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A Q&A about Moving ahead with Connections Cloud: Practical Next Steps  

By HCL Digital | 2/27/20 3:54 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse

We announced in July 2019 that users of Connections Cloud would have 12 months to move off the existing service to a new environment. July 16, 2020, is coming quickly and we are working diligently with our approved Cloud Hosting providers (CH-MSPs) to ensure you are ready to migrate to your new service.

Components no longer included in HCL Domino 11 - Ales Lichtenberg  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 2/27/20 1:48 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Heiko Voigt

With the release of HCL Domino V11, some components that were in previous releases were also removed.

Take a look at Template Experience – The Turtle Partnership Blog  

By Gabriella Davis | 2/27/20 1:48 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Heiko Voigt

Next week the TE team will be presenting at Engage with the version we hope to soon put into beta. There has been a lot of work completed in the past few months and the developers have really come up with clever solutions for seemingly impossible problems, all using standard Domino Designer techniques and code.

RoboCopy – Move data with directory exclusion   

By Rainer Brandl | 2/27/20 3:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today I had the issue to move a complete Domino Directory from one server to another one. Unfortunately I could not work with VM tool to move VMDK files but had to use RoboCopy. The customer had the request to move the DAOS directory outside the current Domino\Data directory so I had to exclude this.

NotesRichText to HTML native within Domino 10  

By Dmytro Pastovenskyi | 2/27/20 12:57 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

Just realized that Domino 10+ came with possibility to convert RichTextItem to HTML almost in 1 line.

v11 HTTP Rule bug and workaround  

By Vladislav Tatarincev | 2/26/20 2:08 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

One way to improve HTTP application is to cache different objects, like CSS, JPG , .JS files. To do so you must create a HTTP Header rule. I always do this when improve performance of HTTP, but in v11 I tried and I got error message, that "Expiration days is required"

Important Information Traveler 11 for iOS in multi-domain environments  

By Daniel Nashed | 2/26/20 2:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Starting with Traveler 11 Active Sync is supported and enabled by default. It turned out that AS 16 support comes with a new back-end API which has side effects in multi-domain environments. If your Traveler server is inside your main domain, there are no side effects.

Building Effective Business Solutions Using Low-code and Engage 2020  

By Richard Moy | 2/24/20 4:39 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I have not blogged in a long time not since CollabSphere 2019. We have been relatively busy working on projects and on our newest versions of our Domino-based iPhora solutions. We started working on our iPhora platform over a decade ago with the focus of creating a platform that we would use to help companies automate their complex business processes.

Limits of HCL Notes V11  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 2/24/20 10:56 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Limits of HCL Notes V11 - Ales Lichtenberg Do you know the limits of HCL Notes V11? Here is a clear table, which is also part of the documentation. You may find this summary useful sometimes.

HCL Nomad On Android Smartphones  

By Ulrich Krause | 2/23/20 7:43 AM | Development - Nomad / Mobile | Added by Oliver Busse

I do not own an Android smartphone. But I saw a couple of forum entries from people with up-to-date Android device complaining, that HCL Nomad does not run on their devices. I found an interesting post by Erik Schwalb in the German Notes Forum.

You’re Invited to the Domino Volt Beta Program  

By HCL Digital | 2/20/20 6:20 PM | Development - Leap / Volt | Added by Oliver Busse

We are excited to announce the HCL Domino Volt Beta Program! We’re calling on our community to share honest, constructive, and thoughtful review and testing of the software. Your input is essential to how we develop our products. Your input is essential to how we develop our products — and we will continue to listen to you every step along our roadmap.

Installing Domino V11 on CentOS 8.1  

By Rainer Brandl | 2/19/20 2:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

If you plan to install Domino V11 on CentOS 8.1 you have to do some steps before because there are some requirements: Install CentOS 8.1.x ( without any graphical interface – you won´t need it )

LetsConnect 28-29 September - Bienvenido a Madrid!  

By Let's Connect | 2/19/20 1:36 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Connections has found a new home at HCL. Alongside the transition, the Product Management team has worked hard to release a new version of Connections (Connections 6.5) with new features and has announced a bigger release, version 7. Digital Experience has followed the same pattern with the 9.5 release in 2019 and a big new release in 2020 with version 10.

Rewrite URL with CloudFlare for Domino  

By Dmytro Pastovenskyi | 2/18/20 1:12 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

Years ago I created few solutions for Domino using DSAPI: 1. remove last slash in URL served by Domino. 2. rewrite URL. 3. better control over 404/500 error pages.

Welcome, new curators!  

By OpenNTF | 2/16/20 7:54 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

When I posted the „help wanted“ call for new curators last week I never expected this great feedback. Within less than 24 hours I was offered help from 5 people of our community.

Sametime 11 – What to do if person pictures don’t show in the web client  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 2/13/20 12:49 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I wrote a post explaining what to do to have user pictures show in the Sametime classic client and in the Sametime web client, here . In a case, I found that the pictures did not show in the web client, so I opened a case with HCL Support.

Count attachments in Rich Text Fields - LotusScript Function  

By Adrian Marikar | 2/13/20 3:11 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Heiko Voigt

LotusScript function to count how many embedded attachments are in a Rich Text Field. Function accepts two arguments, NotesDocument and RTI name as string. We came across a situation where we needed to be able to count how many attachments were in a rich text field in LotusScript. Scenario – We had a table with four tabbed rows. In each tab was a rich text field (which was hidden unless user clicked on tab). We needed a way of viewing how many attachments (if any) each rich text field was holding without clicking on each tab to see.

SLES 15 is now supported for Domino 11 & Sametime 11 - Daniel Nashed's Blog  

By Daniel Nashed | 2/13/20 3:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Heiko Voigt

SLES 15 is now supported for Domino 11 & Sametime 11 The system requirement technotes have been updated... Now SLES 15 is listed as supported for Domino and Sametime.

Traveler 11 and ActiveSync 16.1 - What to expect after upgrade with iOS devices using Apple native apps  

By Detlev Poettgen | 2/12/20 3:02 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

After some discussions with the HCL Traveler team regarding seen issues after upgrading to Traveler 11 with iOS devices using the Apple native mail app, HCL published an detailed article. The article describes, what happens in the background on the device, when the Traveler 11 Server is started after the update and from then on uses version 16.1 for iOS devices instead of the previous ActiveSync 14 version.

Targeting Domino for Webapps Incidentally  

By Jesse Gallagher | 2/11/20 5:03 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I recently had occasion to break ground on a new web project that uses a Notes runtime and has a web front end, and I figured it would be a perfect occasion to structure it in a way that is clean, portable, and, while it will run on Domino, doesn't have to use Tycho. I ended up coming up with a setup that I'm pretty happy with, and so I put up an example on GitHub for anyone else to use as a reference for similar cases.

Converting Timedate Strings in @Forumula Language with different date formats  

By Daniel Nashed | 2/11/20 8:10 AM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

Maybe I am thinking to complicated.. But I did not find an easier solution .. I had an interesting issue yesterday when adding multi timezone and date-time format to my backup solution, because I cannot store everything in Notes native TIMEDATES. There are some text logs involved, when storing information about a backup. To ensure I have an unified format, I decided to change the internal storage to UTC (in Notes terms: GMT).

Domino SMTP error limit before terminating connections  

By Daniel Nashed | 2/10/20 2:14 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

My friend Harvey and I noticed a lot of brute force delivery attempts on servers to figure out about email addresses. By default Domino doesn't limit the number of errors until a connection is closed. But there is a notes.ini entry and setting in config document to define the number of errors. https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino/11.0.0/conf_definingthemaximumerrorlimitbeforeaconnectionterm_t.html For larger servers you have to be careful, because that could also prevent newsletters from being delivered, if there are too many users which don't exist. On my own server I set the value now to 4 ;-)

Enabling Automatic Dead Mail Processing  

By John Oldenburger | 2/10/20 2:12 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

We currently work in our production environment with a full Domino 10 environment. Both the server and the clients are currently running on Notes Domino 10.0.1 Fix Pack 4. We have also upgraded the Domino Directory to the corresponding 10 Template and have the mail running on the Mail 10 Template.

CollaborationToday Needs You  

By OpenNTF | 2/10/20 12:54 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Collaboration Today, the news aggregator around anything HCL related content (fka IBM), social business, collaboration and community events needs your support: we are looking for curators to moderate content, blog posts and news around our beloved platforms like Domino, Connections, Sametime, DX and other products from HCL.

Engage 2020 – The event you should attend  

By Femke Goedhart | 2/7/20 12:05 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

In less than a month a large group of HCL Domino and HCL Connections experts and enthusiasts will be descending on Arnhem in The Netherlands for the annual Benelux Usergroup event: Engage. Traditionally this is one, if not THE largest, most popular usergroups in the World and for a good reason.

A Flexible View Control for XPages Part 6 – Sorting  

By Michael G. Smith | 2/7/20 12:00 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

When I started building the Flexible View Control, one of the driving forces was to significantly reduce the amount of back-end Domino views that would collect in my applications. I was just as guilty as anyone of creating a new view with the same selection formula and columns as an existing view.

Traveler 11 HTTP/2 Push changes in detail - Review before updating  

By Daniel Nashed | 2/7/20 11:58 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Detlev Pöttgen and I ran into this with the first deployments and we put together the details behind it (so you will find the same blog post on his blog and my blog). There will be a documentation update from HCL side. Here is what we found out in detail with the feedback we got from the Traveler team.

Verse on-Premises or iNotes? Default or option?  

By Ales Lichtenberg | 2/6/20 4:07 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Verse On-Premises (VOP) is already in version 1.0.9.A. Most users are still used to accessing mail from a web browser using iNotes. Do you want to set VOP as default or give users a option between iNotes and VOP? Upgrade your design or create a new iwaredir from the template included in the VOP 1.0.9 or 1.0.9.A package.

Domino Administration Back to Basics Part 2 - Networking  

By Stephan Wissel | 2/4/20 7:37 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Domino Administration Back to Basics Part 2 - Networking - In Part 1 we learned about the marvelous world of Notes Names, X400 and the perils of messing with certificates. One big difference to X509 is the (almost) absence of certificate Command Line tools that can be so much fun. Domino Networking - protocols as you like it Domino predates the rise of TCP.

Domino Administration - Back to Basics (Part 1) Certificates  

By Stephan Wissel | 2/4/20 5:44 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Domino Administration - Back to Basics (Part 1) Certificates - Domino is different, a lot of its concepts predate the internet and quite often inspired the standards. This is not an step-by-step instruction, but an introduction into concepts. The 'step by step' approach is another story for another time.