Are you looking for a simpler way to search for information in your Lotus Notes/Domino databases? Use this LotusScript agent to automatically index databases according to specified keywords.
Use this agent to match your BlackBerry email to the address specified in a Lotus Notes admin document. Then, message recipients can easily approve Notes documents using a BlackBerry mobile device.
You may be familiar with Java's stack trace information. Did you know you can also code a stack trace into your LotusScript libraries and agents? Use this quick code in your Lotus Notes environment.
Are you constantly un-doing a mistake one of your Lotus Notes Domino users made? Here are two quick server settings and policy changes to help protect Notes users from themselves and relieve some administrator stress.
The ability to transfer Lotus Notes data from a database to an Excel spreadsheet has been available for some time. If you're using OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets, however, you'll need to use this LotusScript code instead.
If you're using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) and Lotus Notes, you can't create a link from your client to a Lotus Notes database. This workaround can help. Get the steps to use the proper syntax to open a Notes database in your client using SharePoint.
Now I'm not a xenophobe or anything, but, like most people, when I need to phone a call centre I prefer to talk to people in my own country rather than any other (India being the major player in the field). The fact that you're calling them in the first place - at least for me - means you're desperate. The last thing you want is to struggle your way through a conversation.
Being able to speak English is not the same as speaking English.
Now, that said, it's not always a breath of fresh air when you see a company boast of its "UK-Based Call Centre". Whether this makes it any easier depends where in the UK it's based.
For a small country the UK has a surprisingly diverse range of regional accents. You only have to travel 20 mile or less to find the accent change almost beyond recognition.
Even from here in Nottingham to my home town of Mansfield, about 15 miles away, the accents vary. So much so that the men who rendered the outside of my office/garage last year (who were "rate Mansfield") were barely understandable -- and they're form the town I grew up in. I found myself doing that thing where you just smile and nod at people when you can't tell what they're saying.
Yesterday I couldn't remember the password for the root MySQL user on my LAMP server. I got so desperate that I called Fasthosts' support number, assuming it was a password they'd set as part of the initial setup (turns out they didn't and I had just forgotten).
Now, Fasthosts are based on Gloucester (pronounced "Glosta"), which is the "West Country", which is where they (some, not all) talk like farmers. The guy I talked to had a real farmer-boy accent. I'm not joking when I say I could barely understand a word he said.
It didn't help that he seemed not to care whether he could help. This is where I think the call centres on the sub-continent differ. They might struggle with the accents (us understanding theres as well as them ours) but at least they want to help.
Personally, I don't mind where the call centre is as long as they can actually help. I don't mind struggling through the language barrier as long as I find out what I want to know.
Send Lotus Notes users an email message that contains this LotusScript-coded button. This button will allow them to easily update an email in the location document of their Personal Address Books (PABs). The button automatically notifies the administrator once the address has been updated.
Send Lotus Notes users an email message that contains this LotusScript-coded button. This button will allow them to easily update an email in the location document of their Personal Address Books (PABs). The button automatically notifies the administrator once the address has been updated.
At the moment I'm working on a Flex app that will allow the user to build their own views from backend Notes data. It's a bit like a Search Builder and you can see the guts of it in the Flex app embedded below:
You can use the "Add New Filter" button to add new filters/search terms. The dropdown that says "Title" in it (by default") allows you to select the field and then (depending on what type of field it is) you can tailor the filter by text, number or date.
When you've added all the filters you press the "build" button and it will display the proposed view selection criteria in the white box.
Logical?
It works. Kind of. Where it falls down is its handling of the AND OR logic. I just can't get my head round it and [invoke lazy web now] I wondered if you could help.
How should a Search Builder compile the search terms with AND OR logic?
Consider the following terms:
At the moment the app comes up with the following search string:
The results of both are different, but how would it know which to assume the user meant?
It gets more complicated as you add more and more terms and I can't decide the best way to deal with it. Anybody know how to do it or of an example that already does?
Currently, images are only resizable as a percentage of their original dimensions. We should be able to:
See the current and original dimensions
Specifiy new dimensions in inches or pixels (or percent of containing box)
Lock the aspect ratio to ensure the image does not look warped.
These are standard features available in MS Word, in open source web editors such as FCKeditor, and virtually anywhere else images are allowed. I have included an example of the FCKeditor version to show what I mean.
We are able to create a page to display an outline horizontally. However, if you have long entries, the only options are to use a small or narrow font or to make each entry wide. It would be nice for the entries to wrap to multiple lines (even if it was limited to only two lines) if the text was too wide to fit in the defined width.
I know it is possible to make horizontal navigators using other means but this would open new interface possibilities using outlines, which are easier to maintain and have easy to use options like mouse over and background image wells.
I'd like a Clear All button on the Breakpoints tab which will, you know, clear all the breakpoints. It could be setup like the Clear All button on the Output tab.
I just opened a several year old database in Designer 8.5 for the first time. There were literally 30 breakpoints listed which I've probably set at one point or another. Having the Clear All button would have made clearing things a lot easier (don't get me started on why breakpoints were disappearing with the 6.5 client even though I said to persist them)
Include a section when posting a new idea to allow the user to choose to email the idea to people to come check it out. (Such as Email in the linkage section after it's created.) The option to email where it is now isn't very intuitive, and it took me a while to find it. Including it as an option when creating the idea would make it easier to broadcast new ideas beyond the site to get people to come back and vote/comment.
It should be able to call up the address book so they can select who.. and send it directly from the page.. or if not possible, at least bring up notes like it does currently so they can select people, and have a default configurable message to send out.
The 'Move to My Contacts' button is only available at the Recent Contacts view. It would be nice to have it in the Contact form, too.
I use Mac's Spotlight to search for contacts. Sometimes it finds the name amongst the Recent Contacts. It opens the form, but I have no way to make this a permanent contact. I end up having to open my address book, go to the recent contacts view, search it, find the contact, move it. Then go to the Contacts view. Search the view. Find the contact. Edit it and add phone number and other information. Way too many steps.
Should be a lot simpler. Desktop search to find the contact, edit it, update the information, click on a button and it becomes a permanent contact.
Turn on the email preferences for ideas posted and commented on by default. This will get people returning to the site to keep updated. I've found most users don't know to go edit it and turn them on as a feature unless you tell them.
Our company does not want anyone using BCC, so I have to modify the template everytime we upgrade to a new version and push that change out to all the servers. Users come to me wanting to use BCC for certain projects and to mail info to customers. My idea is to make the BCC field display via an ACL Role. Then we could assign users to a BCC_Group and assign that group to the role in the mail file. Then we can control who has BCC.
I want to be able to right click on an attachment in an email message, select Copy, and then paste the attachment into a new message. Even in 8.5 I often get other pieces of the original email together with the attachment. The only way to reliably do it is to put the original email in Edit mode. It should work better than that. How many end users know that you can Edit an email message that you received?!
Create an agent or something to that effect that will email a digest of new ideas and updates to comments and votes for ideas created by users. Make it configurable both by the adminstrator and in the profile of the user. (How often, number of ideas, etc)
This should help people to come back to the site and participate. (For folks that have no idea what RSS means)
Create an agent or something to that effect that will email a digest of new ideas and updates to comments and votes for ideas created by users. Make it configurable both by the adminstrator and in the profile of the user. (How often, number of ideas, etc)
This should help people to come back to the site and participate. (For folks that have no idea what RSS means)
Today I have found @BrowserInfo("BrowserType") doesn't work anymore with latest browser. When I checked this formula on Mozila Firefox 3 , it returns "Netscape" instead of Mozila.
Also, @BrowserInfo("Version") returns 5 when I verified on Mozila 3.0 and returns 5 too for Safari 3.2 version.
Today I have found @BrowserInfo("BrowserType") doesn't work anymore with latest browser. When I checked this formula on Mozila Firefox 3 , it returns "Netscape" instead of Mozila.
Also, @BrowserInfo("Version") returns 5 when I verified on Mozila 3.0 and returns 5 too for Safari 3.2 version.
<div>Today I have found <strong>@BrowserInfo("BrowserType")</strong> doesn't work anymore with latest browser and newer versions. When I checked this formula on Mozila Firefox 3 , it returns "Netscape" instead of Mozila.</div> <div> </div> <div>Also, <strong>@BrowserInfo("Version")</strong> returns 5 when I verified on Mozila 3.0 and returns 5 too for Safari 3.2 version.</div>
BrowserInfo("BrowserType") doesn't work anymore with latest browser and newer versions. When verified on Mozila Firefox 3 , it returns Netscape instead of Mozila.
Also, @BrowserInfo("Version") returns 5 when verified on Mozila 3.0 and returns 5 for Safari 3.2 as well.
In Domino 8.5 release, XPages do not pass HTML validation. This is mainly because that non-standard attributes for Dojo is used. This should be fixed. It should also be possible to create XPages (without hacks) that conform to W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. In many countries there are or will be requirements that government websites should conform to WCAG or similar rules.
Add a field in a desktop policy that will allow an administrator push out Notes.ini parameters to the users desktops. We would also need to be able to recall or remove Notes.ini settings (if possible). The most recent example of when this would be helpful would be pushing out the "ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION=1" which speeds up the client start up for 8.5. I am upgrading users from 7.0.3 to 8.5. This parameter is not being put into the Notes.ini
1. Allow Delete Person requests in AdminP to be scheduled for a future date/time.
2. Create an AdminP process to add names to a Deny Access group, scheduled for a future date/time.
Most HR departments provide advance notice of a separation of an employee and provide a separation date. The Domino administrator must hold this request until the appropriate date and then process the Delete Person (or at least add the name to the Deny Access group) quickly after the employee leaves, but NOT before. It would be most helpful to have a way to schedule the date and time in the future to process a Delete Person and/or have the name added to a Deny Access group and maybe even clear the Internet password field.
Both of these processes have their value depending on how a company handles separations. In some cases it is a certainty and the Delete Person should be processed. In other cases, it is desirable to just add the person to the Deny Access and have the Delete Person processed (either manually or automatically) at some date/time in the future.
Every company I have worked at has maintained a database to store a copy of all documents deleted from the Domino Directory. This provides a great way of seeing when documents were deleted and who did it and a very efficient way to recover those documents if needed. But copying those documents before deleting them is a manual process, though in one case the directory was even customized so that clicking the delete action button did this automatically. I would like to see this as an integral part of the directory. Another way to view this is as if it is archiving documents from the directory (like messages are archived from a mail file).
As servers come and go, the list of server names cannot be updated to eliminate servers that no longer exist. They remain forever until a new desktop8.ndk is created. This is especially irritating for administrators and developers who work with test servers or servers from other domains. Touch it once and it is in the list for life. Rebuilding the bookmarks is particularly annoying for administrators and developers because we use so many more databases than the typical user.
There needs to be a way to manage the list of servers presented in dialogs like the Open Database so obsolete server names can be deleted.
The Lotus Notes client is not supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services alone. A Notes client can run on a Windows Terminal Server only if Citrix MetaFrame is used as well.
An attempt to register users through the Domino Administrator client fails. According to the local Notes log, the registration failed due to the error "File cannot be created".
An issue has been identified with the install kits on the Passport Advantage Web site for the non-English versions of Notes 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 and 8.5. This issue prevents users from upgrading the Notes client via silent install or Smart Upgrade.
What parameters can be set in the Server document for the Administration Process (AdminP)? Additionally, what are the AdminPModifyPersonDocuments and AdminPInterval parameters in the notes.ini used for?
Domino Server log is constantly reflecting what appears to be an informational message, "Collection Object was Deleted". After receiving this message several times, a hidden-view is listed as having been deleted.
This article, the third in a three-part series, demonstrates how to expose the IBM® Lotus® Quickr™ content (items) as a custom Atom feed. The new Atom feed can be used to fetch Lotus Quickr content from components such as task or announcement across all teamplaces to which the user belongs. The content can also be filtered based on any option field of the component, such as the priority field of the task component or the type field of the announcement component.
When a user sends a message to another user in the Sametime community, the message is received by an unintended recipient. This unintended recipient might not be in the sender's contact list.