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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)...
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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...
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