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Lotus Notes Disable specialized response hierarchy information

We were testing out an Lotus Notes application and wondering why the Responses property for any document object was returning a collection of no documents. After trying a few things and searching for several different combination on the Notes Net forum, we finally found this document: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/46dom.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/bc40ce0ae4368fd58525688c0023eafc?OpenDocument.

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Conditional Lotus Notes Agent Logging

Agent logging is a great feature that’s been around in Notes ever since LotusScript has been around (starting in Lotus Notes R4). But it’s something not everyone takes advantage of. One of the reasons (IMHO) for this is because way too much information is logged every time the agent runs, causing an overload of information to be written to your Lotus Notes agent log, that you don’t look at anyway. Logging is one of those things that you wish you had in there, but only when you need it. This tip talks about implementing what I call “conditional logging” for your scheduled agents.
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Multiple Column Display Lotus Notes Field

Recently I was working on an application and had a need to show information in multiple columns in Lotus Notes to save screen space. The source field was going to contain somewhere around 30 items, but the exact number was unknown. And the values to display we’re short, either. Although I’m not at liberty to say exactly what the values were, a good example would be capitals for each of the United States of America. The user would pick somewhere around 30 state capitals and the values would be shown.
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Lotus Notes Web Accessibility Compliant Drop Down Menus

First, I’ll address the accessibility side of the menu. To make the menu available to screen readers, the menu options are placed in standard HTML ordered and unordered lists. Each list element has clickable text that takes you to the appropriate location. I’ll omit the actual HREF values (you can view the source and see them for yourself), but here is the HTML used to generate the menu:

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Using UpdateFormulaContext in Lotus Notes

The new formula is @UpdateFormulaContext in Lotus Notes, and all it does, in lay terms, is switch where the code is running. For example, if you compose a document, normally the code would continue to run where you were before the document was composed. But using the new @-function tells the Lotus Notes 6 client that the code should now run in the composed document.
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Lotus Notes Traveler: Lotus Notes mobile email

IBM® Lotus Notes® Traveler 8.5.1 software is a push email offering providing quick access to email (including attachments), calendar, address book, journal and to-do list for Lotus Notes mobile users. Imagine how this software could help your mobile workers respond to the needs of your business more quickly, while continuing to leverage your existing investment in Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino software.

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Change Lotus Notes Replication Conflict Document to Normal Document

Replication/Save conflicts document are a necessary in a distributed environment like Lotus Notes. A developer can do all he/she can to minimize conflicts through things like setting the form properties to merge conflicts if possible and using document locking in Notes 6. But maybe document locking is something that can’t be implemented, because your users aren’t on Notes 6 yet or because the application is really distributed (users with local replicas and no network access can edit existing documents). In that case, you’re bound to have conflicts and will need to deal with them.

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Lotus Notes Web Using A Base Href

In Lotus Notes Web, You’re probably familiar with the famous formula:
@ReplaceSubstring(@Subset(@DbName; -1); “\\” : ” “; “/” : “+”)
which will take the path to the current database and make it “browser-friendly”.

After getting sick of adding this to every single link and image tag that needed it, we decided there had to be a better way.
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Lotus Notes Error: “Unable to interpret time or date” when changing manager of room In Resource Reservations database

As an Lotus Notes administrator, you attempt to change the manager of a room in the Resource Reservations database. However, you receive the error : Unable to interpret time or date
This error can also occur when creating a new room in the Resource Reservations database.
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Difference between Deny Access vs Full Access Administrators in Lotus Notes

I always thought that “Deny Access” was the be-all, end-all. But apparently not. If someone is listed in both the “Full Access Administrators” list and the “Deny Access” list for the server, they will still be able to access the server. The “Full Access Administrators” trumps the “Deny Access” setting.
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