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Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:52:00 AM -0500

Hi Ed!!
Of course you aren't sounding like a sourpuss, you are exactly right, and I apologize. I'm trying to work on automatically notifying me when people comment, because I'll be honest - sometimes I forget to go back and check, and then say a big fat "doh!!" when the count is up.

Actually, I *didn't* know about the benefits of using UNIDs as "breadcrumbs", and I could have used that last week as for the first time I had to do web programming (gasp) and needed a way to return the user to a parent document after hitting the submit button.

Again, sorry, and thanks for keeping me in line!

Comment From Ed Lee

Ed Lee — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:37:01 AM -0500

Hi Jess,

At the risk of sounding a sour puss I'm assuming my post was of no use to you. If you already knew it then that is fine, a comment to say so would be nice. It just seems a bit alienating when you try and contribute and are met by silence.

Ed

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:17:07 PM -0500

Thanks, Carley!
Can you believe she'll be a year in two weeks??

Comment From carley

carley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:56:15 PM -0500

Wow! Zoe got so big since the last picture. She's adorable!

Comment From Jessie Tyler

Jessie Tyler — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:22:15 PM -0500

Woof, I fart yellow.

Jessie (carl's dog)

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Fri, 8 Aug 2008 04:26:27 PM -0500

Awesome! If you like, take a camera phone pic and send it to me and I'll post it!

Comment From Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 8 Aug 2008 02:35:47 PM -0500

I have a cool yellow Lotus shirt I'm going to wear into the office.

Comment From Ed Lee

Ed Lee — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:49:47 AM -0500

Hi Jess,

I was interested to read UNID's for breadcrumbs. If you are using R6+ then why not use a @while and you can a breadcrumb that will show the user exatactly where they are. Additionally you don't have to worry about UNIDs getting out sync when you copy and past documents. Here's an example:

REM {Get all the documents ancestors and pull the fields we want off them to make some breadcrumb navigation};

parentUNID:=@Text($REF);

titleList := "";
UNIDList:=@Text($REF);

@While( (parentUNID != "") ;
titleList:=@GetDocField(parentUNID;"Title"): titleList;
UNIDList:=@Text(@GetDocField( parentUNID ; "$Ref" )):UNIDList;
parentUNID := @Text(@GetDocField( parentUNID ; "$Ref" ))
);

html:="" + @Trim(titleList) : Title +"";

@Implode(html;" > "

Comment From Curt Stone

Curt Stone — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:52:56 AM -0500

I tried this in the $$Return of the Discussion Template. Here's the bottom piece of code and it worked for me. (famous last words)
Try the slash (\) in front of the quotes.

TopicView := "" + AllDoc + "    ";
CategoryView := "" + ByCat + "    ";
AuthorView := "" + ByAuth + "   ";
AltNameView := "" + ByAltName + "

";

testView := "http://www.google.com TARGET=\"_blank\">Google";

bkgd := "";

REM {Assemble the HTML to be returned};
OkMsg := bkgd + Thanks + existingdoclink+TopicView + CategoryView + AuthorView + AltnameView + DateView+testView;
OKMsg

Comment From Stephen Gainer

Stephen Gainer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:43:45 AM -0500

Hi Curt,
First, thanks for taking the time to respond!
That was the first thing that I tried, but it doesn't work. I you use the quotation marks, it is bad syntax and if you don't there is no effect. Unless you have a different method than what I am using.

Comment From Curt Stone

Curt Stone — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:13:19 PM -0500

How about adding TARGET = "_blank" ?

Comment From Scott Treggiari

Scott Treggiari — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:12:20 PM -0500

Sorry you missed the session Ruth. This one won't run again live, but you can view the recorded Lotusphere Comes to You ONLINE - Lotus Notes and Domino: The Road Ahead presentation

To answer your question about how to post an image in your blog message, you can view an Image posting Demo (this definately isn't available until Monday May 19th)

Comment From Randy Smith

Randy Smith — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:17:21 PM -0500

For the domidx (Domain Indexer) task you typically don't use "hours" as a unit of measure -- you use "days" instead (many, many days in some cases).

Comment From Tim Lorge

Tim Lorge — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:15:28 AM -0500

My most memorable is client I had a few years ago whose backup was taking upwards of 22 hours to complete because they didn't remove the source server from a cluster during the backup nor did they reschedule any of the default tasks during backup time. Once they adjusted them, the backup finished in about 8 hours.

Comment From Curt Stone

Curt Stone — Thu, 1 May 2008 12:15:27 PM -0500

@Julian and Jess,
Hope you guys are having a great conference! Wish I was there!

Thanks for the info/suggestions/confirmations! You guys are Awesome! Many aligators snapping at me this week. Hopefully, I'll get more time to play soon. Cheers!

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:47:19 PM -0500

I can't make ILUG, so I know *exactly* how you feel right now. Yeah, this opening ceremony was one of the better I've seen. Very to the point, with a very positive message, with "here's where we're looking to the future!"

Comment From Matt White

Matt White — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:27:41 AM -0500

This sounds like the sort of OGS we should have had at Lotusphere. Totally Notes/Domino oriented and full of demos. Very jealous not to be there.

Matt

Comment From Julian Robichaux

Julian Robichaux — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:21:38 PM -0500

Curt -

For the XML thing, I think you need Excel 2007 to make it look pretty when you read it. If you have Excel 2003 and you open a view in Internet Explorer (regular, not with ReadViewEntries), you should have an option to "Export to Excel" though. Same concept, but using an HTML table instead of XML.

Regarding the agent, you'll need to parse out all the illegal XML characters for that to work in the general case. Me and Rob talked about that before the session, but never got around to putting the code in to parse the data. You have to get rid of things like &, <, and > at the very least, although strictly you need to parse out more than that. You could also dump everything into a CDATA section.

Sorry for the problems. Let me know how it goes.

- Julian

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:24:27 PM -0500

The mobile version of Sametime doesn't come with the integrated Sametime in the Notes client - it's not just Blackberry, same for Windows Mobile! I'm with you - it took me awhile to research and figure that out. I was bummed!
Talk about dangling the cookie.

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:22:38 PM -0500

Thanks Rich and Jack!!
Curt, I have popped off an email to Julian asking him. I will be seeing him this week at the conference (Admin/LotusDeveloper2008 in Boston), so hopefully we can get an answer for you!!

Comment From Allison Martin

Allison Martin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:08:31 PM -0500

Hi Laura! So glad to hear you will be attending our Admin event next week. We have some great sessions on Sametime and ND8, so you'll have lots to choose from. I would definitely recommend the Sametime 8 Deployment and Upgrade jumpstart being given by Chris Miller as well as his session on Sametime Gateway. We also have an entire track dedicated to upgrading to Notes and Domino 8. I hope you enjoy the event!

Comment From Curt Stone

Curt Stone — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:55:03 AM -0500

As a follow-up to my last post, I tried the (SimpleXMLExcelExport) agent from the sample database. By calling the agent and a view as a parameter, Excel launched and gave me the same XML dialog box. I chose number 1 and it worked great. This is nice because the data is live and you can add other calculations or graphs to your spreadsheet based on the live Notes data.
I proceeded to try this same agent with one of my own databases. The code was not liking some characters in some large text strings like the "&". I did and replacesubstring on it and I got another error on a different field but have not yet figured what the issue is. (Ran out of play time)

Comment From Curt Stone

Curt Stone — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:35:03 AM -0500

Great idea! This same idea has been on my mind.
I like both of your choices of sessions to mess with.
Here's a question I have from something I tried today. In BP210, there's a slide about reading the xml format from a Notes view
(?ReadViewEntries) directly into MS Excel. I'm using Excel 2003, and when I simply open the view, your presented with 3 choices:
1) As an xml list
2) As a Read-Only workbook
3) Use the XML source task pane

I'm thinking that the xml option would be a really great way of linking directly to the source without using the odbc driver(requires Notesql driver installed). I tried each of these choices and the output is not exactly perfect in either case. Any suggestions would be great. I only spent about 15 minutes so I'll continue to research. Thanks guys!

Comment From Todd

Todd — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:17:11 PM -0500

This is really cool. I Didn't know this could be done (never really thought about it, actually) But I like it. I created one of my own now that I saw this one. If you're into fishing, here is a link to mine: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=528924&da=y

Comment From Jack Ratcliff

Jack Ratcliff — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:18:58 PM -0500

Hey, if Rich is too busy to help I'm sure I know enough about Ext.nd to lend a hand.

Comment From Rich Waters

Rich Waters — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:41:28 PM -0500

Sounds like a good plan. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions / issues.

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:22:49 PM -0500

Yay! You will be so happy you decided to go to Admin. Here's the cool thing - no suggestions needed to be given here. You will find everything you need in the Admin sessions. Check out www.admin2008.com and look at the track listing - it's like Lotusphere. It's very advantagious to map out which sessions you'd like to attend before going, otherwise you'll get overwhelmed.
They have a whole track on upgrading!

Comment From Paul Young

Paul Young — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:23:12 AM -0500

Unfortunately I missed this session due to customer issues. Was the session recorded .... and if so, is it possible to get access to the recording ?

Comment From Martin

Martin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:44:10 AM -0500

It is just greyed? It doesn't need to mean that it isn't accessible. It should be just grey icon but everything else should work.

Comment From David Schaffer

David Schaffer — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:35:28 AM -0500

The local mail replicas were what first attracted us to Notes. I support management consultants who spend a lot of time on airplanes and otherwise between Internet connections. They couldn't live without local mail replicas.
I have a few folks who always work with the "Internet" location selected, even when in the office on the LAN. Some just find it simpler. Others like the ability to pull stuff back from their outbox rather than have it gone as soon as they click Send, as would happen in the Office (Network) location.

Comment From Scott Treggiari, LotusUSerGroup.org Program Director

Scott Treggiari, LotusUSerGroup.org Program Director — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:48:57 PM -0500

Hi Jamie. I am going to repost your message out on the main blog page. I hope you're O.K. with that. More people will see it out there than in here as a reply to my original post. You should also go to the Topic Forums and post your question in the General Questions forum. Lots of people check those out to see if they can provide assistance with Lotus Notes Challanges: http://www.lotususergroup.org/ugforum.nsf/WebBoardMainCategorized?OpenView&RestrictToCategory=General%20Questions&ExpandSection=137

Comment From Jamie Wakefield

Jamie Wakefield — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:14:18 AM -0500

Hello,

I am new to notes. We are a growing school district in Texas. We use MAC's and PC, using notes for email. We also use IWORKS08 as our office applications. I have discovered that when you use notes and go to attach a document that is from keynotes, pages, or numbers, it is greyed out or not accessible to notes. Can anyone help me with this issue. I need to know of a way to make these files accessible to notes. Thank you in advance for your help.

Jamie L. Wakefield.

Comment From Frank Jung

Frank Jung — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:08:37 PM -0500

Thank you so much for your answer.
And i have a question about your aswer. you said "Try increasing the wait time before failover and probing and try it again". this mean is "increas L4 switch's prove checking time "? Now The checking time is 10 second. So Can you recomment how frequently have to check filter's server's 25 port?
If you guide me about that, i'll try to change the option again.
and other question is i've understand about our L4 switch's memory is not enough, is it right? so we have to increase L4 switch's memory?
I'd appreciate it

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:54:47 AM -0500

I'm thinking you may not have enough memory to handle the overhead involved in doing failover checking as often as you are.

Try increasing the wait time before failover and probing and try it again. You can even do it supervised without worrying about leaving it as a permanent solution - I'd suggest trying it to verify that it is your problem!

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:51:05 AM -0500

Hi Peter! I'm so happy to hear you are attending Admin2008... as a first-time attendee, you will be pleasantly surprised at the technical content and real-world knowledge you can take home and use immediately. It's a nice intimate environment, and there are plenty of social hours so you can visit the product showcase and network with people.

Yes, I am giving a session I am very excited about as it's a topic that's near and dear to my heart.

Giving Your Users the Complete Notes 8 Upgrade Experience

Upgrading your users to the new release of Notes 8 should be more than just project plans and meetings. Learn techniques for getting your users more involved in the process, tips for easing the transition into the new version, and ways to get them really excited about the upgrade. Dive into the new capabilities and enhancements, and then re-visit time-tested features that they’ll love. Expose to your users the silent install switch options to help alleviate migration headaches. Finally, learn about the possible gotchas to minimize support calls during the client upgrade, and the wide array of available training options for afterwards. Walk away with the skills you need to properly communicate and customize your installation based on your users and your existing situation.

Comment From Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton — Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:46:56 AM -0500

To have the mail file only on the local drive... Sure, it's possible, you just have to create Location documents and have everyone pull their mail down via POP3. I'm not sure how often people do it, probably never. There isn't a good reason to do it. It's less secure than having them on the server, actually. Especially if you have employees changing workstations often (which I see alot) then you'll end up with gazillions of mail files on each machine. Not to mention what happens when a machine dies? There's extra overhead because it's not possible to simply wipe the drive and start over. You'd have to find the mail file and back it up, first. Which brings us to backups.
Also, you'll miss the benefits of calendaring and scheduling.
Besides, why even have a Domino server at that point?
Just say no.

Comment From Tony Membrino

Tony Membrino — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:23:35 PM -0500

Hi Peter...glad you're going to Admin2008 at the end of the month. THE VIEW just surveyed attendees to find out what sessions interested them. I'm posting their top 10 sessions. A few sessions line up with your interests. Here they are:

Top 10 Admin sessions:
Unlocking the Power of Domino 8 Directory and Security Improvements
Rob Axelrod, Technotics

Implementing the New Client Features in Notes 8
Andy Pedisich, Technotics

Admin Blast 2008...70 Tips in 90 Minutes!
Paul Mooney, Blue Wave Technology

Optimizing Domino Server Performance with the Newest Administrative Changes
Andy Pedisich, Technotics

Finding, Fixing, and Preventing Database Corruption
Franziska Whitlock, Wave Technology

Accelerating Domino Server Upgrades and Installations while Minimizing Downtime
Andy Pedisich, Technotics

Planning, Managing, and Executing a Successful Upgrade Project
Andy Pedisich, Technology

A Real-World Approach to Email Archiving in Notes
Franziska Whitlock, Wave Technology

Architecting a Perfect Client for a Care-Free Rollout
Rob Axelrod, Technotics

Top 25 Calendaring Tips and Tricks
Susan Bulloch, IBM

See you in Boston.
Tony

Comment From Julia Koo

Julia Koo — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 04:19:52 PM -0500

Thanks for the comments. I was told that it is possible to have the mail file only located on local drive. Is this not true? Even if it is true, how often do people do this? Any good reason to do it? May be for security?

Comment From Martin

Martin — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:58:04 AM -0500

I so it several times as well - IBM is using it and some of the big customers as well. Even I used it and it was quite handy as I didn't have to switch locations when I left network.

Comment From Chris Whisonant

Chris Whisonant — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:57:14 AM -0500

Well, the scenario you mentioned isn't exactly how this is being done. The mail file is still on the server, but the user also has a replica of it on the local drive. All of the reasons for doing this are spelled out in the article, and it is typically faster to navigate and open emails locally without going over the network. It's very common still for customers to do this.