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Recently a customer highlighted a strange issue with a client application. After opening a document, she was met with the error … I knew the field was a look up to the profile document but file does not exist made no sense. It was not looking for a file. After the usual immediate investigation and …

Notes Client and Temporary Files Read More »

I wrote the other day about an issue I had discovered with view indexes being discarded. If you are seeing the same issue, the SPR reference is SSARBW4PAW. Unfortunately I have not yet received any information on the underlying cause and any fix. However, HCL have suggested a possible work-around which is the DBMT “nondiscardable …

Issue with view indexes being “randomly?” discarded – Update Read More »

I recently discovered an issue where a Domino 11.0.1FP1 server appears to be randomly “discarding” view indexes during normal operation. This is resulting in slow application database performance (and of course user complaints!). Background Some of our application databases have a “View Update” agent in them that run every night. These agents open and refresh …

Issue with view indexes being “randomly?” discarded by Domino 11.0.1FP1 server Read More »

Recently a customer highlighted a strange issue with a client application. After opening a form to process the workflow and upon selecting the relevant approval button, the client would just hang there. One time the user left it for two hours before succumbing to Task Manager in order to cancel the task. To compound the …

Notes Client Action Button Issue Read More »

I recently had a requirement to update an existing XPages-based application that uses Apache POI (the Java API for Microsoft Documents) to generate spreadsheet files. Now this post is not specifically about Apache POI, or how to use it with Domino and XPages, but more about an issue that I hit whilst updating the application. …

XPages, Java code and “loading constraint violation” errors Read More »

For the last 9 – 12 months I have been doing a lot of work extracting data from Notes/Domino for use in other systems. This included Notes Rich Text data and so needed to convert it to a mixture of plain text and/or HTML. Unfortunately, the environment was running ND 9.0.1 FPx and upgrading to …

Domino HTML generation and FontConversion=1 Read More »

Recently we have started to look at the Early Access Program for Domino V12, which is currently available to us as a Docker image (rather than a Windows or Linux server installer). The process to create new Domino servers (using Docker Desktop for Windows and the Domino V12 Docker image) was fairly painless, however in …

Domino V12, Docker on Windows 10 and “error while creating mount point” Read More »

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