Teamstudio Script Browser

Craig Schumann today published a new version of his great application.

The biggest deal with this new version of Script Browser is that it now supports members and variables in the tree.

Using ScanEZ to modify multiple fields on multiple documents

This is a small tip I would like to share with all users of Ytria’s ScanEZ. Last week I had to modify hundrets of documents in the Domino directory. The domain part of the user’s internet address had to be changed to a new domain.
The old internet mail address should be added to the FullName field to make sure that mail is delivered when the sender does not use the new internet mail address. Here is my formula:

_oldSuffix:="witte-velbert.de";
_newSuffix:="witte-automotive.de";
@If(!@Contains(@LowerCase(InternetAddress);"proepper":"krosta":"witte-automotive");
@Do(
tmp:= @Implode(FullName;"#");
tmp:= tmp + "#"+ @LowerCase(InternetAddress);
@SetField("FullName";@Explode(tmp;"#"));
@SetField("InternetAddress";@ReplaceSubstring( @LowerCase(InternetAddress) ;_oldSuffix ; _newSuffix))
);
"")

I know that ScanEZ can use formulas to modify a field in multiple documents; but I could not find any tip on how to modify multiple fields in multiple documents at a time using formulas (i.e. a formula that will compute with respect to the current document) in ScanEZ. There is a how-to in the FAQ on the Ytria site, but this does not fit my needs

I played around with this awesome tool and here is what I found out.

• Select the documents to be modified

  

• Choose “Open selected documnet(s) in ScanEZ” from the Actions menue
• Select one document from the documents collection
• Leftclick on the collection’ header
• Click the “Diff” button

  

• Rightclick an entry in the right window and select “Modify Values” from the context menue

  

• Click the “@” button to use a formula; type the fieldname for a temporary field into the name field ( be sure that the fieldname is not part of the document )

  

• Type your formula into the field at the buttom of the dialog

  

• Click the “OK” button

After the changes are done, you can delete the temp field from all documents.

madicon easyMail 1.1 released

Manfred Dillmann today released version 1.1 of his awesome mass mailer “easyMail“. The most valuable feature in this release IMHO is the ability to select contacts for a mailing by selecting a category only.

Please give this tool a try. There is an evaluation copy available for download. Try it and you will love it. easyMail is neither open source nor freeware, but a single copy license is affordable. In Bruce Elgort’s words, this tool can “save time, money … and your hair”

Tired of Changing Form Field Formulas?

Stop copying and pasting form field formula properties from one field to another. Example: You have 100 fields on a form, and you want to set all of their Default Value formulas to “1”. If you don’t want to edit each formula value manually yourself, then formEZ is the tool you are looking for.

Download your free copy of Ytria’s FormEZ here

OpenSlice

Open Slice is an application framework for Lotus Notes applications. It is not an application itself, but rather the bottom layer of any application – the first slice of your application sandwich if you will. Open Slice is designed to provide most of the basic elements that any Notes application requires. This allows developers to skip the basic stuff, and get right to the “meat” of the application.

While there may be some new things, many things within Open Slice will be familiar, particularly to developers who have built up their own repositories of code over the years. So then the question should be asked – what does Open Slice give me that I don’t already have? The answer to this is that Open Slice provides a single consistent approach to all of these common elements, and an easy mechanism for updating these elements across multiple applications. It helps to eliminate variations in coding techniques between different developers, and most importantly it will save you time. Finally, because it is open source, it allows you to see the code and continue to build and use your own code libraries right along side the Open slice framework.

In addition to the basic framework, over time Open Slice will continue to evolve with additional application objects (MS Word reporting, Organisation Hierarchy Processing), and complete applications (document library, discussion database) based on the Open Slice foundation.

FreeMind – free mind mapping software

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.

[ via Anil Vartak, OpenNTF ]