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It’s Lotusphere time – and you have to stay at home …

Never mind.

On Monday, there will be information on how to view the Opening General Session online

[ via Ed Brill ]

In addition, there is a Live Blogging from Lotusphere page where you can “instantly” see what Bruce Elgort, Julian Robichaux, Ed Brill and others are writing during the show.

LS 2007 LIVE

This site has been created so that people not attending Lotusphere can still get a feel for the atmosphere and any announcements that are taking place during the General Opening Session.

The site is built by Carl Tyler from Instant Technologies and hosted by connectria

Another announcement by Ed Brill

I’ve been given the green light to announce that 40-plus Lotusphere presentations from the AD, ID, INV, and JMP tracks will be posted as podcasts to developerWorks during March 2007


@SetViewInfo, Reset Filter and Goto Top Of View

When using @SetViewInfo to filter a view, you can reset the filter with the following formula:

@SetTargetFrame("NotesView");
@Command([OpenView]; @Subset(@ViewTitle; -1));
@SetViewInfo([SetViewFilter]; ""; ""; 1)

This will work fine as long as you do not want to go to the top of the view after removing the filter.

This is the view before setting the filter

Now we set a filter to show only entries according to a selected ticket number

Don’t be confused that the first column isn’t shown after the filter is applied ( Notes works as designed )

Now we remove / reset the filter using the formula show before

The filter is removed but the view does not show the entries from top of the view

Here is my workaround for this problem. I found out that the view opens from top, when you change to another view first and then re-open the view in question. So what can be done manually could even be done programmatically.

To avoid opening an existing view in the database with possibly a lot of documents in the view, I created a “dummy” view.
This view neither shows any documents nor it has columns and actions. A real empty view, indeed.

At least I changed the “Reset Filter” action to the following code:

@SetTargetFrame("NotesView");
@Command([OpenView];"dummy");
@Command([OpenView]; @Subset(@ViewTitle; -1));
@SetViewInfo([SetViewFilter]; ""; ""; 1)

When you now reset the filter, the view will open from top.

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Deutsche 11 Backstage

Auf dem neuen Community-Portal www.D11B.tv können FuÃ?ball- und Comedy-Begeisterte jetzt hautnah erleben, wie es in der Umkleidekabine der deutschen Nationalelf wirklich zugeht:

Deutsche 11 backstage

Die Internetplattform bietet den Fans die Möglichkeit, brandneue, lustige Clips der Trickfilm-Serie â??Deutsche 11 backstageâ?? anzusehen, Olli Kahns virtuellen Spind beim Gewinnspiel abzusahnen, sich über Neuigkeiten auf dem Blog auszutauschen und verschiedene digitale Extras für das Handy herunterzuladen.


Windows PowerShell 1.0 is finally released

Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity.

Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT Professionals to more easily control system administration and accelerate automation.

Windows PowerShell is easy to adopt, learn, and use, because it works with your existing IT infrastructure and existing script investments, and because it runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003.


AUTOLAUNCH_NOTES=nlnotes

When you run autorun.exe to launch the Lotus Notes® client installed on a USB drive, the Notes client installed on the operating system (OS) comes to focus instead. This behavior occurs only if the local version of Notes is already running on the OS. If the local version of Notes is not running, the Notes client from the USB will launch.

To run Notes from the USB drive even if a local version of Notes is running, do the following:

1. Open the autorun.ini file on the USB drive in edit mode.
2. Change the following line:

AUTOLAUNCH_NOTES=yes

to

AUTOLAUNCH_NOTES=nlnotes.exe

3. Save the file, and then run autorun.exe again.

[Lotus Notes KnowledgeBase]


Notes 7.0.2 – NOMAD

Installed Lotus Notes on my 1GB Cruzer SanDisk USB Drive today. As you can see, the estimated time for installation was 32 minutes; At least it took 45 minutes to install the client. This is far to long. Copying 300MB of data from my local drive C: to the usb device is normally done within 2 Minutes or so.

Lotus Notes 7.0.2 - NOMAD Installation

UPDATE:

I found this hint on LDD regarding a TEMP_DIR issue:

“Currently the TEMP_DIR variable in your AUTORUN.INI file for IBM Lotus Notes client on a USB drive installation only works when your client is automatically launched. When launching the client from the “Lotus Notes on USB” desktop icon, the temporary files will be stored in the local system’s temporary directory,

When adding the TEMP_DIR variable to your AUTORUN.INI, also set AUTOLAUNCH_NOTES=Yes (default). After inserting the USB drive into your computer, if your Notes client is either (1) automatically launched, or (2) you run the command AUTORUN.EXE from the root of the USB drive which launches the client, then the temporary file will be stored in the path for the temporary directory you specified.”


Differences between the IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.2 Blog Template and previous external versions

The Domino Blog template, which was developed and maintained for over 3 years by an external source (Steve Castledine), was acquired by IBM® and incorporated into Lotus® Notes/Domino® 7.0.2.

Therefore, some IBM customers are already familiar with the template.

When the template was brought into IBM, some changes had to be made in order to:

  • remove Open source code
  • ease support of the template
  • simplify use of the template
  • change the user interface to fit in with IBM standards
  • make Language translation easier

These changes have, therefore, resulted in some feature removals, feature alterations and a different user interface (UI), which are discussed in this technote.


XFL – Extended Formula Language

The Extended Formula Language improves the native formula language of Lotus Notes in several important points, e.g.:

  • Real formula debugging
  • Define your own @Functions
  • XFL makes @For, @While, @Goto etc. available even for Notes R4/R5
  • Use LotusScript code within your formula code
  • Object oriented programming in formulas

There is no installation routine.

Just copy two script libraries of the example database into the database you want to use XFL programming in. If you still have Notes R4 clients copy the subform too. That’s all.

Extended Formula Language is written and provided by Bert Haessler.


OpenNTF Mail Experience – German Edition

Jens-B. Augustiny und Christian Tillmanns haben heute ein neues Projekt auf OpenNTF gestartet.

Ziel ist es, das bereits seit längerem verfügbare OpenNTF Mail Template Projekt ins Deutsche zu übersetzen. Bisher waren die nützlichen Ergänzungen der Standard Mail Schablone nur in englischer Sprache verfügbar.

Danke an Jens und Christian für dieses Projekt. Ich denke, es wird ebenso erfolgreich werden, wie das “Ur”-Projekt.

[Projektseite]