From Alan Lepofsky’s blogpost:

The next version of Lotus Notes, named Social Edition will include a new Home Page featuring the same activity stream that is available to Connections users on the web. This new feature will require an IBM Connection server, but the pricing and licensing for that has not yet been announced. 

From David F. Carr’s review for InformationWeek:

Organizations that take advantage of both Notes and Connections will be offered an upgrade to Notes Social Edition, which makes social content including the OpenSocial application embedding capability, available within the Notes environment.

Odd that Ed Brill does not mention this in his description of Notes Social Edition.

Can someone explain how the deal for Notes Social Edition will be?

Today I received an incident report from a collegue about a problem with the Domino blog template (the one everybody wants to have with XPages, hint IBM (this time with documentation))…

The RSS feeds were broken, or at least throwing up an error. It turned out to be that Swedish characters in names were causing the problem. Since I work for a Swedish company it is likely that the error would occur more often and in more blogs/places… so worth a search on Google.

I found the following document very helpful:

http://blog.inetfusion.com/A55CF7/technotes.nsf/dx/11242009023753PMEWES7R.htm

The Fix
- Added the value ‘ISO-8859-1′ to the configuration document, under the Syndication tab, field ” XML/Content Encoding:” down towards the bottom.

When replacing the computed value with “ISO-8859-1″, it appears to be working. Have not changed the lookup form value. This is probably in some documentation somewhere.. but there’s no documentation with the template.

The character set was set to UTF-8 because they should support Swedish characters (link). When setting them to ISO-8859-1 the errors did no longer occur.

http://openntf.org/ideajam/ideajam.nsf/ProductByAreaMostRecent?openview&restricttocategory=Bildr

Please drop here you suggestions / ideas for the application

Question:

How and which dependencies in your Notes applications do you register? Do you generate the overview manually or is there a tool you use for this?

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For fun I decided to try to make a copy of Daft Punk’s Teachers and to honour you guys out there =)

I would say rule #1 is the strongest argument where I work… :-/

For the layout I have choosen the Application Layout control from the Extension Library. Thomas Adrian showed a wizard function in version 8.5.3 but unfortunately our environment is still on 8.5.2.

There is a video available from OpenNTF how to use the Application Layout control. However if that goes too fast for you (I guess most people) on Michelle’s Universe (2,3)I found a couple of posts that give you some more to read.

Finally I found the wiki article: AD116 XPages Extension Library: Making Application Development Even Easier which contains the code for setting up a layout design definition.

In case you know a better resource that describes the Application Layout control then you are welcome to drop a link here… =)

I am wondering how much an upgrade will affect all clients? (server, designer, normal user)

Do I have to upgrade all environments or can they happily live with each other as long as I do not use the new controls?

Our upgrade path looks normally as followed:

• upgrade Development environment
• upgrade Designer clients
• upgrade Test environment
• upgrade Production environment
• upgrade Normal clients

flickrBomb provides an easy way for you to rapidly fill your prototypes with relevant content, and not just those dull gray placeholder images.

So basically ccFlickrBomb is a custom control that allows you to display a search query on Flickr in a more fashionable way. Enjoy!

From a user perspective it is quiet normal to select content from a website and paste it in Notes. Sometimes the number of nested (more: nasty) tables get’s too large and the document can not be opened anymore in Notes.

I am no expert in rich text but there seem to be some LotusScript methods available to read/write to rich text. For example FindFirstElement:

Moves the current position to the first element of a specified type in a rich text item.

You can supply a parameter, the type of element you are looking for. In my case this would be RTELEM_TYPE_TABLE

So my plan was to navigate through the whole rich text, count the number of  tables, present a dialogue to the user and ask which table(s) may be deleted (in order of appearance in the rich text).

So without removing the complete rich text the user has at least a way to re-cover parts of the document (I notice attachments do not get deleted when calling the remove method on a NotesRichTextTable, as a remove method on a NotesRichTextItem would do).

You can read more details in the Designer help. Look for:

NotesRichTextTable class > Remove method

All nice but during test I noticed some odd behaviour:

• The method initially could not find ANY table in the rich text:

Messagebox “Body item does not contain a table,”,, “Error”

• After I attached a file in the table the method seem to be able to discover tables.
• When I copied the agent from one application to another application it seems to have lost its ability (again) to find elements in rich text . The step to attach a file in a table does not work here.

I also noticed that the method described in previous versions was called getfirstelement, this seems to be renamed in later versions (I am working with 8.5.2).

So I am left in doubt. Surely this is not something I can offer as a function to try to recover rich text.

• Do you have an alternative approach you can recommend?

I would expect that the setting would create a bit more user-friendly url’s but somehow this feature does not seem to work as expected. Has anyone a clue why this does not work on my blog app? It seems to work for others…

I notice e.g. for Swedish names including öäå the usage of user initials could cause problems using the default page name syntax generation…

Below is the result:

Here is link for download as PDF: 20111003 – Curriculum vitae Petrus Kwinten

It seems I can enable IM by just selecting the second option (Show online status)…

Unfortunately, the custom $$ReturnAuthorizationFailure form never appears when accessing a document I did not have access to. Instead the default error page is being displayed.

I found a discussion on the ND 4/5 forum:

Is it possible to use custom forms when using session based authentication? (link)

One answer says Yes, the other says No. Which one is correct?

It is unclear how they landed in the situation because if I nest some tables in my mail I get the warning:

Nevertheless the customer has a problem that needs to be fixed so I wonder what my options are?

• Copy the rich text in a memo document and hope for the best that the number of nested tables is equal or less than the maximum number of 8
• Find a tricky way to navigate through the rich text, grab the table with more than 8 levels and cut off a couple of layers of nested tables untill the maximum number and copy it in a memo document

I guess the last approach is the best one, but the most complicated.

How do you handle exceedings of nested tables?

Link of interest: Idea on IdeaJam.

The application is a simple contact registration application and ofcourse XPages based. I think the application can be a great start to extend it as an inquiry application…

Personally I learned a bit more on combining LS agents with XPages, navigation rules and ofcourse the OneUI user interface definition (still a puzzle sometimes).

2. What is XPages?
A. A runtime designed to generate modern Web applications
B. A page with eXtra code for advanced end-user functionality
C. A way to present COBOL data inside of a Notes application
D. A runtime designed by Professor Charles Xavier
Maybe technical sales is something for you?

A great compliment for our developers since our template seems to be competitive with another solution!

Since the number of databases that contain documents that must migrate is not so large I feel little to grant this request but I am interested in a more ‘universal approach’ for an import function. A function where a database administrator himself can define the field-mapping and run the import task.

Question: Are you aware of such a function somewhere freely available?

I am thinking about a limited set of design elements I can add to the template and make available under an administrative panel.

Thanks in advance!

Since this project mainly re-uses code from an old article here on this blog the work progresses pretty well.

Here is what I have come up with so far.

Administration panel:

Adding a new event:

And the scan form:

When pressing the ‘Scan’ button the card scanner will be activated and the values read from a business card are sent to the screen.

All very nice! Especially XPages makes the development now much more a piece of cake. Also the OneUI theme makes it more easy to present a more consistent interface.

Hopefully I can upload the first release before a short trip to the Netherlands…