2012-05|
We're pleased to present the first episode of the Notes Tips podcast, with your hosts Julie Brown and Amy Smith...
« Julia Brown / Amy Smith » |
2012-04|
Do you have any simple tricks you use all the time? We're collecting short tips (2 sentences or less) for Notes, so if you've got tips to share, leave them in the comments!
« Julia Brown » |
2012-03|
Attempts to connect to a Domino server over HTTP result in a status 400 error "Bad request" for some users who are authenticating to Domino through SPNEGO. When a web user connects to Domino, the browser sends an HTTP header with the SPNEGO login information in a Kerberos token. Domino reads the information and uses it to authenticate the user with Active Directory, and then it sets an LTPA token for the user, providing authentication with Domino. However, if the HTTP header is longer that 16KB, this will fail, resulting in a status 400 error. This is because Domino has a default HTTP header size limit of 16KB (16,384 bytes)...
« IBM Lotus Support »
Had Cost us about one week of investigating the problem at the beginning of this year! |
2012-02|
If you perform a fulltext search with "SearchOption=4" against a categorized view on a Domino server 8.x in some circumstances not all found documents get shown. Update: spr YDEN8SBE2W
« Christoph Arras » |
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The purpose of this Technical Paper is to assist you in configuring the Restrictions and Control section of the Server Configuration document. In describing router restrictions, SMTP inbound controls, SMTP outbound controls, transfer controls, delivery controls and rules, this document not only addresses the restrictions for unwanted Internet mail, but it also describes the process for configuring threads and other router restrictions. Examples are provided of the restrictions and the error messages displayed when the restriction is applied by the server...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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Today I needed to use LotusScript to find the length of a string, in bytes. It took a little experimentation, so I figured I should post it here in case anyone else might sometime find it useful. This is in LotusScript; there's probably an easier way in Java, but I needed it for a form validation...
« Andre Guirard » |
2012-01|
A phishing attacker sends an email with a link purporting to be to your website. It begins with your domain name, but employs the &redirectto argument to actually steer the user to their site if they click the link.This feature is used legitimately to create authentication pages that on logout, redirect the user to another page onsite that doesn't require authentication. But for some high-security sites, the functionality may be problematic.
We are not giving a specific example here on the theory that one should avoid giving instructions on how to attack server security...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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This wiki covers what is needed to build or enhance an application, regardless of client, and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application. It also includes instructions on infrastructure and operational improvements which can benefit performance and maintainability of your environment...
« IBM Redbooks » |
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This white paper explains how to improve IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.5.x performance from the perspectives of the operating system and applications. It is based on recommendations made to customers in real-life production environments that, when implemented, will increase performance for the Lotus Notes and the entire OS as a whole...
« Elliott Harden »
via Manfred Dillmann |
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Es gibt tatsächlich eine wenig bekannte Möglichkeit. IBM aktualisiert die Feiertage bei neuen Versionen des Temples (PUBNAMES.NTF), doch diese werden beim Update des Domino Servers nicht aktualisiert (es erfolgt lediglich ein Design-Update der NAMES.NSF)...
« Manfred Dillmann » |
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A webcast covering all the new features in 8.5.3
« Chris Miller » |
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When switching jobs from beeing an IBM'er to becoming a business partner, I knew about the possibility to use an external sametime client to chat with internal IBM'ers. So I googled a bit and came up with this page...
« Robert Farstad » |
2011-12|
If you have more than one SSO-Configuration-Document under "Internet Sites" and you want to select one of these SSO-Configurations in a Website-Document, it will always select the (n-1)-Entry, not the selected! Tested and confirmed with two completly different environments/clients/servers. Update: spr RMAN8Q2CPX
« Christoph Arras » |
2011-11|
Technote #1570612 - Interim Fix 1 for Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 / Technote #1568710 - Clicking 'Logout' button in iNotes 8.5.3 full mode logs user out of Sametime but not iNotes
« Joy Freeman » |
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ISSL Education is pleased to announce an OpenCourseWare Pilot in IBM Lotus Greenhouse. The free courseware available, as part of this pilot is the material used in the instruction of Course D8L55 - Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages. The timing for building Social Business application development skills that leverage XPages technology could not be better - especially with the recent announcement of the Domino 8.5.3 XWork Server. To access and download the free courseware you need to be a member of Lotus Greenhouse. Already a member? Login to access "Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages" courseware...
« Dave Hay » |
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A new version of the "LotusScript Gold Collection" toolkit is available on openntf.org. It includes the much requested NotesGroupManager library which used to be in the Lotus Sandbox, and a way to call Notes C API functions without having to check which OS you're using before each call. The latter might not work on all servers, but the problem has been reported to the LotusScript team in development. It works great on all clients (and you could easily make a server version, it's just not as efficient as you must load the classes for all supported OS instead of using dynamic loading)...
« Andre Guirard » |
2011-10|
I've been doing quite a bit of research into the BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) vulnerability...
« John Lawren James » |
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Notes Views is a fantastic feature of Notes/Domino and has been a true friend over the years. If the users work profile is "write few - read many" the standard view is really fast and versatile. But as we all know standard Notes Views has its limits...
« Jesper B. Kiær » |
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While chasing a Citrix/Lotus Notes issue today, I needed to read values from the Windows Registry that user Citrix sessions see (which are prohibited from running RegEdit), so wrote the following button - Hope it is useful for you in the future. Create a Form, Memo etc. and add a new button, then paste in the code below. The button will allow you to read a value from the Windows Registry by specifying the Registry Key, Sub-Key and Value to retrieve (these are defaulted to show where the Internet Explorer 'Favorites' folder is set to). e.g. if you want to read the registry that a Citrix session sees, run Lotus Notes under Citrix and then access/click the button from say a draft memo in your mail file...
« James W. Stuart » |
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Now that we've shipped Notes/Domino 8.5.3, there seems to be some confusion about what comes next on the Notes/Domino roadmap. We'll be discussing this in detail next week with an initial group of customers at our Leadership Alliance event, and of course, at Lotusphere 2012. But to clarify for now since there is discussion...
« Ed Brill » |
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Today, IBM is releasing Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 [Page to be updated 4 October US morning time...]. New features in this release include substantial updates to the Notes Traveler client for Android, improvements in Notes email and calendaring, parity features in Lotus iNotes, substantial new power in XPages, and incremental updates to Domino. This is anticipated to be the last 8.5.x release with new features, as we turn our development focus to a new feature release ("Notes Next") coming in 2012...
« Ed Brill » |
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Tomorrow, IBM will announce IBM XWork Server 8.5.3. The new server is part of the IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 family, but with a completely different licensing approach, different branding, and different packaging (installer). The new IBM XWork Server will be available for ordering tomorrow, and the software release is scheduled for Friday, October 7, in English...
« Ed Brill » |
2011-09|
I've been slowly teasing this out as we near the finish line, but we now have a launch date and activities set up.
Unless something last minute changes, our planned announce/ship date for the Notes/Domino 8.5.3 family is Tuesday, 4 October 2011. We will have new news at the time of launch, so stay tuned for that.
Meanwhile, LotusUserGroup.org has opened registration for the launch webcast, taking place on Thursday, 6 October 2011...
« Ed Brill » |
2011-08|
This from one of our my UK customers: Notes R8.5.x will crash when forwarding an HTML format e-mail that refers to images on remote web servers, IF your Notes client's proxy settings are enforced by a policy AAAAND the list of proxy exceptions on the Desktop Settings policy document in the Domino Directory uses semi-colons to separate the hosts (like Internet Explorer does): The proxy exception list must be separated with commas.
So, in summary, use commas (,) rather than semi-colons (;) to separate hosts in the Lotus Domino proxy exception list. Will see if I can find an IBM Technote and update this...
« Dave Hay » |
2011-07|
This technote contains an all-in-one Admin Tool that consists of a collection of tools that IBM Support provides in various technotes and wiki articles. These technotes usually require an Administrator to create agents to troubleshoot or workaround various issues. This goal of this tool is to eliminate those steps in favor of guided options to perform the required tasks...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
2011-06|
Today at PACLUG, Philippe Riand announced four significant features that IBM will make available to XPages developers in the next several weeks. This contribution to OpenNTF will deliver capabilities requested by customers and partners as well as reinforce XPages' strategic direction. Support for building mobile applications is improved, new functionality to build social applications is added, new data sources to access relational databases are added and Domino gets a new API to access Domino databases via REST...
« Niklas Heidloff » |
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A new interim fix titled iNotesIF_v8.5.2.2_ActiveXMSI is now available on Fix Central that addresses an iNotes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 ActiveX MSI Installer issue. See the technote linked below for more details. Technote #1501797 - Interim Fix for IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 ActiveX MSI installer
« Joy Freeman » |
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While you won't see it anytime soon (my guess is October) you should be aware of some great features making it's way into this release. Again, this is in a 1/100th point release, so kudos for IBM for adding new features. (As usual this is beta software and functionality covered in this post has no certitude of being included in the product) This is no means an extensive list but these are the things currently floating my boat....
« Darren Duke » |
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When automatically generating an adminp request that applies to a specific database, there's an item in the request that you may find hard to create. If you create adminp requests manually and then examine the items in them, you can see for instance that you might have the item ProxyReplicaID with a date/time value. Doesn't look like you would expect a replica ID to look. How do you convert the value of (say) NotesDatabase.ReplicaID, a string, to the TIMEDATE value that gets stored in the note? All the bits are used, so there's a 100ths of a second value that you can't see, but it's in there. Likewise, the timezone is stored in there and has to be preserved...
« Andre Guirard » |
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I asked my team to compile a list of the xSPs who provide Domino hosting services globally. Because of the highly distributed nature of IBM's channel relationships, this turned out to be harder to do than I had hoped. Never mind the complexity, though, we have technology and humans who can solve the challenge. We put up a wiki page on the Notes/Domino wiki to compile a list of all the Domino hosting providers. At V1, it only has US, Japan, Sweden, and Canadian entries (and clearly not all of the hosting providers in each of those countries). This is the first time I've actually edited one of our wikis and it took me like ten seconds, so it should be easy to build this into a robust list in a matter of hours. Can you help all of us by filling in others? Thanks!
« Ed Brill » |
2011-05|
I've been needing to use LS2J recently so that I could code DNS lookups and web page requests as part of a testing system I'm working on for LotusLive. The documentation is a little vague on how you work with methods in a Java class from LotusScript, so since I had to experiment to find out how it worked, I figured it would be nice to record the information here. In most cases, you're writing the Java classes you're calling via LS2J, so you get to decide whether there are static members. But maybe you got the class from elsewhere and you don't want to have to modify it, or maybe you're just using a built-in class that you don't get to change. So it may occasionally be helpful to know how to use the static members. So here goes...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Both iDefense Labs and CoreLabs Research have contacted IBM to report potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in several Lotus Notes file viewers. The specific issues vary depending on attachment type; however, they are all related in how the buffer overflow denial-of-service could be accomplished. In all cases, the issues involve viewing a malicious attachment from a Notes client on a Windows-based machine. Domino servers are not impacted...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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This article discusses IBM Lotus Domino 64-bit on Microsoft Windows 64-bit and on IBM AIX platforms, comparing characteristics, advantages, and limitations...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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This technique isn't applicable in all situations, but it's a way to make a date or time-based view whose index is only rebuilt when needed, and doesn't require that the date be hardcoded into a design element. The example is intended for use in the Notes mail file, where there's only one user who we're mainly concerned about. It could be used in a shared app context, but in that case it should be set up to use the server's time settings, not the client's as in this example, since different users would be plugging in different formulas and causing constant rebuilds based on their client's settings as opposed to someone else's...
« Andre Guirard » |
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We've highlighted rules in a few previous posts (Let Notes sort some of your mail for you and Keep the office in order while you're on vacation), and there are tons of other ways to use rules. But sometimes you can get carried away, and end up with a lot of rules, which makes your mail slow (and after a point can even cause errors). So here are some tips from a recently-posted wiki article on what the limits for mail rules are, and how you can use rules more efficiently...
« Julia Brown » |
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To help me keep track of to dos, I like to display them on my calendar, and get reminders when they're due soon. Here's how to dos look on the calendar (in the sidebar)...
« Julia Brown » |
2011-04|
The article, "Using the LND tool to analyze IBM Lotus Notes and Domino hangs and crashes," has been published to the Lotus & Domino wiki. Here's the Abstract: This article explains the steps to analyze IBM Lotus Notes and Domino hangs and crashes using the Lotus Notes Diagnostic (LND) tool, a process that is also useful for analyzing the files in the IBM Technical Support folder...
« Leslie Gallo »
Thanks go out to Sriram Chalasani for authoring this content. |
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Yes, if you have a Domino server that does not have any XPage applications (including discussion databases) and you want to disable the XSP engine, you can add the following notes.ini parameter to your Domino notes.ini...
« Oscar I Hernandez » |
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See the technote linked below for details: Technote #1474006 -- Firefox 4 support availability for Lotus iNotes...
« Joy Freeman » |
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The fix is in 8.5.3; DXL exporting of file attachments (and all base64) is now substantially faster, on the order of 50%. As always, no change can be considered final until the product is released...
« Andre Guirard » |
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That's right...go get it. Here is a direct link to the download page from IBM.....
« IBM Lotus Support »
(-: APRIL, APRIL :-) |
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Firefox 4 support availability for Lotus iNotes (#1474006)
Lotus iNotes issues when using Firefox 4 (#1473999)
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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The article, "Developing an Eclipse plug-in for IBM Lotus Notes mail from start to finish," has been published to the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki. Here's the Abstract: This article provides an overview of Eclipse plug-in development, starting with an idea and finishing with a deployable plug-in. Using the example of listing today's and yesterday's emails in your IBM Lotus Notes inbox in an Eclipse view, we focus on the steps necessary to develop Eclipse plug-ins...
« Leslie Gallo » |
2011-03|
The term "RAD" (rapid application development) is often used to describe the capability to quickly build and deploy applications on Lotus Domino. It's been one of the product's core strengths going all the way back. Of late the analysts say the term "RAD" isn't that interesting, but I think when you see David Leedy's demo of building an XPages application in three minutes forty five seconds, RAD sounds pretty compelling...
« Ed Brill » |
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When I went to Lotusphere earlier this year (my first time going!), I talked to a few people about keyboard shortcuts, which I do tend to use a lot. So this week, I thought I'd share some of my favorite shortcuts, and also ask you what your favorite shortcuts are. Here are a couple that I use pretty often...
« Julia Brown » |
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This document presents the results of testing conducted jointly by VMware and IBM to characterize the performance and functionality of IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 running on virtual machines using VMware vSphere 4.0. The results of performance testing demonstrate that the latest enhancements in Domino 8.5.1 and VMware vSphere 4.0, combined with the latest x86 server processor technologies, deliver performance that is comparable to a native (non-virtualized) environment. Testing was also performed to validate performance with large mail files, Domino iNotes (HTTP) Server, and Domino clustering.
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Tip: Redbook: Optimizing Lotus Domino Administration - Fast 200 Seiten übersichtlich zusammengestellte Informationen zu Lotus Administration mit Kurzbeschreibungen und Links...
« Anett Hammerschmidt » |
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As with every Tuesday, this morning we find new channel announcements from IBM, today's including another announcement around Domino Express licensing. In December, when I announced that we were adding clustering to Domino Collaboration Express, the response was "yeah, but" and y'all went on to ask about the other restrictions on Express. Well, those are all going away now, too, with today's announcement...
« Ed Brill » |
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I'd earlier reported a weird bug that caused one script library to suddenly get dozens of superfluous errors when another library that it includes, is edited. I got word this morning that a fix was submitted for 8.5.3. Caveat: As usual, nothing is final until it's released...
« Andre Guirard » |
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At Lotusphere 2011, I attended a session by Andrew Pollack (BP114, a nice presentation which you can download here). Andrew suggested replacing @IsResponseDoc in view selection formula with @AllDescendants as a way to help performance. (Actually he said @Responses but I think he meant @IsResponseDoc). At the time, I said I didn't think it was quite that simple; this is the promised follow-up to explain what I meant.
There are two important differences between @IsResponseDoc and @AllDescendants...
« Andre Guirard » |
2011-02|
A problem in the way that Java handles a specific numerical conversion may be exploited by a malicious user and cause an affected client or server to hang. Several IBM Lotus software products rely on the Java runtime engine or development kit provided by the IBM Lotus Domino server environment. Administrators must apply the appropriate fixes to prevent this exposure...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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The article, "Understanding and troubleshooting plug-in installation for IBM Lotus Eclipse-based products," has been published to the Lotus Expeditor wiki. Here's the Summary: Custom or third-party features and plug-in development play a critical role in IBM Lotus Expeditor-based products such IBM Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony, and Lotus Sametime. However, installing the features can require extensive troubleshooting since tracing errors for plug-in installs have not yet been fully studied. This article provides a top-down technical summary to help developers understand Expeditor-based plug-in install processes and locate errors with ease...
« Leslie Gallo »
Thanks go out to the authoring team of Hao Ji Hang, Xue Li, and Hai Yang Liu, for contributing this content. |
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It includes a lot of powerful tools...
« NotesHound » |
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Recently, we've been getting feedback that people want more help when migrating from Microsoft Outlook to Lotus Notes. So our team has started a collection on the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki to help anyone moving from Outlook to get up and running. It has videos for Getting Started, quick tips for Mail, Calendar, and Contacts, and a detailed article for moving from Outlook to Notes. It also has rotating Quick Tips, info for admins, additional video resources, and a link to join the LTIE (Lotus Technical Information and Education) Community, which is a great way to stay in-the-loop on Lotus resources...
« Julia Brown » |
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TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) contacted IBM Lotus to report nine potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes and Domino; for four of which IBM Lotus has fixes, two of which IBM Lotus continues to investigate a fix, and three of which IBM Lotus cannot reproduce and is pursuing additional information...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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A business partner approached me at Lotusphere with this problem, and after playing around with it a little, it seemed to me the workaround might be useful to others with similar requirements, so here it is.
Requirement: set up the Memo form so that if it contained collapsed sections (e.g. a reply thread), all the sections would be automatically expanded on open.
Problem: the function NotesUIDocument.ExpandAllSections doesn't work when used on a form that has a non-scrolling header, like the Memo form in the Notes mail file. You get the error message "Document command is not available." This was reported as SPR BHUY82WLWZ...
« Andre Guirard » |
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From a question in one of the BOFs here, I've learned that the documentation of the LotusScript NotesNoteCollection method (NotesCollection in the Java API) contains a significant error. The help for the BuildCollection method says, "You must build the collection before it is usable." This is wrong. The documentation writers were only imagining one use for the collection - to search for notes. But there's another use for a NotesNoteCollection -- as a generic container for notes that you find by some other means, and add to the collection with the Add method. If this is how you're using the object, there's no need to call BuildCollection. This is a significant difference, because BuildCollection takes time to execute even if you haven't specified any search criteria. Speed things up by deleting the call.
« Andre Guirard » |
2011-01|
Have you just moved away from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2? This article discusses some key tips on what preferences to set and ways to configure Lotus Notes to be compatible with the functionalities you were accustomed to in Microsoft Outlook. It addresses tips for mail, calendar, and contacts, along with general tips for across the Notes client...
« Mary Beth Raven » |
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From a service issue I've been working with one of our customers, I've discovered that there's a problem importing DXL containing large blocks of base64 data -- more than 4MB -- which would include any file attachments > 3MB, for instance. You would get this error message in the importer log: "Base64 byte stream contains invalid data or is too large to store in a single note item." (Of course, you can also get this error if your data really is invalid.)
This might happen in about 2% of cases involving large attachments or other large base64 blocks, and is essentially random (but consistent for a given input DXL).
I've come up with a fix for this in 8.5.3, and we're building a hotfix for at least one other version. If this may be an issue for your applications, please contact Lotus Support, referencing SPR #AGUD82KKHR. I'm also writing a technote, currently in internal review...
« Andre Guirard » |
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The article, "NSD changes in IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2," has been published to the Notes and Domino wiki. Here's the Abstract: This article describes the new NSD features along with the defects that have been fixed in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.2...
« Leslie Gallo »
Thanks go out to Nikolaus Brauer for writing this document |
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The article, "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.x local mail replicas: Advantages, considerations, and best practices," has been published to the Notes and Domino wiki. Co-authored by IBM's Shankar Venkatachalam and PSC Group, LLC's Luis Guirigay, the document is summarized as follows: Abstract: This article explains the advantages and considerations of using IBM Lotus Notes and Domino local mail replicas. By comparing the use of local mail replicas with server-based mail, we demonstrate the circumstances in which it is optimal to use one method over the other...
« Leslie Gallo »
Thanks go out to Luis and Shankar for all the time and hard work they spent on writing this important article |
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The article, "Automating Microsoft Windows memory-collection implementation in a real-world environment," has been published to the Notes and Domino wiki. Here's the Abstract: This article describes the challenges in implementing diagnostics programs in a real-world customer environment and describes how a memory-collection tool was built to better understand memory allocations on specific application processes...
« Leslie Gallo »
Thanks go out to Scott Hopper for authoring this document |
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This paper was published a few weeks ago and is starting to be merchandised across IBM.com...several bloggers, such as Stuart McIntyre, caught it over the holiday season as well. I think this is a helpful document to share with IT managers responsible for application development strategies as to why Domino and XPages are relevant and resourceful. Combine this with IBM's efforts around OpenNTF.org, IBM's first published case study around XPages, and the quality of XPages story that we received as Lotus Awards nominations (and sessions at Lotusphere such as Brian Benz's story on Deloitte Recap), it feels like we've achieved full liftoff for the go-forward story of Notes/Domino application development...
« Ed Brill » |
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I recently got an ipad at home and have been using the mail client to get my yahoo, gmail, and Notes mail there. It's a pretty simple app, of course, and got me to thinking: Why am I wasting all that space with a left navigator? I use it maybe once a year to go to "all documents" or Sent to look for something. I don't put anything in folders, either. So, I made the navigator smaller, did a "Preview on the side" and narrowed the view so it was "just right"...
« Chris Reckling » |
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Frohes Neues Jahr * Happy New Year
Nouvelle Année Heureuse * Feliz Año Nuevo
« Christoph Arras » |
2010-12|
Frohe Weihnachten * Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noël * Feliz Navidad
« Christoph Arras » |
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In version 8.5 of IBM Lotus iNotes the new ultra-Ajax framework was introduced to the feature-rich Full mode. These framework updates included new managed tabs, sidebar, status bar, and support console. It also introduced many richer, more powerful widgets and other advanced features. iNotes 8.5.2 introduces many additional improvements--the most notable of which is an enhanced look and performance for the compose message form. In version 8.5.2 the message, reply to, and forward forms have been updated to take advantage of the new iNotes ultra-Ajax architecture and better reflect the latest Lotus Notes UI design. The sections below describe some of these key improvements...
« Jeff Foster / Jodi Rajaniemi » |
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Over that past few weeks I've lamented on Twitter that since an upgrade to Domino Firefox 3.x no longer worked with iNotes "full". Despite my pleas for help, it seemed I was the only one on the planet having the issue. Eventually I got bored and called Lotus Support. As is usually the ways with these things, it was not a Domino issue. The symptoms of this issue were...
« Darren Duke » |
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This white paper provides an overview and recommendations for how to get the most from the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 client on the Citrix XenApp 5.0 server. Specifically, it shows that by tuning the environment, you can realize significant improvements when running the Notes client on XenApp. This is true for both the standard and the basic configurations of Lotus Notes. Moreover, the new support for Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 by Notes 8.5.2, together with memory improvements, means increased scalability to even higher numbers than before at a much reduced cost. We also present the testing environment, tuning parameters, and the workflows that were executed to gather the scalability data on Notes 8.5.2...
« Ed Brill » |
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The article, "Troubleshooting the IBM Lotus Domino V8 language pack" has been published to the Notes and Domino wiki. Here's the Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explain what the IBM Lotus Domino language pack is and the process to install and use it, because those steps are essential to troubleshooting the pack effectively. This document also explains what log files to collect and describes common language pack problems and their solutions. Thanks go out to Dennis Andrade for authoring this document...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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Well Duffbert is probably on IBM's shit list this week ;) In his post about "Why I don't think Xpages will turn the tide..." he outlines some very real issues with the Domino market that a lot of us make a living from. Somewhere deep in the comments (55 deep as of "air time") there are a few nuggets that always bubble up when we get our knickers in a twist. Namely: Create a Community Edition for free / Give it away to schools, colleges, no-pro's etc. I don't disagree with either of these, however IBM obviously do. How do I know this? Are these new ideas? No. Have they been implemented? No. That is how I know...
« Darren Duke » |
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This document outlines functionality changes or enhancements made to the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino calendar in 8.5.2, covering topics such as meetings, room and resource reservations, and alarms.
Thanks, Nathan, for your authoring efforts...
« Nathan Barry »
Found via IBM developrWorks / Leslie Gallo |
2010-11|
We've posted about Recent Contacts before--how they work, how to remove them, and more. See here for the past posts: More info on recent contacts. We've got some nice changes to Recent Contacts in Notes 8.5.2. Now it's easy to remove people from recent contacts, and to control who is added to recent contacts...
« Julia Brown » |
2010-10|
We got some cool, new features in the Lotus Notes (and Domino) wiki this week, and I wanted to share two features that are particularly useful...
« Julia Brown » |
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In classic Lotus Domino Web development (without XPages) using non-7 bit-ASCII characters in field names can lead into problems, because Domino encodes such names into cryptic strings inside the HTML page. In some cases, i.e. for client side validation of fields using JavaScript in the browser, it is nearly impossible to get the original fields name off the encoded one. The easiest way would be to pre-calculate the encoded names in the Domino back-end and generate the needed JavaScript code before the HTML is send to the browser. But there are two problems...
« Arnd Koch »
German original at http://www.assono.de/blog/d6plinks/Domino-Web-Field-Name-Encoding |
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This article reports on the performance of IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 XPages. A discussion database application workload was used to compare the classic Lotus Domino elements with the XPages design elements...
« Christopher Johnson / Wu W Huang » |
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The article, "Customizing IBM Lotus Domino V8.5.x to auto-zip mail attachments," is now published on the Notes and Domino wiki. Written by Abhishek Jain, the Abstract is as follows: This article explains how you can customize an IBM Lotus Domino-based mail file to auto-zip all attachments without using any third-party tool. This feature can be implemented both for the client- and Web-based users and does not require any other utility to be installed on the your system...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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I think one of the most exciting features of the Notes/Domino 8.5.2 release is the new managed replicas option, and I ended up talking about this quite a bit in my travels the last few days. Over the last few years, marketplace "best practice" has become for Lotus Notes users to operate their email off a local replica of their mailbox. This is generally faster/better-performing than server-based mail access. For Notes 8.5.2, we undertook some effort to make managing that local mailbox replica easier for the administrator and more automated. Here's the summary from the 8.5.2 documentation...
« Ed Brill » |
2010-09|
Lotus Notes 8.5.2 has been released, with many improvements and new features (which we will highlight in later posts, naturally :)!! But one thing that you may have noticed is that the in-product help has not been updated. But never fear! There are many resources available to help you...
« Julia Brown » |
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Domino Designer 8.5.2 now has the ability to quickly add multiple applications to a working set. This tip will show you how...
« TLCC » |
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Domino 8.5.2 introduces a new global object in Server-side JavaScript to allow code in an XPage to run with the permissions of the XPage signer. In previous Domino releases all Server-side JavaScript ran with the permissions and rights of the actual user...
« TLCC » |
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This new Redbooks publication wiki, "Optimizing Lotus Domino 8.5.1 Administration" will focus on system administration best practices for complex and non-complex environments. Some of the areas include performance tuning, configuration for high availability (clustering), and transaction logging. We will also look at cross-product integration environments, such as Sametime, LDAP, QuickPlace, and Domino servers, running together...
« Ed Brill » |
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Below is a link to a newly published technote about a potential security vulnerability reported to IBM Lotus by MWR InfoSecurity and TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). The issue impacts iCalendar functionality in Lotus Domino and could result in the remote execution of code. Technote #1446515 -- Stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Domino iCalendar functionality...
« Paul Raymond » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 (Server/Client) is available via Passport Advantage...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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After upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5.2, users stop receiving SMTP mail. Your Domino server CPU spikes on SMTP and may appear to be hung...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
2010-07|
iDefense Labs, Secunia, and TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) contacted IBM Lotus to report potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in several Lotus Notes file viewers...
« IBM Lotus Support »
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Part of the reason I've been blogging less lately, is that I've been working on articles for the Designer wiki. A couple of new ones are published today: Searching for Documents discusses different search techniques and how to decide which is appropriate in different situations, and How to Write a Controlled-Access Section Editors Formula. These go toward a series of articles that will be referenced by a new FAQ for beginning developers, also to appear in the wiki...
« Andre Guirard » |
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The requirement: Create a "my documents" view for the user.
The obstacle: @Username can't be used in a shared view selection formula. That's because for a view index calculated by the server, @Username is the name of the server.
Common approaches: ...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Nathan got me thinking, and when I think I search the web. In an earlier post Nathan commented about Notes encryption. Now I swear that every 6 months or so I am asked by a customer about the strength and algorithm that Lotus Notes uses when connecting over an encrypted port. I also swear I search for this information every 6 months too and I always come up with...
« Darren Duke » |
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This is an article about reviewing your Notes/Domino applications to see whether they will break when you upgrade to 8.5 or later. It's a very short article because I didn't find that much that needed to be done. Thanks to those who responded to my earlier thread asking for known issues; if I missed anything important, please comment here or on the wiki (or make the necessary changes yourself; that's why it's a wiki). This isn't about adding XPage functionality to your apps, by the way; just doing the minimum to make sure they're still functional in the new version.
« Andre Guirard » |
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We want OpenNTF to work for you! Please check out our exciting new content for XPages, and join our IdeaJam to tell us what we can do to make this a more useful resource for Domino developers and administrators. Open source is great! We want to improve our execution, encourage contributions, and make sure people can find what they want and rely on its quality. Please join in. Thanks...
« Andre Guirard » |
2010-06|
I don't expect this will be news for most of my regular readers, but it's a good topic for novice developers (and gives me something to link them to in the forums). Using NotesUIDocument and NotesDocument together...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Yesterday I tweeted about 8.5.1 FP3 IF1 being available but that the time there was no documentation as to what it fixed. As outlined in Technote 1433721 there is a potential issue with Domino server performance with authentication when policies are bring downloaded to clients. Apparently this is can particularly affect Domino servers that are part of Directory Assistance. As usual it is available on IBM Fix Central...
« Darren Duke » |
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In version 8, we changed the user experience for selecting documents. The new way to select documents followed the Windows model, using the Shift and Ctrl keys. While this is intuitive to new users of Notes, our existing base asked us to re-instate the old school model that employs the space bar and check marks...
« Dwight Morse » |
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Die regio iT überzeugte auf der diesjährigen DNUG Frühjahrskonferenz in Berlin die Jury und das Publikum von den Erfolgen des Projektes "AixPort"...
« regio iT aachen » |
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The Release Notice for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 is now available and contains a list of SPRs addressed in this release and related technotes...
« Jeffrey Alberts » |
2010-05|
Recently got a question about the NotesView.TopLevelEntryCount method, and I had to do a little research to answer it well. Here's what I found...
« Andre Guirard » |
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In Lotus Notes, you may observe the following behavior regarding rules:
-- A deleted mail rule continues to function, even though it no longer appears in the Rules folder.
-- An enabled mail rule does not run.
-- After a new rule is created, it runs correctly, but it never appears in the Rules folder...
« IBM Lotus Support » |
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Windows and Notes can take a long time to start up. What are some of the reasons for the slow start up and what can you do about it...
« M. Cornaia/S. Williams/J. Freeman » |
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The article, "Integrating Ajax into traditional IBM Lotus Domino Web applications," has been published to the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki. It's written by Oscar I Hernandez, and the Summary is as follows:
This article demonstrates how to use Asynchronous JavaScriptTM and XML (Ajax) technology in traditional (non-XPages) IBM Lotus Domino Web applications to add interactive content to their Web forms.
Thanks, Oscar, for your contribution!
« Leslie Gallo » |
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Do any of you ever think you already know how to do Notes development and forget to read the help and look through the menus for useful new commands? (Raises hand sheepishly.)
I'm referring to the Navigate / Go to Erl Line menu item (Ctrl-Alt-L) in version 8.5.x...
« Andre Guirard » |
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The article, "Creating plugins to extend the new LotusScript Editor in IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.1" has been published to the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki. The Summary is as follows:
Learn how to create an Eclipse plug-in to extend the new LotusScript Editor available in IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.1. This article discusses the list of extension points provided by the JFace Text Editor and uses an actual end-to-end example to illustrate the steps to create and deploy the plug-in.
Thanks go out the authors, David Taieb, Roberto Olivares, and Yung Chen, for contributing this content...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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One of the most frustrating things Domino administrators have to deal with is database corruption. The best thing to do is avoid it...
« Terri Puckett » |
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Have you seen the message "Agent must be run from a view window" in the Notes client, when the focus is actually in a view? This is a symptom of a selection tracking problem that's been around for a while. I think it ties in to other things, like wrong toolbars being displayed, documents opening in the debugger window instead of the client window....
« Andre Guirard » |
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One of the lesser known buttons on the Notes Toolbar is "Add to Sidebar". It's grouped with the "Getting Started with..." and "Configure a widget..." icons...
« Dwight Morse » |
2010-04|
Version 1.2 of the "LotusScript Gold Collection" is out. This includes a tool to read and manipulate inline images in a Notes document or form, and a nice (well-tested) class for maintaining a linked list of any type of object. The latter is the first of several standard data structure classes I intend to put in there, and I started with it because I needed it for the other thing.
I've been putting lots of cool stuff in this library, and I now welcome Francesco Marzolo as a new "cook" who wants to build on some of my earlier work to create a tool for synchronizing keyed records. The more the merrier, is what I say!
Incidentally, I saw someone had been looking to download a tool I posted in here for letting a user rearrange a list, which seems to have gone missing. I added this, too, to the LS Gold Collection. ..
« Andre Guirard » |
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Allows BlackBerry user's the ability to access the internet to retrieve messages via POP3/IMAP. With the support of the user's cellular service provider, the Domino Administrator can setup user's to access to their Lotus Notes mail without having to configure a BlackBerry Enterprise Server...
« Bradley Hurley / Amy Smith » |
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This article explains how to get started with IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 development in the Amazon Cloud. Step-by-step instructions walk you through creating your first Domino instance on Amazon Web Services. The Domino Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is for development and test use by ISVs and SIs and is neither licensed nor supported for use in production or by customers at this point...
« Michael Masterson » |
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Since Domino 6.5.6, 7.0.2 and all 8.x releases there has been a new Domino server based notes.ini setting to extract winmail.dat files and "convert" them to readable format. Simply add the following setting to the server and restart the server: TNEFEnableConversion=1 ...
« Darren Duke » |
2010-03|
I always thought this property would tell the note collection to select all views (excluding desktop private and those to which the user has no access). Not so; it selects all views that are not hidden from the Notes client...
« Andre Guirard » |
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I've been writing a bunch of SPRs recently about crashes in LotusScript, and I thought my findings might be of use to the folks here. I've found three things to avoid to prevent my code from crashing the client or server...
« Andre Guirard » |
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This information was missing from the help, and since it took me a while to find I decided to post it here...
« Andre Guirard » |
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This article reports IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 performance results for Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems. In addition, it compares the performances of Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 (64-bit) server and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 (64-bit) server. Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 for IBM Lotus Domino 32-bit servers was not tested because large deployments of Lotus Notes Traveler server are preferred on Lotus Domino 64-bit servers...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Neue Impulse, interessante Themen und Workshops sowie fachlicher Austausch mit Entwicklern von Lotus Notes und Domino erwarten Sie bereits zum siebten Mal beim EntwicklerCamp 2010. Erleben Sie vom 8. bis 10 März 2010 das zwölfte Camp Konferenz-Highlight rund um die Entwicklung von Lotus Notes und Domino. Eingeladen sind diejenigen, die in ihren Unternehmen dafür verantwortlich sind, die Produktivität mit diesen Programmen sicher zu stellen sowie alle Lotus Notes-Interessierten...
« Bundled-KnowHow » |
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8.5.1 is great. Really great. Except when it decides to make your code no longer work. And especially when that code involves NotesView.GetDocumentByKey, NotesView.GetAllDocumentsByKey, NotesView.GetEntryByKey or NotesView.GetAllEntriesByKey...
« Erik Brooks » |
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This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus Domino, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of server maintenance and NSDs...
« Leonardo W Caldas / Gustavo S Ferreira » |
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This article will help you troubleshoot "server not responding" error messages and help you gather the right information to send in to IBM Technical Support if this does not solve your issue...
« Lotus Notes and Domino wiki » |
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Our Lotus Domino Mail Routing Support Team frequently troubleshoots outbound SMTP mail routing issues relating to DNS. This new technote One stop shop for troubleshooting Domino and DNS was created to help Domino Administrators diagnose and troubleshoot these issues...
« Lotus Support » |
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It's easy to add your signature to e-mails, but what if you use different signatures for different types of e-mails? For example, you may have different signatures for internal and external communications. You can make one signature your default signature (pick whichever signature you use more often)...
« Julia Brown » |
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Defense Labs contacted IBM Lotus to report a potential buffer overflow vulnerability with the ActiveX control used by Lotus iNotes (formerly Lotus Domino Web Access)...
« Lotus Support » |
2010-02|
I noticed someone in the forums complaining that the Notes client didn't have any option to reverse the case of text, and it occurred to me that it shouldn't be too difficult to write an agent or action button to do this. I've done it two ways, one to change all the text in the Body field, one to do selected text only. Here's the one to change the whole Body field. Note this assumes nobody is writing in the Kaithi alphabet, which is used temporarily to represent lowercase letters while we find and replace the uppercase letters to lowercase...
« Andre Guirard » |
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The focus of this Redbooks Wiki is to help you understand improvements in IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 as a web development platform. The primary focal point is the introduction of XPages in IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 and discussing how XPages dramatically shortens the learning curve for Notes and Domino developers. Not only do XPages now allow you to incorporate Web 2.0 features and functionality into your web applications, but XPages continue to leverage your existing Domino development skills, while intuitively incorporating new design element features.
« Ed Brill » |
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while back I wrote about Multiple values in multiple rows in multiple columns about how to make the column values match up when you have multiple lists of values that you want to display on separate rows. These might either be from having multiple multi-valued fields, or one multivalued field with another list that you derive from it by substitution...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Microsoft Windows has many graphical tools to monitor applications' memory usage. This article discusses the possible methods for collecting process memory data and the options for automating the process, highlighting collection tools such as PsList, VMMap, and NSD. Though we focus on IBM Lotus-specific product collection, many of the techniques can be applied to any product...
« Scott Hopper » |
2010-01|
I'd like to add a Designer wiki entry with a collection of links to the best "Best Practices" documents in different areas. I'm looking for recommendations from you! Please tell me about resources in the following areas (ones I know about are already listed)...
« Andre Guirard » |
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This article explains how mail is routed between an IBM Lotus Domino server and a BlackBerry handheld device using BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Also included are a detailed description and diagrams of the architecture behind the routing process...
« Shrikant Veeturi / Kevin Giles » |
2009-12|
Frohes Neues Jahr * Happy New Year
Nouvelle Année Heureuse * Feliz Año Nuevo
« Christoph Arras » |
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I got a question in email recently that I thought should've been addressed in my performance whitepaper -- but it wasn't, so I figured it would be worth mentioning here. The question: why does NotesView.FTSearch take so much longer than NotesDatabase.FTSearch to find the same set of documents?
« Andre Guirard » |
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The backbone of Alloy by IBM and SAP architecture is Web services communication between trusted parties, namely IBM and SAP. Both asynchronous and synchronous communication between IBM and SAP is through the Web services database NDERPws.nsf. This article explains the role of this database and how to use it from both an administrator and a user perspective, and how to troubleshoot some common issues...
« Amita Vadhavkar / Prashant U. Admile » |
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On December 7, 1989, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA, Lotus Notes 1.0 was officially unveiled. I wasn't there, and the date wasn't significant to me other than as I was approaching final exams in my penultimate semester of college. Clearly, though, that event changed history -- and produced one of the most successful and longest-running software products in distributed computing...
« Ed Brill » |
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Here's an updated directory FAQ the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Directory Team has assembled about Domino directories...
« Ken Lin » |
2009-11|
Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with Lotus Software products and to keep your skills top notch. This page lists Lotus training and education resources, including tutorials, roadmaps, and certification...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Find information about Lotus Notes and Domino notes.ini settings from A to E. For more notes.ini information, see the Notes/Domino Fix List...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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The Doodle Widget for Lotus Notes brings the best of both worlds together to one powerful solution. New Doodle polls can directly be initiated from Lotus Notes without the need to open a web browser first. Doodle polls received by email will automatically be shown in a Notes sidebar while reading the email. Conveniently view and participate in the poll while checking your calendar availability side-by-side...
« Ed Brill » |
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This article explains, step by step, how to access IBM Lotus Quickr content from the Google Android Mobile platform, using Lotus Quickr Representational State Transfer (REST) services...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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The Client Self-Assist & Knowledge Management team is proud to announce the availability of the NEW Upgrade Cookbooks, particularly the "Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1" cookbook, on the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki...
« Terri Puckett » |
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The Lotusphere Blog is up running for Lotusphere 2010...
« Lotusphere » |
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Learn how the IBM Lotus Mobile Connect clientless option can be used in conjunction with IBM Lotus iNotes to gain secure, remote access to enterprise iNotes servers from devices (handhelds, laptops, workstations) requiring access outside the bounds of their corporate intranet...
« John Kari » |
2009-10|
I've been doing a lot of programming in LotusScript recently using linked lists, and refining my technique. This might be old news to some of you but I thought I'd mention it. And what I'm saying here in part applies specifically to LotusScript, but in part to any language that does reference counting.
LotusScript memory management is not perfect, and I've encountered situations where it gets hung up when deallocating memory, particularly when there are object references that go across script libraries (a class in Library A contains a reference to an object whose class is declared in Library B). The more you deallocate objects yourself with a Delete statement, the better your chances of not having a problem...
« Andre Guirard » |
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The article, "Useful agents for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino administrators" has just been published to the Notes and Domino wiki. It's written by Sudhakar R Kunam and is summarized as follows: This article is a collection of code examples that IBM Lotus Notes / Domino Administrators can use to automate common, complex tasks for which there are no existing default features. All these agents can be customized to suit your requirements...
« Leslie Gallo » |
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Follow the link below to a new DAOS presentation added to the Media Gallery on the Notes/Domino wiki. Topics include: Overview of DAOS & DAOS concepts, Configuring DAOS, Example of a DAOS environment, Answering DAOS questions, Backup and recovery...
« Joy Freeman » |
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Want an overview of the XPages wiki template that we've been implementing on our Lotus product wikis? In the video below, Amanda Bauman, Lotus Wiki Program Manager, walks you through some of the features of the new template. By now, several of our wikis have been using the XPages template for a few months. We'll be completing the upgrade to the rest of the wikis, as well as applying some updates to the existing XPages wikis, in the coming weeks.
« Joyce Davis » |
2009-09|
List of router commands available in Lotus Domino...
« Lotus Support »
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.x (Standard Configuration) clients include a built-in RSS feed reader which allows you to receive regular RSS updates from Web sites. In certain circumstances end users may find themselves vulnerable to a cross-site scripting exploit.
« Lotus Security » |
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This is not a complete application, but a toolkit of reusable LotusScript libraries that can be included in your applications. There may also be any required supporting design elements (subform used in dialog, etc), and sample code to show how the functions in the script libraries are invoked...
« Andre Guirard » |
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This article is about the view column property "Programmatic Name", shown here, when and how to use it, and what problems to watch out for. Some odd things can happen as a side effect of using this property, as suggested in the caution under the field. It's important to understand what those are...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Prompted by a question in the forums, I searched around and didn't find a good example of this technique, so here's a sample of confirming that a rich text field contains exactly one image, with restrictions on the dimensions...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Learn how the SMTP protocol and SMTP authentication process works to secure your IBM Lotus Domino 8 server from spam...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting attacks. This issue is caused by an unspecified input validation error when processing user-supplied data, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site...
« VUPEN Security » |
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The objective of the article is to help the traditional LotusScript developer, who typically has no hard-core development background, move to Java...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
2009-08|
This is the first edition of the revised Support Content Highlights publication for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino (formerly known as "Responses to Frequently Asked Questions about Lotus/Domino"). This publication contains links to technical content that is frequently requested or identified by IBM Support as valuable...
« Lotus Support » |
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iDefense Labs contacted IBM Lotus to report a potential keyview buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Notes. In specific situations it was found that there is the possibility to execute arbitrary code...
« Lotus Support » |
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This white paper is the third in a three-part series on SSO published over the past few months. See the previous papers, "Understanding single sign-on (SSO) between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino," and "Configuring single sign-on (SSO) between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino"...
« Lotus Support » |
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IBM Lotus Support Engineers and Development will be hosting a Support Technical Exchange Open Mic call with customers on the topic of Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (2:00 PM GMT)...
« Lotus Support » |
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What are the steps to create and then run an .MSI file from a Fix Pack for Notes 8.0.2.x or 8.5.x? First perform steps 1-6 to create a .MSI file from the Fix Pack file and then perform step 7 to run it...
« Lotus Support » |
2009-07|
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 server offers a lot of features aimed at reducing the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Lotus Domino mail server cluster infrastructure in a large enterprise. In this article, we show you how you can leverage these features incrementally to realize TCO benefits while upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Learn how to distinguish between an IBM Lotus Notes client crash and hang, and what you can do to analyze and correct both. The material in this article applies to Notes 6.x, 7.x, and the Notes 8.x Basic Client...
« Uttam Kumar » |
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Tired of having to force fit IBM Lotus Domino into your infrastructure? With the latest release of 64-bit Lotus Domino on Linux and virtualization, you now can implement large-scale enterprise environments with Lotus Domino on Linux in a single footprint. This article documents the benchmarks that have been done and the results of early adopters of this solution, showing you how your infrastructure can fit and grow with Lotus Domino...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
2009-06|
Increasing value to the customer is an ongoing theme for the IBM Lotus Domino server. The growing volume of information in today's enterprise strains existing hardware infrastructures. Lotus Domino 8.5 contains features that help relieve the stress on the expensive processor and storage subsystems. This article shows the reductions in processor and disk utilization with Lotus Domino 8.5 and Lotus Notes clients...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This white paper is the first in a three-part series on SSO to be published over the next few months. See the second paper, "Configuring single sign-on (SSO) between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino." This white paper provides an in-depth explanation of how the single sign-on (SSO) feature works between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino. Learn the basics of how cookies are written to and used in Internet browsers, how the cookies are used to enable SSO, and exactly what is in the token and why it's needed for SSO between two servers. Included are specific details of where the WebSphere Portal and Lotus Domino servers configure each part of the cookie used for SSO, the LTPAToken...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This white paper is the second in a three-part series on SSO to be published over the next month or so. See the previous paper, "Understanding single sign-on (SSO) between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino." This paper is designed to help administrators who have a good grasp of how SSO works and want an in-depth explanation of what steps are necessary to configure SSO between IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Domino. It also explains how to verify that SSO is working correctly...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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The objective of the article is to provide guidance to Java developers on how to write standalone Java code that can seamlessly connect to IBM Lotus Domino. This guide to the Java objects and APIs can be used to build Domino applications, providing a bridge for traditional Domino developers...
« Leslie Gallo » |
2009-05|
The release of Domino 8.5 introduced several new features to help you reduce the total cost of ownership for your Lotus Domino environment. One of those new features is a powerful tool that will help you maximize the return on your Domino investment -- the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). What does DCT do? DCT analyzes Domino servers...
« Chad Scott » |
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This white paper demonstrates how to identify and resolve IBM Lotus Domino 8 mail routing problems. By explaining how and which debug to use, and how to analyze the debug output, it is intended to help customers debug mail-routing issues on their own. Support Engineers can also benefit from this paper by enhancing their understanding of the debug outputs and by using it as a "cheat sheet" in identifying and resolving common mail-routing issues...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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In case you haven't seen it yet, the Domino Server Release 8.5 Interim Fix 5 is available. You can find more information in this document, Readme for IBM Lotus Domino Server Release 8.5 Interim Fix 5 (85IF5)...
« Terri Puckett » |
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I recently worked with members of the Calendaring & Scheduling Support team to update a couple of key Free Time troubleshooting technotes that they most frequently use...
« Terri Puckett » |
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A websvc.jar file was previously included in the list of files to replace on Domino 7.x releases. This file is not used by browsers and thus is not impacted by the applet expiration issue. We are recommending that customers do not replace this file on Domino 7.x releases since it is not impacted...
« Joy Freeman » |
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This article describes the governance and IP model of the new OpenNTF Alliance. It also explains how consumers can find code on OpenNTF and how producers can contribute code. Last but not least, the article outlines some ideas for OpenNTF improvements and extensions...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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BM Lotus Domino 7.0.4 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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Thanks to Chris (Brandlehner) for pointing out that the latest CCH for the 8.0.2 code base is available. See what a CCH, FP and MR is here. Go get the CCH at IBM Fix Central. Fixes included...
« Darren Duke » |
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Tired of having to force fit IBM Lotus Domino into your infrastructure? With the latest release of 64-bit Lotus Domino on Linux and virtualization, you now can implement large-scale enterprise environments with Lotus Domino on Linux in a single footprint. This article documents the benchmarks that have been done and the results of early adopters of this solution, showing you how your infrastructure can fit and grow with Lotus Domino...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode offers new features to bring more consistency between the iNotes browser-based experience and the Lotus Notes 8.5 installed client experience. It also begins to add the same integration to external data services. In this article, the first in a multipart series, we cover the new features in Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode and examine the Web 2.0 related features in particular depth...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 includes many new features. This second article in the series covers two distinct topics: new Lotus Domino administration policy capabilities and improvements available in lite mode...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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The certificate for some Java applets in Lotus Domino 6.5x, 7.0.x, 8.0.x, and 8.5 expires on May 18, 2009. IBM recommends correcting this issue through the replacement of .jar files affected. For instructions on downloading and applying the re-signed applets, see Technote #4022981 -- Download re-signed Java applets for Lotus Domino (May 18, 2009). For background information, additional options for addressing the issue, and frequently asked questions and answers, see Technote #1381298 -- Security certificate expiration messages generated from Domino applets (May 18, 2009). Please note that Lotus Sametime applets are also affected. If you use Lotus Sametime 7.0, 7.5.1 CF1 or CF2, and 8.0.x, refer to Technote #1380778 -- Sametime applets signer certificate expires on 18 May 2009...
« Joy Freeman » |
2009-04|
IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 includes many new features. This third article in the series covers the new Lotus iNotes ultra-light mode and some improvements to the Lotus iNotes redirector application...
« Eric Portner/V. Seraphin/Janet Farrell » |
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his article serves as a compilation of the various ways in which IBM Lotus Domino administrators can start the Domino server on various platforms, covering the basics for the novice to the more advanced Administrator. It also includes a collection of Technotes addressing some common issues you might encounter while starting Lotus Domino...
« Smita S Pungaliya » |
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Part of developerWorks Lotus is IBM Lotus Domino-based. If you connect to it using an IBM Lotus Notes client, you can use Notes features such as replication. This article provides the steps to connect to the site databases and offers troubleshooting tips for making the connection...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Notes/Domino 7.0.4 has shipped. Here is some documentation to get you started with this release...
« Terri Puckett » |
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Lotus Domino 8.5 Interim Fix 3 (85IF3) is now available for download from IBM Fix Central for most operating systems. Please note that this interim fix includes a mandatory fix for Domino 8.5 servers running the ID Vault feature. Refer to the documents linked below for more details...
« Joy Freeman » |
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This article reports on IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 Traveler performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. It also compares the performance of the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 (32-bit) server and the Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1 (32-bit) server...
« Y. Veytsman,N. Venkatraman,R. Stephen » |
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Improving input/output (I/O) performance is one of the major goals for IBM Lotus Domino 8.5. The developerWorks article "IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 performance for IBM Lotus Notes users" showed the impressive I/O reductions of Lotus Domino 8.5 with the Lotus Notes client. This article shows the I/O performance improvements of Lotus Domino 8.5 performance with iNotes users. Lotus iNotes had been called Lotus Domino Web Access in the past; its name is iNotes in Lotus Domino 8.5...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This article introduces the best practices in globalization that you can use to develop a good IBM Lotus Notes application. Following these recommendations, you can easily create good multilanguage-friendly Lotus Notes applications, which in turn can save you both resources and effort...
« Tony Kuo, Jun Wang » |
2009-03|
Globalizing IBM Lotus Notes applications can be simple. IBM Lotus Domino Global Workbench, which is released with Lotus Notes and Domino, can help customers globalize their applications quickly and easily. In version 8.5, Lotus Domino Global Workbench provides a new feature that extracts strings into properties files, thereby providing more flexibility for translation...
« Alex Liu, Pei-Yi Lin, Tony Kuo » |
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Review technote 1379894 on more technical information on the fixes available in 802FP1IF1. The readme for the Interim Fix DominoServer_802FP1IF1_os (where os designates the platform) consists of two basic parts...
« Lotus Support »
via Wolfgang Fey |
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Review TN #1375392 on more technical information on the fixes available in 85IF2. The readme for the Interim Fix DominoServer_85IF2_os (where os designates the platform) consists of two basic parts...
« Lotus Support »
via Wolfgang Fey |
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This article explains how mail is routed between an IBM Lotus Domino server and a BlackBerry handheld device using BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Also included are a detailed description and diagrams of the architecture behind the routing process...
« Shrikant Veeturi » |
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Learn new techniques that you can apply to Microsoft Office applications, such as Microsoft Excel, to publish information in an IBM Lotus Notes database in a variety of formats...
« Mike Maroney » |
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This article introduces the automation test framework of the IBM Lotus C API toolkit. The framework enables automated testing of the Lotus C API toolkit with little manual effort. It is an efficient approach for automatically testing a large number of cases. The framework is typical and can be applied to other products. In fact, the other Lotus toolkit products, Lotus C++ API toolkit and NotesSQL, take a similar approach to implementing automation testing...
« Ya Wen Niu » |
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Increasing value to the customer is an ongoing theme for the IBM Lotus Domino server. The growing volume of information in today's enterprise strains existing hardware infrastructures. Lotus Domino 8.5 contains features that help relieve the stress on the expensive processor and storage subsystems. This article shows the reductions in processor and disk utilization with Lotus Domino 8.5 and Lotus Notes clients...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
2009-02|
While VMware ESX is a supported hypervisor for Domino and Domino based applications, several customer have reported poor performance of Lotus Domino HTTP on Windows 2003 on VMware ESX. The symptoms are flat CPU utilization (regardless of the number of vCPU assigned to the VM, 1, 2 or 4 vCPUs presents identical performance), low memory utilization and very high response time to Web users requests with moderate load (more than a few users hitting the server)...
« Lotus Support » |
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Follow the steps outlined in this article to take advantage of the new Java view features offered in Lotus Notes, such as threads, narrow mode, business cards, split action buttons, and custom context menus...
« IBM developerWorks Lotus » |
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Java views were introduced in the Lotus Notes client in release 8.0. Many new features were implemented using the Java views to modernize the Lotus Notes interface. Follow these steps to convert your Lotus Domino (simple) applications into Java views...
« IBM developerWorks Lotus » |
2009-01|
IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode offers new features to bring more consistency between the iNotes browser-based experience and the Lotus Notes 8.5 installed client experience. It also begins to add the same integration to external data services. In this article, the first in a multipart series, we cover the new features in Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode and examine the Web 2.0 related features in particular depth...
« S. Park/C. Dumont /V. Seraphin » |
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IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 includes many new features. This second article in the series covers two distinct topics: new Lotus Domino administration policy capabilities and improvements available in lite mode...
« A. Mahmoud/V. Seraphin/J. Foster » |
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This article covers what's new in the IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 release. Lotus Notes 8.5 marks a major milestone in the Lotus Notes history and is a significant release in terms of new features, appearance, programmability, and functionality...
« Andy Higgins » |
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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 extends rich application development capabilities, scalability, and flexibility while reducing the cost of ownership...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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XPages and Themes are two new technologies available to Lotus Domino Web application developers with the release of IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8.5. They provide more flexibility and greater control over what is delivered to the Web browser client screen than any previous release. XPages leverages a new JavaServer Face rendering engine while Themes allows even further control to manipulate the content -- from CSS declarations to XML markup rendering -- that is displayed. In this tutorial, you will use both XPages and Themes to create an enterprise-class salesforce tracking and task assignment Lotus Domino Web application. To further showcase the advanced capabilities of the technologies available to Lotus Domino Web application developers, the example for this tutorial is a mashup application featuring functional OpenStreetMap and GeoCoder integration...
« Chris Toohey » |
2008-12|
iUIView is a Domino web agent that provides an iPhone optimized user interface for any "classic" Notes categorized view, without the need to write any additional code or markup...
« Jeff Gilfelt » |
2008-11|
This article describes the second release of the composite applications component library and shows how the components can be used to add value to your composite applications...
« Jo Grant » |
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To implement database or template customization for users' demands, you usually need to dynamically and automatically add design elements, such as an agent, a view, or a folder, to existing databases, or to modify existing design elements in the database. Domino XML Language (DXL) is an XML representation of IBM Lotus Domino data and design elements that provides a great way to implement the capture of design elements and the import or export of design elements to and from databases. In this article, we introduce the concept of DXL, and through use cases with detailed implementation, we illustrate how to apply DXL to dynamically add or modify design elements to complete the user's database or template customization...
« Peng Hui Jiang / Pei Ling Zhou » |
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Understanding the effect of large databases on IBM Lotus Domino performance is becoming a prominent challenge for many administrators. This article explores the different ways in which large databases can degrade performance and examines potential solutions to realize maximum performance...
« Michael Lee » |
2008-10|
Suppose that there is a company name change and you must to move your Lotus Domino server to a new certifier, without changing any server settings. Learn step-by-step how to move your Lotus Domino server without having to reinstall it or change any settings using the Server1/ExistingCertifier will be moved to Server1/NewCertifier example...
« Charles TANABAL » |
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Learn how the IBM Lotus Mobile Connect clientless option can be used in conjunction with IBM Lotus iNotes to gain secure, remote access to enterprise iNotes servers from devices (handhelds, laptops, workstations) requiring access outside the bounds of their corporate intranet...
« John Kari » |
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This article is designed to act as a guide and reference paper for configuring BlackBerry Enterprise Server with IBM Lotus Domino. It focuses on the load implications of running BlackBerry Enterprise Server within a Lotus Domino mail environment. It is designed to highlight areas where this load can be controlled and minimized...
« Aaron Payne » |
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One of the latest additions to the Domino Web developers' toolkit of technologies, XPages, is also arguably its most powerful and revolutionary to date. XPages allows for functionality and capabilities previously thought impossible to achieve in Domino application development. With the inclusion of XPages, you now have the ability to easily create Web 2.0 user experiences in your existing applications. To demonstrate the power of XPages, this tutorial shows you how to Web 2.0-enable the personal address book Domino application template...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Updated list of undocumented formulas sent by Jim Fricker...
« Jim Fricker » |
2008-09|
Currently, many tools have been developed to create composite applications such as IBM Lotus Domino Designer, IBM Lotus Component Designer, and IBM Rational Application Development. This article introduces a new way to create composite applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8 using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory...
« Zhao Hui Nie / Dong Fei Wu » |
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Welcome to the Lotus and IBM Redbooks community wiki for Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino 8 where you will find key recommendations for updating existing Web applications, best practices for refining application look and feel for the Web, and common tips and techniques...
« IBM developerWorks Wikis » |
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There are a number of parameters in Lotus Domino's notes.ini configuration file that affect performance. This technote discusses some of them (Update June 2008: Fixed typo MaxMailThreads should be MailMaxThreads)...
« IBM Redbooks Technote » |
2008-08
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.2 is available for download (PA)...
« Lotus Support » |
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IBM Lotus has selected Notes/Domino SPR's to be fixed in the latest 8.0.2 Maintenance Release. This notice serves as a Preliminary Fix List and Release Notice...
« Lotus Support » |
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Internet lockout is a new feature of IBM Lotus Domino 8. This article describes Internet lockout, documents the configuration, and provides a sample that shows how to create a custom login form..
« Scott Rice / Matthew Milza » |
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This article describes how to install version 7.0 of the IBM Lotus Notes Client on Citrix Presentation Server 4.5...
« Citrix Support »
Thanx to Thomas Schlebach |
2008-07|
The IBM Lotus Domino attachment and object service (DAOS) in release 8.5 reduces the total cost of ownership and helps customers with green computing practices by storing all file attachments in a separate repository on the server and retrieving them by reference. Read more to plan, set up, configure, and manage Lotus Notes large objects...
« Dinny A. Peter » |
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What items can you check to troubleshoot a performance issue for a Lotus Domino server on VMware ESX? The list below provides information about what items to check first; this list is not meant to be exhaustive...
« Lotus Support »
Thanx to Thomas Schlebach |
2008-06|
The IBM Lotus Domino System Verification Test (SVT) team tested several environmental configurations for the Lotus Notes client 8.0 release. This document describes testing done with Citrix...
« Lotus Support »
Thanx to Thomas Schlebach! |
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Learn general design tips and techniques that you can use to assemble highly productive and compelling applications. In this second part of a two-part article, we focus on designing for change, on wiring strategies, and how to prototype your layout...
« Craig Wolpert / Jo Grant » |
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On June 16th, Lotus is introducing our program to publish product wikis on a new Domino-based platform. Our product wikis are intended to help you find technical product information more easily, as well as allow you to contribute directly to that content. All wiki content is editable by anyone who registers for an account on our dW: Lotus web site. This is only the beginning. Stay tuned for announcements for other Lotus product wikis...
« Cara Viktorov » |
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Learn general design tips and techniques that you can use to assemble highly productive and compelling composite applications. In this first part of a two-part article, we focus on navigation and page design...
« Craig Wolpert / Jo Grant » |
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Learn how to use IBM DB2 as a data store for IBM Lotus Domino data. This article uses a sample application to describe four possible usage scenarios for the Lotus Domino and DB2 integration features in pure Lotus Domino applications...
« Karen Brent » |
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This article provides an introduction to the administration console, new in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1, a short description of a new policy feature in Lotus Quickr 8.1, and a detailed look at the REST-based service that the console uses and that you can reuse to enhance your server's management...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This article shows you how to develop a composite application in IBM Lotus Notes 8.0 that integrates the calendars in Google and Lotus Notes, based on the Atom API and XSLT technology. It demonstrates the ease with which you can create a composite application and consume the Atom API...
« Ming Chen, Xin Rang Wang » |
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The IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 PUBLIC BETA 1 is now available...
« IBM/Lotus » |
2008-05
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There is a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the servlet engine/Web container in IBM Lotus Domino Web servers. This vulnerability could be exposed by a malformed HTTP request. The following would have to be true in order to exploit this vulnerability...
« Lotus Security » |
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In this article, we discuss the performance of IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 server with IBM Lotus Notes Traveler users...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This article shows how to build IBM Lotus Notes components, providing some tips and techniques for using your existing Lotus Notes applications in composite applications. Learn how to use the power of composite applications to provide a context that combines information from multiple components and leverages that context when performing tasks...
« Craig Wolpert, Jo Grant » |
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This white paper addresses the most important and most serious factors affecting IBM Lotus Notes and Domino application performance. It is intended for developers of Notes client applications, to help them maximize performance by identifying problem areas and by offering solutions...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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IBM Lotus Domino Web Access Lite mode is an exciting new capability within the established Lotus Domino Web Access product that uses a new page architecture optimized for empty-cache or low-bandwidth scenarios. Learn how these innovative performance improvements are delivered to you in an updated user interface (UI) that more closely resembles your IBM Lotus Notes client user experience...
« Vinod Seraphin, Jeff Foster, Jessica Pizia » |
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I finally got tired of people whining that there was no way to make a view of profile documents. So, I created a way, which you can download from here -- no charge. It's a form which, when you open it, gets a list of all profile documents in the current database and shows them, letting you select one to edit, or multiple to delete. You can click the column headings to sort...
« Andre Guirard » |
2008-03|
IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.3 FP1 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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This article introduces some helper classes so you can quickly build and deploy feature-rich, reusable, Eclipse-based components for IBM Lotus Notes. You also learn how to create a foundation upon which other components can be created quickly and easily...
« Craig Wolpert / Jo Grant » |
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Learn how to create RESTful IBM Lotus Domino Web applications using Project Zero to deliver a responsive Web 2.0 application. This article explores the various options developers have to create RESTful Lotus Domino Web applications and shows how you can deliver such applications with the help of Project Zero...
« Raj Balasubramanian / Van Staub » |
2008-02|
Tests of IBM Lotus Domino 8 performance show that upgrading to Lotus Domino 8 and the new Lotus Notes 8 client should yield positive results. Tests show CPU reductions across the board as well as I/O reductions on most platforms when compared to Lotus Notes and Domino 7. Read more about the test results...
« Nirmala Venkatraman / Angelo Lynn » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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In this three-part podcast series on composite applications, you hear about the application development benefits and capabilities of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8, about how to integrate your Eclipse-based or IBM Lotus Expeditor-based applications with Lotus Notes and Domino 8 applications, and about how to create composite applications in Lotus Notes and Domino 8...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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This article demonstrates how to develop a Java agent in IBM Lotus Domino that sends messages to and receives messages from a Java Messaging System (JMS) provider, specifically IBM WebSphere MQ...
« William Griffith » |
2008-01|
This white paper describes user-interface design and interaction guidelines for designers and developers who are building IBM Lotus Notes applications, IBM Lotus Sametime V7.5 or later plug-ins, IBM Lotus Symphony plug-ins, IBM Lotus Expeditor plug-ins, or composite applications (assembling any mixture of plug-ins, Lotus Notes applications, and components built with IBM Lotus Component Designer)...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Im Februar erscheint ein Maintenance Relase 8.0.1 mit Mobil-Unterstützung. Die Version 8.5 mit zahlreichen neuen Server-Funktionen folgt in der zweiten Jahreshälfte...
« heise online » |
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For those of you who didn't notice this great new Lotus News Service (which I added to my linklist in december): Planet Lotus is an aggregation of Lotus related blogs and news by Yancy Lent
« Christoph Arras » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2 FP3 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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One thing I see all too often in application design, and this isn't just Lotus Notes application design, is the horrible misuse of the Numeric data type...
« Mick Moignard » |
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The Notes client has a few such features. To me, the most annoying can be the Profile document -- the one that says "the owner of this mailfile is"...
« Nancy Hand » |
2007-12|
Fröhliche Weihnachten * Merry Christmas * Noël Joyeux * Feliz Navidad
« Christoph Arras » |
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Learn how to set up IBM Lotus Notes V8 so that Microsoft Outlooks users have a smooth and easy transition to it. This purpose of this article is to describe the basic steps needed to make a smooth transition from Microsoft Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes V8. Here is an outline of these steps that we discuss in detail...
« Mary Beth Raven » |
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We just created a Featured Documents list for Domino Web Access (DWA). For those of you not familiar with Featured Documents, we blogged about them here back in August. Featured Documents lists the most frequently requested support content, as well as those documents identified by us as valuable in helping answer your questions related to our products. Domino Web Access customers should check this out and bookmark it, because these documents are updated monthly...
« Jennifer Kelley » |
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This article charts some basic approaches for designing components for composite application development that have maximum reuse. You can use many different strategies to provide the optimum components...
« Craig Wolpert/Jo Grant » |
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Learn about IBM Lotus Domino Server.Load V8. From installation to configuration to running workloads, this article shows you how to quickly get started...
« Dumouchel/Malek/Powers » |
2007-11|
Ideas plus collaboration equal innovation. It's a simple formula, but how do you leverage ideas and how do you better enable collaboration in your organization? Using Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking, Lotus software offers several solutions to help you collaborate, communicate, and innovate. Find out how Lotus software brings social networking to the enterprise in this Lotus Web 2.0 Developer kit...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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When you upgrade a Lotus Domino server to version 7.0.3, multiple Windows services are automatically installed for Domino. See the picture below...
« Lotus Support »
Found via Wolfgang Fey |
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This preassembled NSF-based composite application sample uses NSF components and one Eclipse-based component to render and generate reports on data from IBM Lotus Notes applications...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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This technote is the second of two modules that train you on how to use LotusScript within a custom built application. Module 1 covers Domino Designer, LotusScript debugger and the Designer Help file. Module 2 covers the creation of back-end LotusScript agents...
« Lotus Education » |
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This technote is the first of two modules that train you on how to use LotusScript within a custom built application. Module 1 covers Domino Designer, LotusScript Debugger and the Designer Help file. Module 2 covers the creation of back-end LotusScript agents...
« Lotus Education » |
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This database contains 22 ready-to-use utility components to build composite applications in Lotus Notes 8. It contains an Eclipse Update Site to house the Eclipse-based components. The database itself hosts the design elements for the Notes-based components. And a view has been added to contain the documentation on how to use each component...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Learn about the Enhanced Quota feature in IBM Lotus Notes V8 that lets you restrict the creation of new calendar entries, to do items, and memos...
« Saurabh Calla » |
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A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in IBM Lotus Domino. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the Web Server component. No further information is available...
« Secunia » |
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Get started using IBM Lotus Expeditor Toolkit for development of applications for IBM Lotus Notes V8 and IBM Lotus Sametime V7.5.1. Learn which installation options to select, how to configure the toolkit, and how to launch a sample application on your target environment...
« Pierre Carlson » |
2007-10|
In IBMs Lotus Notes und Domino koennen mehrere Sicherheitsluecken dazu fuehren, dass Angreifer schaedlichen Programmcode einschleusen oder vertrauliche Daten ausspionieren koennen...
« heise online » |
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Follow along step-by-step as we show you how to create an NSF-based composite application in IBM Lotus Notes V8 using both NSF and Eclipse components. You can reference these procedures when creating your own composite applications...
« Mark Jourdain » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.3 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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Learn how to combine multiple Lotus Notes applications and other technologies to produce a unified interface in which users can conduct their business more effectively and supply innovative business solutions...
« Susan Bulloch » |
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Maintaining IBM Lotus Domino V8 mail server scalability with the IBM Lotus Notes V8 client is critical, and this article shows that Lotus Domino V8 not only equals, but outperforms the previous release. Let us show you how Lotus Domino V8 with the Lotus Notes V8 client performs across a variety of server platforms...
« IBM Lotus Performance Team » |
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I have problems with @dblookup / getAllDocumentsByKey / getAllEntriesByKey and views with more than the first column sorted and categorized...
« Christoph Arras » |
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Composite Application Editor provides tooling for editing composite applications. This product was first made available to the public as a component within IBM Lotus Notes 8.0...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Learn to enable users to both rate existing animations and to combine existing animations into new snippets. This is the third in a series of three tutorials that chronicle the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation building using Domino and OpenLaszlo...
« Nicholas Chase/Keith Strickland » |
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Become familiar with the animation process and learn how to create and run OpenLaszlo animations. This is the second in a series of three tutorials that chronicle the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation building using Domino and Open Laszlo. Part 1 of this series familiarized you with Notes and Domino in the process of setting up the core of the BlammoSplat Web sites. Part 2 shows you how to create and run OpenLaszlo animations...
« Nicholas Chase/Keith Strickland » |
2007-09|
What does BlammoSplat mean? It's the name of a sample Lotus Notes/Domino-based Web site you can learn how to build in this new tutorial called: "BlammoSplat: Build a community Web site of Open Laszlo animations, Part 1: The basic site." The tutorial is aimed at Web developers who want to learn about using Lotus Notes/Domino to develop a Web site. This is part one of a three-part tutorial series that explains the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation, and is built using Domino and Open Laszlo...
« Craig Lordan » |
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We recently updated the Lotus Notes/Domino Notes.ini settings with the following new variables in Lotus Notes and Domino 8...
« Tara Hall » |
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I've been writing some LotusScript classes recently, and it occurred to me to write about this technique for improving performance -- hope it's not too obvious...
« Andre Guirard » |
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What we have here is an end-user tool that includes a toolbar button you can click while you have a replication conflict document open or highlighted (or the main document), and it will open the replication conflict and main document side by side to compare them visually. There's also a list of the field differences and a marked-up version of any rich text showing what has changed (text differences only, I'm afraid, but still helpful)...
« Andre Guirard » |
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Unser SAP-System wird von R/3 4.6C auf mySAP ERP2005 aktualisiert. Der Zugriff auf einen ersten aktualisierten Entwicklungsserver ist jetzt nicht mehr moeglich, weder per altem LSX for SAP R/3 2.0b3 noch per Notes access for SAP solutions (NaSS von Notes 7.0.2).
« Christoph Arras » |
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Two drives failed on the blog server's drive array today. We do not have the hardware in inventory to rebuild the array immediately and we will have to order new drives. It may take a two days before we have the necessary drives and can rebuild the array...
« Christoph Arras » |
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Automatically perform repetitive tasks associated with files from a Lotus Domino server crash, hang, or performance issues.
« LDD Sandbox » |
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This preassembled NSF-based composite application sample uses two NSF components and one Eclipse-based component to demonstrate the loose coupling and event/action relationship capabilities provided by composite applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Notes and Domino began in the work of Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len Kawell, first on PLATO Notes at the University of Illinois and later on DECNotes. Lotus founder Mitch Kapor saw the potential in Ozzie's collaboration project and the rest is history.
« developerWorks Lotus » |
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Learn about the IBM Lotus Notes/ Domino V8 enhancements to the NotesBench and Server.Load workloads. Three new workloads, N8Mail, N7Mail, and N8MailInit, demonstrate the typical tasks of a Lotus Notes user interacting with a Lotus Domino server...
« R. Stephen/J. Malek/L. Desy » |
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Export your lotus notes calendar to your iPod. This database contains the Notes2iPod class and all necessary design elemnets to update your lotus notes mail template with this functionality...
« Ray Weber » |
2007-08|
Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Notes 8 enhances the familiar Lotus Notes user interface, reinforces its collaboration and messaging strengths, and extends its application development model with state-of-the-art programming constructs. Programmability has always been a strong and important feature in the Lotus Notes product. With Lotus Notes 8, the Notes programmability story has been enhanced to provide some new features and to continue providing features that have always been available to Notes/Domino developers. This page gives you basic information for navigating the programmability changes in the latest Lotus Notes release...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Eclipse-based Lotus Notes V8 enhances the Lotus Notes user interface, reinforces its collaboration and messaging strengths, and extends its application development model with state-of-the-art programming constructs. Read more about what's new in Lotus Notes and Domino V8...
« David DeJean/Nancy Kruse Hannigan » |
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Lotus Notes/Domino V8 is available for download over PA...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Domino server add-in that calculates several Domino server uptime statistics. (Version 4.8)...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
2007-07|
This note contains links (URLs) to technical support documents regarding IBM Lotus Notes & Domino, as well as links to key information helping you derive the most value from your software licenses, and helping you be the best possible system administrator. This month's mailing has three sections...
« Joy Freeman » |
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In every application I develop for customers, I include a power-user tool to allow the users (whom have that privilege), to do a global find & replace on data...
« Theo Heselmans » |
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The new architecture of IBM Lotus Notes V8 enables visibility into what the user is doing at any given time. This article describes how to access this information and suggests ways in which it can be used to increase user productivity...
« Brian Leonard » |
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A document titled "Password exposure in Lotus Notes" has been posted at the following address: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/92958 ...
« Lotus Security » |
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This IBM Redbooks publication covers composite applications for desktop solutions that require multiple types of applications to run in a cooperative environment by providing intercommunication between components. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite applications deliver high levels of business services and this book covers the architecture, available tools, component considerations, as well as assembling, deploying and wiring components in WebSphere Portal and Rich Client Platforms, such as Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes 8...
« IBM Redbooks » |
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This preassembled NSF-based composite application uses two NSF components and one Eclipse component and demonstrates the loose coupling and event/action relationship capabilities provided by composite applications in IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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There's some tools I can't live without when doing Notes development. Some of them are free, some of them are quite expensive, but the ROI is very high. Here's what I like...
« Theo Heselmans »
Another one: GhostTyper by Bernd Hort |
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The Lotus podcasts page features developerWorks interviews and Lotusphere 2007 session podcasts...
« developerWorks Lotus » |
2007-06|
A tool for developers and administrators to search a specified set of databases for design elements that meet certain criteria, such as title, modification date, and author as well as whether or not specified strings occur in their source code...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Now you can add IBM OmniFind search functionality to a conventional Lotus Notes database application accessed through the Notes client. Specifically, in this article you'll learn how to call IBM's Java Search and Indexing API (SIAPI) from within LotusScript. In addition to showing you how to display search results as conventional text fields, this article also shows how search results can be displayed as HTML from within the Notes client, greatly improving the look and feel of the end user search interface...
« Todd Leyba » |
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This sample composite application, Customer Interests, can be used with IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 on Windows or on Linux...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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After seeing a recent spate of issues caused by scheduled tasks run on the Domino server, it would be a good idea to review what maintenance tasks you should--and more importantly, what you shouldn't--run on a regular basis...
« Chad Scott » |
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The Lead Manager sample demonstrates the new composite application features in IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8 Beta 3...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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The composite application debug tools provide runtime analysis of composite applications running in IBM Lotus Notes Beta 3...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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This tip introduces the calendar ghosting feature in IBM Lotus Notes V8 and provides instructions for enabling it. Calendar ghosting allows users to interact with unprocessed entries right on their calendars...
« Bill Le » |
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Following this tutorial, build the sample Customer Interests composite application with IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8 Beta 3...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Notes V8 enhances the Lotus Notes user interface, reinforces its collaboration and messaging strengths, and extends its application development model with state-of-the-art programming constructs. Read more about what's new in Lotus Notes and Domino V8...
« David DeJean/Nancy Kruse Hannigan » |
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This document provides options for downloading the IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2 Fix Pack 2 (7.0.2.2)...
« IBM/Lotus » |
2007-05|
Wie Andre Guirard in seinem Blog erwaehnt hat, kann via Volltextsuche nach leeren Feldinhalten bzw. nach nicht leeren Feldinhalten gesucht werden...
« Bernd Hort » |
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Seit Version 7.0.2 kann mit Hilfe des Feldes $$HTMLFrontMatter der DocType von durch den HTTP-Task erzeugten Webseiten bestimmt werden. Mein erster Gedanke war sofort, nun kann ich endlich XHTML-Ausgaben generieren. Doch auf die Generierung des HTMLs hat die Angabe keine Auswirkung. Es wird weiterhin HTML 4.01 Transitional erzeugt. Wenn sich die Ausgabe nicht beeinflussen laesst, warum sollte man den DocType angegeben?
« Bernd Hort » |
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See how to engineer LotusScript-based Web services for IBM Lotus Domino V8 that comply with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. Using the Discussion database template as an example, learn how to design and implement Web services for Lotus Domino V8 and maintain backward compatibility with Lotus Domino V7.0.2...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Extend the IBM Lotus Notes V8 client by writing Java code with Eclipse. Use Lotus Notes at home for personal email, and extend mail to include a new Mail Rule Runner that allows users to run their rules manually on the client...
« Bob Balfe » |
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This document provides options for downloading the IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.5 Fix Pack 3 (FP3)...
« IBM/Lotus »
Found via Wolfgang Fey |
2007-04|
How do you send a design element, like a form, from one Domino database to another? One way to do this is to simply cut and paste the design elements. This works well when both databases are accessible to you. Suppose you want to mail a design element to another developer? You could mail the entire database, but, then you might be sending more than you wanted. Another way is to cut and paste the design elements into a new blank database. This tip will present a better way to export and then import design elements using DXL. DXL is a way to express a Domino object (document or design) in an XML file format. This tip will use DXL to export one or more Domino design elements (any type) and then import them into another Domino database...
« TLCC » |
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Learn how IBM Lotus Notes users and developers can benefit from the new IBM Lotus Domino V7 Free Time Web service. Enable your Lotus Domino server to perform cross-server lookups of calendar availability and to create an agent to retrieve free-time information programmatically from a remote Domino server...
« Andrei Kouvchinnikov » |
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Sample Web services to access Domino databases created with the Lotus Notes/Domino discussion template...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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The new architecture of IBM Lotus Notes V8 enables a wide range of new ways to extend and customize the user experience. This article looks at two locations in this environment, the sidebar and toolbar, and discusses how to add functionality by using Eclipse plug-ins...
« Brian Leonard » |
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This is a comprehensive list of links (both within the Notes/Domino Gold Release Forum, elsewhere on developerWorks Lotus, and beyond) covering a variety of topics...
« Doug Finner » |
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Here's an updated directory FAQ the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Directory Team has assembled about Domino directories for Lotusphere 2007. Come and meet us at...
« Ken Lin » |
2007-03|
One little annoyance I've had is the need during testing to see and change the values of lines in my notes.ini file while the client is running. I either had to shut down the client, edit the notes.ini, and then restart Notes, or else write a special LotusScript control -- maybe a button in the body of a draft Memo -- to assign the value. (The ENVIRONMENT statement or @Environment in macro language can set an ini variable, but not a 'system' one). Add to this the difficulty of remembering the names of all the relevant ini variables, because if they don't already have a value, they're probably not in the file at all, so you can't search for the line to change it. To make this work more smoothly, I wrote a LotusScript agent in my bookmark.nsf file...
« Andre Guirard » |
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For file uploading on the web, File Upload Control element can be used in Domino Design. It will create the file upload file (eg tag below). The name of the File Upload field will start with...
« William Beh » |
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This generic code can be used to perform DBColumn and DBLookup using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in all browsers. It's perfectly tested on Mozilla, Netscape and of course Internet Explorer. And it's easy to use without changing any line from the code...
« Rishikesh Sahi » |
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We have started implementing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in a number of applications at my company. Most of what we have done has been using agents to bring back HTML to change a Web page using the .innerHTML property. But I was thinking that I could just as easily bring back the same information I can get in an @DBLookup. The approach I took is very specialized, but can be expanded to pull back any information you would ever want...
« Fabio Barbieri » |
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In Java and JavaScript languages, static properties and static methods are shared by all instances of a given class. Non static members relate to objects instantiated from a class and are relevant to a single instance of that class... Creating class level properties or methods in LotusScript may be useful...
« Alain H Romedenne » |
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Recently I needed to make "copies" of some Lotus Notes databases and didn't want to do it from my Notes client. This would have take hours considering the database was 5gb. I knew that there had to be a way to do this...
« Bruce Elgort »
Found via Thomas Bahn |
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There are three new security issues in Lotus Notes/Domino 6.5 and 7...
« Thomas Bahn » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.6 is available for download...
« Lotus Support » |
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This document announces the planned End of Service of the Notes and Domino 6.0.x series in April 2007. Please read the details below...
« Lotus Support » |
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Integrate, don't migrate. This article shows you how easy it is to integrate IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Access Lotus Domino data in a SharePoint installation using standard HTTP requests or XML...
« Tony Patton » |
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Featured Documents lists the most frequently requested support content, as well as those documents identified by IBM as valuable in helping answer your questions related to Lotus Domino. The list will be updated periodically to reflect new trends and issues. This list reflects a small portion of our knowledge base...
« Lotus Support » |
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Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Notes V8 enhances the Lotus Notes user interface, reinforces its collaboration and messaging strengths, and extends its application development model with state-of-the-art programming constructs. Read more about what's new in Lotus Notes and Domino V8...
« David DeJean » |
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Listen up, a whole new technique of how to do AJAX with Domino is coming. Lotus Domino 8.0 will come out with the support for JSON and JSON is already built in into current 7.0.2 release...
« Gregory Engels » |
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Ordnen Sie E-Mails immer schoen weg und haben schon eine ansehnliche Ordnerstruktur aufgebaut? Oder Sie nutzen eine Notes-Anwendung mit vielen Ordnern? Auch wenn man die Dialogbox seit der Version 6 weit aufziehen kann, muss man doch relativ viel mit der Maus klicken, bis man schliesslich bei dem richtigen Ordner angekommen ist. Aber es gibt auch eine schnelle Alternative...
« Thomas Bahn » |
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Es gibt eine Moeglichkeit, Lesezeichen fuer das Anlegen neuer Dokumente zu definieren, so dass Sie zum Beispiel Formulare oder beliebige andere Dokumente in Notes-Datenbanken einfach ueber das Datei-Menu erstellen koennen, ohne vorher die Datenbank zu suchen und zu oeffnen...
« Thomas Bahn » |
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This sample Notes database is a sample help request kind of application, to demonstrate how AJAX toolkits improve user experience of Domino web applications. First download DOJO...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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This posting contains the LotusSphere 2007 presentation called, ID105 Deploying IBM Lotus Notes 8 Clients...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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There are more than thirty Lotusphere 2007 sessions available for download...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Installationanleitung von Lotus Notes 6.x auf Citrix (mini Howto)...
« doomi.ch »
Dank geht an Thomas S. |
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Read about 11 tips for coding faster lookups in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino. The author looks at the @DbLookup @Formula in Lotus Notes and Domino and describes some new tips for developers to use when coding new applications or troubleshooting performance problems in existing applications...
« Raphael Savir » |
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Compare the design techniques and development steps of IBM Lotus Domino and IBM WebSphere Portal as you build your own portlet. The article also covers how to use IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software for greater freedom and flexibility...
« Joachim Dagerot » |
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You've heard all the excitement surrounding the next generation of Lotus Notes and Domino and now you can try it out. Lotus Notes and Domino 8 are more flexible and extensible than ever before. The new Lotus Notes interface is innovative yet familiar. See first hand and experience how the new capabilities provide compelling business value using composite applications, office productivity tools and more. And, you'll definitely want to get plugged into the Notes and Domino public forums and become an active member in this growing community.
Download the beta code and experience the next generation of Lotus Notes and Domino now...
« Lotus Software »
Public forums for Lotus Notes and Domino 8 beta program |
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This sample component shows how to obtain the document IDs of documents selected in a view control...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Supporting files for tutorial "Building Composite Applications for IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2"...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Lotusphere 2007 - HND202: Using NSD - A Practical Guide...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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The following document is a checklist for Domino Best Practices designed to provide Notes/Domino administrators, application developers. and IT managers with information needed to ensure a successful Notes/Domino environment...
« Lotus Support » |
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Bob Balaban is guest blogging today, as he has an exciting announcement to make. He is actually going to be working on the (in)famous LSX Toolkit! If you have any interest in this whatsoever, this is your time to get in your requests and suggestions...
« Bob Balaban » |
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Lotusphere 2007: AD503 Presentation and Demo: Presentation and demo files for Lotusphere session AD503
Lotusphere 2007: AD509 - Using Web Services Features in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino
Lotusphere 2007: ID219 Examples: Example files for Lotusphere session ID219
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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What versions of Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino Administrator and Lotus Domino Designer will support Microsoft Windows Vista? Are there any known issues?
« Lotus Support » |
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There are several ways to import data from Excel to Lotus Notes/Domino. One of the most popular is the built-in Import menu option, which can be used manually and works fine in most cases.But if you want to import Excel data programmatically, the easiest way is to use Excel's OLE Automation Objects. There are several ways to read data from Excel using OLE...
« Andrei Kouvchinnikov » |
2007-02|
The United States and parts of Canada are extending the period of Daylight Saving Time (DST) beginning in 2007. From 2007 onward, DST will commence on the second Sunday in March (three weeks earlier than previously) and end on the first Sunday in November (a one week extension)...
« Lotus Support » |
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I'm currently working in a project where I have to connect from a Domino Server to Websphere Message Broker/Websphere MQ. I will tell you my experiences in the next weeks...
« Christoph Arras »
Related article: Integrate Domino and WebSphere MQ @ developerWorks |
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Preview the new Out of Office functionality in IBM Notes and Domino 8 and examine the new features of the Out of Office service and the Out of Office agent. Learn how and when to use the agent and when to use the service...
« Julie Kadashevich » |
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To programmatically change user's password, Domino developers can use API function W32_SECKFMChangePassword. The function accepts 3 parameters: path to ID file. old password and new password...
« Andrei Kouvchinnikov » |
2007-01
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Take advantage of and implement the extremely useful IBM Lotus Notes and Domino security feature, Reader Names fields. Learn how this feature affects replication, agents, and views and how to troubleshoot two common problems with Reader Names fields...
« Raphael Savir » |
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This is a pretty quick tip for all you administrators out there. I always thought that "Deny Access" was the be-all, end-all. But apparently not...
« Breaking Par » |
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A co-developer recently had a list of document unique ID's. He wanted to look up a value from each of the documents. His first thought was to use @GetDocField, as in @GetDocField(unidList; "Form"). ("Form" wasn't the field he was looking up, but I'll use it here as an example). @GetDocField only works on a single value, so it was only looking up the field from the first UNID in the list...
« Breaking Par » |
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I was helping out another developer with a problem recently. They had an input control for a time value and wanted to show the time zone. The control wasn't showing the time zone, and I helped him get an easy work-around...
« Breaking Par » |
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IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions can provide even greater business value for companies using both Lotus Notes software and SAP enterprise systems. This feature lets you access SAP information and business processes in your familiar Lotus Notes messaging and collaborative environment, starting with Lotus Notes 7.0.1. The Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions feature builds on proven IBM and SAP integration technology that has been in market for eight years. The new capabilities extend this integration into calendars and scheduling, contact management, workflow processing and other common business tasks. This feature leverages Lotus Notes strengths in personal information and workflow management to complement SAP application processes....
« IBM Redbooks » |
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An enterprise IT environment with multiple directory platforms is a common scenario, and IBM Lotus Domino Directory and Microsoft Active Directory are popular choices within this scenario. This article explains one way to get these two directories to communicate easily using the Lotus Domino Active Directory Synchronization tool (ADSync)...
« Tony Patton » |
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When creating a new application recently, I was given a logo image by the customer to be included in the upper left corner of the application (it was a Notes client application). The customer wanted also to have the application name appear on top of the image. There are a couple of ways to handle this, and this tip talks about some of them...
« Breaking Par » |
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Frohes Neues Jahr * Happy New Year
Nouvelle Année Heureuse * Feliz Año Nuevo
« Christoph Arras » |
2006-12|
Gerade noch rechtzeitig vor Ende des Jahres hat IBM einen Notes-Client für Mac OS X herausgebracht. Notes 7.0.2 entspricht jetzt mit einer Ausnahme der Windows-Version: Java-Agents werden weiterhin nicht unterstützt....
« heise online » |
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One of the key pieces of most LotusScript error handling routines is delivering a message that explains what the error is, and also exactly where it happened...
« Mick Moignard »
More resources for LSI_Info by David Gewirtz |
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How to retrieve POP mail from a non-Domino server: Contributing Editor Nancy Hand is back with another story from the support trenches. This time,she's retrieving POP mail from a non-Domino server.
Deleting corrupt icons may save your Notes database: A few weeks ago, in "Before you reinstall the Notes client, try this", we discussed some ways to clear up problems dealing with mail files. In response, Marleen Overkamp, a senior application developer with Exedra Solutions in The Netherlands, had some interesting suggestions.
An obscure utility saves the day: What happens when adding new disks to a SAN causes pandemonium to a Domino server? In Contributing Editor Nancy Hand's case, she found an obscure little utility that managed to save the day.
« DominoPower » |
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This article will explain how to integrate TinyMCE, a web-based rich text editor, into Domino. Ultimate goal is to have it working reliably in all modern browsers, and well integrated into your Domino backend..
« Ferdy Christant » |
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Domino 7 allows you to create web services easily. You can start with a WSDL file and have Domino generate the Stub Classes for you or you start with the Class File and get a ready made WSDL file. Unfortunately both approaches require that you code quite a bit. Domino doesn't provide a ready baked set of SOAP web services out of the box. You do have a kind of REST web service using ?ReadViewEntries, but that is read ony...
« Stephan H. Wissel » |
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Setting the notes.ini parameter SmtpSaveOutboundToFile=1 (0 = Off, 1= On) will result in each outbound SMTP message being copied to a temporary file on the server. These messages will be saved as individual TMP files within the TMP directory specified for the server. The file names will be STXXXXXX.TMP (where XXXXXX will be 6 numerical digits). The contents of the files will contain the header information and the MIME information...
« IBM/Lotus »
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Developers may try to create a hide-when formula in a rich text field that uses a @DBLookup. When they do this the user may get prompted with a ESA (Execution Security Alert) prompt. This tip will discuss the pitfalls of using certain @Functions in Hide-When formulas in rich text fields. The reason for these security alerts will be discussed and an alternative will be presented to solve the problem. Note that this issue does not affect hide-when formulas on design elements like forms or views, only hide-when formulas located in a rich text field...
« TLCC » |
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Fröhliche Weihnachten * Merry Christmas
Noël Joyeux * Feliz Navidad
« Christoph Arras » |
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Domingo is a simple, consistent, object-oriented easy-to-use interface to the Lotus Notes/Domino Java-API...
« beck et al. »
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The ndgts_Domino_655_FP2.zip file contains a file that should replace the existing file of the same name on the Domino 6.5.5 Fix Pack 2 (FP2) server...
« IBM/Lotus »
Refer to the following technote for the symptoms that occur due to the nonfunctional ndgts.dll file: 1250315 |
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If you are considering implementing local mail replicas for your IBM Lotus Notes users, learn more about the advantages of this model and how to create local mail replicas manually or administratively using Setup and Desktop policies. Customize the Desktop policy to control users’ Location documents...
« Joseph Anderson/Peter Burkhardt » |
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Here's an inventory of LotusScript COM/OLE classes holding undocumented properties and methods. I compiled it using Notes/Domino release 7 type library. OMT notation is used for brevity...
« Alain H Romedenne » |
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Using Ajax for instant messaging:
See who is online on your intranet or in other Web application and send them instant messages. Learn how the power of IBM Lotus Domino and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) can add awareness to your Domino Web applications or intranet site...
« Tomas Nielsen » |
2006-11|
Maybe interesting: Domino 7.0.2 allows certain URLs, for example those that generate RSS feeds, to use Basic Authentication, even if Domino Session Authentication is in effect...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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In the third and last article in our IBM Lotus Domino Web services series, we discuss more advanced techniques for using Domino Web services, such as complex data types, enumerations, file attachments, and custom faults...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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I haven't used document locking very much, but one customer insisted on it. Then, after implementing document locking, I ended up with a bunch of replication/save conflicts. After several hours of digging, I came up with something I thought I'd share with all my readers...
« Breaking Par » |
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In the second article in our Web services series, we show you how to write simple Web services in IBM Lotus Domino V7.0 that accept and return simple data types, arrays, and InOut parameters. We also discuss several test methods, using tools such as soapUI, Eclipse, MSSOAP toolkit, and Apache Axis...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Create a Web 2.0-style, thin Web client for Lotus Domino using HTML and JavaScript. Building on the previous articles about the IBM Lotus Domino XML (DXL) framework, this article shows you how to extend your Notes/Domino applications with Ajax...
« Raj Balasubramanian » |
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In this first installment of a three-part series, we discuss the terminology and concepts behind Web services and how they benefit you as an IT professional. This article does not deal with anything specific to Lotus Domino, but provides a good overview of Web services to get you started...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Someone recently wanted to be able to launch a Word document that was attached to a profile. (It was a "template" that they would fill out and then attach to a new document). He tried at first to get a handle to the attachment and use the Active method to start it, but that only works for OLE objects. Read on to find the solution...
« Breaking Par » |
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A friend of mine has an application that has documents in a parent-child relationship. The child documents have values that are computed based on the parent. When the parent changes, those children need to be updated. After the database grew quite a bit, the updating of the responses wasn't working any more. This tip shows a couple different ways of updating responses, and the "second" way solved my friend's problem...
« Breaking Par » |
2006-10|
I've shown several examples on this web site of how to get the Notes data directory so it can be used as a temporary place to hold files. There is also a Windows temporary directory that can be used...
« Breaking Par » |
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Vom 26. bis zum 28. Februar 2007 findet zum fünften Mal das Lotus Notes Domino EntwicklerCamp statt. Als neuer Veranstaltungsort ist Gelsenkirchen mit seiner zentrale Lage gewählt worden. Das EntwicklerCamp wird vom Verein Bundled-KnowHow (http://www.B-KH.de), einer Gruppe von LotusNotes-Spezialisten, veranstaltet...
« Rudi Knegt »
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Sample database with Web Service design elements that expose "Helpdesk" functionality from the Lotus Domino server. This database uses the new Lotus Notes/Domino Web Service design feature...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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There are many actions which can be coded much easier in Java than LotusScript. Accessing web services or accessing the content on an HTML page are good examples. In addition, there are many public domain Java classes that handle common tasks. Many payment processing vendors have a Java API to process credit cards. So, what's a LotusScript coder to do? Use LS2J to call Java classes from within a LotusScript program! This tip will introduce the use of LS2J...
« TLCC » |
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A Notes database has numerous settings to control replication. These are viewed using the Notes client by selecting a database and then choosing, File - Replication - Settings. This tip will explain how to use LotusScript and the NotesReplication class to set any of the replication settings for a database...
« TLCC » |
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Past articles described how to customize the look and feel of IBM Lotus Domino Web Access, but this one describes how to modify the cascading style sheet (CSS) definitions. Using the Domino Web Access Skin Editor Tool as well as other tools, you can change change different UI elements...
« Vinod Seraphin / Shu Sia Lukito » |
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Now that I have the Notes 7.0.2, I went through installing Notes on a USB memory drive. It went pretty well, and there's lots of documentation out on the internet and in the Notes 7.0.2 release notes, but I'll share some specifics of my installation and share the information I was able to find...
« Breaking Par » |
2006-09|
IBM Lotus Domino 7.02 is available for download (from Passport)...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino release 7.0.2:
- Provides you with the expected maintenance updates
- Adds a number of new product features
- The ability to RSS enable databases
- The ability to take your Lotus Notes desktop with you on certain USB pluggable devices
- The ability to add calendar events to your Lotus Notes calendar from iCal compliant published calendars
- Inclusion of a blog template...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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This information was posted recently on the IBM public technote web site, but I thought it would be good for all my readers. It fell (for me at least) into the "learn something new every day" category...
« Breaking Par » |
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I was helping out someone on a project and an odd request came about. They wanted to update two check boxes with one click. For this project, there was the ability to update different fields based on a dialog box. Read on to find out what I mean...
« Breaking Par » |
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I am getting an error during Windows start up: nsl.exe - Application Error [...]
Solution: Can you verify that the following...
« David Schneck » |
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After nearly punching a hole in my computer monitor recently, I learned something that I thought I'd share with all of my readers. (and it's not "don't punch a hole in your computer monitor")...
« Breaking Par » |
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IBM Lotus Domino and Microsoft toolsets are built on standards that allow interoperation of these two systems. This article covers techniques and approaches you can use to integrate Lotus Domino and Microsoft .NET, including Component Object Model (COM) and Lotus Domino Objects, Web services, and XML..
« Tony Patton » |
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The attached presentation (ddm.ppt) is a self-guided tour of Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM)...
« Lotus Sandbox » |
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Learn how the implementation of mail quotas can significantly enhance the administration team's ability to control the size of mail databases--a vital function of managing an IBM Lotus Domino environment. Learn the steps necessary to implement quotas and the impacts on the user community...
« Joseph Anderson » |
2006-08|
Using a case study, the authors of this article describe some best practices and recommendations from the field for securing an IBM Lotus Domino Web server
« Matthew Milza / Scott Rogers » |
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New in IBM Lotus Domino 7, the Web service design element is a great way to expose services to the world. But do you know how easy it is to use the Apache Axis framework for consuming Web services? Discover how to take advantage of Apache Axis and Lotus Domino 7 technologies to create a Web service consumer...
« Joachim Dagerot » |
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IBM has announced a native Linux version of Lotus Notes, which is great. But there are still some reasons to run the Windows version of Notes on Wine...
« Dan Kegel » |
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QuickTools for Lotus Domino offers Domino administrators the ability to create custom Java plug-ins to manipulate Domino databases. The custom plug-ins extend Domino's concept of agents such that the plug-ins can be run on any database or document selected from the application's graphical interface...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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I've been a user of Lotus Notes for the past nine years, and was delighted to hear IBM had released a Notes client which can run natively on Linux. There are ways to make the Notes client run under Linux, but I've never considered WINE to be terribly stable...
« Peter Hicks » |
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Companies are increasing their use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) readers and news aggregators to help publish information using the Web. Lotus Notes and Domino 7.0.2 software will allow you to make your Lotus Domino databases accessible through these services. This capability is especially useful for data that is regularly updated...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Have you ever needed to travel on business, but you don't have a laptop? Temporarily use another workstation because your hard drive failed, but the only available machine does not have Lotus Notes installed? Work at a client location or remote office?
Lotus Notes 7.0.2 software will let you copy your Lotus Notes desktop (not just your files) to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device the size of a pen...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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True to the Lotus Notes software heritage of out-of-the-box collaboration tools, Lotus Notes 7.0.2 software will include a prepackaged application that lets business users quickly create a Web log (blog)...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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LotusScript has the ability to read and write text files. This tip covers how to import a CSV (comma separated values) file into Domino creating a new document for each line in the file..
« TLCC » |
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This tip demonstrates how to change the Access Control List using LotusScript code. The example code adds an entry into the ACL for all databases in a specified directory...
« TLCC » |
2006-07|
Find performance data about the IBM Lotus Domino with DB2 feature to help you plan your Lotus Domino messaging environment. This article shows results of performance tests of this Lotus Domino 7 feature using the R6Mail workload...
« Nirmala Venkatraman/Serge Limoges » |
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Present content and incorporate the design from a Domino view into a Macromedia Flash-based view. With this solution, you can quickly expose standard Domino views for Web users and easily update the design of a single Domino view for both Lotus Notes and Web clients...
« Jonas Israelsson » |
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Den Domino Server gibt es schon seit vielen Jahren auf Linux. Am 24. Juli aber will IBM auch den Notes Client 7.0.1 auf Linux bringen, zunächst für RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, dann für den Novell Linux Desktop...
« heise online » |
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The signature on some Java applets in IBM Lotus Domino 6.x and Domino 7.0.x expired on 18 May 2006. An Interim Fix is available which re-signs the applets...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Get practical sizing information to help you plan your Lotus Domino mail environment. See which factors most affect sizing, learn how to plan for growth, and find out what information the Statrep.nsf database can provide. A case study shows how to use what you’ve learned in your Domino environment...
« Andy Nolet/Barbara Filippi/Mike Wojton » |
2006-06|
Giving users instant feedback instead of the time-consuming page reloads they're used to is simple when you use Ajax. Discover how a view and an agent can help you build Ajax-driven applications and learn how to define an API for getting the client and the Domino server to collaborate...
« Joachim Dagerot » |
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Domino converts tables to the Table HTML tag. Some of the properties for a table and the table's cells are converted to the equivalent tags for web browsers. However, many of the table settings are not converted. This can result in a table that looks great in the Notes client but looks very different on the web. This affects not only Domino applications used with a web browser but also internet mail sent by a Notes client to other mail systems like Outlook or Yahoo that use MIME formatting...
« TLCC » |
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The NotesDocument class offers several properties and methods to work with child documents (responses.) This tip covers the Responses property which is used to return all responses to a document, the IsResponse property which is used to determine if a document is a child of another, and the MakeResponse method to create a new response document. This tip includes an attached sample code database...
« TLCC » |
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This tip demonstrates how to change the Access Control List using LotusScript code. The example code adds an entry into the ACL for all databases in a specified directory...
« TLCC » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.1 FP1 is available for download...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions is a new feature in Lotus Notes 7.0.1 that integrates Lotus Notes and SAP, so you can perform some common SAP functions from within Lotus Notes, such as time reporting, vacation and leave requests, and so on. Developers can extend this new feature even further...
« David DeJean » |
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The purpose of this document is to provide you with useful information for troubleshooting general Lotus Domino server performance issues...
« IBM/Lotus »
Thanx to Wolfgang Fey ;-) |
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IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.5 FP1 is available for download...
« IBM/Lotus » |
2006-05|
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.1 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Zum zweiten Mal veranstaltet IBM zusammen mit der DNUG eine Lotus-Konfernz in Deutschland. Am ersten, kostenlosen Konferenztag sprechen unter anderem Lotus-Chef Mike Rhodin und Entwicklungschef Craig Hayman...
« heise online » |
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With a distributed application like Notes, one of the problems is that someone can have a local replica and not replicate for a while. This can cause problems like previously deleted documents reappearing, or replication conflicts. This tip describes one way of reminding users to replicate at least somewhat frequently...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.4 Template Hotfix is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Some resources on WebServices in Lotus Domino posted by Alan on LDW...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
2006-04
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In a recent project I had a need to round a number to the nearest half decimal (so the number would end in a .0 or a .5) using JavaScript. This tip shows how I chose to implement this functionality...
« Breaking Par » |
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Learn how policies, first introduced in Lotus Notes/Domino 6, have been enhanced to include the powerful new Mail Settings policy document that lets you administer calendar and mail settings for your users...
« Timothy Speed/Terry Fouchey » |
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Many companies use Domino as the web engine for their public web site. Google is the premier search engine for web searches. There are several books on how to change a web site to improve the ranking a web page has in Google's indexes. This tip will show you how to do one improvement to make sure the Google search engine indexes all the pages in your Domino database by using Google SiteMaps..
« TLCC »
Thanx to Thomas Schlebach ;-) |
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I'm sure many of you have used color columns that were introduced with Notes/Domino 6. This tip covers them a little bit and could go into the "things you didn't know" category about them...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.4 Hotfix 2 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Following in the footsteps of Professor INI, Nathan Barry highlights some of the settings of the Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook Notes.ini file to help you troubleshoot common issues and to enable new features in the software...
« Nathan Barry » |
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Last week I started talking about how to find the "added to file" value for documents in a database. This week I will finish the tip...
« Breaking Par » |
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Enhancements to the automatic diagnostic collection feature and the new fault analyzer feature make Lotus Notes and Domino 7 more serviceable. See how these improvements can help you with your next server or client crash...
« Jon Champlin » |
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Learn about IBM AIX segment layouts for the Lotus Domino server and how to configure the Notes.ini file settings ConstrainedSHMSizeMB and PercentAvailSysResources to alter your server memory allocation. Find recommendations for configuring the server...
« Eddy Bell » |
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The client-side performance improvements described in this article apply to Lotus Domino Web Access 7. For those on an earlier release of Lotus Domino Web Access, we recommend that you upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 6.5.4 or later...
« Dana St. Clair » |
2006-03|
A few years ago, I ran an article about installing the Notes 6 client. I honestly didn't expect it to be particularly popular, because most of our readers were pretty high-level IT folks. But, suprisingly, I got a relatively large number of "thank you" letters about the article. Apparently, our readers were using the article to save time. It turns out they were sending the article's URL to their users and telling their users to follow the steps, rather than making a "house call" for each new Notes install. So, now that Notes 7 is here, it's time to update the article for the new release...
« David Gewirtz » |
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This week, we continue our Notes 7 intro month with an article about how to configure the Notes 7 client as a POP3 email client...
« David Gewirtz »
Thanx to Uli Schnatz ;-) |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.4 Hotfix 1 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Have you ever dealt with someone having a local replica of a database and not replicating it on a regular basis? Then you have probably seen a lot of previously deleted documents "reappear" on the server. When it does happen, you can look at the "added in this file" document property to see when the actual document was created on the server. Unfortunately, this property is not available to LotusScript. But it is listed when you look at the XML of the document. This tip is the first in a two-part series showing how to get this value programmatically...
« Breaking Par » |
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For a recent project, I needed the ability to compute the number of days between two dates. In Notes formula language, this is pretty easy to do. But I needed it done on the web. After a little searching, I found a piece of code on http://javascript.internet.com that I was able to modify to fit my needs. I modified the code to be a generic function, and thought I'd share it...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.4 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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I recently had a need to repeat a string using JavaScript. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but at the time I couldn't find anything good on the internet to do it (maybe I wasn't searching for the right stuff). This function will take a string and repeats it "x" times, up to a maximum length...
« Breaking Par » |
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Hello DominoSecurity readers, in my last newsletter, I urged an upgrade to 6.5.5 and 7.0.1 for security reasons. Thanks to one of the readers on this list, I have become aware of a feature problem in the Notes client software 6.5.5. If this feature is important to you, you may want to keep your Notes client software at 6.5.4 and wait for a later release.The problem is that calendar delegation does not work properly after upgrading a Notes workstation to 6.5.5. The delegatee cannot create repeating events, reschedule meetings, or edit a meeting in the delegater's calendar. This is a serious, possibly show-stopper, issue for many Notes organizations, since calendar delegation is so widely used. Lotus has confirmed the existence of this problem and slated a fix for 6.5.6, which is scheduled for January 2007. In my opinion, this is too long to wait, since calendar delegation is common. I have expressed this opinion to Lotus via the Partner Forum. Note that this problem is related to the Notes 6.5.5 client software. The problem does not appear to be in the 6.5.5 Domino server or web browser access to a 6.5.5 server. Also, no one has reported the same issue with Notes 7.0.1...
« Chuck Connell » |
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When people used to ask me what I wanted for Christmas, I always said, "Please give me a way I can get into an evil user's mail file without sparking up the client on the server or mapping a drive to the server." Santa gave me what I wanted in Release 6 -- the wonderful functionality called Full Access Administrator...
« Andy Pedisich » |
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Open Slice is an application framework for Lotus Notes applications. It is not an application itself, but rather the bottom layer of any application - the first slice of your application sandwich if you will. Open Slice is designed to provide most of the basic elements that any Notes application requires. This allows developers to skip the basic stuff, and get right to the "meat" of the application...
« Laurette Rynne »
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Periodically, certificates associated with a server ID expire. When this occurs, the ID needs to be recertified. To recertify a server ID, the administrator must have either Author access to the Domino directory and the ServerModifier role assigned or Editor access to the directory. In addition, the administrator must have Author access or greater to the certification log. The following steps allow a server ID to be recertified...
« Karen Fishwick / Tony Aveyard » |
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This week's Show and Tell Thursday installment deals with reading CSV (comma-delimited) files in LotusScript. There are 3 common ways to deal with reading CSV files...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Here are two tips for LotusScript developers. Both are very useful when working with files and directories, and both will lead you, gentle developer, into the wild and wooly world of C API calls from LotusScript...
« Rocky Oliver » |
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Remember when I mentioned that a fix would be forthcoming concerning this regression bug? Well, here's the info I can share with you...
« Rocky Oliver » |
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A guide to the Out of Office functionality in Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino is now available, along with a list of frequently asked questions...
« IBM/Lotus »
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IBM ships a couple of default templates with every release of Lotus Notes Domino. There are loads of templates you can download and use free of charge from OpenNTF. And you can find much more when surfing the internet. I'm not only talking about open source and free of charge tools and templates for every-day-work...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Please note that this post does not address the complexities of migrating entire Microsoft Exchange installations. For this there are IBM tools as well as some 3rd party solutions that I really prefer. After reading through the below example you'll see that this approach really doesn't work for larger migrations but might work well for migrating individual users coming into your organization with an existing Outlook Express installation. Migrate contacts from the address book by exporting them as vCards and then import these into the personal NAB of the user...
« Mikkel Heisterberg » |
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Recently I was working on an application and had a need to show information in multiple columns to save screen space. This tip shows you how to create multiple computed text elements that each show a part of a multi-valued field...
« Breaking Par » |
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Having not done a lot of web development in Domino until the last couple of years, I have to 'fess up... I've never used WebQueryOpen/WebQuerySave agents, nor have I ever had to figure out the DocumentContext property. That all changed today...
« Thomas Duff » |
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IBM's upcoming release of Lotus Notes for Linux is, according to Novell survey responders, among the most eagerly anticipated events in Linuxdom...
« Email Battles » |
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Similar to my Lotus Notes/Domino Product Catalog and Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Tools, below is my unofficial list of Application Development tools...
« Alan Lepofsky »
Application Development Tools 2 by Alan Lepofsky |
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Learn how to setup and use the Calendar Delegation feature in the Lotus Notes client to grant another Notes user access to your mail file and act on your behalf...
« Lisa Chase » |
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Imagine the following situation - say you've got a set of documents which are all children of one container document. From within this parent container document you want to be able to quickly change the order in which the child documents appear. Sound familiar? It's a scenario I've come across a couple of times before and only now have I found a solution I'm happy with enough to share...
« Jake Howlett » |
2006-02|
I was recently contacted by Katherine Emling (used to be Katherine Spanbauer, the security czarina at IBM/Lotus) about possibly writing a little file to help users more easily apply the recommended workaround in Technote 1229918, which deals with a security issue with the Lotus Notes File Viewers...
« Rocky Oliver » |
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Since today is Show-N-Tell Thursday, and I have not blogged yet this week (sorry, working on stuff!) I figured I'd share a tool I wrote a while back with everyone. It is called File Manager For Lotus Notes, and I've posted it on OpenNTF. I originally designed this tool many years ago when I was an administrator and wanted to keep track of all the mail files across our many server. However, I find this tool can be handy for users as well. For example you can keep track of the Notes databases and templates on your own computer, running a report once a week/month allowing you to keep track of how various databases sizes are changing...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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One thing I find really annoying in Notes is that when new interface options are added, particularly in rich text, they are often hidden. For example, if you create a collapsed section, you have various options about how it will display, and these have been enhanced through various Notes releases...
« Ben Langhinrichs » |
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Lotusphere 2006: INV101- IBM Lotus Notes and Domino: "Hannover" and Beyond
Lotusphere 2006: AD205 - New Methods for Customizing Views in IBM Lotus Notes 7 Sample App
Lotusphere 2006: AD212 - Introduction to DXL (Powerpoint presentation from Lotusphere 2006)
Lotusphere 2006: AD213 - Demystifying the IBM Lotus Notes Out of Office Agent
« LDD Sandbox » |
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This week's tip is a quick one that talks about one of the advantages of the Evaluate function in a scheduled agent...
« Breaking Par » |
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Something I often forget and I was asked from Wolfgang Fey today. He told me to create an entry in my blog ;-) Thank's Wolfgang!
« Christoph Arras » |
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We first mentioned OpenNTF.org (at http://www.openNTF.org) back in 2002, in an article about the changing world of Domino development. After happily talking to many very nice, but slightly wacky OpenNTF T-shirt wearing developers at Lotusphere, I realized we'd never done an article specifically about this very useful resource...
« David Gewirtz » |
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This page is a continuation of my Notes/Domino 7 Resource Center...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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As an Admin/sometime developer, I tend to run multiple Notes clients on one system. Having R4, R5, and R6 on one machine never really posed much of a problem (and before you ask, no, I am NOT running R4 and/or R5 on my system). But I discovered today that adding R7 to the mix changes things. I attempted to install R7 on my machine and never was able to change the default locations for the program and data directories. Tried a couple of times. Nothing. So, in a moment of clarity, I looked at the Readme file (yeah, who would have guessed that I would do that). From the Notes R7 Readme file...
« Gregg Eldred » |
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Two things got me excited this weekend. Both of them related in a sense. First was Ruby on Rails. Second was Prototype JavaScript Framework. Related because Rails ships with the Prototype library. More on Rails tomorrow. For now, let's talk about Prototype... Anyway, last week I had cause to use Ajax again and this time I wanted to make sure I was doing it the right/best way. Prototype.js seemed to be the way to go. If it's good enough for Rails it's good enough for me. At first I thought I'd use the library just for making Ajax calls. However, I soon found myself using other parts of it to make the rest of my coding a lot simpler and slicker. I then went on to update the Ajax @DBLookup database to use Prototype.js...
« Jake Howlett » |
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I changed the code for my project "Wendy" once again. In the former version of nstart.exe, the file had to be copied to the Notes executable directory. This is no longer necessary now; you can copy nstart.exe to i.e the "root" directory of your USB key, regardless of where your Notes Client is installed. nstart.exe locates the notes.ini and notes.exe, makes the necessary changes and starts the client...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Not long back I was working on a "feedback" form for a website. The clients wanted a basic rich text editor for the Message/Body field. Simple enough. The message field is a a standard Notes Rich Text field and saved as Passthru HTML in the backend document. Another requirement of the system was that it worked in browsers with no JavaScript support. This is where I hit a snag...
« Jake Howlett » |
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Awhile back I posted about my littleSignature File Wizard that I had created. Basically it allows you to mail a self-contained feature to a Notes mail user, and they can go through some steps and create a nice little signature block. After Lotusphere I dug that code up and updated it with the "Yellow is the New Black" theme and one of the logos floating around...
« Rocky Oliver »
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This is a small utility designed to tell you which actions are not compiled. If, for some reason, an action is not compiled the tool will identify the title of the action and the position in the action bar. More information about the background of this utility can be found here (via Craig Schumann)...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Some time back, I inherited an application that tracked milestones on a project. Each milestone line contained milestone name, start date, original planned end date, current end date, and actual end date fields. Not so bad, except there were 70 lines of this data...
« Thomas Duff »
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For a recent project, there was a need to show (on the web) documents created "today". There are a number of ways to do this, including using time sensitive formulas (either @Today or @Now) in a view. This is a new way of doing it that doesn't involve time sensitive formulas in views or scheduled agents...
« Breaking Par » |
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Microsoft SQL Server. It's the golden database child of small to mid-sized IT departments. Without trying to spark any kind of religious debate over the merits of SQL Server versus MySQL versus Oracle versus whatever, let's just agree that SQL Server is pretty pervasive. And therefore, it's a technology that we'll want to "talk to" on occasion.
Programming Lotus Notes to access fields and tables and views on SQL Server is pretty much a cake walk. You can use LS:DO or DECS or ADO COM objects to grab them just like you would any other relational database, and use regular SQL calls to retrieve and manipulate data. No big magic there.... Here are some techniques you might find handy...
« Julian Robichaux »
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As posted the other day (To OR or not to OR...) you can use parenthesis' to condense the fulltext search string in Notes when OR'ing terms together. Another option I just discovered today is to use square brackets instead of the "FIELD"-keyword
« Mikkel Heisterberg » |
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Lately, I have made several agents that read web pages and analyze the contents, and I know that I'm not the only one doing this. However, most people seem to use either Java or the MS COM object WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1. I don't. I haven't yet learned how to use Java, and I found limitations in using the MS COM object. Instead, I use the built-in functionality of the Notes/Domino Web Navigator with LotusScript. This is how I use this functionality, and hopefully, it can help someone else out there...
« Peter von Stöckel »
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Strong security has always been part of the family of Lotus software products. More notably, it has been a feature which has made Lotus Notes and Domino an industry leader for security-rich messaging, calendar and scheduling capabilities. with a robust platform for collaborative applications With Lotus Notes and Domino 7, IBM extends the reach of Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration solutions while continuing to leverage your IT and application investments. The new version offers capabilities to support more people with fewer servers, to simplify administration and to provide tighter integration with Web standards...
« IBM Redbooks » |
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If you are using iNotes, you can make the change to the Configuration Document and be done with it. But if you are using Notes (pre-R7), this doesn't work so well. Okay, doesn't work at all. To that end, this is my tip of the week, lifted from developerWorks:Lotus and the author "michael b."...
« Gregg Eldred »
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Ever have a user who wishes that they could archive documents by just dragging them to a folder in their mailfile? If the answer is yes then this little trick is for you. First of all make sure the user has an archive setup. This can either be a local archive or a server based archive as the trick works for both types of archive...
« Declan Lynch »
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In part two of this article series, we explain how you can build views that are optimized for performance in your Notes/Domino applications...
« Raphael Savir » |
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Der Sicherheitsdienstleister Secunia hat in IBMs Lotus Notes 6.x und 7.x fünf Lücken entdeckt, über die sich Schadprogramme mittles präparierter Dateianhänge einschleusen lassen...
« heise online » |
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When dealing with lists (arrays) in formula language, every once in a while you want to remove an entry from the list. There are slick ways of doing this with @Replace or other ways, but those have their drawbacks. For example, with @Replace, if there are duplicate entries in the list both will be removed (that may or may not be desired). This code, although a little longer than those "slick" ways, is pretty easy to follow and removes one and only one element from a list in formula language...
« Breaking Par » |
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What is IBM Lotus Domino? What is the difference between IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Lotus Notes? What is IBM Lotus Domino Express? ...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Strong security has always been part of the family of Lotus software products. More notably, it has been a feature which has made Lotus Notes and Domino an industry leader for security-rich messaging, calendar and scheduling capabilities. with a robust platform for collaborative applications With Lotus Notes and Domino 7, IBM extends the reach of Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration solutions while continuing to leverage your IT and application investments. The new version offers capabilities to support more people with fewer servers, to simplify administration and to provide tighter integration with Web standards...
« IBM Redbooks » |
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Most Web applications use a request/response model that gets an entire HTML page from the server. The result is a back-and-forth that usually involves clicking a button, waiting for the server, clicking another button, and then waiting some more. With Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest object, you can use a request/response model that never leaves users waiting for a server to respond. In this article, Brett McLaughlin shows you how to create XMLHttpRequest instances in a cross-browser way, construct and send requests, and respond to the server...
« Brett McLaughlin » |
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An new book has been published... Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 7 - Written by Lotus insiders, the book provides a practical guide to each of the important features and enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 7. These experienced experts use their own experiences to map out the benefits you could gain, and the dangers you may face, as you implement these features in your business.Written by specific experts, edited and overseen by Lotus content generator Dick McCarrick, this book is the definitive guide to all Lotus Notes/Domino 7 upgrading issues...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.1 is available for download (Passport)...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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While playing catch-up on all the news and hype that has been happening in the Lotus Community, I've stumbled upon two Lotus web pages that I want to help make everyone aware of. These are not your typical IBM product pages. Rather, these two pages are more about creating excitement around Notes/Domino and Sametime...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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I am using customized mailrules for some time, motivated by Chris Linfoot and dominopower. These customizations add several conditions to the template. I was looking for a way to customize actions and customized the servers names.nsf even more...
« Chris A. Brandlehner » |
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One strength of Notes development is the way it gives us so many approaches to achieving the same goal. Lots of different languages and methods to choose from. The formula language for one is great. It gives us simple ways of achieving seemingly complicated ends...
« Jake Howlett » |
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Say you have two or more databases that have similar outline entries, and you're doing maintenance on them. You add a new outline entry for a new view you introduced, and you set it to "Current Database". Logically, you can then copy that view entry from the one database into the other database where you just added the same view...
« Thomas Duff » |
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As I posted earlier this week, I was about to write a small starter application that would do all the necessary changes to the notes.ini when you have a notes installation on an usb key. Well here it is...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Sample database with Web Service design elements...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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A Domino database containing several agents in LotusScript and Java that do XML and DXL processing using DOM, SAX, XSLT, DXL Export, and DXL Import. All additional files needed, including a C API example of XSLT, are attached in the database...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Sample code for Extending IBM Lotus Domino Administration...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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No Lotus Notes/Domino developer wants to hear the following comment: "Beautiful application, too bad it's so slow!" In this two-part article series, we explain how you can avoid this embarrassment by building Notes/Domino applications optimized for performance...
« Raphael Savir » |
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This article introduces DigestSearch, an alternative solution for working with IBM Lotus Notes Profile documents and for performing simple, high-speed searches. For searching server-based databases from a Notes client, DigestSearch is twice as fast as any other search method available, outperforming both full-text search and the GetDocumentByKey method...
« Andrei Kouvchinnikov » |
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Web framework that uses AJAX and DXL to provide more consistent web UI to what Notes Designer specified...
« OpenNTF » |
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Many of you have heard about the "trick" to purge deletion stubs from a database. The trick is to move the replication cutoff date (under Replication Settings, Other, Only replicate incoming documents saved or modified after) to a date two days in the future. This tip talks about setting this programmatically, so with a scheduled agent you can automatically purge deletion stubs in a database that has frequent creating/deleting of documents...
« Breaking Par » |
2006-01|
The project provides Spring integration for domino including a spring like template for domino. The client application using this template will be able to access domino backend objects via diiop connections using domino session pooling and will not have to care about domino session creating, db opens, view opens, lookups and/or recycling on any domino object. Just map the domino document to you model plain java object and you are ready...
« java.net » |
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This simple example demonstrates the usage of AJAX for field validation on the web...
« OpenNTF Code Bin » |
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James Dam has written up an article on Evolt.org for using AJAX for logins. The idea behind his work is to be able to process a name/password challenge in retrieving some secure data useful for the completion of a non-secure form...
« Jack Dausman » |
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Quick -- what's the difference between a server hang and a crash? More important, how do you go about fixing them? In this article, we explain how you can identify Lotus Domino server hangs and crashes, and what you can do to analyze and correct them...
« Kiran Bellari » |
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Read this article to learn how you can customize Lotus Domino Web Access to adapt to the specific requirements of your Notes/Domino data. We describe how Domino Web Access determines the appropriate scene to play for a form type, how data is reflected within the scene, and how updated data is validated...
« V. Seraphin/Shu Sia Lukito/D. DeJean » |
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When reading through the Troubleshooting Lotus Domino hangs and crashes, i found some new (for me) interesting commands...
« Johan Kanngard » |
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I've posted a slightly updated version of the ChangeFieldValue utility (I'd posted about the initial useable version in Aug 2005). This is just a little minor clean-up, and I've added the ability for one to add fields to the selected documents, in addition to modifying existing fields...
« Joe Litton » |
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What could be more useful than Lotus Notes doclinks? This tip explains how you can extend Notes doclink functionality to Microsoft Outlook...
« Felicia Sienkiewicz » |
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This sample database contains a web wervice that provides Mail functionality from the Lotus Domino server. This database uses the new Lotus Notes/Domino Web Service design feature and provides functions for reading and writing mail from a user's mail file...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.3 Hotfix 4 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Seit einem Jahr spricht IBM vom sogenannten Workplace Managed Client, der Plattform für Anwendungen auf Client-Rechnern. Mit dem neuen Release 2.6 kann der Client von normalen Kunden erworben werden...
« heise online » |
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Agent logging is a great feature that's been around in Notes ever since LotusScript has been around (starting in Notes R4). But it's something not everyone takes advantage of. One of the reasons (IMHO) for this is because way too much information is logged every time the agent runs, causing an overload of information to be written to your agent log, that you don't look at anyway. Logging is one of those things that you wish you had in there, but only when you need it. This tip talks about implementing what I call "conditional logging" for your scheduled agents...
« Breaking Par » |
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A few weeks ago, I already wrote a short note about RIM's request to connect the Blackberry to the heldesk application !!HELP!! using the new web services feature in Domino 7... After I realized that writing a web service in LotusScript is as easy as writing an agent, I began to code a few basic services like 'Create Ticket' and 'GetAllTicketsBySupporter'...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Recently I was working with arrays in LotusScript. Each element of the list was a text string. I had a need to remove an element from the list. There are lots of different ways to do this, and here is one more...
« Breaking Par » |
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In my earlier post today, I described a problem I have, where I wanted to get the XML string of a DOM tree. I've started writing my own routine, this is what I have right now...
« Johan Kanngard » |
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I have a problem, that nor I nor any of my colleagues can't solve easily. I have several classes that are passing objects/variables between them. On of them is handling Web Service request, and parsing the responses to a NotesDOMDocumentNode via the NotesDOMParser. The NotesDOMDocumentNode is passed returned, and are used in several places to extract information. But, I need to cache the response, so concurrent request with the same parameters are sped up...
« Johan Kanngard » |
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Auf dem CCC-Kongress in Berlin hatten Ende letzten Jahres Aktivisten der Gruppe Phenoelit etliche Mängel in den RIM-Produkten vorgestellt. Research in Motion (RIM) hat nun für vier der bekannt gewordenen Sicherheitslücken in seinen Blackberry-Geräten und -Diensten Patches und Workarounds verfügbar gemacht...
« heise online » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.3 Hotfix 3 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Here's one last bit of offbeat code for you before the year lets out: Get Unread Docs in a View Using the Notes API
The code that is linked to above is a LotusScript class called SelectedDocsList. This class provides a way to programmatically access the list of selected docs in a view that's currently open in the Notes client (open in any tab, frame, or as an embedded view), without relying on an agent to be running against "Selected docs" in a view...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Here's another little programming experiment for you: Managing Zip Files in Lotus Notes
It consists of a Java library I wrote called ZipFileManager, and some examples of how you can call it from LotusScript (using LS2J) in order to do things like...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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How many times have you developed a robust Notes-based application, only to realize that what you really need to do at some point is to prompt the user for a folder/directory location - not a file, but a folder...
« Lotus Geek » |
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People use Notes/Domino in all sorts of different ways, and one of the most popular is email and messaging. With that in mind, Notes/Domino 7 offers significantly enhanced mail functionality, including expanded calendar and scheduling. This article reviews some of the more important and useful of these new features...
« Goppinath Nagarajan » |
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A customer of ours has an application that involves attaching Notes databases and templates to documents for various purposes. Well, it finally happened. Someone had locally encrypted the database and attached it to the document. So nobody (except that one person) could use the attachment. So we were asked to check to see if the database/template was encrypted before the attachment was allowed to happen. This can be done through the Notes API, and this tip shows you how to check if a Notes database or template is encrypted...
« Breaking Par » |
2005-12|
We've been experimenting in the lab with ways to generate feeds (meaning Atom or RSS) from Domino, and speculating about how such feeds might be used...
« Carol Jones » |
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Here at Breaking Par, we make daily backups of all our customer's HTML files to a backup machine. The backup was done through a Windows batch file using the XCOPY command to copy all the files that had been modified. We have been doing this for a long time without much thought. Recently, we took a look at the directories and noticed there was extra files in the backup subdirectory that didn't exist in the main directory. After some research, we determined that the files were deleted in the main directory and never deleted in the subdirectory. Read on to find out how to get a true backup using only Windows batch files.
« Breaking Par » |
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Notes and Domino began in the work of Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len Kawell, first on PLATO Notes at the University of Illinois and later on DECNotes. Lotus founder Mitch Kapor saw the potential in Ozzie's collaboration project and the rest is history...
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Service Oriented Architecture, better known as SOA, has gotten a lot of press lately. But what does it mean, and what can it do for you? In this interview, three members of IBM development talk about SOA, and how IBM and Lotus products are incorporating its concepts...
« Dick McCarrick » |
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This tip offers three ways that you can validate rich text input fields in Lotus Notes...
« Manish K. Prasad » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.1 Beta 1 is available for download...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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So I don't forget the next time I want to do this, and trust me, I got a short memory...
« Johan Kanngard » |
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This is our sixth annual sessions db made available in Journal format that is suitable for synching with your PDA, or for just general browsing. Actually, there is much more functionality for general browsing, fun and scheduling this year! The database is available at...
« Ben Langhinrichs » |
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When registering new users, administrators assign a password strength to the user's Notes ID file. This setting is stored in the user's ID file and is enforced by the client software when the users changes their passwords. Prior to R5, password strength was based on the length of the password...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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The latest issue of SDTimes has a short article about the new MDS Studio which is part of the upgrade pack that RIM recently released. The main feature the article talked about was the ability for developers to point to a WSDL file (which is an XML file that describes a web service for those of you who don't wear propeller hats) in MDS Studio and the IDE will automatically generate an application for you (with the caveat that users who use this application must have the MDS runtime installed on their BB's and the BES you're using must install the MDS Services for Web Services component). This sounded like pretty cool stuff, so I had to try it out..
« BlackBerry Blog » |
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I've always been interested in getting to know more about XUL. Over the weekend I found myself spending some time having a play with it. Taking a starting point from Wolfgang Schmidetzki I produced a Domino view in XUL. It looks like this...
« Jake Howlett » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.5 is available for download...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.3 Hotfix 2 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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For a recent application, I wanted to use the Notes address picker like you see in the mail file. Yes, I know I could have used an editable readers/authors field with "Use address dialog for choices" enabled, but I wanted to force users to pick the names from an address book. With an editable readers/authors field, users can type in names (the field is editable, after all). There are things you can do to validate the names, but I felt (for this application) that forcing the pick from an address book would be the best option. The fields were access fields, so I had to make sure that the format was correct so the people would be granted access. @Picklist([Name]) would be an option, until I realized that users could type in a name inside the dialog box (there's a field called "Add name not in list" when you use a picklist). What did I do?
« Breaking Par » |
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To send HTML mails, you have to use the setContentFromText method in the NotesMIMEEntity class. To add inline images, use the setContentFromBytes method in the same class, like this...
« Johan Kanngard » |
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In this article we will take a look at the final type of rule you can create: HTTP response header rules. This article will be of interest to all system administrators and Webmasters who plan to host Web sites with Domino 6. It assumes a familiarity with the Domino Directory and administrative tasks. In addition, it would be helpful to read the three previous articles in this series mentioned above...
« Lotus » |
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This article covers another type of Web site rule, the directory rule. If your Web applications include a large number of HTML files, images, and other file-system resources, you can use directory rules to help organize these resources. Directory rules allow Web applications to access directories located anywhere on the server, or even on another machine. In this article, we also discuss how to control access to file-system directories with file-protection documents...
« Lotus » |
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A well-designed Web site allows visitors to easily get around and find the information they want without becoming impatient or frustrated. This is often achieved by having plenty of links and maps to help visitors navigate. One of the big problems when maintaining a site is keeping all the links and maps up-to-date. Nothing discourages a visitor faster than encountering broken links...
« Lotus » |
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This article explores the first question: How will visitors get to my site? The Domino 6 server implements the concept of Web sites with a new architecture that is very powerful, yet easy to set up and administer. This article discusses the fundamentals of Web site addressing and how they are implemented in Domino 6. It includes a short tutorial in creating multiple Web sites on a single Domino 6 server. This article will be of interest to all system administrators and webmasters who plan to host Web sites with Domino 6. It assumes a familiarity with the Domino Directory and administrative tasks...
« Lotus » |
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Lotus Domino 7 Application Development is a Redpaper designed to show application developers how to use the newest features in Lotus Notes and Domino 7. This Redpaper takes the reader through powerful application development features such as DB2 integration and Web Services by showing how a developer might enhance an example application for a ficticious company...
« IBM Redbooks » |
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Learn about all the new features we've added to the Lotus Domino 7 version of the Server.Load performance testing and planning tool...
« Joe Malek/Louis Bradbard » |
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In this article, we look at all the new Rooms and Resources features introduced in Notes/Domino 7...
« Bruce Kahn » |
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Boy, I've got to tell you, you guys (my readers) are great. I find out that the LDDMonkey script is broken, and within hours Peter Leugner and Richard Baker point me to some references for fixing the problem. By the end of the day, Kurt Higley actually sends me a rewrite of the script, with everything fixed...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Today's tip is a guest tip from Alain Romedenne (aromedenne at amadeus dot net). Alain is heavily involved with the OpenDOM and NSFPeek projects at OpenNTF.org, and wanted to share some of his wisdom with the Breaking Par readers. Thanks, Alain! The tip is entitled "Write Secured Code Using Defensive Coding"...
« Breaking Par » |
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Upgraded to Firefox 1.5 on my Windows machine today. It doesn't seem much different than the old version, other than the fact that half my extensions don't work anymore. I especially missed Greasemonkey, because I really rely on my LDDMonkey script to read the LDD Forums -- to the point that I really can't read the forums without it anymore...
« Julian Robichaux » |
2005-11|
Update: November 22, 2005
The Version 2.0a distribution file includes Lotus Notes Command Line Client, Version 1.5, for Domino R5 users...
« IBM alphaWorks » |
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Update: October 28, 2005
Version 4.16 extends pioneering/persistent chat history across re-boots. See a buddy's clock, get Web images faster, communicate with Sametime buddies inside and outside of company. See complete list in Help...
« IBM alphaWorks » |
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In an earlier article, we described creating a DXL framework for working with a Lotus Domino database over the Web. We now turn our attention to building a JSR 168 portal application as a frontend to a Domino database...
« Raj Balasubramanian » |
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In the November rush of events, I missed the addition of the documentation for "Upgrading to IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 " I'm impressed at its thoroughness. A must-read for all IBM/Lotus administrators...
« Jack Dausman » |
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In the conclusion to our three-part article series, we look at test results we obtained by running the new Server.Load Enterprise Mail workload, introduced in Domino 7...
« IBM » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.4 FP3 announced for February 2006...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Have you ever had someone send you a database that had the ACL setting "Enforce a consistent Access Control List across all replicas" enabled? This setting is not truly a security setting, although it does affect security somewhat. The true purpose of the setting is for replication - two replicas will fail to replicate if their ACL's are not identical and they cannot be resolved (meaning, the person/server doing the replication does not have manager access to the other replica)...
« Breaking Par » |
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Remember the article I wrote called Creating In-line Response Documents? It describes how to fake forms like the one you would use to add a comment to this blog.
These fake forms work well, until you try and add a file upload control (FUC) to them. This is a problem I've had to address recently. Here's how...
« Jake Howlett » |
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IE users might notice the top blue banner on the site is now the height I intended it to be and the same height as in Firefox. Wondering why? Read on. Remember last Tuesday I turned off JavaScript for this site. Well, on Wednesday I went a step further and turned off Quirks Mode!
« Jake Howlett » |
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I answer a lot of questions on a few different forums, and a frequent refrain from those of us who answer questions is "Please search the forum. This question has been asked, and answered, many times.", or words to that effect.
So, as you may recall, back on November 4th, I suggested a Notes/Domino Wikipedia. Collaboration being what it is, it didn't take long for Bruce Elgort to chime in with an offer to host the Wiki on OpenNTF. We have added a few topics, but intentionally just a few, to seed the Wiki, and today I introduced it on the Notes 4 & 5 forum and the Notes 6 & 7 forum and on the Business Partner forum. It is now called the Notes/Domino WikiFAQ! Come on over and check it out...
« Ben Langhinrichs »
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We were developing a new web site for a customer when we had an odd request - they wanted no Notes access whatsoever to the application. They wanted to force their users to access the application through a web browser. Normally, at least some kind of administrative access would happen through Notes, but that wasn't even wanted in this case. How did we satisfy this requirement?
« Breaking Par » |
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A comment posted yesterday inspired me to come up with a brilliantly simple solution to the problem of multiple buttons on a form which doesn't allow JavaScript. Jeff Crossett reminded of me of an important fact: that a button with a name is submitted to the server as a name/value pair, just like a normal field is...
« Jake Howlett » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.1 will be available in January 2006...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Have you ever wanted to be able to sort your Domino views in the browser in just the same way that you can from the Notes Client? This article shows one way to achieve column sorting on the Web using some simple JavaScript routines. I use a similar method to allow the sorting of search results in my C-Search products...
« Colin Neale » |
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Lotus "Education on Demand" has published several new PDFs about mostly administration concerns: telnetting into SMTP and troubleshooting DNS. There is also some information from Lotus support about which Java version corresponds to which Lotus product (though, there is no mention of Firefox/Mozilla for Domino 7, an important omission). And, to wrap it all up, a summary on silent client installations and DWA troubleshooting...
« Jack Dausman » |
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A recent request from a client of mine was to mimic a feature of a bug-tracking system they use. The feature was a part of a non-Domino website, but they wanted it adding to their Domino system. It wasn't something I'd been asked to do before then and isn't something I've seen described elsewhere. Hence, I will describe the problem and solution now...
« Jake Howlett » |
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IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.5 Beta 2 is available for download...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.3 Hotfix 1 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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Here's an interesting SPR (# AANA647HE7) I saw on the Lotus Support Site the other day...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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For those of you that have not learned the new @-function @IfError introduced in Notes 6, I have good news - you don't have to worry about it. The function has been made obsolete in Notes 7. The function still works in Notes 7, but according to the Notes Designer Help, it is now obsolete. Apparently, the function didn't quite work as designed and it sounds like it would be a real pain to fix. What does this mean to developers currently using the function...
« Breaking Par » |
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Did you know that some replica ID's are related to the replica ID of the NAB on your Domino server? This is so that when a Domino server starts up and it is missing some of these databases it can recreate them with a replica id that it knows will be the same as the replica id on other servers. Here's a full list of the ones that I know about, updated for the Notes Domino 7 release...
« Declan Lynch » |
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BlackBerry Mobile Data System (MDS) is an optimized application development framework. The BlackBerry MDS v4.0 Upgrade Pack for BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 provides support for wirelessly accessing Web Services from BlackBerry devices, leveraging the secure, push-based BlackBerry Enterprise Solution architecture...
« BlackBerry » |
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In this second of a three-part article series, we review the results of tests we performed to determine how Domino 7 compares with Domino 6.5 for supporting Domino Web Access users...
« IBM » |
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This is the last part of our "Building an automated signature generator application" series. If you haven't read the previous three parts, you'll find links to them at the end of this article. In this week's installment, we'll learn how to extend the program with new fields...
« Mick Moignard » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.3 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.2 Hotfix 3 is available for download...
« BlackBerry » |
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I often get asked about keyboard shortcuts in Lotus Notes, so I thought I would provide some links to detailed information...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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Christian Gorni today released his Excel Report Class on OpenNTF. Just use the database. It includes the complete ExcelReport class and two agent examples. As a teaser, the following is all you need to export a view to excel in LotusScript...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Eine Reihe von Schwachstellen wurde in Lotus Domino gefunden. Einige lassen sich fuer Denial-of-Service-Angriffe nutzen, andere haben unbekannte Auswirkungen...
« tecCHANNEL » |
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As one of several very active responders on the Gold Forums (Stan Rogers is probably the most active) for a number of years, it seems that we are missing an opportunity. If we had a Notes Net Wikipedia, t could grow as those of us tired of answering the same questions over and over again could fill in topics, then refer to them in answers on the forums...
« Ben Langhinrichs » |
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In LotusScript, arrays have a upper boundary limit of 32,767. Specifically, the subscript range may be from -32787 to 32,767. If you try declare a larger Array size, you receive the following error when saving the code...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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If you've done any work with DXL, you have no doubt seen the "universal time" that is generated for date/time values. I wrote a little script function that will convert that date/time format into a LotusScript date/time value (I'm using the LotusScript date/time format - no time zone information)...
« Breaking Par » |
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This is the third part in our "Building an automated signature generator application" series. If you haven't read Part I, all about the user experience, or Part II, all about creating templates, you'll find a link to both at the end of this article. In this week's installment, we'll learn how the application actually works...
« Mick Moignard » |
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This is the second part in our "Building an automated signature generator application" series. If you haven't read Part I, all about the user experience, you'll find a link at the end of this article. In this week's installment, we'll learn how to add templates to the system...
« Mick Moignard » |
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Recently, I noted Rocky Oliver discuss a Notes mail signature block generator that he has developed for the Lotusphere 2006 team. Reading his piece reminded me of a signature generator I did a couple of years back...
« Mick Moignard » |
2005-10|
This week, we have another guest tip from Alain Romedenne (aromedenne at amadeus dot net). Alain is heavily involved with the OpenDOM and NSFPeek projects at OpenNTF.org, and wanted to share some of his wisdom with the Breaking Par readers. Thanks, Alain! This tip talks about adding color coding in your mail file for messages that are marked "Return Receipt"...
« Breaking Par » |
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In this article, we compare how Lotus Notes and Domino Web Access interact with address books to find and resolve mailing addresses...
« Stephen Cooke » |
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The most recent edition of "The View" magazine has a good article by Andre Guirard called Using HTML, MIME, and LotusScript to jazz up messages and reports that discusses (among other things) how to add an inline image to a Notes rich text field -- not an icon of the image file, but the full image itself..
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Update 1.2.0
- Now stores all settings in the file noteskiller.ini
- Delete the file Cache.DSK or Cache.NDK (optional)
- Calls NLNOTES.EXE instead of NOTES.EXE during the restart (optional)
- Runs in "silent mode". Use the command line switch -s
« Manfred Dillmann » |
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I think this is a great tip - it just takes a little work to make it shine. The idea is to leverage Desktop Policy/Setting documents to push any (a) client notes.ini settings or (b) location document configuration, down to the workstations. Suppose the latest release of Notes has a new notes.ini entry that you'd like to add to every single desktop in your enterprise. Finally, it's possible to have that kind of control over the Notes client. I've made it easy for you (as simple as I can make it)...
« Jack Dausman » |
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Java Servlets that implement the webDAV protocol to access IBM Lotus Domino data as native XML files...
« SourceForge » |
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Someone recently wanted some help with an application. They had an application where one button would call one of two agents based on the time of the day. If it was first shift (9 AM to 5 PM for the support people) one agent would be called. Second and third shift would call another agent. The tricky part was that the users of the application were spread across multiple time zones. The application needed to call the right agent based on a specific time zone. Read on to find out how this was handled...
« Breaking Par » |
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Kaum ein Gadget erzielte im Kosmos der internationalen Managerszene einen vergleichbaren Erfolg wie der Blackberry PDA der kanadischen Firma Research in Motion (RIM). Einer der Hauptgründe ist seine Fähigkeit, E-Mails direkt per Mobilfunk auf das Display des Geräts zu pushen. Regelmäßige Meldungen über angebliche Sicherheitsprobleme nähren jedoch mittlerweile Bedenken, ob die so übertragenen, sensiblen Daten vor unerwünschten Mitlesern sicher sind. Der Artikel analysiert die dort erhobenen Vorwürfe und geht den angeführten Risiken auf den Grund...
« heise online » |
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Some people will not understand this one, but to me (a creative code monkey) the new Agent Profiling class in Notes/Domino 7 is just great.
For the first time I can see how long each call is taking in a web agent, scheduled agent etc and use that data to fine tune and work out which coding patterns are taking the longest. We can then see which methods work quickly and which ones do not...
« Steve Castledine » |
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New Features in V2005.10:
- Support for Custom Fonts and Font Size
- New Option to archive (move) chat scripts saved in a Notes 7 Mail File under Views\Chat Transcripts (by the Notes Instant Messaging feature) into this archive
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Version 4.0.2 now available! Download this and previous versions here...
« BlackBerry » |
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I love the look of the action button bar in the Notes 6 mail template. I've tried to mimic that in a couple of applications (with my own colors, of course). But every time I want to mimic it, I have to open up the mail template and figure out what Lotus did. So I just decided to post what Lotus did so I could find it easily...
« Breaking Par » |
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Learn how you can manage the ever-growing mail files of your Lotus Notes users, conserving your system resources while ensuring your Notes users continue to enjoy high performance and reliability...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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In this second of a three-part series dedicated to Lotus Domino 7 performance, we review the performance improvements we achieved by deploying Domino 7 on pSeries servers in a live IBM production environment...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Developer guides volume 1 and volume 2 for OS 4.1 has been released from RIM. Topics that are covered range from lists of Blackberry APIs, creating user interfaces, connecting to networks, and the newest most exciting aspect of OS 4.1 is the aspect of creating cliet/server push applications. You can download the Developer Guide...
« BlackBerry Cool » |
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What is NotesKiller? A Windows 32 tool to clean up (kill) any leftover processes after a Crash of your Notes Client - your running Notes Client will be killed, too...
« Manfred Dillmann » |
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Would you like to send people links to Notes databases that look more like 'web URLs' instead of the book icon which Notes uses?
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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Try trial versions of Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino and Domino Designer 7...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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This is the third in a 4-part series concerning creating MS Word documents in LotusScript. In the first tip, we talked about the basics of creating a Word document and adding text to it. In the second tip, we got a bit more advanced with some formatting options. In the third tip we talked about updating headers and footers and some other advanced topics. In this last tip we'll talk about even more advanced topics like adding tables to your document...
« Breaking Par » |
2005-09|
This is the third in a 4-part series concerning creating MS Word documents in LotusScript. In the first tip, we talked about the basics of creating a Word document and adding text to it. In the second tip, we got a bit more advanced with some formatting options. In this tip we'll talk about updating headers and footers and some other advanced topics. In the last tip we'll talk about even more advanced topics like adding tables to your document...
« Breaking Par » |
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Lotus Notes and Domino 7 have shipped. Now everyone wants to know: how does it perform compared to its previous release? In this first of a three-part series, we discuss testing we performed to determine how the various Domino 7 platforms stack up against the previous release of Domino. (Hint: There's good news for Domino administrators everywhere!)...
« Lotus Performance Team » |
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We conclude our two-part series on the Lotus Notes Out of Office agent with a look at Out of Office agent administration, using Out of Office features with Domino Web Access, and troubleshooting Out of Office issues...
« Julie Kadashevich » |
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The Lotus Notes Out of Office agent is one of the most widely-used and useful agents in Notes. In this first of a two-part article series, we take a detailed look at how the agent works and how you can customize it...
« Julie Kadashevich » |
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Here's an age old Domino problem - if you have a keyword field with Allow Values Not In List selected it will not work on the web. Here's my most simple of simple solutions. First, a rant...
« Jake Howlett » |
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I really, really like Bob Obringer's Ultimate View Navigator. After seeing it, I immediately wanted to merge the work I'd been doing with his code. To reset for everyone, I wanted to duplicate the ability we have in the Notes client to start typing, hit enter, and the view would "jump" to the closest entry in the view...
« Lance Spellman » |
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This is the second in a 4-part series concerning creating MS Word documents in LotusScript. In the first tip, we talked about the basics of creating a Word document and adding text to it. In this tip, we'll get a bit more advanced with some formatting options, and the last two tips we'll talk about updating headers and footers and some other advanced topics...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0.2 Hotfix 2 is available for download in the PartnerZone...
« BlackBerry » |
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Lotus Notes seems to be a source of frustration for many designers, marketing "folks" and other people who generally have a "tizzy" each and every time their email or marketing message comes across looking less than perfect...
« TemplateKit » |
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This is the first in a 4-part series concerning creating MS Word documents in LotusScript. In this tip, we'll talk about the basics of creating a Word document and adding text to it. In the next tip, we'll get a bit more advanced with some formatting options, and the last two tips we'll talk about updating headers and footers and some other advanced topics...
« Breaking Par » |
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In this conclusion to our two-part series, we look at several different scenarios you may encounter when implementing single sign-on (SSO) functionality at your site...
« Amy Smith/Terri Warren/Jane Marcus » |
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Guido Purper hat auf OpenNTF eine Lotus Script Klasse veröffentlicht, mit der es möglich ist, on the fly GIF und BMP Dateien zu erzeugen...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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Programme zum Exportieren von Daten aus einer Lotus Notes Anwendung heraus gibt es viele. Alle diese Programme setzen voraus, dass Excel auf dem Rechner, der die Exportdatei erzeugt auch installiert ist. Was macht man aber, wenn auf dem Rechner Excel nicht installiert ist oder der Export gar auf einem Server im Hintergrund laufen soll? Was wenn die erzeugte Datei evtl. auch noch von älteren Versionen gelesen werden soll? Ein Format, welches Excel schon seit der Version 2.1 verwendet und welches auch noch mit Excel 2003 gelesen und verarbeitet werden kann ist BIFF2.1 ( Binary File Format )...
« Ulrich Krause » |
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The log file on a Blackberry Enterprise server contains a number of entries that track every interaction between your enterprise,the Blackberry network, and those wonderful little devices. Searching that log for individual information is tedious and time consuming...
« Eric Parsons » |
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Learn all about Single Sign-on (SSO) in Notes/Domino from that international man of mystery, Jim Bland. In this first installment of a two-part series, we examine SSO basics and look at issues that arise in multi-directory, multi-identity environments...
« Amy Smith/Terri Warren/Jane Marcus » |
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This tip shows you how to create a hierarchy of related objects, using design elements in Lotus Domino Designer. It applies to Domino Designer 6.5 and later...
« Mona Cao » |
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Okay, one (hopefully) last update to the Append a Button to a Rich Text Field tip. I changed the code from a function to a class, because it made more sense that way. I also fixed two problems: one where an ampersand in the button label was causing an error, and another where long labels would be truncated...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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Okay, now I remember why I haven't posted any code in so long -- because I always find bugs and have to update it. Stupid bugs. Two things wrong with yesterday's code...
« Julian Robichaux » |
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For a recent project I had a situation where a record on a response document needed to conditionally update information on the parent document. This tip explains the situation and tells you how I solved the problem...
« Breaking Par » |
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Lotus Notes/Domino 7, Domino Web Access 7, and Lotus Enterprise Integration 7 are now available!
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Lotus Sametime 7, Lotus Sametime Enterprise Meeting Server 7, Lotus QuickPlace 7, Lotus Domino Document Manager 7, and Lotus Workflow 7 are now available!
« IBM/Lotus » |
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This article describes new features introduced in Lotus Notes and Domino Designer 7.0. Read about all the ways we've expanded and improved the Lotus Notes client, Domino Designer, Domino Web Access, and Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook...
« Dick McCarrick » |
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Perhaps the most significant new functionality introduced in Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 involves the Domino server. This article examines the major new features offered in Lotus Domino 7.0, including better performance, easier administration, and tighter integration with Web standards and other IBM/Lotus technologies, such as DB2, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Portal...
« Dick McCarrick » |
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Learn about how we've improved the design and function of the Rooms and Resources feature in Lotus Notes/Domino 7...
« Bruce Kahn » |
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In this article, we provide a quick tour of new features and enhancements introduced in Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) 7...
« Scott Morris » |
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The Lotus Notes and Domino and Lotus Enterprise Integrator for Domino 7 products provide business-critical, enterprise-strength solutions that maximize both collaboration and user productivity, while helping to lower the total cost of ownership. With this version, your previous investments in Lotus Notes and Domino can be leveraged and end user productivity can be enhanced. As they have since their inception, Lotus Notes and Domino continue to offer high performance with reliability, security-rich features, scalability, and usability for companies of all sizes and across all industries. Lotuscontinues to meet your needs and help you maintain a competitive advantage...
« Ted Stanton » |
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IBM hält Wort und startet noch innerhalb des dritten Quartals mit der Version 7 von Lotus Notes und Domino. Business-Partner können die neue Software auf der Partnerworld-Webseite herunterladen. Kunden mit Passport-Kontrakt finden die Software auf dem PassportAdvantage-Server. In einer Update-Welle werden auch alle auf Domino aufbauenden Produkte aktualisiert: Das betrifft Quickplace, Sametime, Lotus Enterprise Integrator, Domino Document Manager und Lotus Workflow...
« heise online » |
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With the release of Lotus Notes 7.0 and Domino 7.0, our beta program has ended, and Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 has gone gold...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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I just realized that I haven't given out any code in a while. Sorry about that. Since we were talking about buttons yesterday, how about a little button-related tip...
« Julian Robichaux » |
2005-08|
Oops, it's gone -- all your hard work for the last hour has been lost due to a computer crash! Too bad you didn't think to save it along the way. Well, now you don't have to, thanks to the new AutoSave feature introduced in Lotus Notes/Domino 7...
« Alaa Mahmoud » |
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An interview with Vinod Seraphin, IBM Domino Web Access architect. Interviewed by Richard Schwartz, RHS Consulting founder...
« Lotus Advisor » |
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Today's tip is a guest tip from Alain Romedenne (aromedenne at amadeus dot net). Alain is heavily involved with the OpenDOM and NSFPeek projects at OpenNTF.org, and wanted to share some of his wisdom with the Breaking Par readers. Thanks, Alain!
« Breaking Par » |
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Starting with Notes 7, secure links are handled in a way that helps ensure the sites that your client connects to, are ones that you trust. This will help reduce the odds of accidently executing malicious code that spammers are embedding into email these days like spyware and trojan horses...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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Via your mail file's "Tools - Preferences" settings, Lotus Notes allows you to automatically append a signature file to mail messages you send. You can choose from plain text, or HMTL (one of the languages that web pages use). When you choose Text, you enter the information (your name, address, phone number, etc) right on the screen. When you choose "HTML" you select the file from your computer. HTML signature files are "fancier" as they allow you to use different fonts, colours, images, web sites links, etc. The problem is, most users don't know how to code an HTML file. To assist in the creation of the HTML file, my IBM colleague Rocky Oliver has created a great tool called Signature Block Wizard...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Lotus Domino 4.0 SP2 is available for download in the PartnerZone...
« BlackBerry » |
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I've been fascinated by the asychronous approach to page updates for a long time. At Workflow Designs TopGun classes in the late 90s, similar techniques were taught using a hidden iFrame "backchannel conduit" approach that Steve DeVoll discovered. With the widespread adoption of the XMLHttpRequest object in browsers, and the coining of the AJAX term, these techniques are really becoming prime-time...
« Lance Spellman » |
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One of the things which has bugged me for a long time is getting a good name picker. We have been using a servlet on our Domino server for a long time which looks at views in the NAB and allows the user to select individual names to be added to a document in a web browser. Alas the servlet is showing its age and with the advent of AJAX it is about time that we came up with something better...
« Matt White » |
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Have you ever used the File Upload Control in a Domino web application? Domino will generate an input field followed by a "Browse..." button. But the size of the input field is fixed. There's a simple fix to adjust the size of the input field, and you don't even need to use any CSS to change the size...
« Breaking Par » |
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Unless you've been living under a rock since January, you've been hearing more and more about what's coming up in the Notes and Domino 7 release. There are a ton of major features, including claimed server performance improvements, the Linux/Mozilla Web Admin client, Smart Upgrade improvements, improved policy-based management, Domino Domain Monitoring, DB2 integration, and a lot more...
« David Gewirtz » |
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Similar to my Lotus Notes/Domino Product Catalog and Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Tools, below is my unofficial list of Application Development products. As usual, please let me know of any products I've left off the list...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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Trying to pull together all and any info on the v4.1 release and what it will include. There are non-RIM folks who know of course, but probaby had to sign an NDA. This is what I've heard...
« Tony Kelleran » |
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An interesting situation happened a few weeks ago. I wanted to validate a number field, but the number field could be blank. It takes a little different validation formula to handle this kind of a situation. So I decided to share the solution...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Resource Kit is compatible with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange or the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino or the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise...
« BlackBerry » |
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Die Groupware- und Conferencing-Produkte Lotus Notes, Domino und Lotus Sametime von IBM hat der Konzern gemeinsam mit dem Lucent-Spin-off Avaya um Telefonie-Funktionen erweitert. Die Unternehmen sollen zu den in der Groupware hinterlegten Kontaktinfos für E-Mail oder Instant Messaging dank "click-to-call" ohne Umweg Telefonate aufbauen können...
« heise online » |
2005-07|
Someone recently asked about forwarding a document and setting the subject on the mail to be forwarded. In Notes 6 a new @-function was added which makes this a very simple task...
« Breaking Par » |
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IBMs Groupware-Lösung Lotus Domino lassen sich in der Standardkonfiguration durch die Webmail-Komponente Benutzer-Passwort-Hashes entlocken. Da im Internet Passwort-Cracker für Domino zu finden sind, liessen sich damit gegebenenfalls die Benutzerpasswörter errechnen, so ein Security-Advisory von Cybsec...
« heise online » |
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Take a sneak peek at the new encryption/decryption APIs offered by Lotus Notes and Domino 7.0...
« Phillipe Loher » |
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Lotus recently posted the following security alert about standard Domino webmail. This means browser access to a regular mail database (not iNotes). I consider this a moderately important issue, since many Domino webmail sites have swiched to some version of iNotes. The problem relates to HTML attachments being loaded immediately instead of prompting the user to save or open them...
« Chuck Connell » |
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This article offers tips that help avoid storing "editing" fields when designing Lotus Notes/Domino applications. When you're designing a Notes application, the way you want to ask for a value on a form is sometimes different from how you want to store it. Situations in which this might be the case include...
« Andre Guirard » |
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A few months ago we posted a tip about our accessibility compliant drop-down menus. An alert reader correctly pointed out that the menu didn't drop down if you tabbed through the links. That goes to show that there are multiple types of accessibility issues you need to be concerned with. Our original solution only looked at screen readers and ignored users that could not use a mouse. The good news is, we have updated the site and now the drop-down menu items will appear when you use a tab to go through the links. Read on to find out what changes we made to the original solution...
« Breaking Par » |
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Nowadays, Web security is as big a concern as ever -- so why not take advantage of Lotus Domino's many security features to ensure that your Web data is as safe and secure as possible? Many customers use Lotus Domino for their intranet or Internet sites. Securing the Domino server in these environments is very important to ensure both the integrity of the data and the availability of the Web site, especially on the Internet. In this article, we discuss how you can use Domino security features to enforce security in your Web environment. We begin with a quick overview of the Domino security model. Then we look at securing a Web server through Web authentication, server security, and data security. This article assumes that you are an experienced Domino system administrator...
« Matthew Milza/Scott Rogers » |
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The final beta release for Notes and Domino and the Extended Products 7, Beta 4, is now available! Thank you for your participation in the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 and the Extended Products Beta program. We are excited about this release and your participation in the Beta program. Your involvement will help us achieve even higher levels of product quality for Lotus Notes/Domino and associated products. Beta 4 provides you with one more opportunity to preview the 7 release before we ship later in 3Q2005. We look forward to your helpful and informative feedback...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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IBM Lotus announces the Notes/Domino 6.5.4 FP1 Maintenance Release. This release is an unscheduled Fix Pack consisting of relatively few fixes, to address significant issues discovered between scheduled Maintenance Releases...
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In a recent project, we were copying databases from one server to another. There were many databases to do, so we decided to write an agent to do the copy. But we wanted copies, not replicas. We found out that the NotesDatabase.CreateCopy method does not copy documents (it only copies the design). This tip is part 1 of 2 describing how we programmatically created a copy of the design and the documents...
« Breaking Par » |
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In a recent project, we were copying databases from one server to another. There were many databases to do, so we decided to write an agent to do the copy. But we wanted copies, not replicas. We found out that the NotesDatabase.CreateCopy method does not copy documents (it only copies the design). This tip is part 1 of 2 describing how we programmatically created a copy of the design and the documents...
« Breaking Par » |
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The purpose of this document is to emphasize performance enhancements included in the Notes 6 client, to provide you with tips to maximize Notes 6 client performance, to provide you with a list of known issues, and, finally, to provide you with useful tips for troubleshooting issues that may arise with the Notes 6 client...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Every once is a while you "re-learn" things in Notes that you haven't used in a while. One of those I recently went through was permutation comparisons in formula language. Read on to find out more...
« Breaking Par » |
2005-06|
When you are editing a document in Lotus Notes, often there are several text items that are normally "hidden" that you may want to see to help you format the document. These items include spaces, tabs, and carriage returns (line breaks)...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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This one's going to be a real concept-based article, so kids and parents with weak stomachs may want to stop reading at this point (please read that if you're looking for a copy/paste code snippet, please keep moving along...!) Ok, VSFs (View Selection Formulas) - a very basic function, but recently I've been working on enhancing view usage via a combination of document-level rules and some Lotus Notes Kung-Foo...
« Chris Toohey » |
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For a recent project, the customer wanted to use holidays including Easter Sunday. Some holidays are fixed (Christmas Day, New Year's Day), and some float within reason (Labor Day is the first Monday in September, for example). Easter is a different animal. It has to do with the full moon and the spring equinox. After searching the internet, I found I relatively simple formula for computing Easter Sunday...
« Breaking Par » |
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The main announcement in Ambuj's keynote is "Hannover", the code name for the next major version of the IBM Lotus Notes client (post-7.0). "Hannover" has three objectives:
- Deliver unprecedented productivity through a compelling, activity-based user interface
- Introduce a new class of "composite" applications; delivering innovation by extending Notes applications in unison with a J2EE-based platform of packaged and custom applications
- Build on fifteen years of Lotus Notes in-market leadership by protecting and leveraging existing customer investments in Lotus Notes and Domino
« Ed Brill » |
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Before I started to work on the first article, I was just looking for a solution to the problem of the "Next" button appearing on the last page of a web view, based on a user request. At first I just laughed and mentioned that this is something Domino developers have had to deal with for a long... long time...
« Bob Obringer » |
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More and more we at Breaking Par are using style sheets in the Notes client. Although the CSS implementation in the Notes client isn't the greatest (at least through Notes 6.5) it is pretty good and you have lots of options. But the web certainly has more options. Instead of trying to combine all the information into one style sheet, sometimes we have a separate style sheet for the Notes client and the web browser. This tip shows you how...
« Breaking Par » |
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The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Resource Kit is compatible with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange or the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for IBM Lotus Domino or the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise...
« BlackBerry » |
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Version 4.0 Service Pack 1 Hot Fix 3 for Lotus Domino is a cumulative hot fix containing all fixed issues from Hot Fix 1 and Hot Fix 2...
« BlackBerry » |
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Although the syntax for the NotesUIWorkspace.OpenFileDialog is pretty easy to work with, we had this reusable script library that provides an easy interface to get a file name from the user. You pass in a window title and a filter string, and you'll get back the full path to the selected file, or an empty string if the user clicked Cancel...
« Breaking Par » |
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A long time ago we posted a tip for getting a random file name that doesn't exist in a given directory. That has worked well for us for years, but we decided to update it. There were a couple of things we didn't like about the old function. The first was that you were restricted to one file name. This is fine for 99% of the times you want to use it, but if you needed a couple different file extensions, then it meant a couple of calls to the function. This new version allows you to get a file name that doesn't exist for 1 or more file extensions. The second thing we didn't like is that you had to remember to not include the "." in your extension, otherwise when the function returned you would have consecutive periods in the file name. Again, not a serious limitation, but the new function doesn't care if you include the period in the file extension or not...
« Breaking Par » |
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There are a total of 2149 keywords in the database. There are 10 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
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In Köln wird ein Domino-Administrator gesucht, der seinen Namen schreiben kann. Sprich: Er sollte wissen, was er tut. Und er sollte als Principal CLP zertifiziert sein. Am besten gleich als Admin und Developer. Klingt nach interessantem Job, nicht wahr...
« Volker Weber » |
2005-05|
I discovered something interesting that I thought I would share with everyone. It's only applicable if you're using your own OK/Cancel buttons in a dialog box (as opposed to the buttons that Notes generates)...
« Breaking Par » |
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A couple months ago we posted a tip talking about doing a find and replace in LotusScript using the new Notes 6 rich text classes. Someone wanted to add an asterisk to the front of the text instead of actually replacing the text. Since the original string of text would still be there, this presented a new challenge. Here are our results...
« Breaking Par » |
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Use Domino XML (DXL) to enable other applications to create, view, and update Notes documents in Lotus Notes/Domino 6.x. With LotusScript agents, you can view a Notes document in DXL, create a document from DXL, and update a document from DXL...
« Raj Balasubramanian » |
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bei einem notes 6 rollout sollte man auf keinen fall swiftfile vergessen - zu finden auf den ibm notes 6 cd's (und leider nur dort) unter dem apps verzeichnis. das kleine tool integriert sich in die mailschablone und ist aufgrund des text classifiers wirklich sehr praktisch: bei jedem mail, welches man in einen ordner ablegt lernt es mit und schlägt dann automatisch bei jedem mail die drei passensten folder vor - mit einem simplen klick wird das mail dann abgelegt...
« hipslu » |
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"Notes und Drucken, zwei Welten treffen auf einander." So kann man das Thema Drucken bei Notes umschreiben, obwohl in der Version 5 die Druckfunktion etwas erweitert wurde. Was liegt näher daran, ein parallel installiertes Office für die Ausgabe zu nutzen. Aus diesem Grund entstand diese Klasse f6uuml;r die Word-Automation. Sie stellt Grundfunktionen bereit um Dokumente auf Basis von Druckformatvorlagen zu erstellen, Daten zu übergeben, Text zu formatieren und Serienbriefe zu erstellen...
« hipslu » |
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I have gotten used to closing the properties box whenever it automatically opened (when opening a view or an agent, for example). Thanks to Johan Kanngard via Justin Freeman, I no longer have to close the properties box - it won't even open now...
« Breaking Par » |
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There are a total of 2139 keywords in the database. There are 3 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
2005-04|
Recently, Lotus posted five potential security alerts on their web site (www.lotus.com/security). The list is below, along with my comments about each.
Long String of UNICODE 430 Characters Reported to Cause Denial of Service on Domino Web Server -- This vulnerability was reported by iDEFENSE. Lotus was not able to reproduce it with any version of Domino and therefore did not fix it. Please let me (Chuck) know directly if you believe this vulnerability is real and/or if you are able to exploit it.
CERT VU#699798 - Lotus Domino allows HTTP header injection -- This exploit, while verified by Lotus, requires an attacker to create and install a maliciously coded application on a Domino server. It is low risk, in my opinion.
Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability During Notes Authentication -- This vulnerability was verified by Lotus, and relates to the way user authentication data is passed between Domino and a Notes client. It is possible to use this exploit to crash the server. Lotus and Symantec (who found the issue) have released no details about the vulnerability, so I cannot determine how serious the threat is. Because it involves the NRPC protocol between Notes and Domino, I suspect it is hard to exploit.
Buffer Overruns in Certain Date Fields Cause Domino Server Crash -- This is probably the most serious vulnerability of the set. An attacker can cause a server crash by submitting bad data to an editable date field in a Domino web application.
Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in Notes Client -- This exploit requires an attacker to edit a user's NOTES.INI file on a workstation. I believe it is a very low risk exploit, but Lotus has fixed the problem.
Releases 6.0.5 and 6.5.4 address all of these issues. I encourage readers to perform this upgrade.
« Chuck Connell » |
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This hasn't come up in a while, but someone wanted to validate a rich text field in a recent project. There are a couple ways to do it, and it depends on what you are trying to validate - text and/or other items like attachments or links. This tip talks about the different ways to validate a rich text field.
« Breaking Par » |
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Recently I wrote an agent that I knew was going to take a lot of memory while running. In an effort to save as much memory as possible, I decided to use the Byte data type for small numbers instead of the Integer data type. If you're going to use that data type, there's something you should know...
« Breaking Par » |
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There is a Notes.ini setting you can use to disable the properties box from automatically appearing when you open a design element in Domino Designer, like a view or an agent: DesignNoInitialInfobox=1...
« Michael Sobczak » |
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This article describes how you can work with file attachments in Lotus Connectors LotusScript Extension (LCLSX). We show how LCLSX handles file attachments and present a sample application to demonstrate file attachment processing...
« Andre Guirard » |
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We conclude our two-part series on troubleshooting Domino application performance with a look at new tools introduced in Lotus Notes/Domino 7 that can help you identify potential performance issues in your applications...
« Julie Kadashevich/Raphael Savir » |
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Learn how to build an application that reads data out of SAP and places it into a Domino database, using powerful tools such as Lotus Enterprise Integrator, Domino Enterprise Connection Services, and Lotus Connectors LotusScript Extension...
« Scott Morris » |
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See how significantly your Domino Web Access client performance can improve with the release 6.5.3 hotfix (included in Domino Web Access 6.5.4 and later). Administrators and users learn tips to increase performance and to improve user satisfaction...
« Dana St. Clair » |
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When it comes to application performance, faster is better. In part one of this series, we offer a tried-and-true method for troubleshooting application performance with a real-life example of how we applied this process to a customer's application...
« Julie Kadashevich/Raphael Savir » |
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Long String of ASCII 430 Characters Reported to Cause Denial of Service on Domino Web Server
CERT VU#699798 - Lotus Domino allows HTTP header injection
Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability During Notes Authentication
Buffer Overruns in Certain Date Fields Cause Domino Server Crash
Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability in Notes Client
« IBM/Lotus » |
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Most developers know that if you are looking up a value with @DbLookup and provide a key that doesn't exist, Notes will give you an "Entry not found in index" error message. But what about other scenarios? For example, what happens if you look up a key that does exist, but retrieve a value from a field that doesn't exist? This tip covers several possibilities, and lets you know the results...
« Breaking Par » |
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Eletronic GA Customers can get the code from their Passport Site. BPs can download from Partnerworld...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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« DRCC » |
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Has this ever happened to you: all of a sudden you see thousands of documents that were deleted months ago back in your application. Just about everyone I know who has created an application with local replicas has seen this happen. And everyone who has seen it wants to find out who did it so they can give them 20 lashes with a wet noodle. (Or at least a replication lesson). This tip, although not fool-proof, at least helps track down the culprit...
« Breaking Par » |
2005-03|
For those of you that haven't played around with the "run in background thread" check box in Designer 6 agents, this tip gives you a jump start...
« Breaking Par » |
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It's now available for playback from the e-Pro site and of course you can also download the presentation and sample database...
« Thomas Duff » |
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The Notes Application plug-in for the IBM Workplace Client Technology, rich edition lets you work with your Notes applications in the Workplace rich client just as you would in the Notes 7 client. Discover the benefits this integration has to offer...
« Gayle Thiel » |
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List is a very powerful data structure in Lotus Script. It is very easy to add elements, and very easy to retrieve them. I will not get into details about all the advantages of lists. Instead I would like to share a simple and efficient method of "sorting" lists in Lotus Script. In the end of this article you will find out why I used double quotes on the word sorting...
« Fabian Nirman » |
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A few weeks ago I was playing around with the find and replace method in the NotesRichTextRage method. It's really slick for replacing text in a rich text field. It's actually pretty easy to use. Assuming you have a rich text field in a NotesRichTextItem object, here's some simple code that will do a find/replace...
« Breaking Par » |
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This article offers some fresh insights about a long-standing question: In which situations is it better to use a server-based Lotus Notes mail file, and when should you use a local replica copy?
« Timothy Day » |
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Back when I had a desktop machine, I would make use of the "*" key on the numeric keypad to fully expand one and only one category in a categorized view. If there were multiple levels of categorization, it would expand all the levels, but only for the selected document. When I moved to using a laptop almost exclusively, I don't normally have a numeric keypad now. (I have to turn num lock on, then press the "P" key, then turn num lock off). The normal "*" key is now a SHIFT+8, which means you're holding down the SHIFT key, which means Notes will fully expand all the categories instead of just the one you're on. I, personally, don't like the "expand all" unless I want to do a CTRL+F "find" in the view...
« Breaking Par » |
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Lotusphere questions, Lotusphere answers
At Lotusphere, "Meet the Developers" is a way to get the answers to those tough questions. Throughout the year, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard collects questions he can't find the answer to, and puts them to the developers. Sometimes, but not always, he gets answers...
« DominoPower » |
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The new (as of January, 2005) Breaking Par web site uses a drop-down menu to get at the hints and tips categories. This drop-down menu does not use JavaScript (well, almost) and does not use DHTML (well, that depends on your definition). It is accessibility compliant and makes use of style sheet properties to provide the effect. Read on to find out how it's done...
« Breaking Par » |
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From the Editor: Currently Pondering: Your New Job... Notes Evangelist!
Get the Code: Selling And Teaching Notes At The Same Time -- Cool Notes Tips & Tricks
Opinion: Notes Item Not Found
Strategic Thoughts On...: Domino, Notes, Workplace... What's A Developer To Do?
« Thomas Duff » |
2005-02|
A recent project required a decimal to hex conversion. In LotusScript, this is very basic. But this needed to be done in formula language for this particular application. So we wrote a decimal to hex conversion using looping in the R6 formula language...
« Breaking Par » |
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Die Situation:
Es kommt immer wieder vor, das man in Masken ein und dieselben Formeln (vielleicht leicht abgewandelt) an verschiedenen Stellen benutzt. Als einfaches Beispiel sei hier die typische Überprüfung von "Muss"-Feldern in der Feldvalidierung genannt. Das benötigt man vielleicht 10x für verschiedene Felder (wenn man nicht LotusScript und QuerySave benutzt).
Idee:
Eine Stelle definieren, an der die Formel ein einziges Mal steht und immer wieder an verschiedenen Stellen genutzt werden kann, also eine Art "Formel-Library"...
« Christian Gorni » |
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Did you ever want to share the information on your calendar with someone else, but were not sure how? Well read on and learn about "Print calendar to a document". I'm excited about today's tip, as it is one of those real "hidden gems" that not a lot of Notes users know about...
« Alan Lepofsky » |
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I'm sitting in the opening keynote at EntwicklerCamp 2005. There appear to be about 150 delegates. The setting is quite fascinating -- a building called The Depot, which has the feel more of an artist's colony than a conference center. The room we're in now is lit by skylight, and the sun has just come out -- a good omen for this event...
« Ed Brill » |
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For a recent project, developed exclusively in Notes 6, there was extensive use of reader fields for security. The users could put in who they wanted to see the documents. Naturally, the users would put in a flat name, or an internet email address, or something else that Notes wouldn't recognize for granting access. So we wanted to validate all the names for the reader field. This tip shows how we did that...
« Breaking Par » |
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This regular expression will validate a US zip code, which can be either 5 numbers. Or 5 numbers, plus a dash, then 4 more numbers...
« Breaking Par » |
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If you find yourself sending email messages often with the same responses, use this solution to create standard response documents in Lotus Notes that can be concatenated into a uniform email message. Requires design changes to your mail database...
« Donald Russell » |
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It's February, so that means Lotusphere has come to an end for another year. DominoPower Magazine Senior Technical Editors Mick Moignard and Richard Echeandia have teamed up to bring you their extensive, in-depth coverage of this year's Lotusphere. There's a great deal to discuss, so we'll get started this week and continue our analysis and coverage in next week's issue...
« Mick Moignard/Richard Echeandia » |
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We recently ran into an interesting problem. We were creating a Notes-only application. It seems like all the time now we have a frameset with a page on the left and a view on the right for these Notes-only applications. There were a bunch of action buttons in the view, and the customer wanted to add two new ones - one to show the search bar and another to hide the search bar. Since the view action button was already pretty full, the customer agreed to put those two buttons into the page in the left frame. But then the problem appeared - how do you show or hide the search bar in one frame through a button on another frame?
« Breaking Par » |
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Lotus Instant Messaging is a valuable tool for communicating with others in your organization. Wouldn't it be great if you could extend this capability so you could exchange instant messages with users in other companiesl? Now you can, using SIP...
« Dave Curley » |
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Learn the ins and outs of programming with the Lotus Notes/Domino C API. This article explains several important features found in the C API toolkit and offers working examples you can adapt to your own needs...
« Nagendra Nyamgondalu » |
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There are a total of 2135 keywords in the database. There are 1 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
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Currently Pondering: Drinking From The Lotusphere Firehose
An Efficient Way to Debug Domino Web Agents
Hyperactive Documents -- Adding Action to Documents in Read Mode
MQDomino: Emulating MQSeries with Lotus Domino
« e-Pro Magazine » |
2005-01|
Last week we posted a tip about getting the string error message from a numeric error number. This tip is similar, but different. It will give you the numeric constant number from a string constant name...
« Breaking Par » |
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I have implemented an outbound RSS feed by category in my latest version of Bloggregator, and I have put 53 Lotusphere RSS feeds into the category, so you can subscribe to one URL and bring in the feed from Ben's session database, the Gonzo site, and 51 bloggers who are attending the conference. Fifty One!! That's nine more than the answer to the question of Life, The Universe, and Everything!
« Richard Schwartz » |
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This SearchDomino.com guide introduces you to Formula language, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find Formula language articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your Formula language know-how quickly...
« Beth Rosenberg » |
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Trial: LOTUS NOTES V1 for DOS and OS/2 INSTALL and HELP ENGLISH
Operating system: DOS, OS/2 V1.x | Version: 1.0 | Size: 2 MB | Release date: 20 Jan 2005
« Lotus Software » |
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Trial: LOTUS NOTES V2 for DOS, WINDOWS 3.1 and OS/2 INSTALL and HELP ENGLISH
Operating system: Win for Wkgrps 3.11, DOS, OS/2 V2.x, Windows 3.1 | Version: 2.0 | Size: 6 MB | Release date: 20 Jan 2005
« Lotus Software » |
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Trial: LOTUS NOTES V3 for WINDOWS 3.1 and WINDOWS NT INSTALL and HELP ENGLISH
Operating system: Win for Wkgrps 3.11, Windows 3.1 | Version: 3.0 | Size: 34 MB | Release date: 20 Jan 2005
« Lotus Software » |
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Lotusphere 2005 expectations
How Elvis entered the building and CES went out the window
Using an Early Exit strategy to make your LotusScript functions more readable
A simple way of commenting if/else follow-up
Four free power tools for your toolbox
« DominoPower » |
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Dynamic Signature Creator
- An email tool for users of Lotus Notes 5.x and higher
Export on Web
- Export data to Microsoft Excel on Web
Message Icon 2
- This code allows you to select which view icon to display for your message
Microsoft Excel Rich Text Reports
- Create fabulous looking reports/charts in Microsoft Excel
MSHTML Rich Text Editor
- MSHTML Editor - Updated version of the rich text editor
Notes database that customizes a CSS file for you
Regular Expressions in LotusScript
- Powerful regular expressions in LotusScript using the VBScript RegExp object
RSS Generator 0.2
- Generate RSS newsfeeds
Scrolling Calendar
- Display a scrolling calendar in a dialog box
Tools to search log.nsf
- This database will help you to search log.nsf for a specific error message or string for a given period of time and to display the result in one document
Validation for Web
- Validation for commonly used fields on the Web
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Get started customizing Domino Web Access 6.5 for your organization's users and learn what changes you can make to the look and feel of the client with the skin editor tool and the server-side tags that let you change the user interface and layout...
« David DeJean/Vinod Seraphin » |
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Perhaps the most significant new functionality introduced in Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0 involves the Domino server. This article examines the major new features offered in Beta 3 of Lotus Domino 7.0, including better performance, easier administration, and tighter integration with Web standards and other IBM/Lotus technologies, such as DB2, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Portal..
« Dick McCarrick » |
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This article describes new features introduced in the Beta 3 release of Lotus Notes and Domino Designer 7.0. Read about all the ways we've expanded and improved the Lotus Notes client, Domino Designer, Domino Web Access, and Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook...
« Dick McCarrick » |
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This is a mail checker utility that can monitor Lotus Notes mailboxes and notify you when new messages arrive on your Notes mail server. It also scans alarm schedule and shows passing events as messages. Allows to create new messages...
« Andrew A. Toschev » |
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Some of you have used my Edit Document Fields 3.0, I have been waiting for the Sandbox to post my most recent update. But it is still not there after a couple of weeks. It seems over the years they have gotten slower and slower at posting submitted information. Here is the latest and greatest version...
« Chad Schelfhout » |
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A long time ago, back before our error trapping was robust, agents would error out with numbers that didn't have any meaning. What's the error number 9 mean, anyway? So we wrote a quick agent to check out the error number and give us a value (9 means "Subscript out of range")...
« Breaking Par » |
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Lotus Domino 6.5.3 Fix Pack 1 (FP1) is now available to address issues with the Lotus Domino 6.5.3 server. Fix Packs are unscheduled releases consisting of relatively few fixes, to address significant issues discovered between regularly scheduled Maintenance Releases..
« IBM/Lotus » |
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This is an updated version of our replace repeated words tip. A visitor to the web site discovered a bug. That bug has been fixed, and this updated tip describes the fix...
« Breaking Par » |
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Download version 2.0 of the Lotus Notes Command Line Email Client. Version 2.0 has a new code base and a new set of command line options...
« IBM alphaWorks » |
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This article describes how you can work with groups in LotusScript, using the built-in NotesAdministrationProcess class as well as two custom LotusScript classes..
« Andre Guirard » |
2004-12|
There are several web sites that can validate a social security number (a United States SSN) for a fee. This regular expression and JavaScript code will validation the "reasonableness" of a SSN. For example, it will tell you if the string of numbers entered could be a valid social security number. This is similar to our credit card validation script, where it will tell you if the string of numbers COULD be legitimate. Read on for further details...
« Breaking Par » |
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Anyone who's had more than a passing involvement with Notes applications and with LotusScript has had involvement with date/time fields. Dates seem to be an ongoing problem. Read on as Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard relates the problems he had with dates on a recent project...
« Mick Moignard » |
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One of the benefits of Domino is the dynamic nature of options for check boxes and radio buttons. A profile document, maintained by an administrator, can define the choices for the check box or radio buttons. However, we've seen instances where this can be taken too far. The form ends up with 25 or more choices and your screen real estate is taken up with a big check box field. This tip shows how to still use a check box, but save screen real estate...
« Breaking Par » |
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An interesting situation came up in a recent Notes-only project. The user wanted to have a field with 2 options. Either 0 or 1 of those options could be chosen (but not both). This sounds like a radio button, but with a radio button there's no way to "uncheck" it once it is checked. One option would be to include a button to clear the radio button value. But we chose another path... read on to find out more...
« Breaking Par » |
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Notes and Domino began in the work of Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len Kawell, first on PLATO Notes at the University of Illinois and later on DECNotes. Lotus founder Mitch Kapor saw the potential in Ozzie's collaboration project and the rest is history...
« Lotus Developer Domain » |
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If you've been developing in Notes for any amount of time, one thing you've probably accumulated in your "bag of tricks" is an "Edit History" subform where the dates/times of the most recent edits are shown. This tip shows you our basic subform, which might be a little different than yours...
« Breaking Par » |
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Currently Pondering --Thinking About Where to Go in 2005
Do You 'Like' Being 'Regular'?
IBM WebSphere and Lotus: Implementing Collaborative Solutions
Getting a Gantt Chart Out of Domino
« e-Pro Magazine » |
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In 15 Jahren sollte Lotus Notes das erfolgreichste Client-Server-Produkt aller Zeiten werden. Auf einem aktuellen Server sind immer noch Anwendungen der Version 1.0 lauffähig...
« heise online » |
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In this day and age, application developers are expected to learn new skills regularly. With deadlines shorter, and budgets tighter than ever before, managers are less willing to let programmers learn new skills on the job. You may be left to own devices for any extended training. Distance learning courses may be just the ticket. In this article, author Michael Sobczak takes you through one of The Learning Continuum Company's self-study courses for WebSphere...
« Michael Sobczak » |
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This post by Stan Rogers reminded me the Lotus Notes Formula Language engine has a dirty secret, it's seriously slow at building lists. When you build a list using the list concatenation operator (:), the engine is so inefficient it's embarrassing...
« Damien Katz » |
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Rune Carlsen, founder of Dominozone, has written an article about "Domino 6 Policies". This article will cover some basic information, issues that I have discovered with policies and suggest workarounds for limitations that exist in the current implementation of policies in Domino 6...
« Rune Carlsen » |
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Document selection is a very basic and standard thing. The scope of this example is not so much to show you how to select a document, but rather a way to use javascript and css to build a better GUI for your users - letting them know exactly what document they have selected...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Code for an agent that analyzes a selected document and automatically generates code to duplicate that document. Useful for buttons to create calendar entries, welcome pages, and so on...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Notes database with all Notes error codes and messages. Plus agent source code...
« Bob Balaban » |
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.0 now available...
« RIM » |
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I always hate to say that it was good, and to have attendees wonder how the poor boy could be so bad and be so oblivious to it. :-)
Anyway...
You can catch a replay of the webcast by going out to the e-Pro website under their webcast area. It should be available for replay in a couple of days.
You'll be able to download the slides there, or you can pick them up here. You can get the PDF files of the slides and/or the slide notes...
« Thomas Duff » |
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For a recent intranet project, we were working on a survey application. The choices for each question were Yes, No, and N/A. On the back-end we needed to total up all the "Yes" answers and wanted to ignore the "No" and "N/A" answers. So we made this easy by setting an alias for "Yes" to "1", and the alias for "No" and "N/A" was both "0". We could just sum up all the field values and we'd have our number of "Yes" answers. This was working fine until the customer wanted to add an additional prompt if the user clicked "N/A" making sure that's what they wanted to do. Now "No" and "N/A" need to behave slightly different but still neither contributes to the total on the back end. We couldn't change the alias, so how do we know, at the time of clicking, if "No" or "N/A" was chosen, without looking at the alias? Read on to find the answer...
« Breaking Par » |
2004-11|
This SearchDomino.com guide introduces you to JavaScript in a Notes/Domino environment, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find JavaScript articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your JavaScript know-how quickly...
« Christine Polewarczyk » |
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For several years, I have been using an agent in TeamCase, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, that when executed would create a new Notes email, using the email addresses specified in the selected contact documents. The agent was executed using view and document action buttons, being most useful in a view where users are able to select the contacts they want to email. But the agent was also available when a specific contact document was open, enabling the user to compose an email to the contact easily...
« Johannes Madsen » |
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Eine kleine Modifikation im Lotus-Notes-Adressbuch (R6) kann uns zu einem Kontakt gleich die Umgebungskarte präsentieren...
« Wolfgang Flamme » |
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I work for Lotus brand within IBM. As I'm sure your all aware, Lotus has many products that range from Lotus 1-2-3 to Lotus Workplace. I sometimes find out more information about Lotus news by searching on the web rather then internal communication. I just wanted to share some of my favorite websites to visit to gather news and information retaining to Lotus...
« Ted Stanton » |
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Most of you know that in the United States dates are shown in MM/DD/YYYY format, where many parts outside the U.S. use DD/MM/YYYY format. (And us Americans are also clueless about the metric system that everyone else uses, but that's another topic). Anyway, on to the tip. What if you have a text date in a certain format and need to convert it to a Notes date-time value...
« Breaking Par » |
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I am writing to call your attention to three new security articles on the IBM DeveloperWorks web site. Some of you may scan this site regularly and already know about them, but others may not. All the articles are quite good and well worth skimming, at least for future reference. You can find these articles on the Links page of DominoSecurity.org...
« Chuck Connell » |
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When it comes to password validation using regular expressions, things can get a bit complicated. This tip will hopefully make things a little more clear and provide some tips so you can create your own password validation regular expression...
« Breaking Par » |
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OpenNTF Mail Experience 6.5.3OF1
Vacation Request 1.2c2
Open Notes Picture Database 1.1
« OpenNTF » |
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In this conclusion to our two-part tour of Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling features, we take a close look at Schedule Manager, autoprocessing, and To Do workflow, and offer some suggestions for keeping your Calendar and Scheduling users productive and happy...
« Nagendra Nyamgondalu » |
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Calendar and Scheduling (C&S) is one of the most popular and widely used features in Lotus Notes. This two-part article series takes a close look at C&S and how its major components work together. In Part 1, we discuss the internal workflow of C&S, and how the preferences you select affect its functionality...
« Nagendra Nyamgondalu » |
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Follow along with this article to create a simple Notes/Domino plug-in with the Eclipse PDE. The plug-in accesses the Notes/Domino back-end Java classes using the Notes.jar file and displays birthdays/anniversaries from your Personal Address Book...
« Ian Connor » |
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Back in the March issue of DominoPower Magazine Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard wrote about document lastmodified dates, see. Someone at Lotus must be reading DominoPower, because NotesDatabase.getModifiedDocuments has been included in the latest ND7 beta, beta2 at the time of this writing. Read on to find out more about NotesDatabase.getModifiedDocuments and how it works in ND7...
« DominoPower » |
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If you are new to Domino administration, here is a self-paced, e-learning tutorial to help you get started. "Introduction to Administering IBM Lotus Domino 6/6.5: Operating Fundamentals" introduces you to basic concepts that provide the foundation for Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes...
« IBM/Lotus » |
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During development of a new application, we ran across a situation that I'm sure some of you have seen. We have a parent document and children documents. The children are only displayed in an embedded view in the parent document. So, when you open up the parent, you see an embedded view with "show single category" enabled that shows all the children of that parent. Those children don't show up in any other view, so you must open up the parent to see them. There's buttons in the parent to create a child, edit a child, delete a child, etc...
« Breaking Par » |
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There are a total of 2133 keywords in the database. There are 14 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
2004-10|
Currently Pondering: Does It Work, or Is It Right?
Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends: My Favorite Domino Development Sites
Modifying the Domino Web Access Mail Template: Yes, It Can Be Done!
LEAP-ing Into Your Domino Log Files
« e-Pro Magazine » |
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This is the fourth installment in a series of articles designed to make the task of developing Web applications for Domino a more pleasant and efficient experience. I've already shown you how to create a pure Domino Web popup calendar to assist users in selecting dates on the Web and I've show you how to create both global and user profile forms suitable for use on the Web. Now we get serious...
« Daniel Koffler » |
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In a heavily-used application, with a lot of adding and deleting documents, and a lot of client replication, we found that some of our LotusScript routines were returning invalid documents (deleted documents, for example) from our NotesView.GetAllDocumentsByKey and NotesDatabase.Search methods. Read on for more information about how we handled the situation...
« Breaking Par » |
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While implementing/training on iExtensions, I find it much easier to show one of the products cooler features - the ability to merge a Replication/Save Conflict via a wizard-like walkthrough function. The problem is... to show it I need a Replication/Save Conflict...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Vacation Request 1.2b
Open Notes Picture Database 1.1 Beta 1
Open Archive 1.0rc1
BlogSphere 1.3
« OpenNTF » |
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NotesPeek presents the information in Notes databases as it is available through the Notes API...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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A friend of mine found a recent posting on the public Lotus Support database talking about what database properties are affected by a design refresh and a design replace. What made this interesting to me was not the details, but the differences. There are some database properties that are not affected by a regular refresh of the design, but they are affected by a replace of a design. This tip talks about those differences...
« Breaking Par » |
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Nach der Einrichtung der seit Notes/Domino R5 verfügbaren ID Wiederherstellung, werden Sicherungskopien von Benutzer IDs in eine Mail-In-Datenbank (ID Tresor) via Mailrouting transportiert. Dies gilt sowohl für neu registrierte Benutzer als auch für existierende Anwender, deren ID verlängert wird oder für die eine Names- oder Abteilungsänderung durchgeführt wird...
« Manfred Dillmann » |
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I've been working on a corporate website that is pretty slick (at least it is to me!), and the question came up today as to how they could include a link to launch a Flash animation file (.SWF). They were able to link to a server internally, but that server wouldn't be available outside the firewall. So the question becomes... how do you set up everything to include the .SWF file in your application?
« Thomas Duff » |
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Mein Beitrag: Anbindung von Domino Datenbanken mittels RSS (Rich Site syndication)...
« Christoph Arras » |
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In previous releases of Domino Web Access, Instant Messaging contacts were stored on the mail server, and could not be synchronized with Instant Messaging contacts stored on the Sametime server. In 6.5.2, you can transfer your Domino Web Access Instant Messaging list to the Sametime server using the following procedure:
- From Domino Web access, click Chat.
- Locate your cursor in the white space in the Instant Messaging - Chat dialog box, and right click.
- Select "Transfer contact list to ST server."
« Lotus »
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I have posted an update to the Hotlist area of DominoSecurity.org, about a DOS attack using very large messages and Domino webmail. Click here to see the details...
« Chuck Connell » |
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As a follow-up to the posting about removing consecutive repeated words in a text string, we had someone asking about removing all duplicated words in a text string. So, if you have a string "one one two two three" then it should be shortened to "one two three". Well, we took on the challenge. Read on to find out more...
« Breaking Par » |
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DBProperty
- Get/Set a lot of database properties using LotusScript
ExplodeString
- Extracts characters from a string to create an array of characters
Fix pack files for developerWorks: Lotus article, "Integrating IBM Lotus Workplace and Lotus Domino."
Sample code for developerWorks: Lotus article, "Open Standards, Open Source, and Domino 6: Accessing the Domino Directory through Python and Java"
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Manages contacts, meetings, correspondence, contracts, and sales library.
Goals of the project are to enable the open sharing of information within small organizations (<25 people). For Notes R6 client... there is no web interface at this time.
Screenshots and further description of the work so far can be found here...
« OpenNTF » |
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What's new:
Fixed to work with IMAP mail
« OpenNTF » |
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What's new:
- Reporting via Export to Excel
- Some UI changes
- Updated help in about this database
« OpenNTF » |
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What's new:
Bugfix for Crash on Debian/RedHat-Linux extracting files
« OpenNTF » |
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Currently Pondering: Attitude of Adaptability
Taking on the ACID Test
The Joy Of CSS, or, How I Became A Web Developer In Domino
Lotus Team Workplace Development Resources
« e-Pro Magazine »
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Möchte man gezielt eine bestimmte Variable der Datei NOTES.INI eines Clients hinzufügen oder verändern, so ist dies offiziell durch die mit ND6 eingeführten Policies bislang nicht vorgesehen. Angeregt durch einen Post von Ed Brill habe ich die dort gemachten Angaben getestet und bis auf einen kleinen Fehler als funktional OK befunden...
« Manfred Dillmann » |
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Find out how to control spam mail using the Configuration Settings document, server mail rules, and inbound SMTP commands and extensions in Lotus Domino 6 and later. This article is part one in a series about Lotus Domino methods of spam control...
« Edmund Stanton » |
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Even though I'm a long time advocate of designing Web applications in Domino, I've developed a few pet peeves over the years. Anyone who has used Domino to build Web applications can probably sympathize. The biggest of these is the fact that there are a host of features that have been available to developers targeting the Lotus Notes client for years that are still not available in the browser. This is the second article in a series that intends to fill your toolbox with re-usable widgets, code-snippets and tips that will make programming Domino web applications into a friendlier experience...
« Daniel Koffler » |
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Scheduled maintenance release, containing several bug fixes and some new features. 6.5.3 and 6.0.5 are different releases, however shared a common code stream. 6.5.3 will include fixes that are flagged 6.0.5/6.5.3. 6.0.5 will include fixes that are flagged 6.0.5/6.5.3...
« Lotus » |
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There are a total of 2119 keywords in the database. There are 4 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
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When developing a web application, we had the need to compare two arrays to see if all the elements in one array were in the other array and vice versa. The elements didn't have to appear in the same order in the arrays to be equal. This tip shows how to write a well-performing function in JavaScript to evaluate two arrays for equality...
« Breaking Par » |
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If you've been doing Notes development for any length of time, you've run across this message. The problem is that it pops up in a dialog box, and that's the *ONLY* thing in the dialog box. No text, no explanation, no indication of what you've done to deserve such treatment. This is also one of my pet peeves about Notes/Domino. There are far too many errors like this that have no background information associated with them. It may help the person who developed the Notes designer software, but it doesn't do squat for the poor application developer who gets the error and is at a loss as to what caused it and how to fix it...
« Thomas Duff » |
2004-09|
There has been a lot of talk around the office lately about passwords and what's the definition of a "good" password. Obviously, a password that can't be broken is a "good" password. But there's a trade-off between passwords that are easy to remember and passwords that are difficult to break. This tip talks about some ways to create your passwords...
« Breaking Par » |
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RSS provides a quick, easy, and lightweight way for you to monitor new content that is added to the Lotus Support Services Web site. Our RSS feeds provide the title of a new piece of content, such as a technote, a description of the new content, and a link to the content on the Lotus Support Services Web site...
« Lotus » |
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We conclude our article series on open standards and Open Source in Lotus Domino 6 by explaining how you can build two different applications for accessing a Domino Directory. The first is a Python application created with the GIMP Toolkit (GTK), and the second is a Java application created using the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)...
« Raj Balasubramanian »
Sample code for developerWorks: Lotus article, "Open Standards, Open Source, and Domino 6: Accessing the Domino Directory through Python and Java" by LDD Sandbox |
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WARNING : This really is BETA quality. It has not been fully tested and a few of the new features have not been completed.
BugFix : Emoticons
Emoticons are working again. The Input Translation for the response body field was accidently removed in Beta 3.
New Feature : Web Editor Image Upload
Images that are uploaded via the web blogging interface will now appear in the image dropdown list on the client story form for selection there. They will also appear in the Resources Images view.
Bug Fix : Web Editor Image Display
Images that are uploaded and attached to blog entries via the web based editor will now appear correctly.
New Feature : Hide Trackback box
A new option allows the blog owner to turn on or off the TrackBack block that appears under the comments section of a story. If the comments are turned off for the story then the TrackBack block will be turned off even if this setting is set to show the block.
New Feature : Move blocks up and down
Buttons have been added to the blocks view to allow you to move the blocks up and down without having to go into each block form.
New Feature : Image Preview
The emoticons form and the Images form have been updated so that they will show a preview of the image once the document has been saved.
New Feature : Blogroll Categories
You can now create categories for your blogroll entries. If you upgrade from a previous version then you don't have to edit all your existing entries as they will still appear without a category heading...
New Feature : Add Blogroll Link from Web
Two new options have been added to the web based blog admin interface. You can now add both Blog Roll categories and Blog Roll links from the web browser.
BugFix : Web Based Editor Toolbar
The toolbar in the web based editor has been split into two parts so that the toolbar will display correctly on smaller screens....
« OpenNTF » |
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Bugfix for "handle-out-of-range"-error...
« OpenNTF » |
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The whole thing is new!
The DXLPeek Suite is a 3 tier solution for your data and design browsing needs for Domino databases. The suite includes three distinct parts: the DXLRetriever; the DXLService; and DXLPeek.
Read the doc in the About page of the database...
« OpenNTF » |
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Ever been asked to make a change in the INI or server document that requires a server restart to take effect? Or how about just wanting to restart your servers on a weekly basis to keep them running great? This technote from IBM makes this easy...
« Sean Burgess » |
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Take advantage of the Eclipse IDE to develop Java agents for Lotus Notes/Domino. Download and install Eclipse and then see how easy it is to create a project, debug Java, refactor your agents with Eclipse, and import your agent into Domino Designer...
« Ian Connor » |
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This utility clears hide when formulas from a specified rich text field. The utility is not designed to act on particular documents within a database. It removes all hide when formulas in a specified field for all documents in the database which contain that field.
« hipslu » |
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You can (ab)use the the optional arguments for the "ReadViewEntries" url command for sorting web views...
« Maarten Docter » |
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I'm sure some of you more seasoned developers who use Firefox all the time already know this, but I discovered something about using XHTML document types when it comes to Firefox. Read on for further information...
« Breaking Par » |
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Currently Pondering: Your Personal Roadmap
Converting From Notes to .NET, According To Microsoft
Notes/Domino Migration Observations - R5 to ND6.5 , Part 2
Are You Ready for the ACID Test?
« e-Pro Magazine » |
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Build a Domino pop-up calendar widget using formula language
Although available when programming for the Lotus Notes client, Domino does not provide any built-in widget or applet that lets Web client users easily select a date from a calendar to fill in date-based fields. As it stands, most Domino forums and programming guides advocate installing a 3rd party JavaScript or Java applet-based calendar. This is wholly unnecessary as the Lotus Formula Language has amazing date handling functions that will let you easily build a customizable and reusable popup calendar in any web accessible Domino database. This article by Daniel Koffler takes you through all the steps...
« DominoPower » |
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Advanced XML for Notes
- Advanced XML techniques with Domino using data binding and Notes queries
Export Utility on the Web
- Export data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet on the Web
Import Excel File to Lotus Notes
- How to import a Microsoft Excel file into Lotus Notes
Import MS Excel (generic version)
- Import MS Excel spreadsheets directly into Notes using a profile and a generic agent
Notes 6.5 and Windows Terminal Server
- Notes 6.5 Client on MS Windows 2003 Terminal Server
Philanthropic School Supply Distribution
- Complete application to support a volunteer effort to collect and distribute school supplies for needy students
Phone Message Log
- Phone message log database
URL Links
- Create full document URL links through either Microsoft Outlook or a Web browser
Web dialog box + allow values not in list
- Web-based form with dialog box that allows values not in list
Word document editor
- Demonstrates how to use NotesTimer to allow edition of embedded Word documents
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Initial release. USING doc has some basic info. but see StartPage for more...
Minimum Reqirements: Developed in Notes 6.5.1. Should work in all 6.x releases. Will need some tweaaking for use with R5 - e.g. use of @WebDbName and the like.
« OpenNTF » |
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Bugfix for not ascending returncode...
« OpenNTF » |
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Thinking about creating your own Web log or blog? Read this article about Domino blogs and blogging and find out who's blogging about Lotus Notes and Domino and which Notes applications you may want to use to develop your own Domino blog...
« David DeJean » |
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There have been a few times when we wanted to run the exact same agent in a view or against the open document. For example, an "in progress" document needs to be marked as "closed". You may want to run this kind of agent against one or more documents in a view, but you may also want to run this agent against the currently opened document. This tip shows you how to do it...
« Breaking Par » |
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Some time ago a customer of mine had the requirement that all of his 80+ views used in his R5 Notes CRM application should appear in uniform corporate design, colors and fonts. A quick estimation revealed that some quick'n'dirty code might take less time and be more reliable than changing the view's properties manually. So using R6 I DXL-exported all views to a single file, removed the DOCTYPE tag line from the file and ran the following code against it, using the Microsoft.IE/XMLDOM component for conveniance...
« Wolfgang Flamme » |
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We posted a tip a while back talking about looping in formula language to perform lookups. At that time, we weren't aware of the great new feature added to the @DbLookup function in Notes 6. This tip describes the "keywords" parameter added to Notes...
« Breaking Par » |
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There are a total of 2115 keywords in the database. There are 11 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
2004-08|
Added functionality to add link back to deleted attachments. Works but is sort of ugly since it appends the link at the end of the RT block, not necessarily at the location of the attachment. Sounds like a case for Midas...
« OpenNTF » |
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Bug Fix for "Mail get stuck in mail.box"...
« OpenNTF » |
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I discovered something when looking at my web site in Firefox the other day. The lists for items like recent tips were indented a lot more than I wanted. It didn't look terrible, but it also didn't look the way I wanted it (the way it looks in IE). This tip shows the problem and the solution...
« Breaking Par » |
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Sometimes an application requires a different data entry field than a display field, and the standard Teach Yourself Domino Web Development in 24 Hours for Dummies: Unleashed method would be to create multiple entry fields...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Here's a quickie that I didn't know about until just recently that has to do with domains, URLs and Internet Site documents for Domino...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Reported Bugs fixed: Passwords only in edit-Mode readable
« OpenNTF » |
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No feature requests addressed in this release
No reported bug fixes addressed in this release...
« OpenNTF » |
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The Domino administration process (AdminP) is a server-side mechanism for automating administrative tasks in the background on a specified schedule. Domino's AdminP supports everything from user renames to file replications. AdminP also has another very powerful but not as well known feature that allows administrators to create their own administration processes and requests. This open interface is how third parties can create their own administration process request handlers and simply "plug" them in to perform administrative functions not supported by AdminP (for example, changing ACLs on all mail files on every server). This article explains how to create a custom AdminP request handler. We show the code necessary to create the server add-in and explain what it does. (You can download the complete code from the LDD Sandbox.) And we show how to deploy the add-in. This article assumes you're an experienced Domino programmer...
« Bob Balfe » |
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A look at R7 Designer: A developer's perspective
It hasn't been that long since Release 6.5 came out, but the Release 7 Beta is already underway. Kim Reddington figured a good way for her to get rolling on the task was to write an article, forcing her to get into the nitty-gritty and tell you all about it. This is that article. Read and learn...
The evolution of anti-spam technology
In this very important article by Technical Editor Ron Herardian, we examine how spam has evolved and the evolution of anti-spam technology used to fight back against spam...
« DominoPower » |
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You can use this to have your Sametime and ICT chat scripts securely stored inside a Notes Database, which offers some nice features such as replication, encryption and full text search. Just set it up once, and it automatically does the work (importing the chat scripts) for you...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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- Change Name from MailScan to OpenMailScan
- Documentation Bugfixes
- Changing default debuglevel in configuration examples
- Adding timestamp to logs
- Designchanges in Config-Template (Create-Button, Save&Close in Form)
- Other error handling: Task dosn't stop anymore if it can't process any email
« OpenNTF » |
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fixed the "contact me" block
LOTS of changes, please check the requests, bugs and tasks sections here on OpenNTF (1.0.6)...
« OpenNTF » |
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With last week's tip talking about using LS2J to track the elapsed time of a part of an agent, we felt it would be a good time to re-introduce this tip that was published a long time ago. It talks about tracking the elapsed time of an agent. But now with LS2J, you can use this old method or the new method...
« Breaking Par » |
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There's been a lot of buzz about Eclipse... how it rocks as a Java IDE, how it can be used to build rich clients, and how the eventual Notes 8.x client will be built on that platform. Assuming you're a Domino developer and you're looking to learn about Eclipse, what would you like to know about it? I'm looking to develop some content along this line, and I'm interested in hearing some feedback and getting some input as to what a typical(?) Notes/Domino developer wants to know in order to get familiar with that subject...
« Thomas Duff » |
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Forums: developerWorks now offers RSS feeds for its collection of discussion forums. Browse our forums and view the specific forums of interest to access the RSS feeds...
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The standard NotesDateTime objects are pretty good for tracking the time it takes your agent to run, but it only tracks down to the second. What if you need something more granular? I know that the folks who created TeamStudio have a product that will tell you how long each and every statement of an agent takes to run. But here's a simplified method that you can use to track times down to the millisecond in LotusScript...
« Breaking Par » |
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Some actions are english, because they are system actions and i have to manage the installation of a german designer client...
« OpenNTF » |
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2004-07-27 Changed to work also as a server side adddin for POP mail on server
2003-12-02 1) Bugfix: Didn't work with Quick rules. 2) Changed JunkMail rule to use only last two domain names Example: Block mail from "@4.lamespammer.com" Will block mail from all domains ending with "lamespammer.com". 3) Various small fixes to work better with Multi-Byte Character Set
2003-11-13 Bugfix: Didn't move to folder when folder name started with spaces.
2003-11-12 1) Added support for JunkMail rule 2) Overloaded the BCC rule to use any field for rule
2003-03-25 Bugfix: Didn't work when mailfile path included forwardslash
2003-02-23 Changed to work with both R5 and R6
2003-02-17 First Release
« OpenNTF » |
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One of the most irritating and annoying things with Lotus Notes R5 and above, is the lack of support for mail rules when the mail file is located locally. I am so glad that I can say that someone has fixed this, and released a workaround to make this work. This solution/workaround works both for local mailfiles as well as serverbased mailfiles...
« Dominozone » |
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We've used soft deletes before, but never with response documents. So when our first project asking for that came about, it was time for some testing. And just like regular deletes can result in orphan documents, recovering soft-deleted documents can result in orphan documents. Read the tip to find out some of the issues and how to work around them...
« Breaking Par » |
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- Currently Pondering: FUD in Vendor Marketing
- IBM Resources: Knowledge Collections
- Notes/Domino Migration Observations: R5 to ND6.5
- When To Use Notes/Domino For Application Development
« e-Pro Magazine » |
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For information about Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Beta 2, please see the Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Release Notes. For specific information about DB2 and Lotus Domino configuration requirements for Beta 2, see the section titled, "Setting up and using Domino 7 and DB2."...
« Lotus software » |
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die grundsaetzliche anforderung kennt denke ich jeder, der domino systeme betreut: der user xy moechte x monate aus seiner aktuellen maildatenbank auf cd gebrannt haben - weil er einfach selbst zu faul oder was auch immer ist, das selbst mittels archivierung zu erledigen. was ich also unbedingt brauchte, war eine tool/script/was auch immer, dass mir die riesigen datenbanken auf cd gerechte happen aufteilt; nur - so etwas habe ich leider nicht gefunden. also musste ich mich selber spielen; was dabei rauskam ist der Domino Database Splitter...
« hipslu » |
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There are a total of 2104 keywords in the database. There are 4 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
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Recently an end user of ours created a private view that another end user wanted. These end users wanted to know if there was a way to "send a view" from one user to another. Our administrator told the user to get on the phone and describe the design of their view while the other user created their private view. Is there a better way? This tip is the second in a two part tip that talks about our solution using DXL in Notes 6...
« Breaking Par » |
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Quick and dirty change management form with approval workflow...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Lets you spread the cottage and meals out to all vacation participants...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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It has been 3 years since I created the first entries in this blog in july 2001 --- and I forgot to post it on the 2nd of july 2004 ;-(...
« Christoph Arras » |
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With this LotusScript code, you can modify any rich text fields and reflect those changes in the UI without being forced to save the document...
« Bryce Berry » |
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Recently an end user of ours created a private view that another end user wanted. These end users wanted to know if there was a way to "send a view" from one user to another. Our administrator told the user to get on the phone and describe the design of their view while the other user created their private view. Is there a better way? This tip is the first in a two part tip that talks about our solution using DXL in Notes 6...
« Breaking Par » |
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This is a Lotus Notes Certification Practice Statement (CPS) example template...
« LDD Sandbox » |
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Added support to hide password while document is in read mode...
« OpenNTF » |
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Added support for GoogleAdsense; fixed some minor CSS issues...
« OpenNTF » |
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Further German translation. Now over to Kai to finish off the German translation. All remaining views/forms/buttons etc need to be translated. This is fully usable until then though...
« OpenNTF » |
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Having trouble finding your way through all the ins and outs of Notes/Domino and Internet certification issues? Create a Certification Practice Statement (CPS) and use it as a roadmap for your certification processes and policies. This article explains how you can build a CPS and includes a template you can modify and adapt to your own requirements...
« Timothy Speed/Raj Balasubramanian » |
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What's new:
Blank Subject warning when sending memo, as per R7...
« OpenNTF » |
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I know that many of you hate the bookmark bar in R5 and R6, but I make use of it. I make more use of it in designer, where I group the design of applications I support. Instead of trying to find that database on my workspace in the client and then opening it in designer, I go directly to my designer and find the bookmark. Well, the other day I accidentally deleted the default blank space between the standard links (client and administrator) and my first folder. Read on to find out how I corrected this mistake, and learn a bit more about how bookmark.nsf works...
« Breaking Par » |
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Feature requests added and bugs fixed as above.
Sametime functionality is now controlled by a checkbox in the Advanced Settings section of Mail Preferences.
« OpenNTF » |
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Remove those pesky Fw:'s and Re:'s from your mail messages with the click of a button. This article describes how to create a private view and a SmartIcon that removes prefixes from your mail message subject lines using the Notes formula language...
« Andreas Arning » |
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To sum things up, it's possible to create Domino portlets with three different methods depending on your level of programming expertise and the sophistication required of your portlet. Given that portals are becoming ubiquitous in organizations, and that IBM and other vendors offer many helpful tools for creating portlets, there's no good excuse for not getting a start on "portlet-izing" your Domino applications...
« Tony Higham/Sue Hildreth » |
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Today, I'm proud to announce that we market a Software Development Kit for Domino developers. The SDK allows you to mimic the behavior of classic Notes views in a web (browser) interface. It supports common navigation like the quick-search function and other keyboard input like PgUp and PgDn. It also supports actions like create menu-buttons in the view or deleting documents from the view. It even supports a focus bar, enabling users to both use the keyboard or the mouse for navigation and opening / editing documents with the <Enter> key. When you leave a view, it remembers where you were and will position you in the exact same position on your next visit. And, of course, it allows developers to design the cosmetics of Notes views. Generally speaking: it recreates the look and feel of "common" or conventional Notes views for the Lotus Notes client on the web...
« Klaas van der Galien » |
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Phone Lookup feature added.
Allows lookup of phone numbers from within the mailbox and a phone lookup of the sender of an email with a single click.
Populate the NAB replicaID field within the Advanced Settings tab to activate the feature
VCard Feature Improved
Now include FirstName, LastName and Country fields.
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Based on Lotus Notes R6.5.2 iNotes6.ntf template. New features are per Lotus template including reply/forward markers in Domino Web Access.
Features added from OpenNTF Mail Experience 1.4
"Today's Mail" bug from OpenNTF Mail Experience 1.4 Fixed
"Follow Up" view problems from OpenNTF Mail Experience 1.4 fixed.
"OpenNTF Settings" tab renamed "Advanced Settings" to simplify for users.
If Sametime isn't installed or configured, the chat buttons are now hidden throughout.
Subject column in Inbox now sortable as per R7.
« OpenNTF » |
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This article explains how the major pieces of Notes/Domino 6 messaging security fit together, using a clear, easy to understand example starring a legendary figure in the oil business...
« Tim Speed/Raj Balasubramania » |
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Have you ever wanted to switch the contents of two rich text fields in the Notes client? Recently a developer had a requirement to do this. Because the application is confidential, I can't tell you the exact reason why, but it was needed. Knowing how rich text fields are notorious for only wanting to change in the back end instead of the front end, this posed a little problem. But we eventually solved it, and this tip shows the solution...
« Breaking Par » |
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Currently Pondering: Domino Vulnerabilities
Lotus Instant Messaging Development Resources
Book Brief: Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible
Notes/Domino Application Exploits
« e-Pro Magazine » |
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What controls whether Notes instant messaging is enabled or disabled in the Notes 6.5 client?
Note: The feature described in this Technote is available only if your company has an IBM Lotus instant messaging (Sametime) server, and only for Windows versions of IBM Lotus Notes...
« Thomas Duff » |
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Andreas Klein has reported a vulnerability in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access (formerly iNotes), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when processing mails and can be exploited by sending a mail containing an overly large, specially crafted JPG image attachment (about 12 MB) to a vulnerable system. Successful exploitation reportedly crashes the whole Domino server, when the mail is opened. The vulnerability has been reported on a system running Domino 6.5.1. Other versions may also be affected...
« Thomas Duff » |
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This quick article and example database (coming soon) will show you that, with attention to naming convention standards in your Domino web development, you can build dynamic "breadcrumb trail"-type navigation in your applications with minimal overhead and really easy administration...
« Chris Toohey » |
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Features as per RC1 but if Sametime isn't installed or configured, the chat buttons are now hidden throughout all forms and views...
« OpenNTF » |
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Bug fix version of the domCMS content management application. (2a-2e were never released to public)...
« OpenNTF » |
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Many customers have integrated IBM Lotus Domino and IBM WebSphere into their environments. This article explains how you can build applications that take advantage of the relative strengths offered by both Domino and WebSphere...
« Peter K. Weber » |
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Use the Pareto principle to determine which software-related problems to manage first. This article, part two in our series, introduces you to the Pareto priniciple, a problem management tool that you can apply to issues with your Domino applications...
« Dhanasekar Dhandapani » |
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InfoScreen has published an advisory showing an increased risk of a brute force attack under particular circumstances. The address is as follows: http://www.infoscreen.com
It may be easier for an attacker to gain authenticated access to Domino data when both of the following conditions are met:..
« Lotus » |
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For those of us in the United States, this weekend is when we celebrate Independence Day. I am getting a head start on the weekend while still recovering from my trip to Switzerland. So here's a tip from our archives that is a good thing to implement from an end user standpoint...
« Breaking Par » |
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There are a total of 2102 keywords in the database. There are 4 new or updated entries this month...
« DRCC » |
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In Notes 4.x it was possible to call the methods of a class using extended syntax without setting the object to a variable. In Notes 5.x and 6.x, calling methods using extended syntax can result in an error. The below code example demonstrates this using the NotesDocumentCollection class. The below agent could be set to run on "All documents in database" to demonstrate. When the agent is run it will result in the error "Document is not from this collection" when the line above the "Loop" statement is executed...
« Thomas Duff » |
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A customer states that there have been deletions in a database, such as a mail file, that no one has actually deleted. Is there a way to analyze if the documents were in fact deleted, and is it possible to find out what the source of the deletion was...
« Thomas Duff » |
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This is not a final release. It's there only for the people having the error "Invalid Document".
For those having the "Invalid document" error, do the following test after having updated your design with the template attached and signed the db with an admin ID :
1. Create a new manual report
2. Fill in the server name and the log file name
3. Launch the agent "Test Logs" from the action menu
4. Post the result of the agent in the project discussion
« OpenNTF » |
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What's new:
as always some improvements and bugfixes. Nothing revolutionary...
« OpenNTF » |
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Jouko Pynnonen, in association with iDEFENSE, reported a vulnerability in the Lotus Notes client that may allow an attacker to execute malicious code on the user's workstation under certain circumstances: The Notes URL handler fails to properly filter input when a web browser activates the Notes client by clicking on a Notes URL...
« Lotus » |
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Here's a collection of quick tips on moving information to and from Excel using LotusScript. Learn how to manipulate agents to send Web data to an Excel spreadsheet, how to import data from Excel to a Notes database -- and more...
« SearchDomino » |
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Users and analysts have had a chance to size up the first beta release of the new edition of Notes/Domino, and are impressed with the platform's stability and increased support for DB2...
« Mark Brunelli » |
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A few weeks ago someone asked about removing empty folders from their mail. They were archiving stuff and the archive didn't remove the empty folders, so their mail file had a bunch of empty folders lying around. I sent a button that did the trick. Read on to get the button code...
« Breaking Par » |
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The Fishbone diagram is a simple problem-analysis tool that you can use to analyze Lotus software-related issues. This article, part one of two, introduces you to the Fishbone diagram and as an example, applies it to an actual Notes/Domino issue...
« Dhanasekar Dhandapani » |
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This release fixes the bug when servers have spaces in their names. The list of servers available wasn't displayed correctly.
For those of you who already have a previous release installed, download the template, sign it with a user that has the right to execute agent on your server and replace the design of your DB with this template.
If the manual reports are working and the scheduled ones are not, open the DB in the designer, disable the "MainAnalyser" agent and re-enabled it. You will be asked on which server is the server you want to run the scheduled agent...
« OpenNTF » |
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In this excellent and important article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard examines the Notes database structure and compares it and contrasts it to a more traditional relational database. This is a very interesting article and if you use Notes, develop with Notes, or rely on Notes-based data at all, you owe it to yourself to read this article with great care...
« Mick Moignard » |
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Als Entwickler stehen wir früher oder später eventuell alle vor dem selben Problem. Wir haben die neue Version einer Applikation fertiggestellt, oder Fehler behoben, und wollen dem Kunden nun eine aktuelle Schablone zukommen lassen.
An sich kein Thema. Eine Kopie der Datenbank erstellen, "nur Gestaltung" auswählen, Dateiendung ändern in ".ntf", im Dateisystem nach der Datenbank suchen und packen, den Mailclient öffnen, eine neue Mail erstellen, die Schabloneanhängen - das war's auch schon. Nervt? Anfangs vielleicht nicht, aber auf Dauer kostet es eine Menge Zeit. Ausserdem ist man doch Entwickler, und das muss doch für irgendwas gut sein!
Nach einiger Zeit und etwas Kopfzerbrechen entstand folgende Lösung: Ein SmartIcon ruft einen Agenten auf, der die gerade geöffnete Datenbank automatisch zu einer handlichen Datei verpackt, an eine neu erstellte Mail anhängt, und diese zum Verschicken öffnet.
Ganz so einfach ist es allerdings nicht, man benötigt schon einige Kenntnisse in LotusScript, Java (denn LotusScript bietet keine Funktion zum packen) und Formelsprache. Oder man befolgt Schritt für Schritt die Anleitung in diesem Artikel und lädt sich unsere Beispieldatenbank herunter...
« jNotes » |
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Now I found a webpage within the IBM site which contains a Lotus Notes Application Accessibility checklist. Use this checklist for...
« Maarten Docter » |
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IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 6.0.4/6.5.2 is available for public download...
« Lotus software » |
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nFeed is a RSS feed database in Lotus Notes, Collects feeds from all versions of RSS. This is a Notesonly database and currently uses one agent to collect the information. but you are free to build or rebuild the design of the database as you wish...
« Thomas Adrian » |
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THIS IS A BETA VERSION AND MUST NOT BE USE IN PRODUCTION.
BACKUP ANY EXISTING domBulletin DB BEFORE UPGRADING !
- LDAP Support via directory assistance (correctly gets user common name)
- New Languages (brasilian, spanish, italian...)
- Refined Notes and Web ui
- Many bug fixes and perf tweaks
- File attachment in post (early stage)
« OpenNTF » |
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Added R7's Clean Calendar agent
UPDATED DOWNLOAD JUNE 9TH 2004 (removed hidewhen on version)
« OpenNTF » |
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Chksrv now re-checks a server that does not respond three times with a half-second pause before reporting it "down"...
« OpenNTF » |
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Some small bugfixes, no new features...
« OpenNTF » |
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This project provides a means to validate DoD X.509 certificates against the current DoD Certificate Revocation List (CRL) on a Lotus Domino server. There is no support for external CRL checking built in to the Lotus Domino product.
The CRL checker consists of two main parts: a database that holds certificate data and an agent to download updated CRLs and a servlet (processCRL.class) that handles validation.
There are some test certs included. These certs were issued from openvalidation.org which is a great place to go to learn all you need to know about certificates and CRLs and OCSP and so on.
The updateCRL.class is a standalone Java class to download CRLs without using Domino. It's essentially the same code as the Java agent located in the CRL.ntf template.
« OpenNTF » |
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This article describes enhancements to the Domino 6 code stream included in the maintenance releases (MRs) and maintenance updates (MUs)...
« Tara Hall » |
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This week Mick Moignard describes a very simple technique to flip between views, while not losing your position in the document. This feature's been around for years, but most people don't know about it. And, it can be very, very useful...
« Mick Moignard » |
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Sometimes you want a user to enter a field in a specific format, like date or time fields. A lot of error handling (and patience from the user) is needed to check if the user has entered a value in the right format. By creating a button with a selection input makes it a lot easier. To prevent a user from still entering or changing a value into a wrong format you can simply disable the onFocus event of this field by setting the focus to another field or button. This way the user is forced to use the button...
« Maarten Docter » |
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