Finding the length of a LMBCS string
Today I needed to use LotusScript to find the length of a string, in bytes. It took a little experimentation, so I figured I should post it here in case anyone else might sometime find it useful. This...
View ArticleQuestion about non-ASCII Domino domain names
This is a survey, especially for OUS based admins. How many of you are using Domino domain names that contain non-ASCII characters? In your experience working with customers, is that pretty common? If...
View ArticleYou can read a story of mine...
In the recent anthology Sky-Tinted Waters from SamsDot, my story "Misprint" appears. It's about a young stage magician and a trick that works a little too well, and the dangers of not reading ahead to...
View ArticleWhy inboxes fail
I've been doing some research recently into what causes email to fail to be delivered into inboxes, although it is visible in the All Documents view. I was concerned with this mainly because the...
View ArticleSample code for LCLSX file attachments article
I keep getting asked where to get the sample code for the article "Working with file attachments in the LCLSX", which used to be in the Lotus Sandbox before that went away. The code is here:...
View ArticleSpeak at Pulse?
If you're thinking of submitting an abstract to the Pulse 2013 conference in Las Vegas, you might like to register for this webcast that explains the process. If you've been doing something interesting...
View ArticleSearching for design elements 100 times faster
Often, entries in this blog are in reaction to questions I get, or someone else's code I've run across. One of the reasons things have been so quiet here is that my job has changed so that's not...
View ArticleAre Apple customers allowed to marry non-Apple users?
It's been an ordeal. I have an Android smartphone and use Gmail's calendar. My wife has an iPhone. You'd think it would be simple to have a shared calendar -- this is, after all, the future. As it...
View Article@IsNotesBrowserPlugin
In case it makes a difference for your application, here's how to tell whether you're running in the Notes browser plugin. So far, the only difference that's mattered to me is that the [FileExit]...
View ArticleDelete empty folders, take 2
I while back I wrote a post containing code to clean up empty folders from user mail files. Yesterday, someone pointed out to me that it doesn't take into account the fact that folders that contain...
View ArticleWorking the system to get bugs fixed
An issue recently came to my attention that (based on my informal poll) has been a thorn in the side for Domino administrators for quite a while. I've been trying to figure out how it is that it's...
View ArticleBeware in XPages
I may be stating the obvious, but I wasn't the only one on my team caught out by this, so I thought I'd best mention it. I recently discovered the hard way that there's a problem with using elements in...
View ArticleXPages best practice: computed selection lists
The low-down: XPages lets you write code to calculate the values for selection lists. The value your code returns may either be an array of strings, using the pipe symbol ("|") as a delimiter between...
View ArticleFollowup on getting long-standing bugs fixed
A little while ago I wrote about our process for prioritizing bugs for fixing. Mathieu Pape has a related idea recently posted on IdeaJam, that you might consider supporting if you're interested in...
View ArticleI’m on TV for several seconds...
At about 1:10 in this news clip: http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/06/23/at-the-fix-it-clinic-learn-to-fix-your-electronics-appliances/ Fixin' stuff. As I do.... Blog Profile: Andre Guirard - Best...
View ArticleOpenSocial and Domino - seeking feedback
If you've been doing development work that involves OpenSocial and Domino, I'm interested in quizzing you a little. Please reply privately using my email, which is my first and last name, with...
View ArticleThe property role is deprecated and no longer supported.
I recently started using the Domino Designer 9.0.1 client, and immediately noticed this slightly alarming warning in my XPages applications. The product help page "What's new in IBM Domino Designer...
View ArticleProcessing multiple users in the SmartCloud Notes administration UI
I thought I should note this change, since there's nothing in the "liveAdmin" UI (as yet) to indicate how it works. That will have to wait until we can translate the explanatory text into all our...
View ArticleDesign changes during SmartCloud Notes migration
We've been having a problem with one customer who was migrating their on-premises mail users into SmartCloud Notes, because they ade a mail template change in their on-premises environment after giving...
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