Are you one of those people who haven’t gotten away from the workspace in Notes 5 or 6? If so, you’ve probably come to love the little icons on each of the databases. This tip shows you how to programmatically change the icon using LotusScript by creating a nightly agent, so each day your users will have a new icon to see. You could even set it up so the icon is changed every time you open the database. Think this is stupid? I can tell you from experience that implementing this makes users want to go into the database. They want to see what the “icon of the day” is, and then they end up reading information in the database.
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I’m sure you’ve developed applications where it was important to know how many documents meeting a certain criteria there were in the database. There are multiple ways of doing this, but here we’ll point out one you might not have thought of. It makes use of Notes built-in ability to handle view indexes with efficiency.
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Recently I was working with arrays in LotusScript. Each element of the list was a text string. I had a need to remove an element from the list. There are lots of different ways to do this, and here is one more.
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Recently we had a situation where people have author access to a database, but a certain document in the database needed to be opened up to everyone. Normally, Authors fields contain a list of the people who can edit the document, and those with Author access to the database not listed in the Authors field cannot edit the document. An Authors field can take */O=YourCompany as a value to open up the document to everyone with that final qualifier in their ID file, but how do you open up a document to everyone, regardless of their ID file?
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When you use an LS2J agent to connect to an external database and retrieve large amounts of data, then create a new JavaObject for each row of data, the following error occurs:
“LS2J Error: Threw java.lang.StackOverflowError”
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A friend of mine found a recent posting on the public Lotus Support database talking about what database properties are affected by a design refresh and a design replace. What made this interesting to me was not the details, but the differences. There are some database properties that are not affected by a regular refresh of the design, but they are affected by a replace of a design.
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If you are opening up a view in a browser, not using the Java applet (because the Java applet takes so much longer to open, especially over a phone line) and wish to have alternate row colors (yes, Rnext does this, but this is for those of you not on Rnext yet) then this is one way to do it. There are several ways to accomplish this, so this is by no means the only way.
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If you have a categorized view, shown to browsers, that includes totals, how can you prevent the overall total row from appearing? It’s actually not that complicated – you just have to think about how Domino generates the HTML for views. But the first question would be “why would you want to do that?”
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Here at Breaking Par, we make daily backups of all our customer’s HTML files to a backup machine. The backup was done through a Windows batch file using the XCOPY command to copy all the files that had been modified. We have been doing this for a long time without much thought.
Recently, we took a look at the directories and noticed there was extra files in the backup subdirectory that didn’t exist in the main directory. After some research, we determined that the files were deleted in the main directory and never deleted in the subdirectory. After a little research, we were able to figure out how to get a true backup using only Windows batch files.
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We were developing a new web site for a customer when we had an odd request – they wanted no Notes access whatsoever to the application. They wanted to force their users to access the application through a web browser. Normally, at least some kind of administrative access would happen through Notes, but that wasn’t even wanted in this case. How did we satisfy this requirement?
The first thing we’ll point out is that experienced Notes users will find a way around anything, so it’s very difficult to make the application 100% inaccessible to Notes. But these tips make it very difficult to access the application through Notes, and will stop 95% or more of the users (novice to intermediate experience levels) from accessing the application through Notes.
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