Category lotus

So I've been spending the past few days getting in and around the Lotus Developer Domain forums ... Mainly the Lotus Notes/Domino 6 & 7 forum. I usually just use the forums for the occasional sticking point here or there and I'm fresh out of ideas, but lately I've been spending some time posting, replying helping out a bit. I know I've gotten help there over the years so i figured maybe its time I give back a little bit there.  But, the reason for my post is two things, one the forum is so difficult to use online. Some simple changes there would be so helpful. Now I'll admit, I've not really been in the v8 forum, and maybe they've made some changes to help, but things like having to choose from the menu on the left to back to the forum seems like a lazy design choice, rather than returning to either the previous post, or better yet back to the forum window.  And the layout of the post response form is weak, with no definition for the response field width or height, leaving the default "can-hardly-type-three-words-and-see-them-box" for sometimes very lengthy posts. The speed is atrocious too. It seems with all the good things that Lotus is doing lately with Notes and Domino, that they should think about upgrading the experience the Designers/Administrators have interfacing with this resource. I think it could go a long way to help the great progress they are making with the Notes/Domino renaissance they are attempting.  Anyway ... my two cents for the day.  You know, for an extra 2 cents, I think they should release a wiki along with the forum as well ... I saw that idea on IdeaJam the other day ... it makes a lot of sense.  What's your 2 cents? Should this be a "community" movement?

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Category lotus none lotusscript

Hey there Hi there Ho There ....  Here is one I use quite a bit that creates a new view in a database copied from an existing view. It copies the view, renames the new copy, and changes the selection formula. Pretty handy if you have a database that you want users to have customized view content, but you don't want to monkey with folders, making sure the document is/isn't in the folder, etc. Also, you can create the view from any existing view, not just the default view. It's dependant on Damien Katz's Database Design class, which i've included in the downloads Take a look:

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Category lotus notes

I thought I'd take a break from what is turning out to be the encyclopedia hodgebloge entry on web unread marks to show you another little unread favorite of mine, the unread navigator. I integrate this into a "splash" screen for a database frameset along with several other helpful "widgets" for the user. Most of the applications we create have identified "Roles" for the members of the organization, and each role performs different tasks within the database, interacting with different forms, in different ways. The unread navigator gives each one of these users the ability to quickly locate where unread documents are located, and how they would react to them.

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Category domino lotus notes ActiveWidgets

Hello all ... well, today I'm going to show you a practical example of the Web Unread Marks Via XML series I've published so far.  To do this, I'm going to use the ActiveWidgets Grid Control 1.0 available from SourceForge.net. This control is a great grid control for XML files ... it has a few down sides for Domino on the Web, but its still a great control. If you do any DHTML programming, check out the pro version at ActiveWidgets.com.

OK, on to the example. I've uploaded a lotus notes database that you can download that has the working example so you can peruse the code, and I've placed a live demo of the example here at the hodgebloge.

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Category domino lotus notessaxparser notes

Alrighty, in my Part I, I set the groundwork for the unread marks agent, and in Part II I showed you how to retrieve the base XML from the Domino server using LS2J. Today, I'm going to show you how to parse the returned XML and include the markup that will signify a particular view entry as 'unread.'

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Category domino lotus ls2j notes

In my last post, i started to layout out the groundwork for an agent that will return XML describing a view with unread marks on the web.  Today I'm going to show you the part of the agent that retrieves the XML document containing the view entries for the view requested in the Query_String. The code I laid out in the last post for the agent simply reads in the Query_String CGI variable and parses out some needed parameters. Now i'll you how to use LS2J to make an http request to the domino server to retrieve the view entries in XML format.

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Category domino lotus notes ls2j

I worked out this little gem a few months ago while trying to figure out if I could port an application we have in the Lotus Notes Client to the web. Unread marks is one of the 'biggies' in the product, and I could not see how to publish this app to the web without them. It would put a HUGE dent in the productivity you'd gain out of the app.  I searched high and low to see if anybody had a way to come up with displaying unreads on the web, without success, so I put my head to it, and came up with this solution.

It combines the use of a modified 'UnreadMarks' LotusScript Library you can find on the web, the Domino SAXParser, and the LS2J lsx (LotusScript to Java)... Right now the UnreadMarks library is Win32 specific, so if you're going to run this on any other platform, you'll have to port that to your platform, which really shouldn't be all that hard, they are just calls to nnotes.dll, so you'd just have to find the appropriate library there....

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Category domino general lotus notes notesview2

Well .. here I am day two, and the majority of the 'blog' day has been configuring BlogSphere and working with the provided layouts to get the look/feel I wanted. It's still a work in progress, but its a start. It'll get better over time.

Yesterday evening I posted the first draft of documentation for NotesView2 to the OpenNTF project site ...

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Category domino general lotus notes notesview2

Howdy y'all ... hello .... anybody out there ??

Well here it is ... the not highly touted, not highly anticipated release of my not so controversial blog. We'll see where this little experiment goes...

The past week or so I've been working into the wee hours of the morning ...

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