OpenNTF projects for Feb
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 4:26a Ross Hawkins pYes, I know it’s March – I clicked this link in Feb but haven’t had a chance to sit down and watch the video until now./p pThere’s some very good stuff in here. The widgets I can mostly take or leave (although the File Manager one has some good potential for anyone using a Notes client for day to day use), however xTalk, the Next Gen Discussion template, and the xPages Wiki all look very useful indeed./p pobject width="640" height="385"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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Asleep at the wheel during a server upgrade
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 7:22p Ross Hawkins pI’ve upgraded a LOT of Domino servers in my time, and so yesterday when I upgraded another one (Windows 2003) to Domino 8.5.1 I was expecting another smooth ride. After running the install wizard it informed me that the computer needed to be restarted – interesting, as I don’t recall needing to do a Windows restart for previous upgrades, but who am I to argue?/p pAs the box was coming back up it locked up at “Applying Computer Settings”, meaning logging in via console or RDP was unava [read] Keywords: domino
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The obligatory Happy New Year post
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Ross Hawkins pThis is the obligatory Happy New Year post.. so, happy new year all!/p pI’ve got quite a few posts currently sitting in various stages of draft – I’d planned to write a bit around Christmas, however the novelty of actually having a break took over. So I’m a little behind, but feeling well rested./p pHere’s a quick preview of what I’ve currently got sitting in draft:/p ul liMy “lessons learned” post from experience over the past couple of years as a freelancer/small business owne [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes/Domino refactoring/analysis tools
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Ross Hawkins pI’m in need of a refactoring/analysis tool for use on a couple of projects - truth be told I’ve needed one for a while. The main (possibly only) feature I’m after is a global “Find” function to search for a string inside all design elements of a database (equivalent to Visual Studio’s ‘Find in Files’ / ctrl+shift+f function)./p pThe obvious contenders are from a href="https://www.ytria.com/"Ytria/a, and a href="http://www.teamstudio.com/"TeamStudio/a. Ytria’s product installat [read] Keywords: domino
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Searching the contents of Notes/Domino design elements
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:01a Ross Hawkins pI recently posted asking for recommendations for a href="http://rosshawkins.net/archive/2009/12/24/notesdomino-refactoringanalysis-tools.aspx"Notes/Domino refactoring and analysis tools/a. Thanks again to all of you who responded, and also to Ryan from Ytria who emailed me directly (even though I’ve been too busy/slack to respond). /p pAfter thinking about it, I realised that really it was the Find/Search side of things which was important to me, and Andre Guirard recently posted about how to [read] Keywords: domino
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Incorrect Domino Web Access ‘from’ address
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 3:57a Ross Hawkins One of my clients occasionally encounters an issue where a user’s return email address shows up incorrectly when they send email via Domino Web Access. It seems to only happen when someone has made an error with the initial user registration which has later been corrected by a rename or an edit. The person documents always look correct post rename and the from addresses of all other users in the Domain are showing up correctly. Here’s the fix which seems to work for me: Make a trivial change [read] Keywords: document
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…and we’re off.
Mon, Oct 12th 2009 5:43a Ross Hawkins Currently downloading the just released Notes/Domino 8.5.1. Hoping to get it all downloaded before the Americans wake up so I can give it a test drive tomorrow. Very interested to see whether this release fixes some of my current gripes with the full blown Godzilla client. I may finally put Notes on my Mac too, as apparently it’s more Mac like! Tags: IBM,Lotus,Notes [read] Keywords: domino
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A random Domino SoS
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 4:29a Ross Hawkins Just in case anyone out there glances over this and has some ideas, I’m going to throw up a flare and ask a couple of quick Domino questions. *queue flare sound* Converting Word/Excel attachments to PDF on the fly in a Domino web application. The requirement is that a user clicks on a link which points to a $File attachment, I want to convert it to PDF and spit that out to them. Some of Jake Howlett’s DEXT code using Java and the lowagie packages looks incredibly handy and close to what I [read] Keywords: domino
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Briefly touching on Notes/Domino 8.5.1
Mon, Sep 7th 2009 8:10a Ross Hawkins This interesting collection of hints about the potential quality of Notes/Domino 8.5.1 (the NDA has been lifted from beta testers) makes for some interesting if slightly saddening reading. Personally if the bits about improving Domino Designer performance are slightly true then that’s probably going to be enough for me as a casual user only, but at the moment switching between using Visual Studio 90% of the time vs Domino Designer 10% of the time makes for an interesting comparison between the [read] Keywords: designer
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Notes/Domino 8.5 FP1
Mon, Jul 27th 2009 2:21a Ross Hawkins Fixpack 1 for IBM Notes/Domino 8.5 is out now, and fixes a fair few issues which might take the pressure off any administrators who are anxiously waiting for 8.5.1. Some links: 8.5 FP1 Download (requires an IBM ID) 8.5 FP1 Preliminary Fix List (some of those items look “interesting”, and not in a good way) Tags: Lotus,Notes,Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Bulk importing from a filesystem into Notes
Tue, Jun 23rd 2009 7:47a Ross Hawkins Last week I needed to bulk import a large number of files into a Notes document library. The client had already organised the files, and so they wanted that file system structure (which was many levels deep) duplicated when the files were imported into the document library. Sounds simple, but I was quite surprised that I couldn’t find a code snippet out there which did what I was after – surely this is a fairly common requirement? So after a few minutes of looking I gave up searching and wr [read] Keywords: agent
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What doesn’t help Domino Server performance?
Tue, May 12th 2009 7:01p Ross Hawkins This. To quote Split Enz, “I see red I see red I see red!”. When you work with Domino you get used to people blaming it for various things – in this case, poor performance. To any aspiring Windows Admins out there, please take note – before you blame Domino, you might want to check the obvious things first. [read] Keywords: domino
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