Friday, March 5th, 2010
Header / Footer items are of type Richtext and you cannot modify them directly using standard LotusScript.
I' ve put together all the necessary code and wrapped the API calls into a class to achive the goal. The class works on Windows and Linux. Mac support is possible but I have ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
I wanted to debug Lotusscript on my VM Linux Box. The OS is Ubuntu 9.10 and the client is Notes 8.5.1.
When I switch on the debugger and step into the script, the debugger loses focus on every step, regardless if you use the mouse or F8.
Anyone else having the ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
I am researching the Calendar Cleanup action in the Lotus Notes Calendar view.
The action executes a LotusScript agent that has two undocumented db calls CreateArchiveSettings and ArchiveNowByPolicy. The functions are used since the feature was introduced in Notes 7.
Obviously nobody ever looked into the code as there are no Google ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
The admin client shows information about logical / physical size as well as DAOS size for a database.
But how to get this information via LotusScript? For the logical size you can use db.size. For the physical size there is no property in the NotesDatabase Class. But C-API to the rescue.
Put ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Here is a quick post in addition to my recent post on how to get sums / subtotals for a given category in a view with LotusScript.
Assume, you want to get the total number of solved tickets. In my sample the value in question is located in column 7 at ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Here is a list of yet undocumented values for the GetOtion / SetOption method of the NotesDatabase class.
GetOption(82) / SetOption(82,true) = Enable Compress document data
GetOption(81) / SetOption(81,true) = Use DAOS
Use DAOS also created a new field $DAOS in the NotesIcon design note if the field is not available and update ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Today, I was looking for which value to use with the SetOption method of the Notesdatabase class, I discovered as few other undocumented values that can be used to get and set some database options programmatically using Lotus Script.
75 = Support Response Thread History
76 = Don't allow simple search
And, finally ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Last month I wrote about the new "Disable View Export" feature in Notes 8.0.2. In another post I stated that it is not possible to set this option programmatically using LotusScript.
Yesterday I stumbled upon an IBM Lotus Software Knowledgebase technote. This technote says that
Enabling or disabling of this option can ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
In Lotus Notes /Domino 8.0.2 you can disable the export of view data by selecting this option in the application properties. To programmatically check if the export is disabled, you can use the following LotusScript.
Function IsExportDisabled () As Boolean
IsExportDisabled = False
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Set db ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
I recently posted an idea on IdeaJam to enhance the mail rules dialog on a Domino server to overcome the restriction of only use the "hard coded" conditions. There have been several attemps to enhance the dialog in the past ( Chris Linfoot for example ), but none of them ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Working with nested groups, it can be hard to determine if a user is member of the "base" group. The following class contains a method to do the job.
IsGroupMember ( GroupName, UserName ) calls method ExplodeGroup, which fills an array with all members of the group. It also resolves nested ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
I'm using wordpress for blogging and have wp-syntax installed for quite a while as a syntax colour code/highlighter. wp-syntax supports many languages. But it does not support Lotus Script or @Formula language out of the box.
You can easily add support for these languages by adding a file to GeSHi, the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
From the Lotus Notes KnowledgeBase (#1280243)
You want to programmatically change or update the design of a local Lotus Notes® database from a template. For your particular scenario, replication is not an option. The database is local to the client, and there is no server replica to pull the ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Troy Reimer of SNAPPS donates LotusScript JSONWriter and JSONReader to the community.
You can download Version 1.0 of JSONReader and JSONWriter here.
The database (json.nsf) contains LotusScript classes for parsing and creating JSON text.
These classes are contained in five script libraries: ls.snapps.JSONArray, ls.snapps.JSONObject, ls.snapps.JSONReader, ls.snapps.JSONWriter, and ls.snapps.JSONWrapperConverters.
The JSONArray and JSONObject classes ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
You can use @ServerAccess to check if a specified user has a specified administrative access level to a server. For a list of keywords to represent the access level you want to check for take a look at the designer help either on your local client or on the ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
2008 is a leap year again. The Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, adds a 29th day to February in 97 years out of every 400, a closer approximation than once every four years. This is implemented by making every year divisible by 4 a ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
You can find a lot of stuff on the internet like Chris Blatnick's " Using Color Columns To Make A Gantt Chart" to display column values either as color or as picture ( you might take a look at "A Splash of Color" as well ).
Today I would like to ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Today I had a lot of calls in our helpdesk regarding Out Of Office. Users complained that the had enabled the agent before Christmas and it worked fine but when they tried to disable the agent it does not disable. Instead the Out Of Office profile shows the following message:
Even ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
For one of my projects I needed a function to compare two arrays. The following function returns true if both array have the same elements (regardless of their position in arrays).
Function ArraysAreEqual (vA As Variant, vB As Variant) As Variant
Dim IsEqual As Variant
ArraysAreEqual = True
Forall a In vA
IsEqual = False
Forall ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Eigentümer einer Maildatei können Zugriffe auf Mails und Kalender über "Werkzeuge - Vorgaben - Zugriff und Delegierung" selbstständig steuern.
Bei der geplanten Archivierung von Mails ergeben sich daraus aber Probleme beim Zugriff auf archivierte Dokumente.
Ein Archivsystem sichert neben den eigentlichen Inhalten der Mail auch die zu diesem Zeitpunkt existierende ACL.
Lt. der ...
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