IQJam by Elguji Software (Domino Development / Client Development answers)

re: Best practise for centralised configuration data when using local replica

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:34:13 +0000

Author: Ben Poole
Answer:

Two approaches one could take:

Move all of this config data from the Domino Directory into a separate barebones "config" database, which can be taken off-line, and have every app use this for its look-ups, or;
Have the relevant Notes applications pull the required config data from the Domino Directory into a profile document (when connected to the server), and have the app's look-ups look at this profile document rather than at the Domino Directory itself.

re: Single Category Embedded View, on a page, in a frame, why, with one set of clients, does the view not display?

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:40:50 +0000

Author: Joseph Hoetzl
Answer:

Well, as for the problem, it certainly does seem to be something that was fixed between 8.5 and 8.5.1.� While I don't know which specific fix did it, I suspect is was something in one of these:

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http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/d7900228a1803ada85257633003f2605?OpenDocument
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/551ed8790fa3e935852574d6006575c8?OpenDocument

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/R5FixList.nsf/search?SearchView&Query=%22embedded%20view%22%20AND%20%28FIELD%20MaintVerNum%20CONTAINS%20%288.5.1%20FP1%20OR%208.5.1%20OR%208.5%20FP1%29%29%20AND%20%28FIELD%20Project%20CONTAINS%20%28Admin%20Client%20OR%20Client%20OR%20Composite%20Application%20Editor%20OR%20Domino%20Integration%20OR%20Domino%20Offline%20Services%20OR%20Enterprise%20Integration%20OR%20IBM%20Lotus%20Domino%20Access%20for%20Microsoft%20Outlook%20OR%20IBM%20Lotus%20Domino%20Web%20Access%20OR%20IBM%20Lotus%20Expeditor%20OR%20IBM%20Lotus%20Instant%20Messaging%20OR%20IBM%20Lotus%20Notes%20Traveler%20OR%20R6%2FR7%20Interoperability%20OR%20R7%2FR8%20Interoperability%20OR%20Server%20OR%20Template%20OR%20Third%20Party%20Code%29%29&SearchOrder=1&SearchMax=0&SearchWV=FALSE&SearchFuzzy=FALSE&Start=1&Count=10

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So that just leaves the best practices part of the question - form vs page for embedded view - any thoughts on it greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

re: Displaying unread marks

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:32:10 +0000

Author: Ben Poole
Answer:

Don't forget that whilst there's a db property related to unread marks, it's at the individual view level (design properties) that you actually determine what, if anything, that view does with unread documents.

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For example, view properties / advanced tab determines whether unread marks are used in the view or not. The options for unread marks are "Unread documents only" or "None" or "Standard (compute in hierarchy)".

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You can also define unread marks styling for a view—colours, whether to show unread docs in bold, and so on.�

re: DocLinks in Archive DB has to work

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:17:56 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Answer:

A doclink comprises two key components, the replicaid of the database holding the document and the DocumentUNID of the document itself.� When a document is moved from one database to another (such as the case with archiving) both the replicaid and the DocumentUNID will change.� As a result, the doclink is never going to be able to work.

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Based upon the description you have given I would suggest you may need to build some additional logic into the archive process to modify the doclinks at that time (and/or save the original DocumentUNID as part of the archive so an agent could rematch the documents).

re: In outlook we save every individual email as “.msg” file, same way I want to do it in Lotus Notes NSF file programmatically using .Net C#. Can we do it?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:09:30 +0000

Author: Erwin Heeren
Answer: You could use a PDF printer driver and store the mails as PDF files.

re: How to set the homepage of the user programmatically to a specific database

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:50:24 +0000

Author: Julian Robichaux
Answer:

The "home" database is a flag (of sorts) in the UserBookmarkOrder outline, but it's not accessible via LotusScript or the published Notes API as far as I know. The way you set it in Domino Designer is to use a weird Shift-click combination on the outline entry:

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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=475&uid=swg27003219

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Interestingly enough though, I think that if you copy an outline entry with that special flag set, it will retain the flag when it's pasted. You might want to play around with that. Other clues here:�

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http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/ReleaseAllThreadedweb/b50cb5690c89707b85256baa0055c018?OpenDocument�

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re: How to set the homepage of the user programmatically to a specific database

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:27 +0000

Author: Theo Heselmans
Answer:

I don't want to adapt the bookmark.nsf design.

A user can now manually 'Set Bookmark as Homepage'.

I want to do this via Lotusscript.

re: How to set the homepage of the user programmatically to a specific database

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:45:21 +0000

Author: Paul Withers
Answer:

My bookmark.nsf launches the "Main Frameset" frameset. From what I've read it looks like�a policy pushes the custom bookmark.nsf down onto the user's PC.

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It sounds like you need to replace the "Main Frameset" design element in each user's Bookmark.nsf with your new one. If you want to use a different frameset, the default frameset to launch is stored in the Icon design element ($DefaultFrameset field)

re: Using Notes://. How to read the query_string parameters in Notes?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:53:30 +0000

Author: Peter Presnell
Answer: NotesURLs are one of a number of great ideas for which the implementation was started but never really finished off.� Like others as commented there is no documented way to access the parameters in a query string and I too have been unable to find a way to access them.

re: Using Notes://. How to read the query_string parameters in Notes?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:58:44 +0000

Author: Phil Petts
Answer: I spent a bit of time researching this a few months ago, I couldn't find a way of reading the parameter either.� Maybe this should be on IdeaJam??

re: Using Notes://. How to read the query_string parameters in Notes?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:09:38 +0000

Author: Paul Withers
Answer: I didn't think it was possible to pass anything in the query string for the Notes protocol. However, I couldn't quickly find any documentation in Designer Help to confirm either way.

re: In-Out Board Development - yes, I've seen the sandbox - not after that...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:24:32 +0000

Author: Joseph Hoetzl
Answer: Thanks for that Chris - will check it out!

re: In-Out Board Development - yes, I've seen the sandbox - not after that...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:02:33 +0000

Author: Chris Whisonant
Answer: You may want to check out another Sandbox app that I also reworked a little bit. My link has some screenshots of the app (which I haven't touched in over 2 years).