Enough of you have asked for a copy of the Accounts database now that it's easier for me just to upload it here. The only reason I didn't do that in the first place is that I don't think the code is of sufficient quality for posting to the wider public. Please keep that in mind before casting your critical eyes over it.
Note that both version were designed to be used on home networks and are not in any way secured.
Domino Version
Here's the Domino version. Extract the NSF from this Zip to your Domino server and then import the rest of the Zip as a Flex Project Archive in to Flex Builder (assuming you want to fiddle with the Flex part of it).
LAMP Version
Here's the LAMP verison. To get it running you'll need to put all the files on your LAMP server and then import the .SQL file, as well as setting up a CRON job to run the processScheduleds.php file each night. You might need your hacking skills at the ready. Sorry, I can't be bothered to document any of it in any more depth than that.
The LAMP version is the better of the two if you're actually wanting to use the system for real. Notes just doesn't handle lost of numbers very well. If you use the Domino version and want to switch then it's easy enough to create an importable .SQL file from your Notes data, which is what I did.
The LAMP version is also the only one that's likely to get any better in the future, if you want to keep up with any improvements I might make to it.
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Special thanks go out to Teamstudio for helping us put together Episode 1. They welcomed us into their offices and let us watch and film a confidential strategy session where they explore issues facing staying with Notes or migrating to another platform. Here's the full video:
In this video, Teamstudio Product Manager Mike Wetherbee hosts a discussion between Notes superstar Paul Mooney and a Megan Taylor, Teamstudio's HR Director, who plays the role of a CEO facing a tough decision.
Megan is grappling with the decision to stay with Notes or migrate to MS Exchange, and Paul walks her through the pros and cons on both sides of the fence. Is the grass really greener on the other side? Does Megan stay or does she go?
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Remember the LotusScript Email class from last October? I've been using it ever since, as it makes sending emails so much easier. You should consider using it - or something similar - if you send lots of emails.
Yesterday I had need to send an email from a Java agent and found myself wishing I had a similar Java class, so I spent half an hour porting the LotusScript to Java. Here's the resulting code, which you can import it to your own agents.
Use it like this:
Email mail = new Email();
mail.setSubject("Test Email");
mail.setHTMLPart("<p>this is <b>html</b>!</p>"); mail.setTextPart("this is just text!");
mail.send("jake howlett");
As with the LotusScript class you can choose to omit the text part if you wish (bad practice to though!), add styles to the HTML etc.
Thought I'd post it here in case anybody else might like it. Or maybe you can offer advice on how to improve it. One thing I need to do today is add an addFileAttachment() method.
In the Extended and Compact Directory Catalog you can enter multiple Directories to aggregate, but the Selection Formula can only be entered for the total aggregation of all directories. It would add flexibility and reduce the amount of catalogs if this could be changed to Configuration per Directory to be aggregated into the Directory Catalog. Possible it is best to have multiple configuration documents per Directory like in the Directory Assistance.
Basically all (or some) of the information previously stored on Domino Directory via Person document form would be instead stored on an external directory (preferably LDAP). I am aware that there are informations that is exclusive to Domino like mail server and mail file. For these information if possible additional field should be created on the external directories to store them but this is technically not possible they can still be stored on Domino Directory.
Another critical function would be the ability for Domino to authenticate it's user against that external directory thus eliminating the need to synchronize your password over multiple directories. I don't really like password synchronization since they took time to "replicate". I am not saying that Notes should discard the usage of user ID. With ID Vault I think it is still possible for ID to be downloaded to local terminal whenever a user login and deleted if they log out or close the client.
I am well aware that what I suggested sounded very much like Directory Independence but said feature is yet to be published and thus is feasible to change in implementation or even being canceled all together.
Obviously the impressive growth in functionality of the meeting server part of sametime in 8.5 is very cool. However, there's a concomitant huge increase in configuration & hardware requirements.
I'd like to see the chat & IM gateway portions split off and simplified so they could be deployed on a single (2CPU?) server using Domino HTTP and NSF as the backend datastore.
This would HUGELY decrease the hardware & config requirements.
There are customers that have many third party products installed in their windows server and they move to x64 but then they see that some of the third party products are not x64.
There should be a central place where ISV can inform which software support x64
Internally talking from the Notes C API, DAOS should be transparent. But in practice apps need to know for example if a given attachment is already in the .nlo repository and the # of tickets it has. For example a typical DAOS statistics program needs to know it.
IBM knows this in their internal DAOS catalog.
It will benefit all possible apps, Notes C API is supposed to be a low level API and not a wrapper.
With the DXL support, we should be able to mark individual things like columns in a view/folder and action buttons with prohibit design refresh.
I modify my inbox as I hate new mail at the bottom. I have it categorized by Month-year / week end date. Everytime I upgrade the mail template, my choice is to not upgrade the inbox or lose my changes.
We should be able to merge the new design with the columns I don't want changed. This would work for action buttons and the outline also. The other design elements may be too dificult to merge successfully.
The main reason I get from companies that don't change their mail template is the hassle of having to make the changes when they upgrade Domino version.
We've published a new project called
OpenNTF
Widget (documentation here).
This project contains five widgets that can be installed in Notes to see
updates from OpenNTF in the sidebar. Latest
Entries in OpenNTF Apache Catalog
Latest
Entries in ...
Why can't I just right-click on a sidebar widget and select remove? You have to find the entry in the My Widgets list or under Maintain applications.
I had 3 sidebar widgets that didn't show in the My Widgets list, to get rid of them I had to install them again (re reboots) then I could un-install them. I still have 2 I can get rid of..
If they are installed via the policies, it should have something indicate that instead of just hiding the remove button. I have some with no remove that are no longer covered under a policy.
Also I get the workspace to jump to the tab with the widget catalog on it every so often.
I don't look forward to supporting salepersons with this.
Rene Winkelmeyer has uploaded a new
release of the project File
Navigator which has been cleared
for the Apache
catalog. This release and his
last two releases contain a lot of new functionality and bug fixes as requested
by the community. New user ...
When users configure Lotus Notes as a POP3 client, a local user ID file is automatically created. How can users recertify their ID when it expires, which by default is two years after its creation date?
In Lotus Notes 8.0.1, you press CTRL+A to select all documents in a view. When you click the down arrow to scroll down the list, you notice that some of the documents are no longer highlighted. When you start reselecting the non-highlighted documents, the search results decrease. Why does this happen?
You have several users who share a Notes Client, single user install, by switching IDs. Each user has a different Explicit policy assigned. Some settings that apply to User 1 get applied to User 2 and vice versa. Some settings removed for User 1 get removed for User 2 as well.
You get the error, "Error accessing product object method" when reserving a room when trying to create a reservation for a room or resource either from a calendar, or from within the reservation database itself. The room/resource in question has a name which contains parentheses. The reservation gets created, but never gets approved and everything following the first parentheses including the parentheses itself gets truncated.
Explanation: Lotus Domino purges log.nsf everyday at 4:00 AM. The Notes.ini settings LOG_PURGE_HOUR changes the log purge hour. Applies to: Lotus Domino Server Default: 4 UI Equivalent: None Recommendation: If your Lotus Domino server workload is not so high at 4:00 AM, do not change the default ...
In a recent twitter scan I stumbled onto a great primer for anyone seeking to answer the question, "What is Domino and why do I care?" This rich two-part series written by Martin Leon serves as both an introduction to the platform, and some of its applications, and a valuable resource for folks ...