Notes 8.0.x – Webbrowser, Standardbrowser, HTTP Preview

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

As you all know, you can select the browser to use in the Notes Client by editing the location document and select the browser in the "Internet Browser" tab. So far, so good. This works fine, if you want to use a different browser as the standard browser registerd for ...

Export View Data (Update)

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 ...

Programmatically Check If Export Of View Data Is Disabled

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 ...

Tweak Notes 8.0.2 Start-Up Sequence

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of performance enhancement in release 8.0.2. Notes users are now prompted to authenticate (log in using their Notes password) before the Notes workbench appears on-screen. You can (for whatever reason) disable this new feature by adding ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION=0 to the notes.ini.

See How Fast My Client Starts

Thursday, August 28th, 2008



Disable Export Of View Data

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Notes 8.0.2 comes with a new feature to disable the export of view data. You can enable the feature in the application properties. The feature is great but has one disadvantage. When you disable the export and a user tries to export data from a view, from the security aspect the ...

Performance improvements from Notes 8.0.1 to 8.0.2

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

IBM published a technote in the Lotus Software KnowledgeBase about performance improvements in the Notes 8.0.2 client. "The Notes 8 client is a highly integrated application built on an open framework.  The software stack was optimized to streamline the loading of Java bundles during the initial launch of the Notes 8.0.2 ...