Recent by Ralf Petter
New Beta Version of the Document Spy available
By Ralf Petter | 8/3/15 1:00 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Last weekend the weather was not so nice in Grundlsee and so i decided to code a new feature for the document Spy. It enables the document spy to create snapshots of documents and then compare this snapshot with changes have been made to the document since the snapshot was captured.
Remote Debug an IBM Notes client from Eclipse
By Ralf Petter | 4/18/15 4:26 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger
Normally the easiest way to debug Notes plugins is to start the Notes client directly from eclipse. I have explained how to do this in my tutorial: "Configure Eclipse 4.3 to develop plugins for Notes Part 1 and Part2". But sometimes problems are specific to a special client environment or user configuration and can not be debugged in a test environment.
How tell Notes that it should roam the preferences of your own plugins too
By Ralf Petter | 4/17/15 1:32 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger
One of the best things about Notes is that it can synchronize your settings on different devices. So you have for example the same settings on your Desktop and on your Laptop. This feature is called roaming. This works really great for all IBM provided Features.
Replication in Notes fails with error file does not exist
By Ralf Petter | 3/4/15 11:37 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Johnny Oldenburger
Last week i had the problem that a user who got a new replica of his mail file does not get new mails again. Every time he start the replication of his mail file he got the error "File does not exist" in the replicator tab. The replication log shows that the replica is sending data to the server, but does not get any data from the server. The error message "File does not exist" on the client log does not really help.
Recovering from "database is being taken offline and cannot be opened" on Domino Server
By Ralf Petter | 10/17/14 4:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Today in the morning many users cannot access the Domino Server because they get the error message "database is being taken offline and cannot be opened". In the Server tasks we see that the DBMT task hangs on a database. Our Domino admin has restarted the server to solve the problem with no success.
Document Spy: Admins little helper
By Ralf Petter | 8/27/14 1:00 PM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
I have developed the Document Spy which overcomes some of the limitations of the Notes property box. It will show you all items of the current document in a nice table so that you can see the values of all items on one look.
Launch the Domino Designer from Eclipse to debug your custom Designer extensions.
By Ralf Petter | 6/26/14 6:59 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Cameron Gregor asked me in a comment whether it is possible to launch the Domino Designer from eclipse in the same way like the Notes client and the answer is yes this is possible. In this post i will describe what you have to change in your existing notes launch config to start the Designer from eclipse.
Force the Notes client to refresh policies from the server
By Ralf Petter | 8/8/13 11:52 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Per Henrik Lausten
One of the best Admin features of the Domino Notes eco system are the Policies. With Domino policies you can control many aspects of the configuration of your notes clients in your environment.But one major annoyance of the implementation of Domino policies is that it is very unpredictable when the notes client will refresh his policies from the server. So I have created a small lotus script program to delete the local cache of the policies and refresh all policies from the server which you can put in the click event of a button.
My Top 5 Notes 9 features
By Ralf Petter | 3/28/13 1:32 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff
There are so many nice improvements in Notes 9, that it was very difficult to choose my top 5, but here they are ...
How to activate and use the expressions view in the SSJS debugger
By Ralf Petter | 3/17/13 1:57 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten
The "expressions" view in the java debugger is one of the most valuable tool for debugging java code. With this view you can deeply inspect the values of all objects you are using in your code at runtime and you can even run methods on this object to get values not visible in the standard "variables" view. Knowing this you will understand my disappointment when i first try the SSJS Debugger in Designer 9, because it looks like there is no expression view in the java script debugger. But fortunately the view is only hidden and can be activated in Designer 9.