Win Stevens has created a new project
- FileSendr
Add-on. Below is how he describes
the project:
Everybody is using e-mail. Despite
the availability of new social tools we are still using e-mail to send
tons of information over the Internet and within the company. Mailboxes
become overloaded, system administrators have a difficult time in making
daily back-ups.
Most SMTP servers impose message size restrictions. I have no global
figures but in my company the mail size is limited to 10 MB. I know
of other servers that refuse mails larger than 2 MB. Gmail is more
forgiving and allows you to send a 25 MB limit.
As Domino administrators we must warn our users and advice them to keep
message size below 5 MB. However the size of a good marketing presentation
in Powerpoint goes very quickly above this limit.
Then came FileSendr.
A wonderful XPage application written by Declan Lynch. It could
be used within your company but also for delivering big files to external
contacts. I rolled-out FileSendr for one of my customers; I informed
all 1000 Notes users but - to my surprise - people were not fully happy.
Yes, they could send large mails. But, each time they created
a mail message, they had to make an estimate of the message size. If
too large they had to look-up the FileSendr URL and create the mail outside
their day-to-day mail client.
With some other Domino administrators we started brainstorming. Could
we come up with a better solution without having to reinvent FileSendr
? And this with a small budget. The answer was a FileSendr Add-on.
The idea is very simple: do tell anything to the end-user. They
are allowed to send big mails (we set the limit at 300 MB). On the
Domino server we created one additional mail rule: "if the mail is
larger than 5MB move it to the FileSendr Add-on database". This
is a standard Domino feature. No need to install a server-hook or
some other tricky software.
When the router deposits the message in the FileSendr add-on database it
triggers a LotusScript agent. After a few minutes (depending on the
amgr settings of your server) the agents code starts running: it creates
a document in the FileSendr database, moves the body of the mail and the
attachments into the document, generates a secret key and informs the recipients
of the presence of the download. Optionally, the sender of the mail
is informed about the interception of the mail message. Net result:
we did not have to train the end users, adoption is automatic, users are
happy.
The FileSendr Add-on application has some additional settings:
- blacklist/whitelist: you could restrict
some people of using the system
- max message size
Aren't there any disadvantages ? I would
say a few. First of all the large mail will probably be stored in
the Sent folder of the sender. Secondly, the system works transparent
for sending large mails. Reception of large mails from the Internet
is more difficult. The mail will probably never arrive to our server.
All suggestions and remarks are welcome. Some people have already
downloaded the product. Let us know about your experiences.
On OpenNTF: OSnippets Application to share Code Snippets and Blog Entries
Wed, May 22nd 2013 1:39a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Oliver Busse has
contributed a project called OSnippets
Template.
The application can be used by developers
to easily share code snippets and publish blog entries. The application
uses the Twitter
Bootstrap framework.
You can try a live
version of the application or
watch the video
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On OpenNTF: Android App for IBM Domino Discussion Applications
Tue, May 21st 2013 3:07a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Jens Bruntt has
contributed a project called DomDisc
for Android.
The project contains a native Android
app that allows access from Android based smartphones and tablets to Domino
discussion applications. The project uses the Domino
Data Services to replicate the
data so that the app can even be used offline.
You can try the app by inst [read] Keywords: domino
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On OpenNTF: XPages Document Locker Managed Bean
Fri, May 17th 2013 12:40a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Fredrik Norling
has contributed a project called XPage
Document Locker.
The project includes a managed bean
with methods to lock and unlock documents. The mechanism works if all users
access the same replica. The documents are not physically locked but instead
a programming convention is used to check whether documents are locked
before some [read] Keywords: ibm
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On OpenNTF: Extended FilteringSelected XPages Control
Thu, May 16th 2013 3:10a Niklas Heidloff As part of the XPages
development contest sponsored
by WebGate
Consulting AG which is part of
the Appathon
sponsored by IBM
developerWorks, Ferry Kranenburg
has contributed a project called XPages
FilteringSelected Extended.
The project includes a control which
extends the FilteringSelected control which comes with the XPages Extension
Library. Watch the video
to see the control in action. Below is Ferry's description:
"This widget adds some nice features
to the dojo Filt [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interview with Bruce Elgort about OpenNTF
Mon, May 13th 2013 1:44a Niklas Heidloff Celia Hamilton from socialbiz User Group
interviewed
Bruce Elgort, the chair of OpenNTF, about several OpenNTF related topics.
Listen to the podcast.
Celia's description: "Bruce Elgort
called in to SocialBiz to discuss his work with OpenNTF.org, XSnippets.info,
Collaboration Today, and XPages.info. Take a listen to find out what Bruce's
favorite XSnippet is and which XSnippets are the most popular overall.
Also, get info from Bruce on OpenNTF.org's Appathon contest that
is [read] Keywords: collaboration
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OpenNTF Webinar Replay has been published
Wed, May 8th 2013 12:54a Niklas Heidloff Thanks to everyone who attended our first webinar "OpenNTF - The IBM Collaboration Solutions App Dev Community" yesterday.
If you missed it, you can watch the video, listen to the audio or read the slides.
On 06/03/13 David Leedy and Mark Roden will present in the next webinar "Get Started with XPages". Don't miss it! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Release of the Trouble Ticket Application
Tue, May 7th 2013 1:31a Niklas Heidloff In my IBM Connect session I used a trouble ticket application as example to show how to access IBM Connections from XPages and to show how to put XPages in the Embedded Experience in Connections, Notes and iNotes.
My colleague Yun Zhi Lin has now created an open source version of this application and documented how to set up it up. There is a version for IBM Domino 8.5.3 and another one for 9.0 which uses the new 'send mail' action. Both versions use the XPages Social Enabler which comes w [read] Keywords: connections
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On OpenNTF: Dynamically compiled XPages
Tue, May 7th 2013 12:18a Niklas Heidloff Philippe Riand has published a new version
of the XPages
Bazaar which includes functionality
to execute XPages that have been developed outside of IBM Domino Designer.
Below is Phil's description.
"This release features a new capability
that will make my fellow hackers curious: the ability to dynamically compile
Java code on the server, and inject the resulting class in a classloader.
Then you follow me, it is the foundation for dynamic pages, including XPages.
It even provides a [read] Keywords: domino
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Attend the first OpenNTF Webinar on Tuesday
Mon, May 6th 2013 12:16a Niklas Heidloff On Tuesday 05/07 at 10:00 AM EST the
first OpenNTF webinar will take place where we'll describe OpenNTF itself.
Find the meeting information on http://webinars.openntf.org.
No registration is required.
Agenda:
1. Welcome
2. OpenNTF Overview
3. XSnippets
4. Collaboration Today and XPages.info
5. Contests
5a. Demo: Forms'n Views
6. Intellectual Property
7. Get engaged [read] Keywords: collaboration
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