lotus-notes

c# generated csv file sent via email embedded to bottom of email in lotus note

I am having this weired issue that CSV attachment sent via email using .NET SmtpClient appeared at the bottom of the email rather than attachment in Lotus Note. I just don’t know how to figure it out and I have no access to client computer makes debugging very hard. What are the possible steps I can take and possible gotchas I need to be...

UnsatisfiedLinkError in lotus-notes plugin

Hi, We are having an issue with a dll in a notes plugin. When we call this: NotesFactory.createSession(); we get this error: Unable to create view: nlsxbe (The filename or extension is too long. java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: nlsxbe (The filename or extension is too long. ) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibraryWithPath(ClassLoader.j...

What is the rationale for document-centric systems?

I know of two famous document-centric systems: Sharepoint server and Lotus Notes. There must be others. I've heard of CouchDB, for example. What are the main implementation differences, and how do they affect: Usability Retrieval performance Search performance/quality Extensability/ integration Bonus if you can elaborate on why yo...

How can I create human readable key for notes documents

For the documents stored in the database, I would like to create a human readable key to uniquely identify the document. e.g. PO20090110-001. How do I go about doing that? ...

Lotus Notes - scripting the creation of design element

I have a Lotus Notes application which actually consists of a template with all the required forms, views and agents needed. It also requires some design elements (a custom form and a view for our own type of documents) from this template to be copied over to the mail template, so after the regular refresh all users have it. The applica...

Lotus Notes how to get a calculated value from another form using formula language

I have Lotus Notes application, deployed only as modifications (new forms, views, and adding a button to one of the "standard" views) in the main mail template (R7). All these "new" forms and views are inherited in turn from my main application template. Now, for one of these forms to function properly, it have to have a field, which i...

How can I connect to Lotus thru ODBC using VBA?

I'm interested in setting up an Access db to run a report automatically. To save myself the trouble of going to each client computer and setting up the appropriate DSNs, I'd like to set up the ODBC connections in the VB script itself if possible. I've googled and checked this site and found some good starter code, but not enough to ma...

Can I use Lotus Notes to send mail ?

I have to code an app that at some point in time will have to send some reports using Lotus Notes. My questions are : Can I send mail through the Lotus Notes client, or something related to Lotus Notes ( a command line tool maybe? )? If so, where could I find information related to this? I would prefer not having to do it in C/C++, bu...

Lotus Notes Synchronization

I'm dealing with a client who uses Lotus Notes and would like the ability to use it on several different computers as he travels around a lot. He's gone out and invested in a portable hard drive so I was wondering whether he would be able to run the program directly off that. My first thought is there might be some issues with DLL files ...

Adding a Toolbar button programatically in Lotus Notes client R7?

Is there a way to programmatically add a Toolbar button in the Lotus Notes 7 client? ...

Detect and switch Domino servers from within VBA

We are having issues with our mail server which have highlighted a weakness in a system that I set up a couple of years ago to email departments on completion of reports. The code that currently sets up the mail server is hardcoded as Set objNotesMailFile = objNotesSession.GETDATABASE("XXX-BASE-MAIL-04/CompanyName", dbString) The pro...

Update UIDocument in LotusNotes

Hi all I have been working on a Notes integration project and I am using the Domingo API for communicating with Lotus Notes. This API is very useful, however I don't see any NotesUIDocument class and limited support for RichText in Lotus Notes. I have checked in the Notes.jar file and even that jar file seems to miss the NotesUIDocument...

Reading domino server' mailbox using C#

Hi Friends, I am making an application which will retrieve all mailboxes from Domino Server. And Display them in List. After that i want to extract( display) emails of each mailbox into another list. eg: Consider example of outlook.When we click on particular pst folder. all mails in selected folder get displayed. Kindly send me code...

How to create mailboxes in Domino Server?

I want to create a mailbox for each user in a Domino server. In order to maintain different mailboxes for different user. And storing their respective mails in it. example: User: A Mailbox: Amailbox storing mails of user A ...

How to interpret unprintable characters in the timestamp sent by the Lotus Notes POP3 server?

I wrote a program for retrieving mail from POP3 servers. One of its users encounters the following problem... His mail server when my program connects to it issues a greeting: +OK Lotus Notes POP3 server version X2.0 ready <PrintableCharacters.UnprintableCharacters> The part in angle brackets is a so-called challenge for the APOP aut...

An example of what Notes/Domino DXL cannot express?

Whenever source control in Lotus Notes development is discussed, it is said that an export-import cycle of DXL data doesn't give you the same design as you started with - thus any system relying on DXL will fail. I have no reason to doubt this, since the DXL format seems to be a moving target and constantly a step behind what the Domin...

Where is the jar file (of java libries inside NSF) kept in a Domino server

In Lotus notes, we can create Java libries inside the designer and call it in any Java agents. Do any one know where the jar of there libries and agents are kept. ...

Reading Lotus Notes & Domino Mailboxe using Interop.Domino.dll

I would like to populate the list of mailboxes from "Mail" folder of Domino from c# using the above API (Interop.Domino.dll). I have no problems connecting to Notes, accessing the database.It is easy to access all nsf files but i want to access only only nsf files in Mail Folder i.e Mail files. I am using below code: w...

"User CN={user's name}/O={organisation name } cannot open database {path to databasename.nsf}"

I am getting this error when i am trying to access mail file(mail/usermail.nsf) of user ( on different machine) using C#. I am using "Interop.Domino.dll". Is this happening because of same user name and organization name? But i am able to access local User NSF file (user configured on same machine where Domino server installed) where ...

Remove Lotus Notes design element inheritance programatically

As part of an effort to create a rudimentary revision control system, I would like to programatically disable design element level inheritance on a Lotus Notes template. I have so far tried the following: DXL export (ForceNoteFormat=true) + XSLT. This failed with a validation problem in the importer, on fields(!). DXL export (ForceNote...