the world, from our support team, our home office and from the many, many developers, ISVs and business partners who work with the Midas LSX regularly. With customers in 48 countries, we are very familiar with the issues in supporting companies in different locales. When a problem arises, our developers and support staff are prepared to deal with it no matter where the customer resides.
9) How do I know Genii Software will still be there next week or next year?
There are never any absolute guarantees, but Genii Software has been around since 1994, and providing Notes solutions and supporting Notes customers since 1995. While bigger companies have failed with the dot com bust, the latest global recession or simply through overreaching, we have stayed strong and grown by focusing on our areas of expertise and by never forgetting our customers.