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Towards the end of last year I was on a customer site where a user was scrolling through a view to find entries that were towards the bottom. Needless to say I pointed out that by starting to type, you could jump down to the entries beginning with those letters. Over the next few days […]
Making The Most of the Notes Client – New Cheat Sheets Read More »
In a recent Notes Client development I had the need to programmatically detach images inserted into a Notes Document. The images also needed to be visible in the Notes Client rather than added as attachments. But an image pasted into a Rich Text field is not accessible via NotesRichTextItem.EmbeddedObjects. There was also the challenge that
Rich Text Lite Thumbnails: Check Your Notes Version and How To Get A PMR Fixed Read More »
This blog post isn’t specific to XPages and may be something many developers are aware of. But it took me many years of Notes development to learn this little bit of information that can quickly help troubleshoot data issues with Notes documents. It’s still relevant in the world of XPages and well worth taking into
Diagnosing Field Changes Read More »
This morning I came across a tweet from Ed Brill about Symphony / Open Office with a link to this article about Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition. The article is positive reinforcing that although Symphony 3.0.1 is likely to be the last release, IBM’s commitment to OpenOffice continues (as those of us in the yellow bubble
Whither the Notes Client? Read More »
While at EntwicklerCamp a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to share a couple of usability enhancements which seem to have slipped under the radar of some developers. The first is a useful resource for developers using XPages. As many will know, SVN is possible within Domino Designer now and from all the
Enhancing Your Lotus Experience – A Couple of Usability Tips Read More »
This morning I picked up a support query from a customer who was confused by the behaviour of an export. My customer was exporting a view to a csv file for import into a third-party application. Although I’ve written agents to import to and from text files with a specified delimiter, this was just using
Exporting to CSV and Multi-Value Fields Read More »
Our Domino Administrator noticed today that the as_XXXXX.nsf database was extremely large. This is the database used to store documents and emails if autosave is turned on. Autosave was a new option with R7, if my memory is correct, and although I’ve never used it for a Form in a database (most forms tend to be quite
Autosave database size Read More »