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For years, NotesPeek has been the de facto standard application to dive into the inner details of Notes databases. The name with the suffix "peek" reminiscence the old days when programmers frequently had to read content at memory locations by "peeking", and writing to memory locations with "poking". In addition the icon x-raying the "Notes-folks" identify the purpose of NotesPeek quite good:
NotesPeek was written by Ned Batchelder, a former Lotus employee. The user interface is clean and intuitive using the treelist to navigate in databases, documents and fields. The content is shown in the main area to the right. Below you see a screenshot of NotesPeek.
You will find all sort of information here, and as you see from the screenshot above, you can really dive into richtext to see how the CD records are sequenced and what they contain.
How does List Fields interact with NotesPeek ?
List Fields has the ability to launch NotesPeek and make it open the currently selected document in List Fields. This makes it very quick and easy to dive into the document with NotesPeek if you don't find the information you're looking for in List Fields.
You launch NotesPeek from the Information Area toolbar by clicking on the NotesPeek icon.
The first time you launch NotesPeek, List Fields want you to specify where your NotesPeek application is located. You do this from the dialog box shown below:
The filename of NotesPeek is Ntspk32.exe. Press the ...-button to bring up a find-a-file dialog box.
More information on NotesPeek
Voith's CODE encourage you to check out NotesPeek on your own, and you should check out this Lotus Developer Domain article.
Unfortunately NotesPeek isn't a "directly supported tool" by IBM, and even if the Lotus Business Partner Community has heard some beeps about a new version for Notes and Domino 6, nothing has been committed nor promised by IBM.