How *often* you click Ctrl+S can affect Lotus Notes application development
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 6:27p Peter Woodford Continuing in our series of Lotus Notes secrets, we’d like to share a strange little tidbit about design element replication (this is one of the secrets that Ytria’s Eric Houvenaghel shared at his Lotusphere 2010 BoF session):
A tale of two Lotus Notes developers
Once upon a time two developers were each working on their own local replicas of the same Notes application.
One developer, we’ll call him Bob, was nervous about losing changes so he clicked Ctrl+S after every single c [read] Keywords: lotus
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How hiding views from the Notes client can bring a Domino server to its knees
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 6:28p Peter Woodford In Domino Designer, enabling the option to hide views from the Notes client has one very unexpected impact:
It’s not just hiding the views from the Notes client, it’s also hiding it from the Updall task–which means the Updall task will no longer update the view index.
The job of indexing the view will instead fall upon the lap of the HTTP task which is 90% less efficient than the Updall task for this job! This can have a major impact on server performance if you have a decent n [read] Keywords: domino
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Building a Library of Lotus Notes Secrets
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 11:29a Peter Woodford All you Notes pros out there, does this story sound familiar? You get stuck on something so you ask yourself, ‘why isn’t this working?’; in the course of troubleshooting you discover a little something about Notes (something that’s conspicuously absent from the Help documentation); knowing this ’secret’ helps you fix the problem and helps you steer clear of similar issues in the future.
Any truly mature computer technology has its share of secrets—you know, [read] Keywords: administration
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Previewing Lotus Notes Database Replication with scanEZ
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Peter Woodford Despite the many advantages that come from the Lotus Notes and Domino secure distributed environment, it’s important to remember that replication remains something of a ‘black box’ process. And no matter how carefully you plan for every conceivable situation, replication-related problems will crop up from time to time.
This is why scanEZ’s dedicated Replication Auditor tool can be so helpful. It lets you simulate what will happen the next time a database is replicated&# [read] Keywords: domino
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When Formulas Fail You: An Alternate Way to Search for Elusive Notes Documents
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Peter Woodford It’s tough to find certain types of documents in Lotus Notes databases. For instance, a problematic application may be full of ‘orphan documents’ (documents with $Ref items but no valid parents) but there’s no easy way to find these documents in Notes. This is where scanEZ comes in. The Document Analyzer was specifically designed to help you retrieve these and other tough-to-find documents.
Here’s how it works:
1) First launch scanEZ and open a Lotus Notes database [read] Keywords: lotus
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A Better Way to Find and Fix Replication Conflicts in Lotus Notes
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 1:55p Peter Woodford A Better Way to Fix Save and Replication Conflicts
Replication and save conflict documents are, to a large extent, an unavoidable fact of life when dealing with a collaborative distributed environment like Lotus Notes and Domino. Conflicts can even crop up in the best designed databases thanks to that old, immutable law: “It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.”
The normal ways of tackling conflicts leave a lot to be desired.
If you’re part of the & [read] Keywords: administration
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Changing a Lotus Notes view’s status from private to shared
Wed, Nov 18th 2009 4:18p Peter Woodford We recently received an interesting question from one of our customers:
“Is it possible to toggle the private/public setting for views using Ytria viewEZ?”
Sadly, the answer is no.
The only way to change a view from private to public (or vice-versa) is to create a new view in Domino Designer with the desired private/public setting and then delete the original.
But here’s a little background on why our tools can’t do this:
The Anatomy of a Private View
There are three key things i [read] Keywords: agent
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Introducing the Ytria Tech Lab
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 4:54p Peter Woodford Hi and welcome to the Ytria Tech Lab. We’ll be using this site to:
Post articles on Lotus Notes development and Domino administration
Share code
Offer quick tips plus the occasional in-depth tutorial on using Ytria’s software tools
Thanks for visiting and please check back often for updates. [read] Keywords: administration
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