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Developing Applications that can interact Lotus Notes (.nsf) databases

Hi, I am a c# developer interested in developing a windows application to connect to a lotus notes .nsf db and display the information like 1) Number of forms 2) Number of views 3) Script Libraries 4) Actions 5) Agents Once I do this, I want to read each form and the UI elements available in each form and generate an equivalent .aspx fi...

How to add a field from a 2nd form?

Hi all. I'm modifying an existing Lotus view to include a field from another form. I first appended a new column and set it to the desired field. However, after I refreshed, the new column was blank even though I know it has data. I then updated the View Selection formula from: SELECT Form = "A" & StatusIndex < "06" to: SELECT (For...

Creating Lotus Notes documents with specific created/modified/last accessed dates for testing

I'm currently writing an application that moves Notes documents between databases based on the amount of days that have elapsed from the creation/modified/last accessed dates. I would just like to get ideas on a simple and convenient way to create documents with specific dates, without having to change the time on the Domino server, so t...

Check if a user can read a file on a UNC-Share

A User on our Windows Client has a function to send Links to Files on our Network-Shares (UNC-Paths) to other Users in our Company. Often these Users does not know if the receipients have access to this Share. A trial and error strategy is not possible because the users that is sending the link is already connected to this share with h...

What's wrong with Lotus Notes / Lotus Domino

I have a client who is using Lotus Domino for their web application/server platform. The client has two "web developers" who are more comfortable with Lotus Domino than more mainstream tools and technologies and are not enthusiastic about making a switch. I have been asked to provide an assessment of why it may be prudent to migrate to a...

Java errors on Lotus Domino Designer Client 8.5.1

I have a clean install of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 (now with FP3) and I'm getting the following errors in Designer. This is with a new database with a couple of forms and views. I'm finding this is typical across all databases. Is there something I need to install/configure etc.? I'm not new to Notes, but I'm new to 8.5 Thanks Aidan De...

How do I extract who signed a controlled access section in Lotus Notes?

I would like to export the contents of a Lotus Notes database to XML. In the resulting file I would like to see who had signed a particular controlled access section. I know that the digital signatures are not exported. All I need to know is who signed the section and when did he/she do it. In what way can I use the DXL Exporter to e...

How to use a LotusScript function as a document selection routine

Can we use a lotusscript function as a document selection routine inside view selection formula ? Here is my lotus function which determines the selection criteria Function MyFilter(doc As NotesDocument) as boolean 'very complex filtering function '........ End Function and here is the view selection formula that i want to incorpo...

Lotus Notes Java app can’t find notes.ini

Both the systems described are Windows XP with Lotus Notes 8.5. I have a Java app (sample code below) that uses notes.jar to interact with Lotus Notes. The app works fine on a system that has notes.ini in the Lotus install dir of c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes and the user ID file is in c:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data. The user has to t...

send appointment invitation to lotus notes 8.5 clients via c#

hi there,i am using Interop.Domino.dll and able to send mail via c# code to lotus notes 8.5 users. now i want to send appointment invations to users via c# code. here is my code. oNotesDocument.ReplaceItemValue("Form", "Appointment"); oNotesDocument.ReplaceItemValue("AppointmentType", "3"); // meeting ...

Link to a Lotus Notes email from a web app

I have a web app that can bring up a series of cases. Sometimes, a user may want to connect a case with a particular email in Lotus Notes. I use the term 'connect' loosely -- I'm not sure exactly what I want because I don't know all of my options, but I'm looking for some way to say "this case right here goes with that email over there."...

how get the Geographic location values of Preference panel of Lotus Sametime

i am using IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0.2. in Geographic location link of Preference panel of File menu have some fields like Personal address, City, Postal code etc. Can i get the values of these fields in a Java program or using Sametime SDK (without using any plug-ins). ...

What is the exact length of a point (pt) in Lotus Forms?

i am going to convert couple Lotus Forms forms to web pages. So i checked what it uses for font size. It is pt, which make me think that it is point. I tried same values for font sizes, like Arial,Bold,7pt. BUT, text in webpage is smaller than text in Lotus Forms. and it is easy to chatch, not a difference that requires magnifier. Which...

Coldfusion : Listening to the Email messages

I am trying to have a kind of observer pattern in ColdFusion We want to listen to the incoming Email messages and act on them. Scenario is something like this : Application sends email to the helpdesk system Helpdesk system automatically generates a ticket and responds with an email to the email address of the application The applicat...

Lotus Connection API issue

I am working on Lotus Connection. I wanted to fetch the values in AboutMe section and Background section of profiles using the Lotus Connections API. Is it possible to do so. I had gone through the wiki and other help , but could not find any solution Please help if any one got a solution ...

Working with categorized Views with totals in Lotus Notes Designer

Hi, I have two forms with two views. That needs to access data from one another. I have a view that has been categorized and computes the total value per data. My problem now is, on a separate view, I need to extract the subtotals from view #1. For Example; On View #1, I have columns named Country (C1), State/City (SC) and Populati...

Lotus Connection issue

How to get the current loggedIn user's login name and password in the widget used in Lotus Connection. this.iContext.getUserProfile statement in javascript returns the user information like email, display name, user id etc but it is not having information on loginname and password Has anyone idea on how to get these information ...

Lotus C++ API toolkit code crashes on "delete LNNoteArray" on windows server 2008 R2 64 bit

I upgraded our OS to Windows server 2008 R2 64 bit recently. I was using C/C++ API toolkit 8.0 version (with Lotus Notes client 8.5). All the sample exe's (32 bit version) ran fine on that machine in emulation mode. For one sample code i made some changes, i.e instead of doing - LNNoteArray SearchSet I did - LNNoteArray* pSearchSet = ...

What type of POS programming language will be able to feed an ecommerce database?

Hello, I am working on an e-commerce website (directing) where the inventory database needs to be fed from the POS database. The current one that company has was built with lotus (Customized) about 10 years ago and not sure if is just the matter of upgrading this POS being done in lotus and build something on the middle that can synchr...

Lotus Notes Domino API - Generate Value From Formula

Hi All, Here's a tough one for you: I have a NotesForm object and I got the entire structure, including default values for fields, of which some are formulas. Now, I am creating some NotesDocument objects for that form using code. I have no idea of the structure of the NSF beforehand - only at runtime, The databse can come from anywhere...