Close inspection of the IBM Notes document locking architecture with scanEZ
Tue, Apr 23rd 2013 6:16a Ben Menesi We’ve recently received several questions from our software users in regards to the native notes document locking feature. Our customers have primarily been interested in how scanEZ could come into the picture to: Quickly identify locked documents in a IBM Notes and Domino database. Remove or add locks from individual documents or even subsets of [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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New Ytria Major Release | EZ Suite 11 – Sign-up for free Webcast March15!
Fri, Mar 8th 2013 12:10p Ytria Tech Lab We are excited to announce that, in large part thanks to the valuable feedback from our customers, EZ Suite has just arrived to its next stage of evolution, EZ Suite 11! Our development team has been hard at work creating new features and enhancements in response to your requests and suggestions. The newly published software [...] [read] Keywords: development
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How to obtain a swift and precise overview of all your ACL roles with aclEZ
Thu, Feb 14th 2013 9:09a Ytria Tech Lab During conversations with users about our server-wide ACL management solution, aclEZ, we learned that most really appreciate that the Ytria tool offers them a global view to oversee and manage everything about Access Control Lists (ACLs). However, further discussion led us to understand that some users were unaware of the practical [...] [read] Keywords: acl
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27-29 Nov. 2012 – Ytria Workshops for Notes/Domino Admins & Devs in Germany
Mon, Nov 5th 2012 9:29a sonia This November, Ytria will be holding workshops for administrators and developers in Germany. Regardless of your level of knowledge, our instructors will show you hands-on how to get the most of the Ytria EZ Suite tools to get your work done more efficiently and effectively. Date Location Workshop 2012-11-27 Frankfurt Workshop for Notes/Domino Developers 2012-11-28 [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Investigating private views, folders and agents in Lotus Notes applications
Thu, Sep 6th 2012 2:09p Peter Woodford There’s little doubt that private design elements are powerful and flexible tools for Notes developers, but at the same time, managing them and understanding their intricacies can be a bit tricky. With this post, we’ll do our best to clear things up a bit. First we’ll provide an overview of how private designs work and [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Ytria tools grid user interface tips and tricks
Wed, Jun 27th 2012 2:59p Peter Woodford A ‘grid’ interface is used extensively throughout the Ytria product line. On its surface, it’s a simple and intuitive means of displaying large amount of data using columns and rows. But if you dig a bit deeper, you’ll find this interface is equipped with a very extensive list of features. And once you get the [...] [read] Keywords: interface
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The many and various ways of accessing Lotus Notes data with Ytria tools
Wed, May 16th 2012 3:10p Peter Woodford If you’ve been using Ytria products for any length of time you’ve probably noticed that the tools are designed to run independently of your current Lotus Notes session. As one user noted, this means the tools won’t tie up your Notes session while processing databases. With that in mind, we’ll be going through a number [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Understanding Lotus Notes Parent/Response document hierarchy
Wed, Mar 7th 2012 12:10p Peter Woodford The way that Lotus Notes manages document relationships is quite flexible and powerful but it’s also an area where you might encounter some problems. And we certainly get a lot of questions from customers related to the Notes document hierarchy. With this in mind we decided to write a short backgrounder on how Notes deals [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Better ways to manage NAB groups and nested groups on Domino Servers using aclEZ
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 1:01p Peter Woodford Lately we’ve heard from a number of customers who’ve been struggling with ever-more complicated group situations on their server NABs (Notes Address Books). One of these customers works as an admin at a company with a large and complex end-user population and we thought his story, might be interesting for other aclEZ users out there—particularly [...] [read] Keywords: admin
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Get the last ‘lulz’: Verify Lotus Domino security with your Ytria toolkit
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 3:17p Peter Woodford A spate of major digital security breaches have made worldwide headlines in the past year. In some cases, the cyber attacks were undertaken by politically motivated ‘hacktivists’; others attacks were criminal in nature; in other cases, the perps were arguably mischief-makers above all else. These events must have been miserable for the IT staffers at [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Keep track of Shared Actions usage in Lotus Notes applications with actionBarEZ
Wed, Nov 3rd 2010 6:09p Peter Woodford In these days of XPages and Web-access Notes applications one might inclined to feel that Lotus Notes Action Bars are hopelessly passé. But even if that it were so, what about all those legacy Notes apps out there that still need maintenance#8211;they#8217;re chock full of Action Bars? We here at Ytria are still getting plenty [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/L1AOLgGDDa8" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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Back from the NSF grave: How you can (sometimes) restore deleted Lotus Notes documents
Thu, Sep 23rd 2010 12:25p Peter Woodford Notes/Domino data loss is never fun. It#8217;s bad enough when you lose data because of random bad luck (say, cosmic rays decide to bombard your hard disk sectors), but it#8217;s particularly infuriating when it#8217;s caused by the pure carelessness of others. Yet every so often there#8217;s a happy ending to these apparent IT catastrophes. Consider [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/MFa429E7F_8" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: domino
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How to compare, contrast and edit Lotus Notes document field values with scanEZ
Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 6:00p Peter Woodford We#8217;re always eager to hear how customers are using our software. Oftentimes folks surprise us with novel and creative uses we never would have thought of ourselves. But every so often, we hear from people who are so busy they haven#8217;t had the chance to explore anything beyond the most immediate, hit-you-over-the-head noticeable aspects of [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/swZic1GUqT0" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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A quick way to uncover (and fill) security holes on Domino servers using aclEZ
Tue, Jun 22nd 2010 1:35p Peter Woodford One of the nicest things about aclEZ#8216;s grouping grid interface is that is that it allows you sort and filter live information on all the Lotus Notes database ACLs on a server (even for databases that aren#8217;t included in the catalog.nsf file). Here#8217;s a simple-yet-practical application of this feature: Using aclEZ#8217;s Grouping Grid to Spot [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/R5s3l3rh-tA" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: domino
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How to clean up a Lotus Notes out-of-office agent mess with agentEZ
Tue, May 18th 2010 4:40p Peter Woodford One of our customers recently used our agentEZ tool in an interesting way to deal with a big out-of-office agent problem. We realize that the Out of Office agent is already ancient history to folks who#8217;ve switched to the Out of Office service (introduced in R8). But we still talk to a lot of people [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/RfArLB7mUE8" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: agent
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When the dreaded “Field is too large (32K)” Lotus Notes error strikes…
Fri, Apr 23rd 2010 12:13p Peter Woodford There are some problems in life—and in Lotus Notes—that defy easy solutions. And one such problem is the #8220;Field is too large (32K)#8221; error, which affects documents whenever the size of the Summary data for a field grows beyond the limit set in Notes*. *The Lotus Notes Summary data limit is 32K for a single [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/x_gYKLfKq4k" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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A fast way to change NSF Replica IDs: Often a handy time-saver (and occasionally a life-saver)
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 2:58p Peter Woodford Try to picture yourself in this situation: An end-user alerts you to the fact that they just did something very bad to a Lotus Notes database—and somehow accidentally deleted hundreds of essential documents. Naturally, this end-user doesn#8217;t apologize for his stupidity, he just orders you to #8220;fix it now.#8221; Suppressing your natural urge to lay [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/opIWniag7pA" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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Dynamically sortable Lotus Notes view columns are trouble: Here’s how viewEZ can help you find and fix them
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 10:40a Peter Woodford We recently posted a tip to help you figure out which views in a Lotus Notes databases are the least often used, so you#8217;ll know which ones to cut if the application#8217;s size needs some trimming (the fewer the views, the fewer the space-consuming view indexes). But after you#8217;ve finished throwing all the dead weight [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YtriaTechLab/~4/SGCLkcZhYw8" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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