01.09.2010
00:56 | Users stop receiving mail and SMTP task on server shows 50-100% CPU utilization
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... | by IBM Lotus Support |
01.09.2010
01:06 | IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 (Server/Client) is available
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 (Server/Client) is available via Passport Advantage... | by IBM Lotus Support |
29.07.2010
02:26 | (July 2010) Fixes for potential security vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes file viewers
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... | by IBM Lotus Support |
23.07.2010
21:46 | New Designer wiki articles on the basics
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... | by Andre Guirard |
21.07.2010
21:52 | Using @SetViewInfo in a Notes client application to create a user-specific view
The requirement: Create a "my documents" view for the user. <br>
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. <br>
Common approaches: ... | by Andre Guirard |
19.07.2010
22:10 | Pop Quiz - who knows the encryption strength and alogrithm that Lotus Notes port encryption uses?
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... | by Darren Duke |
15.07.2010
22:14 | OpenNTF IdeaJam -- please participate
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... | by Andre Guirard |
15.07.2010
06:12 | New Designer wiki article on upgrading your apps for 8.5.1
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. | by Andre Guirard |
24.06.2010
22:43 | The Front End and the Back End
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... | by Andre Guirard |
17.06.2010
06:04 | 8.5.1 FP3 IF1 is available - togther with the fix list
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... | by Darren Duke |
14.06.2010
23:21 | Old-school document selection in a view
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... | by Dwight Morse |
10.06.2010
02:20 | Portal der StaedteRegion deutschlandweit auf erstem Platz. Gewinn des DNUG-Awards.
Die regio iT überzeugte auf der diesjährigen DNUG Frühjahrskonferenz in Berlin die Jury und das Publikum von den Erfolgen des Projektes "AixPort"... | by regio iT aachen |
02.06.2010
03:16 | New documentation is available for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3
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... | by Jeffrey Alberts |
27.05.2010
21:46 | Deleted mail rules still run and/or enabled mail rules do not run
In Lotus Notes, you may observe the following behavior regarding rules:<br>
-- A deleted mail rule continues to function, even though it no longer appears in the Rules folder.<br>
-- An enabled mail rule does not run. <br>
-- After a new rule is created, it runs correctly, but it never appears in the Rules folder... | by IBM Lotus Support |
27.05.2010
06:58 | The nearly useless NotesView.TopLevelEntryCount property
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... | by Andre Guirard |
25.05.2010
04:36 | Add ToDos to the Sidebar
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... | by Dwight Morse |
25.05.2010
04:38 | "Agent must be run from a view window" when in a view window
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.... | by Andre Guirard |
25.05.2010
04:39 | Database Corruption Troubleshooting Guide
One of the most frustrating things Domino administrators have to deal with is database corruption. The best thing to do is avoid it... | by Terri Puckett |
25.05.2010
04:40 | JUST PUBLISHED: "Creating plugins to extend the new LotusScript Editor in IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.1"
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... | by Leslie Gallo |
25.05.2010
04:41 | Did you know about the "Go to Erl Line" menu?
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... | by Andre Guirard |
25.05.2010
04:42 | PUBLISHED: "Integrating Ajax into traditional IBM Lotus Domino Web applications"
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! | by Leslie Gallo |
25.05.2010
04:43 | Lotus Notes 8.5.x Cold Start Observations
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... | by M. Cornaia/S. Williams/J. Freeman |
25.05.2010
04:46 | Tips for avoiding common Notes 8.5.1 install and upgrade issues
Tips from the IBM Lotus SWAT team for avoiding common Notes 8.5.1 install and upgrade issues... | by Steven Williams / Amy Smith |
22.04.2010
22:28 | More gold in openntf
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. .. | by Andre Guirard |
06.04.2010
22:38 | Configuring Domino to run with BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS)
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... | by Bradley Hurley / Amy Smith |
01.04.2010
04:57 | How to fix winmail.dat issues in Lotus Notes
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 ... | by Darren Duke |
01.04.2010
04:58 | IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 on Amazon Web Services: A getting started guide
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... | by Michael Masterson |
29.03.2010
13:14 | NotesNoteCollection.SelectViews, nasty surprise!
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... | by Andre Guirard |
27.03.2010
08:14 | Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 2 is available
The Release Notice for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 2 is now available and contains a list of SPRs addressed in this release and related technotes... | by Terri Puckett |
18.03.2010
23:50 | How not to crash in LotusScript
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... | by Andre Guirard |