view.AutoUpdate is your friend
Posted on December 9, 2008
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| Ted Hardenburgh
In perusing the recent Knowledge Base articles (yes, I said “perusing”), there have been a couple of posts where the resolution is to set the view.AutoUpdate parameter to “False” in the code. I know that others more “developer-y” than I have said this in Lotusphere sessions, and I’m sure at other conferences as well, but evidently Lotus support wants us to take note.
I think it comes down to this - any time you’re going through a set of documents using the GetFirstDocument and/or GetNextDocument methods, don’t allow view updates.
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SNTT: Creating Quickr Entry Places
Posted on May 7, 2008
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In a tweet a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Chris Whisonant and I were testing out creating Quickr Entry places, and how much fun admins have creating XML. To create an entry place you use a qptool command that requires either individual user email addresses, or you can use an XML file to create places in batch mode. Gee, seems like fun, manually creating and XML file that looks like (adapted from the Quickr InfoCenter):
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SNTT: Sending New Users a Welcome Email
Posted on December 11, 2007
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I’ve been using this agent for a few months to send new users a welcome email that includes links to common tips on using Notes, a link to the Tips database, and a link the email signature creator application. The sent message is “prettified” with HTML, so it looks nice. It’s also personalized to the user. There’s always room for improvement, specifically, moving the actual message text into a document to make it easier to maintain.
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Quickr's Dirty Little Secret
Posted on December 10, 2007
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We’ve had a Quickr install for a little while. It works nicely, runs on iSeries/System i, or whatever it’s called this year. Just using LDAP pointing to our Domino LDAP server. We acquired a company that’s a pretty heavy MS shop and wanted to be able to add their users to Quickr places that we created. It’s simple, right? Create a directory assistance doc that points to their AD server and off you go.
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DST and Mail Agents
Posted on February 7, 2007
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I was prepping for the DST agents yesterday and thought, “Hey, this would make a great tip.” Seems that Susan Bulloch thought so as well and beat me to the punch. Check out her SNTT: How to generate a text file with mail file names plus using Policies to set Location Doc settings post on how to build the text file used by the centralized agent.
One other item that I’ll add is that sometimes the mailfiles in the Domino Directory don’t have the .
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Daylight Saving Time and iSeries
Posted on February 1, 2007
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One of the things that is different on the iSeries from Windows is the DST setting. For a long time, making the change was a manual process done by the unlucky operator that works the Saturday graveyard shift. And woe to the operator that didn’t bring down Domino so it could pick up the time change. That has changed with V5R3 so that now iSeries will automatically make the change - convenient now that we have the DST change coming.
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Domino Server Security Setting
Posted on December 5, 2006
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Going through the Notes discussion forum yesterday, I came upon a Notes 6/7 Discussion Forum discussion questioning why access is different between NRPC and HTTP clients. The question was why a user couldn’t access a server using a Notes client, but could using a browser. The responses thus far had pointed the user to the correct place to look - a deny access group that the user had been added to inadvertantly.
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SNTT: Desktop Policies and Mail Templates
Posted on November 16, 2006
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OK, so I’m taking advantage of the West coast time frame and sneaking this in under the wire.
When you’re editing your Desktop policy’s Mail Template Information section, be sure to have a copy of the template you specify on your local machine. If you don’t, you’ll get an error when the field is validated. The intent it to be sure that the file exists on the server, but it only looks at the local drive.
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SNTT: Multi Version on iSeries
Posted on August 3, 2006
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It’s still Thursday here, so I can still categorize it as SNTT. I got an email from someone who attended my session at the ADMIN2006 conference regarding multi-versioning and how to configure a new server to use an older release of Domino. Here’s the email (not a native English writer, so be nice):
We have got i5 with Domino 6.5.4 and 7 running. How can I install a new 6.
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SNTT: How Many Mail.boxes Do You Need
Posted on June 12, 2006
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Here’s a tip from one of the sessions I gave at ADMIN2006. We all know that to allow the best performance for mail routing, you want to have multiple mail.boxes, and that usually means setting the number to 2 mail.boxes. The question then becomes, how do you determine when it’s time to increase the number of mail.boxes to increase performance again, other than by “feel.”
There are two statistics that we’ll want to look at which provide the values for a calculation, but in order to monitor them, you’ll need to already have enabled at least two mail.
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