Luis Suarez says we misuse e-mail, frequently. To bolster his argument he includes links to several articles, graphics, and videos. He's embedded a 3-minute video, "The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections", as the final argument.
Marie L Scott reminds us that Daylight Savings Time is going to end soon and, on some platforms, Domino will not do the update. She provides a link to the Technote so you can check for Fixpacks and other info.
Brian M Moore gets frustrated with people who get frustrated with Notes because they can't see that it's doing something. As a way to distract users from the clock, he offers his own animated GIF as an NSF download.
Recently, a colleague asked me about a keyboard shortcut to make all the the documents in a view or folder read. I've never been much of a keyboard shortcut kind of guy, but I know that a lot of peop
Google's Chrome browser allows you to create application shortcuts. While playing with the feature it occurred to me just how much like having a real application installed on your PC this is.
For example let's take the Accounts.nsf Flex app, which, like most web-based Flex apps, is more like a real app in its own right than it is a typical website.
If I open the app in Chrome and click the little "page" icon to the right of the address bar I get the option to create a shortcut:
This then gives me the following option(s):
Which feels just a bit like installing an application, no?
The shot below is of my desktop (click to enlarge) after the "install". Notice the icon on the desktop called "Accounts Version 4" (name comes from the host HTML page's title). The icon itself is the favicon.ico from the web server!
When you double click the new desktop icon a new Chrome window opens with the Flex app inside. Notice however that the browser window has no address bar or other buttons. Just the title bar and the app.
Now, is it me, or does that just look to all intents like a "real" application!?
Chrome even remembers the size and position of the window on a per-"application" basis! Even more like a real application.
Ok, so it doesn't work offline (which might confuse a user who had been fooled in to thinking it wasn't a web app) but you could soon fix that with Google Gears.
Distributed Apps In Your Company
This all got me thinking about how easy it would be to distribute Flex-based applications within an organisation. Assuming the PCs have Chrome installed you could automate the process of adding shortcuts to user's desktops to certain applications. The help desk for example.
To do this you'd need to know that Chrome installs itself in the user's doc/settings folder rather than the more usual "Program Files" folder. The target for the shortcut icon looks like this:
"C:\Documents and Settings\jake\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app=http://www.codestore.net/apps/accounts.nsf
Although this could be re-written with a variable name, like below, and you could distribute and run the same shortcut on any Windows PC:
How cool is that! The user now has an application "installed" which you can control/update from the Domino web server!!
Taking it further you could create a favicon.ico with a 48x48 and/or 32x32 pixel version as well as the usual 16px icon, so it scales better when on the desktop.
You could probably do this with IE but I don't know if you can remove any reference to "Internet Explorer" from the apps title/task bar or change the IE icon, which kind of gives the game away that it's not really an app and you're just looking at the browser.
New in 8.x designer is the option to delete a database when removing a bookmark from the bookmark list in the designer. This could lead to unwanted deletions. My stand is that removal of a bookmark and deletion of a database are two unrelated actions. Developers should not be presented with these two different actions in the same dialog. Checkmark to delete the database from the filesystem when removing a bookmark should be removed.
Is it just me or are there more Notes developers that would want to see (1) a more stable Domino Designer, and (2) run significantly faster. And would you rate this above ANY and ALL new features that may be added.
We need not set the bar too high. Just make it run at the same speed as the previous Domino Designer and crash/hang no more than the old one. And yes, I have been using 8.5.1 beta for a while and while it is better its is still not there yet!
In Lotus Notes, you drag and drop mail messages to your trash folder. When you return to your inbox and select another message, the status bar indicates an incorrect number of selected messages. Why does this happen?
When you enable multi-server session authentication in the Server document or Internet Site document, you do not see a field for "Maximum active sessions."
The settings in the component properties for a widget can be modified on the "Configure a Component" page in the widget creation wizard. Once a widget is created, you can no longer add or remove settings in the component properties.
IBM Lotus Support Engineers and Development will be hosting a Support Technical Exchange Open Mic conference call with customers on the topic of Calendaring & Scheduling Best Practices using the Resource Reservation database on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM. Eastern Time (2:00 PM GMT).
Add a rich text signature to all of the messages you send. You can import a text, html, or graphic file; or you can create a signature, including fonts, links, and graphic. Watch the demonstrat
This document describes Lotus iNotes (DWA - Domino Web Access) cumulative Hotfix 211.241 for Domino 8.0.1 on platforms win32, AIX, aix64, Linux and Solaris